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511. Or 4770, f.16

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4770, f.16
Title:
Dhanvantari depicted as a standing man of purplish hue (one of the minor avatars of Vishnu), dressed in yellow dhoti and uttariya, crowned and haloed, and holding a large golden jar set with gems.
Scope & Content:
Dhanvantari depicted as a standing man of purplish hue (one of the minor avatars of Visnu), dressed in yellow dhoti and uttariya, crowned and haloed, and holding a large golden jar set with gems. Inscribed in Persian below: ‘dhanantar.’ ‘16. Dhananter the famous Physician of mankind. He came ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

512. Or 6273, ff 1v-2r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6273, ff 1v-2r
Title:
Two extracts on tuberculosis
Scope & Content:
Two short extracts on tuberculosis. The first extract (ff. 1v, line 1-2r, line 9) is said to be from the Hippocratic Treatments (المعالجات البقراطية), a medical compendium by Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭabarī al-Turunjī (أبو الحسن أحمد بن محمد الطبري الترنجي), personal physician to the B...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 1v-2r

513. Or 6273, ff 140v-145r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6273, ff 140v-145r
Title:
Extracts from Muḥammad Amīn Bek Yāsīn Afandīzādah (محمد أمين بك ياسين أفندي زاده), Kitāb al-shifāʾ al-ʿājil (كتاب الشفاء العاجل) and a work by Ibn Sallūm (ابن سلوم)
Scope & Content:
Extracts from the Speedy Cure and Guaranteed Remedy (الشفاء العاجل والدواء الكافل) by the Ottoman litterateur, poet and physician of Mosul Muḥammad Amīn Bek ibn Ibrāhīm Bek ibn Yūnus Afandī ibn Yāsīn Afandī al-Muftī ibn Maḥmūd Afandī (محمد أمين بك بن إبراهيم بك بن يونس أفندي بن ياسين أفندي المفت...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 140v-145r

514. Or 6273, ff 159v-163r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6273, ff 159v-163r
Title:
Untitled text on smallpox and measles Muḥammad Badīʿ محمد بديع
Scope & Content:
Medical text on smallpox and measles (الجدري والحصبة) composed during an outbreak of those two diseases at Mosul in 1223/1808-9, by Muḥammad Badīʿ (محمد بديع, see f. 159v, lines 5-7). Muḥammad Badīʿ was a son of the Ottoman litterateur, poet and physician of Mosul Muḥammad Amīn Bek ibn Ibrāhīm B...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 159v-163r

515. Or 6273, ff 163v-165r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6273, ff 163v-165r
Title:
Dastūr lil-iḥtirās min al-wabāʾ wa-al-ṭāʿūn wa-ʿilāj lil-jamrah al-musammāh bi-lughat ahl al-Mawṣil ḍarabah (دستور للاحتراس من الوباء والطاعون وعلاج للجمرة المسماة بلغة أهل الموصل ضربة)
Scope & Content:
Medical manual on the maintenance of health during times of pestilence. The mention of Mosul in the title suggests that the author is Muḥammad Badīʿ (محمد بديع), author of the preceding text on an outbreak of smallpox and measles at Mosul in 1223/1808-9 (see f. 159v, lines 5-7). If this identifi...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 163v-165r

516. Or 6273, ff 165v-171r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6273, ff 165v-171r
Title:
Extracts from Muḥammad Amīn Bek Yāsīn Afandīzādah (محمد أمين بك ياسين أفنديزاده), Kitāb al-shifāʾ al-ʿājil (كتاب الشفاء العاجل)
Scope & Content:
Extracts from the Speedy Cure and Guaranteed Remedy (الشفاء العاجل والدواء الكافل) by the Ottoman litterateur, poet and physician of Mosul Muḥammad Amīn Bek ibn Ibrāhīm Bek ibn Yūnus Afandī ibn Yāsīn Afandī al-Muftī ibn Maḥmūd Afandī (محمد أمين بك بن إبراهيم بك بن يونس أفندي بن ياسين أفندي المفت...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 165v-171r

517. Or 9149

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9149
Title:
[Müfredat-i tıbb?] - [مفردات طب]
Scope & Content:
This volume includes an author's müsvedde (draft), without preface, of a work on materia medica. The name of the author is not provided within the text. The manuscript was copied in 1000 AH (1591-92 CE).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1000
Extent:
1 text, 137 ff

518. Or 12108

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12108
Title:
[Kitab-i tıbb-i cevheri cild-i evvel] - [كتاب طب جوهرى جلد اول]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the first part of a treatise on materia medica, the names of the various items being arranged according to the ebced system and given in Arabic, Persian, Greek, Syriac and Ottoman Turkish. The Greek and Syriac terms are provided in Arabic transcription. According to a note o...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Greek, Persian, Syriac, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1111-1113
Extent:
2 texts, 202 ff

519. Or 12152

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12152
Title:
Kitāb anīs al-jalīs fī kull ḥadīth nafīs كتاب أنيس الجليس في كل حديث نفيس Najjār, Ibrāhīm ibn Khalīl النجار، إبراهيم بن خليل
Scope & Content:
Pharmacological handbook, re-bound out of order and with sections missing. The text is organised into chapters (فصول) on major ingredients and on effective categories of drugs, and records recipes for medications such as pills (حبوب), drops (قطرة), gargles (غرغرة), ointments (مرهم), oral draught...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1845-1864
Extent:

ff. iv+128+iv

520. Or 15961

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15961
Title:
Two medical treatises
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1700-1799
Extent:
96 ff

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