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Kitāb al-Munjih fī al-tadāwī min sunūf al-amrād wa-al-shakāwī

Title	Kitāb al-Munjih fī al-tadāwī min sunūf al-amrād wa-al-shakāwī
Author	al-‘Alā’ī (mid-twelfth century)
Publication Date:	1491
Subject	manuscript pages
Type	Other
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Library:	University of La Laguna Library
Record ID	cdi_europeana_collections_92092_BibliographicResource_1000086016413
Date	1491
Notes	This page is blank but for an inscription stating that the volume was given to ’Abd al-Rahmān ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Muʾayyad during the year 905 AH [1499-1500 CE] in the city of Edirne. The recipient appears to have been ’Abd al-Rahmān ibn ’Alī ibn al-Mu’ayyad-zāde Čelebi, an important Ottoman theologian and legist who was qādī of Edirne from 899 (AH)/1494 CE to 907 AH/1501 CE. He was the first Ottoman to form a private library of over 7,000 volumes. This treatise on medicinal substances was apparently composed for Dhū al-Qarnayn ibn Ismā’īl Dānishmendid, a ruler in Anatolia (in Malatya and Elbistan) from 1152 CE to 1162 CE.

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Kitāb al-Munjih fī al-tadāwī min sunūf al-amrād wa-al-shakāwī

Author al-‘Alā’ī (mid-twelfth century)

Publication Date 1491

Subject manuscript pages

Type Other

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Library University of La Laguna Library

Record ID cdi_europeana_collections_92092_BibliographicResource_1000086016413

Date 1491

Notes This page is blank but for an inscription stating that the volume was given to ’Abd al-Rahmān ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Muʾayyad during the year 905 AH [1499-1500 CE] in the city of Edirne. The recipient appears to have been ’Abd al-Rahmān ibn ’Alī ibn al-Mu’ayyad-zāde Čelebi, an important Ottoman theologian and legist who was qādī of Edirne from 899 (AH)/1494 CE to 907 AH/1501 CE. He was the first Ottoman to form a private library of over 7,000 volumes. This treatise on medicinal substances was apparently composed for Dhū al-Qarnayn ibn Ismā’īl Dānishmendid, a ruler in Anatolia (in Malatya and Elbistan) from 1152 CE to 1162 CE.