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Abu Mansour Muwaffaq Ibn Ali Al-Harawi, book (The Buildings on the Reality of Medicines)
(أبو منصور موفق ابن علي الهروي ، كتاب الأبنية عن حقيقية الأدوية )

Title	Abu Mansour Muwaffaq Ibn Ali Al-Harawi, book (The Buildings on the Reality of Medicines)
Title Original	أبو منصور موفق ابن علي الهروي ، كتاب الأبنية عن حقيقية الأدوية
Publication Date:	447 AH / 1055-1056 AD447 AH / 1056 AD
Publication Place	Maybe Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan - Austrian National Library (ANL)
Subject	Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper. An angular outline of a manuscript of 13 lines per page
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	190×150 مم (135×115مم) ، 219 صفحة
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	A.F. 340
Record ID	object;EPM;at;Mus24;18;ar
Library Location	Austrian National Library (ANL)
Date	447 AH / 1055-1056 AD447 AH / 1056 AD
Notes	This is the oldest known surviving Islamic manuscript written in the Persian language. It is a copy by a tenth-century writer, Abu Mansur Muwaffaq Ibn Ali Al-Harawi, which is known as the Book of Buildings on the Truth of Medicines, and its contents are attributed to the Samanid writer Mansur Ibn Nuh, around 350-365 AH/961-976 AD. According to the calligrapher/manuscript identification page, this manuscript was written in italic Kufic script by Ali bin Ahmad al-Asadi al-Tusi al-Shatir in the year 447 AH/1055-1056 AD, probably in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. The writer was also a poet who wrote the epic of heroic poetry, Karshasb-nama, which is based on Ferdowsi’s famous book of kings, the Shahnameh, and this copy is dedicated to the venerable president, Al-Amjad Abu Al-Qasim. In the footnotes, marginal comments in Turkish from a later time indicate that the manuscript remained in Türkiye after which it was added to the inventories of the Austrian National Library in 1811.
Sample Text	Theresa Zischkin “Abu Mansur Muwaffaq Ibn Ali Al-Harawi, book (The Buildings on the Reality of Medicines)” in Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;at;Mus24;18;ar
Cilt	The brown neo-classical leather binding with gold printing was created in 19th-century Vienna.
Bu sayfanın künyesi	Prepared by:Theresa ZISCHKIN
Seçili bibliyografya	Duda, Dorothea,Islamische Handschriften I. Persische Handschriften, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, vol. 4, Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1983: 51-52.

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Abu Mansour Muwaffaq Ibn Ali Al-Harawi, book (The Buildings on the Reality of Medicines)

(أبو منصور موفق ابن علي الهروي ، كتاب الأبنية عن حقيقية الأدوية )

Publication Date 447 AH / 1055-1056 AD447 AH / 1056 AD

Publication Place Maybe Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan - Austrian National Library (ANL)

Subject Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper. An angular outline of a manuscript of 13 lines per page

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 190×150 مم (135×115مم) ، 219 صفحة

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID A.F. 340

Record ID object;EPM;at;Mus24;18;ar

Library Location Austrian National Library (ANL)

Date 447 AH / 1055-1056 AD447 AH / 1056 AD

Notes This is the oldest known surviving Islamic manuscript written in the Persian language. It is a copy by a tenth-century writer, Abu Mansur Muwaffaq Ibn Ali Al-Harawi, which is known as the Book of Buildings on the Truth of Medicines, and its contents are attributed to the Samanid writer Mansur Ibn Nuh, around 350-365 AH/961-976 AD. According to the calligrapher/manuscript identification page, this manuscript was written in italic Kufic script by Ali bin Ahmad al-Asadi al-Tusi al-Shatir in the year 447 AH/1055-1056 AD, probably in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. The writer was also a poet who wrote the epic of heroic poetry, Karshasb-nama, which is based on Ferdowsi’s famous book of kings, the Shahnameh, and this copy is dedicated to the venerable president, Al-Amjad Abu Al-Qasim. In the footnotes, marginal comments in Turkish from a later time indicate that the manuscript remained in Türkiye after which it was added to the inventories of the Austrian National Library in 1811.

Sample Text Theresa Zischkin “Abu Mansur Muwaffaq Ibn Ali Al-Harawi, book (The Buildings on the Reality of Medicines)” in Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;at;Mus24;18;ar

Cilt The brown neo-classical leather binding with gold printing was created in 19th-century Vienna.

Bu sayfanın künyesi Prepared by:Theresa ZISCHKIN

Seçili bibliyografya Duda, Dorothea,Islamische Handschriften I. Persische Handschriften, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, vol. 4, Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1983: 51-52.