Wadh.Minasian 616 (The Ferdowsi Library, Wadham College, University of Oxford)
Oriental Manuscripts Minasian Collection
Contents
A collection of 3 books on medicine.
Medicine
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 ).
References
Sequence Number in the Persian Catalogue:
- FAW 126
Medicine
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.
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
Medicine
The text contains 25 brief comments on various states of human temperaments.
References
Sequence Number in the Persian Catalogue:
- FAW 761
Physical Description
Collation
Condition
Water damage on papers.
Layout
18 lines per page.
ff. 1a-53a
18 lines per page.
ff. 53a-88b
18 lines per page.
ff. 87b-89aHand(s)
Cursive Nastaʿaliq, one hand, regular. Cursive Nastaʿaliq, one hand, regular. Cursive Nastaʿaliq, one hand, regular. Anonymous
Binding
Light brown leather, 15 × 21 cm, front + back cover, single layer of leather only.
Ruled, tooled edges.
Condition
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Donated to The Ferdowsi Library by Dr Caro Minasian in 1972.
Record Sources
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
Libraries:
AQR: Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi; FAW: Ferdowsi Library, Wadham College, University of Oxford (Minasian Collection); GIE: Great Islamic Encyclopedia Library, Manuscripts; GIP: Great Islamic Encyclopedia Library, Photographed and Microfilmed Manuscripts; GUL: Library of Ayatollah Gulpayigani; LAH: Library of Ayatollah Ha'iri (Library of Faydiyya Seminary); MAJ: Library, Museum and Documentation Center of the Islamic Consultative Assembly; MAL: Malek National Museum and Library; MNL: Mar'ashi Najafi Library; NLI: National Library of Iran; SEP: Sepahsalar (Shahid Motahari) Mosque and School of Tehran; TCL: Tabriz Central Public Library; UTA: Library of Literature Faculty, University of Tehran; UTL: Central Library of University of Tehran.
Catalogues:
ALZ: الذریعه; ARP: فهرست کتاب‌های چاپی عربی; COM: فهرست مشترک نسخه‌های خطی فارسی; DEN: فهرستواره دست‌نوشته‌های ایران (دنا); FAM: فهرست نسخه‌های خطی فارسی; FAP: فهرست کتاب‌های چاپی فارسی; FIH: فهرستواره کتاب‌های فارسی; KAS: کشف الظنون عن اسامی الکتب و الفنون; RAY: ریحانة الادب فی تراجمِ المعروفین بالکنیة او اللّقب; TAB: طبقات اعلام الشیعه.
Funding of Cataloguing
Wadham College (University of Oxford)
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