Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Or 16428 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Oriental Manuscripts

Treatise on anatomy

Contents

1 copy of Dar bayān-i ʿilm-i tashrīḥ

A treatise on anatomy, together with a large number of miscellaneous notes. The author mentions in the preface that he was brought from a college in Vienna to teach at the Dar al-Funun (in Tehran) by order of Nāṣir al-Dīn Shāh (reg. 1264-1313/1848-96), who was evidently alive at the time of writing. Possibly he may be identified as ‘Alī Akbar Nafīsī (1263-1324/1847-1924; father of the distinguished literary scholar Sa‘īd Nafīsī. For ‘Alī Akbar Nafīsī, who wrote a work entitled Pizishkī-nāma on materia medica and therapeutics as well as a Persian grammar and dictionary, see Storey PL II/2, pp. 307-8.

The text is written on notebook or exercise book pages divided horizontally into four bands. In some places the text is written diagonally. Some folios contain tables.

Begins (f, 2v): Basmala Dar bayān-i ‘ilm-i tashrīḥ Bidānki ‘ilm-i tashrīḥ ‘ilmīst aṣlī az ‘ulūm ki dānistan-i ān dar tamām-i madāris bar muta‘allimīn-i īn ‘ilm lāzim va vājibast

Iran; probably Tehran. Late 13th or early 14th/later 19th century.

Nasta‘līq. Number of lines variable: often 20-22. Exercise book paper, slightly yellowed. 68 folios (some of which contain only scrawls or numbers), plus 13 blank but for the three red horizontal lines found on every page of the notebook. 215 x 140 mm.; text area highly variable. Limp covers in dark brown leather, worn.

Purchased from A al-Shakri, 16 February 2007.

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 68 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 140 mm.
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Hand(s)

History

Origin: 19th century CE Qajar Empire ; Iran

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in M.I. Waley, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts acquired 2000-2014.

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