Author
Shahrazūrī, Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd 13th cent.,, Maqsūd 'Alī Tabrīzī, fl. 1602-1603, trans.
Publication Date
between 1602 and 1627
Type
Book
Language
Persian
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
248 leaves, bound, (17-18 lines; leaf 248b blank) : paper ; 26 cm..
Library
University of Iowa Libraries
Record ID
01IOWA_ALMA71489013160002771
Date
between 1602 and 1627
Notes
Manuscript., Persian., Title taken from beginning of text (fol. 2a line 8)., Author's name given in text (fol 2a line 9) as: Shams al-Dīn Muhammad Suhravardī; the name is written "Suhravardī", as in the India Office copy (H. Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 1, Oxford, 1903, cols. 249-250), rather than the more common form of "Shahrazūrī.", Copy is undated, but must have been made between 1602, when the translation into Persian was made, and 1627-8, the date of an owner's note on fol. 1a., The Persian translation was made in the year 1011 [1602-3] (see fol. 3b line 5) by Maqsūd 'Alī Tabrīzī, whose name is given (fol. 2b line 15) as: Maqsūd 'Alī Hakīm., Acquired in 1941 by the Army Medical Library from A.S. Yahuda (ELS no. 2713, A36)., Fol. 1a is blank except for owner's notes and stamps, one dated 1037 [1627-8]; text begins fol. 1b., Catchwords; some marginal corrections and headings and other marginalia., Paper is brittle and yellow-brown: laid lines only visible; some leaves dyed pink; water damaged and wormeaten; edges repaired and strengthened., Modern library binding in red leather over pasteboards; modern endpapers and pastedowns., Described in: Schullian & Sommer. Cat. of incun. & MSS., 1950, P17., A Persian translation of the Arabic treatise Nuzhat al-arwāh wa-rawdat al-afrāh by Shahrazūrī, which contains biographical notices of 34 pre-Islamic and 77 post-Islamic philosophers, scholars, and physicians, including Hippocrates (beginning fol. 128), Galen (fol. 178a), Hunayn ibn Ishāq (fol. 188b), and al-Rāzī (fol. 190b)., Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Army Medical Library, 1948. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. between 1602 and 1627.