Publication Date
4 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1099 (AH, Lunar Hijri)
Subject
1
Type
Book
Language
Persian
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Add MS 23560, ff 218v-262v
Record ID
vdc_100128471558.0x000003
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
4 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1099 (AH, Lunar Hijri)
Notes
Abridgement of the comprehensive medical compendium
Dhakhīrah-i Khwārazmshāhī
(ذخيره خوارزمشاهي) which the author, Ismaʿīl ibn Ḥasan al-Jurjānī (اسماعيل بن الحسن الجرجاني, d. 1042/4) had composed previously.
The abridgement was composed at the request of the second Khwārazmshāhī ruler ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Ātsiz ibn Muḥammad (علاء الدين اتسز بن محمد, r. 1127-56, see f. 218v, line 4), and the present copy was transcribed on 4 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1099/31 August 1688 (see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, f. 262v, transcribed below).
The text consists of two parts, as detailed in the contents (ff. 218v-219r): the first on theoretical medicine comprising two
maqālahs
on the preservation of health and on diagnosis (ff. 218v-237v); and the second part on practical medicine (ff. 237v-262v). The part on practice, in seven
maqālahs
, covers advice to physicians, treatment of diseases; fevers, measles and smallpox; tumors, sores and wounds; fractures, bruises and dislocations; treatment of the hair and of skin diseases; and antidotes.
Begins (f. 218v, lines 3-4):
الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة على النبي محمد وآله أجمعين أما بعد چنين كويد امير سيّد اسمعيل بن الحسن بن الحسين
الجرجاني كه چون از جمع كتاب ذخيره خوارزمشاهي فارغ شدم…
Ends (f. 262v, line 14):
و اکر بشیر نیز قی کنند سپخت نیک باشد و اکر شیر حاظر نباشد......
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 262v, line 15):
...تم الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب بتاريخ ٤ شهر ذي قعدة الحرام ١٠٩٩ موافق لوى ئيل إتمام يافت...
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
Rieu, Charles,
Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum,
2 vols (London: The British Museum, 1879), pp. 474-45.
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Study:
Hušang Aʿlam, ʿJorjāni, Zayn al-Din Esmāʿil', in
Encyclopædia Iranica
, ed. Ehsan Yarshater, 15/1 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul and Costa Mesa: Mazda, 1983 to present), pp. 29-30
