Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274 طوسي، ناصر الدين محمد بن محمد، 1201-1274
Published / Created:
16--?]
Call Number:
Manuscript Persian 13
Image Count:
153
Alternative Title:
Risālah-i bīst bāb dar maʻrifat-i asṭurlāb, Bīst bāb dar maʻrifat-i asṭurlāb, رساله بيست باب در معرفة أسطرلاب, and بيست باب در معرفة أسطرلاب
Description:
Manuscript., Persian., Also known as Risālah-i bīst bāb dar maʻrifat-i asṭurlāb., Copied ca. 11 cent. H./17 cent. CE. in medium size taʻlīq. The 15 folios measure 13x21.5 cm; the written surface measuring 10x19 cm. is ruled with red lines; 21 lines per page; marginalia; red catchwords and headings on bottom of page; simple drawings; laid paper is light brown and glazed; the leather binding without flap is blind stamped. Ref. GAL I, 512 #48. Provenance: Cushing Persian Ms. 13/2., and Preceded by 6 folios of anatomical drawings with few persian labels. Provenance: Cushing: Persian Ms. 13/1.
Yazdī, al-Muṭahhar ibn Muḥammad, active 1184 يزدي، المطهر بن محمد، active 1184
Published / Created:
16--?]
Call Number:
Manuscript Persian 23
Image Count:
326
Alternative Title:
ʻAjāyib al-dunyā, Book of animals, plants and stones, ʻAjāʼib al-dunyā, عجايب الدنيا, and عجائب الدنيا
Description:
Digital version available;, Manuscript., Persian., and Copied in 11th/17th cent., in large taʻlīq; written surface measures 14x24 cm., 14 lines per page. Illuminated with detailed multicolored illustrations of animals, birds, plants, stones and humans. Mounted unto thin yellow paper. Worming affecting text is crudely patched. European linen binding is gilt stamped. Ref.: BMP p. 465b; Fonahn, Zur Quellenkunde, # 287. Printed Lucknow 1282/1865. Acquired: June, 1951.
Publisher:
s.n. and د.ن.،
Subject (Topic):
Natural history, Zoology, Botany, Precious stones, and Minerals
Harawī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, active 16th century هروي، محمد بن يوسف، active 16th century
Published / Created:
1601.
Call Number:
Manuscript Arabic 2
Image Count:
502
Alternative Title:
Baḥr al-jawāhir, Jawāhir al-lughah fī lughat al-ṭibb, بحر الجواهر, and جواهر اللغة في لغات الطب
Description:
Manuscript., Arabic., No title page; title taken from fol. 2a., Author's name given on fol. 1b., "Tamma taḥrīruhu ʻalá yad ... Muhammad ibn Yūsuf al-Ṭabīb al-Harawī fī yawm al-tāsiʻ min Shawwāl sanat arbaʻ wa-ʻishrīn wa-tisʻimiʼah [14 October 1518] ... Waqaʻa al-farāgh min tanmīqihi ... fī yawm al-Arbiʻāʼ al-thāmin ʻashar min shahr Dhī al-Ḥijjah al-ḥarām sanat tisʻ wa-alf [20 June 1601] ...Muḥarriruh ... Amīn al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Ṭabīb al-Kāshānī ... "--Colophon., Clear, medium size naskh (12 x 18.2 cm)., Alphabetical arrangement, lamenata in red. Light brown and glazed laid paper. Modern leather binding., Gift of Harvey Cushing., Title on fol. 1a: Jawāhir al-lughah fī lughat al-ṭibb (written in a different hand)., Caption title on fol. 1b in a different hand: Baḥr al-jawāhir lil-Imām al-Damīrī., Medical dictionary arranged alphabetically, covering anatomical and pathological terms and concepts, and medicinal substances., and Digital version available;
Nūrbakhshī, Bahāʾ al-Dawlah, d. ca. 1505 نوربخشي، بهاء الدولة، d. ca. 1505
Call Number:
Manuscript Persian 21
Image Count:
786
Description:
Manuscript., Persian., "Wa-tamma fī yawm al-Sabt thālith shahr Rajab al-murjib sanat 1071 [5 March 1661 C.E.]"--Colophon., Composed in the year 907 H. (1501 or 2 M.). "A general work on medicine, written in traditional form; at the end a special chapter is added on foreign medical technical expressions and on medical weights. It contains much that is noteworthy, such as the writings of the famous physician and scholar living in the 10th/16th century, ʻImād al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Masʻūd of Shīrāz" (Cf. History of Iranian literature / Jan Rypka, p. 474), In elegant, rather small naskh; red binding; the written surface measures 10x18 cm., 28 lines per page; read headings and catchwords; catchwords on bottom of page. Laid paper is brown. Ref. Storey II pt., p. 23, incipit agrees; Browne, p. 186; Fonahn, Zur Quellenkunde # 28; Catalogue of Perisian manuscripts, India Office, no. 2955., and The manuscript is from the library of Ibrāhīm Pāshā son of Muḥammad ʻAlī the Khedive of Egypt.
