Author
Maḥmud ibn Masʿūd ʽImad al-Din Shīrāzī
Publication Date
23 Ramaḍān 1099 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Subject
1
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Add MS 23560, ff 98v-214v
Record ID
vdc_100128471558.0x000004
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
23 Ramaḍān 1099 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Notes
An Arabic-language treatise on compound medicaments also entitled
Qarābādhīn
(قراباذين), by Maḥmud ibn Masʿūd ʽImad al-Din Shīrāzī (محمود بن مسعود عماد الدين شيرازى, fl. 16th century). The copy was completed on 23 Ramaḍān 1099/22 July 1688 (see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, f. 214v, transcribed below). The twenty-five chapters (
bābs
) of the treatise are listed on the contents pages (f. 99r-v).
In the preface Shīrāzī states that from his youth he had studied the standard medical works with his father and other physicians and worked as a doctor for twenty years before coming to the court of Shāh Ṭahmāsp I (1514-1576), to whom he dedicates the present work (f. 99r, lines 11-12).
The author also mentions his engagement with composing a manual of medicine, which he had by this point completed as far as the chapter on the anatomy of the tongue. The work mentioned is probably the first text in the present volume.
The work is followed by four folios bearing medical recipes (ff. 215r-218r)
Begins (f. 98v, lines 2-3):
الحمد لله مبدع تراكيب المصنوعات بامتزاج المفردات والمركبات ومجتمع الترياقات الدافعة للسموم
والمفرجات المنحية من الهموم والغموم والصلوة والسلام على نبيه الذي هدانا إلى أسباب النجاة وعلامات الشفاء...
Ends (f. 214v, lines 19-21):
...وعند بعض سبعة دراهم وعند آخرين إستاران
وقال الخجندي أوقيتان وسيقون مثقالان ونصف سميان خمسة وعشرون إستارًا
سمينا ثلاثة أرباع الأوقية
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 214v, lines 22-24):
تمت الكتاب بتاريخ يوم الأربعاء
ثالث وعشرين شهر رمضان المبارك ١٠٩٩
موافق لوى ئيل إتمام يافت
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
Cureton, William and Charles Rieu,
Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens
(London: The British Museum, 1846-71), Item 1363, p. 633
Rieu, Charles, Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: The British Museum, 1879), p. 474
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Emilie Savage-Smith, ʿEmad-al-Dīn Maḥmūd', in
Encyclopædia Iranica
, ed. Ehsan Yarshater, 8 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul and Costa Mesa: Mazda, 1983 to present), pp. 381–82;
Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, 'Ḥakīm ʿImāduddīn Shīrāzī',
Studies in History of Medicine and Science
, 9 (New Delhi: IHMMR, 1985), pp. 15–21.