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Or 16176

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Title:
Three treatises
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Extent:
98 ff. plus 2 blank.
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Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1594
End Date:
1594
Date Range:
1594
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Names:
Muḥammad Qāsim ibn Ḥājjī Muḥammad Mashhadī
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Oriental Manuscripts

Or 16176

Three treatises

Contents

Three treatises, two on medical matters, dating from the late 16th century and copied at Baghdad

1. ff 2r-56r
Title: Risālah dar adviyah
Title: رساله در ادویه

A treatise on materia medica, in 16 chapters (bāb). The text is acephalous and the list of contents on f. 1r identifies it only in the generic terms given above. It appears that only one folios is missing, since the text on the first extant recto side begins with the subjects of the last five chapters.

Copying completed bar gūr-i Ṣāliḥ, i.e. at the tomb of a saint named Sharīfah Ḥajjī Ṣāliḥ (see below), in Baghdad after the Jumu‘ah (Friday prayer) on 10 Rabī‘ al-avval 1002/3 January 1594 by Kamāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn Iṣfahānī.

Language(s): Persian
Filiation:
2. ff. 56v-61v
Title: Risālah
Title: رساله

An excerpt from an unidentified medical treatise on diagnosis from symptoms. The text is incomplete and breaks off in the middle of a sentence.

Copied by the same hand as the other texts in the manuscript, but in this text some words are difficult to decipher.

Language(s): Persian
3. ff 62r-98v
Title: Hidāyat al-ṭarīq
Title: هدایة الطریق

A treatise on the evils of backbiting (ghībat) and tale-bearing (namīmat), the expiation to be made for committing them, and exceptional cases in which they are countenanced by Sacred Law. The author is named as Muḥammad Qāsim ibn Ḥājjī Muḥammad Mashhadī. Based upon Arabic sources, and compiled for Persian-speaking readers, Hidāyat al-ṭarīq comprises a muqaddimha, five bābs, and a khātimah.

Munzavi, FNKhF II/2, p. 1715, records only one other copy: Tehran University, Ilāhiyyāt MS. 214/1. The present manuscript lacks the first folio, but contains the incipit as quoted by Munzavī, loc. cit.

Language(s): Persian
Author: Muḥammad Qāsim ibn Ḥājjī Muḥammad Mashhadī محمد قاسم بن حاجی محمد مشهدی

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Off-white laid paper, thicker than average but somewhat brittle.
Extent: 98 ff. plus 2 blank.
Dimensions (leaf): 196 × 102 mm.
Dimensions (written): 125 × 57 mm.

Condition

Folios 1-7 have patch repairs, and a few others have small tears.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 18

18 lines.

Hand(s)

Small nastaʻlīq. Copyist: Kamāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn Iṣfahānī.

Decoration

Red headings and underlinings. No text frames.

Additions:

 Other contents: fore-edge title Hidāyat al-ṭarīq; f. 1r, list of contents of the manuscript; margin of f. 98v, five couplets of Persian verse, partially obscured by smudging.

Binding

Limp black leather covers, worn.

History

Origin: 1594 1002 AH; 1594 CE ; Baghdad.

Provenance and Acquisition

2005-03-11

Purchased from A Kazzaz; 11 March 2005

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in M.I. Waley, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts acquired 2000-2014.

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