Details

Subject(s)

• Medicine, Arab [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

A comprehensive work on materia medica dedicated to the Safavid Shāh Sulaymān, r. 1666-1694, written to correct the errors of the Ikhtiyārāt-i Badīʻī and based largely on the Jāmiʻ-i Baghdādī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Description based on Martinovitch catalog.
• Origin: 1247 H [1831 or 1832], by Ḥusayn ʻAlī ibn Nawrūz (leaf 225a).

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.

References

Martinovitch, N.N. Catalogue of Turkish and Persian manuscripts (1926), no. 432

OCLC

858866275

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