| Title: |
Zakhīrah-i Khvārazm’Shāhī / Ismā’īl ibn al-Hasan al-[?]. |
| Translated Title: |
The treasure of Khvārazm’Shāh. |
| Variant Title: |
Zakhīrah-’i Khvārazm’Shāhī |
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Dhakhīrah-i Khwārazm-Shāhī |
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Kitāb-i Qarābādīn |
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Kitāb Qarābādīn |
| Author(s)/Name(s): |
Jurjānī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥasan, |
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Muhammad Mu’min ibn Shams al-Dīn ’Alī, scribe. |
| Publisher: |
Sha’bān 1092 [August-September 1681] |
| Description: |
348 leaves, bound, (31 lines; fol. 120b blank) : paper, col. ill. ; 37 cm. |
| Language: |
per |
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| Notes: |
Manuscript. |
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Persian. |
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Title given on fol. 1b line 11 and in colophon (fol. 348b line 22). |
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Author’s name given (fol. 1b line 24) as: Ismā’īl ibn al-Hasan al-[?]; the last part of the name is illegible. |
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Composed not earlier than 1110 and dedicated (fol. 1b line 4) to Qutb al-Dīn Muhammad Anūshtakīn Khvārazm’Shah, who died in 1127. |
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Copy dated in colophon (fol. 348b line 24) as 22 Dhū al-Hijjah 1089 [17 August 1679]; scribe’s name given as: Muhammad Mu’min ibn Shams al-Dīn ’Alī [?] with the last part of the name, the nisba, not legible; the end of the second book of the treatise is dated (fol. 64b line 24): Sha’bān 1092 [August-September 1681]. |
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In the collection of the Army Medical Library in 1946; no information on provenance. |
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There are several different hands evident in the copying of this manuscript; a particularly obvious change of hands occurs between fol. 210 and 211. |
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Rubrications; marginalia in several hands; copy has been collated; some marginal headings; breaks appear to occur between fol. 9 and 10, 89 and 90, 177 and 178, 182 and 183, 234 and 235, 288 and 289, and 321 and 322; fol. 129-137 have been bound upside down so that the correct sequence should be fol. 128, 137-129, 138; fol. 89 (on beverages) and fol. 247 (on barleywater) appear to be from other treatises and are written on different papers and by different hands from the rest of the volume. |
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The paper is thin, yellowed, having wavy laid lines visible but no chain lines; paper is badly waterstained especially toward the bottom; some leaves have been repaired, with later marginalia added to newer paper; leaves have been trimmed. |
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Fol. 348b has a geomantic table and an owner’s note dated 1111 [1699]; fol. 1a has a number of owners’s stamps and signatures, some defaced, including some dated 1200 [1785 or 1786], 1229 [1814], and 1230 [1815]; additional owners’s stamps are onfol. 31b and 35a. |
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Modern leather binding incorporating two badly deteriorated covers from an earlier binding of dark red leather with blind tooled designs in the center and at the corner of each cover; these tooled designs were at one time covered with paper; modern pastedowns and endpapers; the front endpaper has four pieces cut out, apparently from earlier endpapers, and pasted on it, bearing various pious statements and jottings, including one noting the birth of a Muhammad Ibrāhīm on the 2nd of Safar 1235 [20 November 1819]. |
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Described in: Schullian & Sommer. Cat. of incun. & MSS., 1950, P5. |
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A medical encyclopedia, divided into nine books followed by an additional book on compound remedies (Kitāb-i Qarābādīn) beginning on fol. 296b; for another copy of the book on compound remedies see NLM MS P14. |
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A loose leaf (bearing a penciled numeral 204A) was found between fol. 36 and 37; Sommer (Schullian & Sommer. Cat. of incun. & MSS, 1950) described it as being found between fol. 246 and 247; the leaf measures 21 x 35 cm. and is made of paper with visible laid and single chain lines, different from the main volume; the sheet has one major fold at the midpoint, though it was at one time folded many times to make it quite small; one side of the sheet is blank, while the other has two full sized human figures drawn in black and red ink and opaque watercolor; the righthand figure shows the venous system (similar to diagrams in NLM MS P18 fol. 25b and NLM MS P19 fol. 16b); the lefthand figure has the bloodletting points labeled; probably 18th cent.; it has now been placed in a separate envelope and labeled: MS P5 fol. A. |
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Two loose leaves were also found between fol. 212 and 213; both on modern paper and contain Persian notes apparently unrelated to the rest of the manuscript; one (fol. B) contains several dates in the years 1308 and 1309 [1890-1892] and owners’s stamps; they have been placed in a separate envelope labeled: MS P8, fol. B and C; |
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Microfilm. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. August-September 1681. |
| NLM Unique ID: |
9409266 |
