Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

IO Islamic 4409 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

St Augustine's College Collection

Works on medicine

Contents

Works on medicine

1. ff. 2-506

Comprehensive manual on bodily hygiene and medical treatments, dedicated to Ẓafar Khān, later Muẓaffar Shāh I of Gujarat, composed 8 Muḥarram 794/1391

The work comprises 14 bāb, further divided into multiple faṣl

Dated: 1070/1659-60

Scribe: Shaykh Mīrān ibn Mullā ʿAlī copying in elegant naskh

Language(s): Persian
2. ff. 506v-516

Fragment of an untitled treatise on physical and psychological aspects of gynaecology

Not dated

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 516 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 254 × 143 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1070 AH; 1659 CE ; India

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3. Available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts, manuscript number: MSS Eur E207/24_f006r

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