Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian manuscripts: vol. 4: Arabic medical works / prepared by M.A. Aḥmad.

  • Bankipore Oriental Public Library.
Date:
1910
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Credit: Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian manuscripts: vol. 4: Arabic medical works / prepared by M.A. Aḥmad. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    I. foil. l-7b. A number of proscriptions copied in a very bad Naskh. II. foil. 8-111. MINHAJ-UD-DUKKAN. A Pharmacopoeia by ^lk*J I ^ ^j^JI ^ ^1 ^\ ^<~^\ y.\ ^LJI^siJl, Abul Muna b. Abi Nasr b. Haftaz al-Kuhen b. Al-'Attar al-Isra'ili-al-Haruni, an author of the seventh century a.h. See Brock i., 492 j and Haji Khalifa, v. 202. The first folio is wanting. The work begins abruptly as follows:— ^)! ^l&JI £^-J-*J <5Ji-Ji3 y . . . Jjti U1 . . . u^-oJJU* The work is divided into twenty-five Babs, a full table of which is inserted in the preface. The twenty-third Bab contains his pious admonitions to his son concerning morality and the preparation of medicines. It was composed in a.h. 658 = a.d. 1260. An incomplete copy of this work is noticed in the Brit. Mus. Sup. Cat., No. 801, ii. Our copy, except wanting a few lines in the beginning, is otherwise complete. For other copies see: Berlin, No. 6423 ; Gotha, No. 2005; Batavae, iii., 258 ; Ellis Cat. of the Arabic Books in the British Museum, i., 110; Ayasufiyah, No. 3757-8, p. 223; Waliu'ddin, No. 2554, p. 146; and Eampur, No. 245, p. 498. Written in clear thick Arabian Naskhi. Lines between 28 and 33 ; size 12^ x 8£; 10f x 6£. Dated a.h. 1235. Scribe ^jL=J1 ^iu^sJ! Jj^l <^c-£> ^ [sic] nr. ful. Ill contains few charms. IV. fol. 112. The celebrated Taqwiin ul-Abdan of Ibn Jazlah, d. a.h. 493 =