Miscellaneous extracts on the bezoar stone, pharmaceutical substances, and weights and measures
Scope & Content:
Extracts from the Indo-Persian perfumery treatise Nawrās-i Shāhī (نوراس شاهى), written for sultan Adil Shāh II, Sultan of Bijapur (1580-1627), on the description and properties of the bezoar stone, and animal, vegetable and mineral substances including mummy (ff. 270v-281v); a list of weights an...