Author
ʽImad al-Din Maḥmud ibn Masʿūd Shirāzī
Publication Date
12 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1099 (AH)
Subject
1
Type
Book
Language
Persian
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Add MS 23560, ff 2v-98r
Record ID
vdc_100128471558.0x000005
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
12 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1099 (AH)
Notes
A Persian-language manual on medicine in nineteen chapters (
faṣls
) by ʽImad al-Din Maḥmud ibn Masʿūd Shirāzī (عماد الدين محمود بن مسعود شيرازى, fl. 16th century). The transcription was completed on Friday, 12 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1099/8 October 1688 (see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, f. 98r, transcribed below).
Contents:
Introduction (ff. 2v-5r);
Chapters 2-16 on anatomy and diseases affecting the head, eye, ear, nose, mouth, throat, breast, heart, stomach, liver, gall-bladder, kidneys and bladder, bowels, genitals, and joints (ff. 5r-13v);
Chapter 17 on tumours and ulcers (در اورام و ثبور, ff. 13v-14v);
Chapter 18 on fevers (در حميات, ff. 14v-20r);
Chapter 19, section 1 (در أغذية, ff. 20r-46r);
Chapter 19, section 2 (در بعضى أدوية مفردة ومركبة, ff. 46r-98r).
The final chapter comprises the main part of the work and is subdivided into two sections (
qism
s): (1) on diet (ff. 20r-46r), and (2) simple and compound medicaments, classed according to their effect and the diseases for which they are used (ff. 46r-98r).
Begins (f. 2v, lines 2-3):
الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على رسوله وحبيبه محمد وآله الطيبين الطاهرين أما بعد بدانكه آدمي
مركبست ازين جسد محبوس و روحى غير محبووس كه حكما آنرا نفس ناطقه گويند …
Ends (f. 98r, line 5):
...از هر یک درمی جمع کند و حب سازد هفتهٔ چند نوبت تناول کند
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 98r, lines 5-7):
...تم الكتاب
بعون الله وحسن توفيقه بتاريخ يوم الجمعة ١٢
شهر ذ[و] الحجة الحرام موافق سنه لوى ئيل ١٠٩٩
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
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.
