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Treatises on medicine
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104 ff.
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Persian
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Arabic
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1765
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1765
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1765
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Hijri-qamari
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CE
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Jurjānī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥasan, 1042?-1137?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000063232272,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/47935028
Jurjānī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥasan, 1042?-1137?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000063232272,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/47935028
Masʿūd ibn Muḥammad al-Sanjarī (?) al-Ṭabīb
Qāsim ibn ʿAvvāq ibn Jaʿfar
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Islam and science
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Oriental Manuscripts

Or 16272

Treatises on medicine

Contents

Summary of Contents: Two treatises on medicine. Other contents: 1v-2v, Fī l-nabż: tract in Arabic on diagnosis from the pulse; 2v, Bāb dar tang kardan-i farj-i zanān: brief extract from a treatise in Persian on narrowing the vulva; 104v-100r (written in reverse order to rest of codex), various notes and lists, including: 103r-102v, poem on diet, headed Tadbīr-i ma’kūl; 102r-101v, Mus-hilāt-i ṣafrā; 101r-100v, Mus-hilāt-i balgham va sawdā. Purchased from A al-Shakri, 20 January 2006.
1. ff. 2v-75v

A general treatise on medicine, part of which is an abridgement of the same author’s better-known Z̲akhīrah-'i Khvārazmshāhī. By Ismā‘īl ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥasanī al-Jurjānī (d. 535/1136 or 531/1132). See FNKhF I, pp. 473-4; Storey, PL II/2 E pp. 209-10. Other BL copies: I.O. Islamic 1778, I.O. Islamic 2228 (damaged and defective), see Ethé IOL I cols. 1249-52.

Text may well have been copied at roughly the same time as the second treatise in this volume.

Language(s): Persian
Title: al-Aghrāz̤ al-ṭibbīyah va al-mabāḥis̲ al-ʿalāʾīyah
Author: Ismāʿīl ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥasanī al-Jurjānī, 1042 or 1043-1136 or 1137 اسماعيل بن حسن جرجانى
2. ff. 76r-98v
Title: Ḥaqāʾiq asrār al-aṭibbāʾ

A treatise in Arabic on medicine, composed by Masʿūd ibn Muḥammad al-Sanjarī (?) al-Ṭabīb, for Qāsim ibn ʿAvvāq ibn Jaʿfar, described as al-ʿAlīm al-ʿĀdil Ṣadr al-Dawlah va al-Dīn Malik al-Vuzarāʾ.

The work comprises three parts (fann), which are subdivided into sections (qism). 1: Muhayyāt al-ashyā’ allatī yata‘allaq (sic) bi-kulliyyāt al-ṭibb va rusūmihā l-taqarrubiyya: general principles of medicine. 2: Kayfiyyat al-a‘māl va l-ṣinā‘at al-muṭa‘allaqa bi-uṣūl al-ṭibb: necessary skills and operations. 3: Kamiyyat aqsām al-umūr al-munqasima inqisāman kulliyyan: the number of detailed aspects.

Colophon dated 2 Ramaz̤ān 1178/23 February 1765

Language(s): Persian
Author: Masʿūd ibn Muḥammad al-Sanjarī (?) al-Ṭabīb

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 104 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 208 × 138 mm.
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History

Origin: 1765-02-23 2 Ramaz̤ān 1178 AH; 23 February 1765 CE ; India

Record Sources

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

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