Wadh.Minasian 616 (The Ferdowsi Library, Wadham College, University of Oxford)

Oriental Manuscripts Minasian Collection

Collection 93

A collection of three works on medicine.

Physical Description

Extent: 89 ff.

Binding

Light brown leather, 15 × 21 cm, front + back cover, single layer of leather only.

Ruled, tooled edges.

Condition

Front cover torn, cover detached from the copy; head band and stitching in disarray; back cover is newly built; spine restored by leather.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Donated to The Ferdowsi Library by Dr Caro Minasian in 1972.

1) Persian Catalogue Sequence Number 126

Summary of Contents: This is a work on medical science whose title and author remains unknown due to defective incipit and explicit. The treatise starts from around the middle of the thrid chapter of the first article, and continues onto the second (on علم عملی رطوبت هر عضو ), the third (on ذکر ادویه مفرده ), and the fourth article (on ذکر ادویه مرکبه ).

ff. 1a-53a

Language(s): Persian

Medicine

Title: [On medicine]

Incipit: ||… و گرمی و تری بر این اساس غالب است و سن شتاب و جوانی است و این سنی است که بالیدن و افزودن درین سن تمام می‌شود…

Explicit: … آرد گندم یک من روغن کقاله یک من و نیم عسل چهار من کوفته و بیخته نافوری. والله اعلم.

References

Sequence Number in the Persian Catalogue:

FAW 126

Physical Description

Support: Oriental paper, natural buff, regular thickness, one size.

Dimensions (leaf): 20 × 14 cm.

Dimensions (written): 18 × 12 cm.

Collation

ff. 1a-53a

Condition

Water damage on papers.

Layout

18 lines per page

ff. 1a-53a

Hand(s)

Cursive Nastaʿaliq, one hand, regular. Anonymous

Decoration

Rubricated titles.

History

Origin: Unknown place of origin; 1192 AH; 1778 CE

2) Persian Catalogue Sequence Number 167

Summary of Contents: The author has been living in the Saljuq era and at the court of Sulṭān Sanjar, and has created this work upon his request in 17 chapters. The first to fifth chapters are about foods as well as plain and compound drugs, and the sixth to seventeenth chapters about the issues around sexual intercourse.

ff. 53a-88b

Language(s): Persian

Medicine

Title: Tuḥfat al-mulūk fī laẕẕāt al-mubāshirāt

Title: تحفة الملوک فی لذات المباشرات

Author: Haybat Allāh ibn Azdah Mushīr ibn Jānī ibn Jāmās, active 13th century هیبت‌الله بن ازده مشیر بن جانی بن جاماس، قرن ۷ هجری Haybat Allāh Zayd Baṣrī هیبت‌الله زید بصری

Incipit: بسمله، حمدله، اما بعد بدانکه مصنف این کتاب هیبت‌الله بن ازده مشیر بن جانی بن جاماس می‌گوید که چون به شرف خدمت… ابوالهارث سنجر بن ملکشاه رحمه الله مشرف شدم… بنده را بخلوتگاه خود و از اسرار خود چندین بر لفظ مبارک پادشاه فرمود که… درین باب اشارت رفت و کتابی ساخت از مجامعت… شرط بندگی بجای آورد و در حقایق و دقایق این کتاب جهد تمام کرد…

Explicit: … بادام تلخ پنج درم دارچین سه درم زنجبیل سه درم عسل سه وزن ادویه… سه دوم.

Colophon: تمت الکتاب بعون الله الملک و الوهاب فی… شهر شوال… سنه ۱۱۹۲.

According to the existing catalogues, there are only two copies left of this work, one in the Majlis Library of Iran, and one in Neẓāmiyah of Ḥaydar'ābād. The printed copy is also based on the manuscript held in Neẓāmiyah of Ḥaydar'ābād Dakan. Therefore, the current copy included, only three copies have survived from this work. The current copy is also important in respect of the author's name, which is recorded as Haybat Allāh ibn Azdah Mushīr ibn Janī ibn Jāmās, while it is listed as Haybat Allāh Zayd Baṣrī in the other two copies. As he has been working in the court of the Saljuqs, the second name does not seem to be reliably correct.

References

Sequence Number in the Persian Catalogue:

FAW 167

Similar Copies in Other Libraries:

MAJ 2/297

Printed editions:

Tehran, 1388 Shamsī/2010

Physical Description

Support: Western paper (watermark), natural buff, regular thickness, one size.

Dimensions (leaf): 20 × 14 cm.

Dimensions (written): 19.5 × 15 cm.

Collation

ff. 53a-88b

Condition

Water damage on papers.

Layout

18 lines per page

ff. 53a-88b

Hand(s)

Cursive Nastaʿaliq, one hand, regular. Anonymous

Decoration

Rubricated titles.

Additions: Oval stamp on f. 63a: عبده الراجی محمد مهدی ۱۱۲۶

History

Origin: Unknown place of origin; 1192 AH; 1778 CE

3) Persian Catalogue Sequence Number 761

Summary of Contents: The text contains 25 brief comments on various states of human temperaments.

ff. 87b-89a

Language(s): Arabic

Medicine

Title: [Kitāb-i Buqrāṭ]

Title: کتاب بقراط

Author: Unknown

Incipit: بسمله، کتاب البقراط الذی وجد فی قبره الفصل اول قال اذا کان فی وجه المریض ورم لا یجد له… کانت یده الیسری موضوعه علی صدره فاعلم انه یموت…

Explicit: … فاعلم ان صاحبها یموت لاحدی عشره لیله فی اول مرضه وایه ذلک انه یعرض له فی بدو مرضه شهوه الحلواء شدیدا.

Colophon: تم والله التوفیق والحمد لله رب العالمین.

References

Sequence Number in the Persian Catalogue:

FAW 761

Physical Description

Support: Oriental paper, natural buff, regular thickness, one size.

Dimensions (leaf): 20 × 14 cm.

Dimensions (written): 19.5 × 15 cm.

Collation

ff. 87b-89a

Condition

Water damage on papers.

Layout

18 lines per page

ff. 87b-89a

Hand(s)

Cursive Nastaʿaliq, one hand, regular. Anonymous

Decoration

Rubricated titles.

Additions: Notes on f. 89b. Miscellaneous Persian poetry on the second endpaper.

History

Origin: Unknown place of origin; 1192 AH; 1778 CE

Additional Information

Record Sources

This record was created by Dr Mohammad Emami based on the information published in the Persian catalogue by Dr Ali Mir-Ansari (Catalogue of the Persian and Arabic Manuscripts in the Ferdowsi Library, Wadham College, University of Oxford (Minasian Collection), Tehran: Miras-e Maktoob, 2016).

Availability

Entry to the Library is permitted upon presentation of a valid university ID card (for admissions procedures, please visit Wadham College Library, Persian Studies Section). Please Contact persian.library@wadham.ox.ac.uk for further information on the availability of this manuscript.

Funding of Cataloguing

Wadham College (University of Oxford)

Key to Abbreviations

FAW: (Ferdowsi Library, Wadham College, University of Oxford - Minasian Collection)
MAJ: (Library, Museum and Documentation Center of the Islamic Consultative Assembly)

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