Manuscript., Arabic., Date of copying 939 H/1532 or 1533 M (but more likely 12/18 cent.), In neat, medium size naskh; 10.5x18.5 cm.; the written surface measures 6.5x13 cm., 17 lines per page. Paper is brittle, light brown with some glazing., and "Tammat al-maqālah al-thālithah min Kitāb Jālinūs fī ʻamal al-tashrīḥ"--Colophon.
Majūsī, ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās, active 10th century-11th century مجوسي، علي بن عباس، active 10th century-11th century
Published / Created:
1437?]
Call Number:
Manuscript Arabic 4
Image Count:
1008
Alternative Title:
Kāmil al-ṣināʻah al-ṭibbīyah 880-02, Malakī, كامل الصناعة الطبية 240-02/(3/r, and ملكي
Description:
Manuscript., Arabic., Date in colophon, 841 H. (1437 or 1438 M.), is questionable. It is added at the end of the text in a different hand., Copied in clear small naskh. 17 x 27 cm. The written surface measures 10.7 x 19.7 cm. Text ruled with blue and gold lines. 29 lines per page. Catchwords on bottom of page. Headings and other catchwords in red. Laid paper is light brown and glazed. The leather binding has no flap. Consists of 2 juzʼ each of which consists of 10 maqālah. Table of contents precedes the text., Gift of Harvey Cushing in 1939, who acquired it from Saʻd̄ Kurdustānī (Correspondence included in ms.)., and Digital version available;
Anṭākī, Dāʾūd ibn ʻUmar, -1599 أنطاكي، داؤد بن عمر، -1599
Published / Created:
1081 [1670]
Call Number:
Manuscript Arabic 18
Image Count:
342
Alternative Title:
Nuzhah al-mubhijah fi tashḥīdh al-adhhān wa-taʻdīl al-amzijah 880-02 and نزهة المبهجة في تشحيذ الأذهان وتعديل الأمزجة 240-02/(3/r
Description:
Manuscript., Arabic., In neat, small naskh. The 164 folios measure 15x23 cm. The written surface measure 9x17.5 cm., 24 lines to page; few marginalia; the catchwords on bottom of page are sometimes cropped; the paper is beige and glazed. Leather binding of European origin., and "Ākhir mā wujida fī nuskhat al-muṣannif. Wa-qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min hādhihi al-nuskhah al-sharīfah fī yawm al-Aḥad, sādis ʻishrīn shahr Rajab al-Murjib, min shuhur sanat iḥdá wa-thamānīn baʻda al-alf min al-Hijrah al-Madanīyah, ʻalá muhājirihā alf alf taḥīyah wa-al-salām, ʻalá yad al-ʻabd Muḥammad Ṭāhir al-Aṣfahānī"--Colophon.
Manuscript., Persian., and Anonymous treatise on medicine in Persian, assigned to a certain ʻAyn al-Ḥayat Iskandarī who may or may not have been a real person. Another copy in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris (Catalogue des manuscrits persans, par E. Blochet, no. 874). Undated ca. 17th cent. in fair taʻlīq writing. Seems to be incomplete at the end. 175 leaves; 20x15 cm.; the written surface measures 14x7.5 cm; 15 line to the page; commentaries on the margins of most pages.
Publisher:
s.n. and د.ن.،
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, Persian, Medicine, and Therapeutics
Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī, -901 ثابت بن قرة الحراني، -901
Published / Created:
15--?]
Call Number:
Manuscript Arabic 1
Image Count:
542
Alternative Title:
Dhakhīrah 880-02 and ذخيرة 240-02/(3/r
Description:
No title page. Title from fol. 1b, Manuscript., Arabic., Neat medium size naskh, 15 x 25.5 cm. Written surface: 8 x 17.5 cm. Some interlinear and marginal corrections. Catchwords on bottom of page. Off-white paper is glazed. Leather binding flap is blind stamped. Contains 31 chapters, starting with hygiene and ending with sexual intercourse., Gift of Harvey Cushing., and Bound with: Sharḥ Urjūzat Ibn Sīnā fī al-ṭibb / li-Abī al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Rushd.