Publication Date
[16--?]
Subject
Medicine, Arab[Browse]Medicine, Arab—Formulae, receipts, prescriptions[Browse]
Type
kitap
Language
ota,tur
Digital
No
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
126
Physical Dimensions
126 leaves : paper ; 301 x 197 mm. bound to 305 x 215 mm.
Library
Princeton University Library
Library Asset ID
774712971
Record ID
9969285023506421
Date
[16--?]
Notes
Ms. codex.Title from spine label.Physical description: Varying lines per page; written in casual naskh by a variety of hands in black on glazed, laid Arabic and European papers, the latter bearing a tre lune watermark. Rubrication and catchwords. Text on fol. 8b-74a framed in red. Insert tipped in between fol. 4-5. Some smudging and staining.Incipit (text 3): ان اول ما افتح به الخطاب واجمل ما ابتدى الكتاب التعظيم لذكر الله والتوبة لاسمايه - Full brown leather over pasted board with flap; damp-stained and warped. - A Turkish medical miscellany.
Sample Text
1. fol. 1a-4b: [Medical notes and recipes].2. fol. 5a-8a: Kan almak tedbirî. Instructions for bloodletting.3. fol. 8b-70a: Cetvel-i Calinus. Medical tables according to Galenic medicine, likely a Turkish translation of an Arabic text. The tables give an alphabetical enumeration of medicines with their Arabic names, with an extensive survey of their properties and preferred use.4. fol. 70b-74a: Mürekkebât-i mecmu min kütüb-i mutebere. Recipes for compound medicines culled from a number of books.5. fol. 74b: [Medical notes and recipes].6. fol. 75a-119b: [Pharmacopeia]. With an introduction to Galenic medicine, annotated lists of compound medicines, and tables with names of medical substances.7. fol. 120a-126a: [Medical notes and recipes].Show 4 more Contents items
Dil Notu
Ottoman Turkish.
Edinme Kaynağı
Purchase; Bouwman Oriental Books, 2011/12/21 (2012-51).