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Subject Ottoman Medicine

1. Or 14473

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14473
Title:
Gayetü’l-beyan fi tedbiri bedeni’l-insan - غاية البيان في تدبير بدن الانسان
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a treatise on therapy and hygiene composed by the distinguished court physician Ṣāliḥ bin Naṣrullāh al-Ḥalabī, known as Ibn Sallūm (died 1080 AH/1669 CE). He presented the work to Sultan Mehmed IV (ruled 1058-99 AH/1648-87 CE) in 1075 AH/1664-5 CE. Ibn Sallūm studied medici...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1110
Extent:
1 text, 167 ff

2. Or 14557

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14557
Title:
Bidaatü’l-mübtedi - بضاعة المبتدي
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an encyclopaedic treatise on materia medica by the physician and poet Bursalı Hekim Ali Efendi (died 1146 AH/1733 CE), known as Ali Münşi. The work is dedicated to Sultan Mahmud I (ruled 1143-1168 AH/1730-1754 CE). Although likely born in Istanbul, he was known as Bursalı A...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
late 12th century
Extent:
1 text, 207 ff

3. Or 16046

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16046
Title:
Ma hazar - ما حضر
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a treatise on spiritual, physical, and occult remedies by Ebu Bekir Nusret (died 1210 AH/1795 CE). Few details are known about Nusret’s life. He was from Harput and studied with Dağıstani Ali. He studied Sufism with Mustafa el-Bekri el-Kuddusi. He had mastered Persian liter...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Late 18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:

1 text, 65 ff

4. Or 16191

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16191
Title:
Kemaliye - كماليه
Scope & Content:
A medical treatise, composed and named for a certain Şeyh Kemalüddin. The author, who is not named, evidently belonged to the Sufi milieu in Bursa. The last part of the work consists of healing invocations. He mentions in the preface that having treated Şeyh Kemalüddin he was moved to write down...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
1 text, 45 ff

5. Or 16237

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16237
Title:
Manuscript containing two medical texts in Ottoman Turkish
Scope & Content:
This volume contains two medical texts in Ottoman Turkish. Its contents are as follows: Or 16237 (1) Nidai’s Menafi'u’n-nas, between ff 3v-78r. Or 16237(2) Risale-i Tıbbi’n-Nebi, follows the above text, and is 42 pages. For more on each work, see their individual title entries.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
2 texts, 78 ff and 42 pp

6. Or 16237 (1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16237 (1)
Title:
[Menafiu’n-nas] – [منافع الناس]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a medical treatise, with some passages in verse, by the physician Nidai (died after 975 AH/1567 CE). Known also as Kaysunizade Nidai Mehmed Çelebi, he is not to be confused with Kaysunizade Bedrüddin (died 976 AH/1568 CE), another prominent Ottoman physician and author of Za...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 text, 78 ff

7. Or 16237 (2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16237 (2)
Title:
Risale-i Tıbbü’n-Nebi - رسالهٔ طب النبی
Scope & Content:
This section contains a lithographed text of 42 pages relating a number of sayings on medical matters attributed to the Prophet Muhammad. According to the short introduction, the work is a translation of the scholar and exegete Abu’l-Qāsim ibn Ḥabīb al-Nīsābūrī’s (died 406 AH/1016 CE) al-Ṭibb a...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1276
Extent:
1 text, 42 pages