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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Or 9452 Subject Medicine, Medieval

1. Or 9452

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9452
Title:
Medical compendium
Scope & Content:
Contains two medical treatises and a collection of ten extracts from poets and medical authors. (1) Hippocrates (أبقراط), al-Fuṣūl (الفصول) (ff 1v-32r); (2) Ibn Jazlah (ابن جزلة), Minhāj al-bayān (منهاج البيان) (ff 21v-62r); (3) Ten extracts on medical topics in verse and prose (ff 62r-64v). The...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
3 Ramaḍān 690
Extent:
Codex; ff v+64+ii

2. Or 9452, ff 62r-64v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9452, ff 62r-64v
Title:
Three short poems and seven medical extracts
Scope & Content:
The three short poems on f. 62r are not about medicine. The seven medical extracts are as follows: 1. Recipe for the medicine bakhtajūsh (بختجوش) made from grape juice (f. 62v) 2. Discussion of two bezoars (بادزهر), the ḥajar al-thīrān (حجر الثيران) and the ḥajar al-tays (حجر التيس) and their...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
3 Ramaḍān 690
Extent:
ff. 62r-64v