Or 16272 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

A general treatise on medicine, part of which is an abridgement of the same author’s better-known Z̲akhīrah-'i Khvārazmshāhī. By Ismā‘īl ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥasanī al-Jurjānī (d. 535/1136 or 531/1132). See FNKhF I, pp. 473-4; Storey, PL II/2 E pp. 209-10. Other BL copies: I.O. Islamic 1778, I.O. Islamic 2228 (damaged and defective), see Ethé IOL I cols. 1249-52.

Text may well have been copied at roughly the same time as the second treatise in this volume.

A treatise in Arabic on medicine, composed by Masʿūd ibn Muḥammad al-Sanjarī (?) al-Ṭabīb, for Qāsim ibn ʿAvvāq ibn Jaʿfar, described as al-ʿAlīm al-ʿĀdil Ṣadr al-Dawlah va al-Dīn Malik al-Vuzarāʾ.

The work comprises three parts (fann), which are subdivided into sections (qism). 1: Muhayyāt al-ashyā’ allatī yata‘allaq (sic) bi-kulliyyāt al-ṭibb va rusūmihā l-taqarrubiyya: general principles of medicine. 2: Kayfiyyat al-a‘māl va l-ṣinā‘at al-muṭa‘allaqa bi-uṣūl al-ṭibb: necessary skills and operations. 3: Kamiyyat aqsām al-umūr al-munqasima inqisāman kulliyyan: the number of detailed aspects.

Colophon dated 2 Ramaz̤ān 1178/23 February 1765