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
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., 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
Ḥusaynī, Muḥammad Muʼmin, -1698, author حسىنى، محمد مؤمن، -1698 author
Published / Created:
19 Shaʻbān, 1124 H [21 September, 1712]
Call Number:
Manuscript Persian S-3
Image Count:
240
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Part 4 of Tuḥfat al-muʼminīn "Precious gift of the faithful" (an encyclopedic work on medicine and materia medica) of Muḥammad Muʼmin al-Ḥusaynī al-Tunukābunī (d. 1698), a prominent physician in Azerbaijan, originally composed for the Ṣafavid Shāh Ṣafī II Sulaymān (reigned 1666-1694). Part 4 (Tashkhīṣ-i rābiʻ) "Tadāvā-yi sumūm" is on poisons, their effects, how to avoid them, their remedies, kinds, etc. It was copied by Mullā Muʼmin Kashmīrī for ʻAbd Allāh Bīk Kūtvāl on 19 Shaʻbān 1124 (21 September, 1712) probably in Iran
Alternative Title:
Tuḥfat al-muʼminīn. Selections 880-02 and تحفة المؤمنين. Selections 240-02/r
Description:
In Persian., Incipit: "Tashkhīṣ-i rābiʻ dar tadāvā-yi sumūm. Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Mushtamil ast bar panj faṣl. Faṣl-i avval dar tadabbur-i taʼs̲īr-i sumūm va iḥtirāz-i ān, faṣl-i duvvum tadābīr-i mushtarikah-i sumūm, faṣl-i sivvum dar sumūm-i mashrūbah ...", 13 x 23 cm ; written surface: 9.6 x 21 cm, 20 lines per page., Leather binding., In good nastaʻlīq script; in black ink, on yellowish paper, with some markings in red; catchwords., and Colophon: "Tammat tamām shud bi-ʻawn al-Malik al-Wahhāb Tuḥfat al-muʼmīn ḥasab-i al-farmūdah ... ʻAbd Allāh Bīk Kūtvāl bi-yad-i faqīr al-ḥaqīr al-ʻabd al-mudhnib Mullā Mūmin Kashmīrī al-rājī ilá raḥmat Allāh al-Bārī ... taḥrīr fī al-tārīkh nūzdahum Shaʻbān al-muʻaẓẓam sanat 24 [i.e. 1124] ..."
Ibn Ilyās, Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad, fl. 1384 ابن إلياس، منصور بن محمد، fl. 1384
Published / Created:
1709]
Call Number:
Manuscript Persian S-8
Image Count:
73
Alternative Title:
Tashrīḥ-i badan-i insān and تشريح بدن إنسان
Description:
Manuscript., Persian., An illustrated treatise on human anatomy, usually referred to as Tashrīh-i Mansūrī (Mansūr's Anatomy) Copied 14 Muḥarram 1121? H/March 27, 1709 in large nastaʻlīq. The 35 folios measure 20.2 cm x 30 cm. The written surface measures 13.5 cm x 23.5 cm, 14 lines to page. Contains 4 anatomical, multicolor illustrations. The wove paper is of brown color. Modern buckram binding. Incipit: "Rabbi yassir. Bismi Allāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Wa-timm bi-khayr." End: Taḥrīr fī al-tārīkh 14 Muḥarram al-ḥarām, sanat 3 julūs-i Pādishāh Shāh Bahādur, khallada Allāh mulkahu." Provenance: John F. Fulton, June 19, 1951. Call no.: Or. Persian Ms. S-8., and Digital version available;
Ibn Ilyās, Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad, fl. 1384 ابن إلياس، منصور بن محمد، fl. 1384
Published / Created:
14--?]
Call Number:
Manuscript Persian S-14
Image Count:
56
Alternative Title:
Tashrīḥ-i badan-i insān and تشريح بدن إنسان
Description:
Manuscript., Persian., Copied in ca. IX cent. H/XV cent. CE. 25 folios in medium size naskh, illustrated with 6 full page anatomical figures, pen drawn in various colours, among them being one representing the arterial system of a pregnant woman. The written surface measures 17x13 cm; 25 lines per page. Catchwords and headings in red; Indian influence noticeable; laid paprer is brown. Ref. Ullmann, Medizin, p. 180. Provenance-Cushing Persian Ms. 14., An illustrated treatise on human anatomy, usually referred to as Tashrīh-i Mansūrī (Mansūr's Anatomy); dedicated to Sultan Ziyāʾ al-Ḥaqq wa-al-Salṭanah wa-al-Dīn Amīr Zād Pīr Muḥammad Bahādur (fol. 2a, lines 3-4), who is probably Pīr Muhammad ibn ʻUmar ibn Tīmūr, the Timurid ruler of Fars from 1393-1409., and Digital version available;