Item Summary

Collection of treatises, mostly in verse, on medicine.

Descriptive Information

Title
طب شهابى.
Transliterated Title
Ṭibb-i Shihābī ... [etc.].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 829
Identifier
ark:/88435/st74cv47x
Publisher
[1693]
Language
Persian
Date Created
1693
Format
Manuscript
Extent
92 leaves : paper ; 195 x 105 (155 x 75) mm bound to 198 x 115 mm
Source Acquisition
Purchase; Bouwman Books, 2013/07/15 (2014-4).
References
Storey, C.A. Persian literature, II, 224
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. leaves 1(bis)b-3b: Mujarrabāt-i Abī Z̲arr. Metrical treatise on medicaments attributed to Abū Dharr, a companion of the Prophet Muḥammad.
2. leaves 3b-7a: [Notes].
3. leaves 7b-88b: Ṭibb-i Shihābī / Shihāb al-Dīn ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm al-Nāgawrī. A metrical compendium of medicine, also known as Shifāʼ al-maraz̤.
4. leaf 89a: Dar shinākhtan-i mazzah-i duhn. Short poem on popular medicine.
5. leaves 89b-90b: Fāyidah dar shinākhtan-i amrāz̤ az bawl-i marīz̤. Extract on diagnosing illness using urine.
6. leaves 91a-91b: [Notes and verses].
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from text 3, leaf 88b.
Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on second leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.
Physical description: 16 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on brown glazed, laid Arabic paper. Poems in two columns. Rubrication and catchwords; first and last pages of text 3 framed in red. First leaf is pasted to another sheet of paper. Extensive water damage, but text still legible; a few paper repairs.
Origin: 22 Ṣafar 1105 H [23 October 1693], by Nūr Muḥammad khalaf-i Muḥammad Qāyim ʻurifa [bi-] Kanbū Hāshimī (leaf 88b).
Incipit (text 3): نخستىن کنم نوک خامه روان * بتوحىد پروردگار جهان
Binding Note
Modern full leather with blind-stamping and tooling.

Discovery Information

Subject
Medicine, Arab
Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
196

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/fa21d81f-a506-49b5-99be-c0efe893d049/manifest