Item Summary

Treatise on medicine by an Indian physician. Preceded by favāʼid (fol. 1a-2b and 6a) and a listing of contents (fol. 3a-5b).

Descriptive Information

Title
علاج الامراض / محمد شريف خان.
Transliterated Title
ʻIlāj al-amrāz̤ / Muḥammad Sharīf Khān.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 434Lq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcrx914321j
Publisher
Rajab 1229 [1814]
Language
Persian
Date Created
1814
Format
Manuscript
Extent
274 leaves : paper ; 346 x 214 (265 x 150) mm bound to 345 x 211 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Martinovitch, N.N. Catalogue of Turkish and Persian manuscripts (1926), no. 434
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from table of contents (fol. 2b).
Marginal notes. Label on upper cover: "16 R". Contains tables.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 274 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 22-25 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition, some damage to folios at beginning and end.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Rajab 1229 (fol. 274b).
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Binding in poor condition.

Discovery Information

Subject
Medicine, Arab
Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton
tables (documents)

Physical Characteristics

File Count
558

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4fe758a3-0d7c-4541-81aa-983287c7418e/manifest