[Persian medical manual].

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Persian
Published/​Created
[18--?]
Description
62 leaves : paper ; 248 x 147 (204 x 100) mm bound to 252 x 153 mm

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    Summary note
    An unidentified work on medical therapy with numerous recipes; possibly from Central Asia. With notes on the first back flyleaf (labeled leaf 62) by Muḥammad Naʻīm Khān Ḥakīm-i Ingilīzī.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on second leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.
    • Physical description: 21 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. A few repairs.
    • Incipit: الحمد لله و السلام على محمد خىر الورى ... اما بعد كىاىد [؟] دانست که نخست طرىقه معالجات آن ست که در امراض مادىه اول بنقىه [؟] کند
    Binding note
    Three-quarter red leather with yellow enamelled paper covers; blind-stamped mandorla and pendants painted red and blind-stamped fillets.
    Language note
    Persian.
    Source acquisition
    Purchase; Bouwman Oriental Books, 2013 (2014-24).
    OCLC
    858802280
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