Item Summary

A collection of notes, recipes, magic squares, and other diagrams on popular medicine and magic, about 700 in all. The booklet appears to be someone's private notebook.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Turkish handbook on folk medicine and magic].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 729
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcxd07h732n
Language
Ottoman Turkish
Extent
120 leaves, bound : paper, ill. ; 123 x 95 mm.
Source Acquisition
Purchase; Bouwman Oriental Books, 2009/11/11 (2010-53).
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Physical description: 13-15 lines per page, written in naskh script in brown on Eurpean laid paper. Illustrated with diagrams; entries separated by a horizontal line. Some damp staining.
Binding Note
Full leather oriental binding with small flap.

Discovery Information

Subject
Traditional medicine—Turkey—Formulae, receipts, prescriptions—Early works to 1800
Islamic magic—Formulae, receipts, prescriptions—Early works to 1800
Magic squares—Early works to 1800

Physical Characteristics

File Count
316

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b87cb7d0-a59d-4b27-b46a-12627f00d473/manifest