MS. Rawlinson Or. 17 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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The well-known medical treatise by Muḥammed bin Muḥammed Ḳaysūnīzāde (not Ḳaysūnzāde, AH is called here in the heading of fol. 1b and in W. Pertsch, p. 100, or Ḳaysūmzāde, as J. Aumer, p. 65, and the heading in the Vienna copy, No. 1470, on fol. 1b, have it), or AH is called in Arabic Ibn al-Qawṣūnī, who died AH 975 or 976=AD 1567-1569, put into verse by the poet Nidā'ī, the physician of Sulṭān Selīm II (AH 974-982=AD 1566-1574), AH 975 = AD 1567/1568, see fol. 2a, ln. 7: نه صد اولدی نه پنچیله هفتاد (other copies, for instance, the British Mus. сору, Add. 5991, and the Vienna copy, No. 776, give AH 978 = AD 1570/1571, as date of the versification), and dedicated to his Majesty. The versifier Nidā'ī, whose taḫalluṣ appears here on fol. 2b, ln. 5, states in the dedication, thAH had compiled a year before, for the same Sulṭān, a medical treatise in prose, styled منافع الناس, in sixty bābs (comp. on that work, W. Pertsch, pp. 94 and 100; Berlin Cat., p. 297; and J. Aumer, p. 65): آنی نثر ایلدم فصاحتله بونی نظم ایلدم بلاغتله. Comp. on the present versified treatise and its author Nidā'ī, Rieu, p. 125; W. Pertsch, p. 100, and Berlin Cat., pp. 73 and 74; G. Flügel i. p. 718, and ii. p. 539; J. Aumer, p. 65; H. Khalfa iii. p. 431, No. 6291; Cat. Codd. Or. Lugd. Bat. iii. p. 283, and Hammer, Osman. Dichtkunst, ii. pp. 541-543. Beginning: ای حکیم و علیم و حی و حلیم حضرتکدر کریم شان عظیم. It is divided into four bābs, viz. 1. في معرفة الجسم, on fol 3a. 2. تشخیص امراض انسان و معالجه, on fol. 6a. 3. في النافع, on fol. 16a. 4. في معرفة الترياك, on fol. 20a. No date.

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