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Or 11213
- Record Id:
- 032-003693970
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003693970
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100106888804.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100128620501.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 11213
- Title:
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Kitāb al-bāhīyah wa-al-tarkībāt al-Sulṭānīyah كتاب الباهية والتركيبات السلطانية
Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي, نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
- Scope & Content:
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A short work on medicine composed upon request, as the author Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274) relates in the preface, in response to the ailments of unidentified prince (see preface, f. 1r, line 9-2r, line 1).
Its 18 short chapters (أبواب) cover physiology, drugs, and dietetics with a particular focus on aphrodisiacs and the attainment of sexual potency and pleasure (see contents and introduction, ff. 2r, line 2-6v, line 5).
The second unnumbered flyleaf bears a list of months in the Ottoman Turkish calendar (f. ii-v).
Begins (f. 1r, lines 2-6):
الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله
وصحبه أجمعين وبعد فإن الله تعالى قد كمل
النفوس الناطقة الإنسانية بمواهب إنعامه
وملأ معادن خواطر الحكماء بإعلامه لهم جواهر
حكمته كما قال الله سبحانه...
Ends (f. 31v, lines 1-4):
تم الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب وهذه...
اللطيفة هي التركيبات العجيبة النافعة المفيدة التي
هي من أسرار الأطباء ومن اختصاراتهم المفيدة لأنها
جعلت لخزانة سلطان من السلاطين المسلمين لنفع
Colophon (f. 31v, lines 5-11):
انتهى على يد كاتبه العبد الفقير الراجي رحمة
ربه القدير الغازي في بحر ذنوبه محمد
علي بن حسين بن حسن الجزائري
غفر الله له ولجميع المسلمين
والمسلمات الأحياء
منهم والأ
موات
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003693970
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003693970
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. ii+31+ii
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100106888804.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1800
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- 19th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Thin, western wove paper embossed 'BATH' within a rectangular frame surrounded by a scrolling floral design
Dimensions: 208 x 135mm leaf [153 x 100mm written] many folded tabs especially to fore edge.
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 13 lines per page; vertical spacing 9 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh; the scribe is Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Ḥusayn ibn Ḥasan al-Jazāʾirī (محمد علي بن حسين بن حسن الجزائري, see colophon, f. 31v, lines 6-7)
Ink: Black ink with rubricated headings
Decoration: Black double frames around text areas on each page
Binding: British Museum maroon buckram binding
Condition: Generally good, some smudging; spine sewing mended with paper inserts towards front of volume. F. 31 guarded
Marginalia: Very few
Seals: British Museum stamp (ff. 1v and 31v)
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from Oskar Rescher (1884-1972), 10 May 1930
- Publications:
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Study:
- Newman, D (ed. and trans.), The Sultan's Sex Potions: Arab Aphrodisiacs in the Middle Ages (London: Saqi Books, 2014)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)