In Arabic., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm wa-bi-hi thiqatī. al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn ḥamda al-shākirīn wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá al-Nabī al-Muṣṭafá Muḥammad wa-ālihi al-ṭāhirīn. al-Kitāb al-awwal yashtamilu ʻalá maʻrifat ḥadd al-ṭibb wa-maʻrifat juzʼayhi al-ʻilmī wa-al-ʻamalī wa-ʻalá maʻrifat al-umūr al-jawharīyah [?] lil-abdān min al-ʻanāṣir wa-al-amzijah wa-al-akhlāṭ wa-al-aʻḍāʼ al-mutashābihat al-ajzāʼ wa-al-aʻḍāʼ al-ālīyah wa-ʻalá maʻrifat al-qiwá al-ṭabīʻīyah wa-al-ḥayawānīyah wa-al-nafsānīyah ...", 18 x 30 cm ; written surface: 11.3 x 20 cm, 25 lines per page., Islamic red leather binding., In good naskhī script; in black ink, on yellowish paper, with headings, keywords and marking in red; catchwords. Part 3 of the manuscript on pharmacology is profusely illustrated on the margins with beautifully colored drawings of the plants and animals mentioned in the text., Some collations and corrections on the margins., On title page an ownership seal in the name of Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Mūsawī., and Colophon: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Balagha qibālan wa-taṣḥīḥan wa-tadrīsan fī al-thālith wa-al-ʻishrīn min shahr Ramaḍān al-mubārak sanat iḥdá wa-ʻishrīn baʻda al-alf min al-Hijrah. Wa-anā al-ʻabd aqall al-mutaṭabbibīn ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Muṭṭalib al-Khālidī [?] al-Khurāsānī, ghafara Allāh la-hu wa-li-wālidayh. 1021. Balagha muqābalatan maʻa muntasikhih."
Subject (Name):
Maghribī, Abū Saʻīd ibn Ibrāhīm, active 12th century.
Subject (Topic):
Materia medica, Animal, Medicinal plants, Medicine, Arab, and Pharmacology