P. 16 (University Library, Cambridge University)

E. G. Browne Collection

Summary of Contents: ذخیره خوارزمشاهی A large volume containing the whole of the well-known Persian system of Medicine entitled Dhakhira-i-Khwárazmsháhí, composed in 504/1110-1111 by Zaynu'd-Din Ismá'íl of Jurján for the King of Khwárazm or Khiva. Portions of this celebrated and voluminous work are to be found in most large collections of Oriental MSS., but seldom the entire work in one volume. The best and fullest description of its contents is that given by Adolf Fonahn in his excellent book Zur Quellenkunde der Persischen Medizin (Leipzig, 1910), No. 15, pp. 7-11, at the end of which article (pp. 10-11) the principal known MSS. are enumerated. See also my Arabian Medicine (Cambridge, 1921), pp. 98-100 and pp. 110-111. This MS., bought of the late Hájjí 'Abdu'l-Majid Belshah for £15 on Dec. 17, 1919, separately from the other MSS. acquired from him, comprises 1403 written pages of 31 × 21'5 c. and 28 ll., and is written in a fairly good modern ta'liq with rubrications. There is no date or colophon, but a note of possession at the beginn- ing is dated 1146/1733-4. There are numerous erasures, additions and corrections in the text, besides many marginal notes and glosses.

Author: Jurjānī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥasan, 1042 or 3-1136 or 7 جرجانی، إسماعيل بن الحسين

Title: Dhakhīrah-ʼi khwarazmshāhī

Title: ذخيرۀ خوارزمشاهی

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper

Extent: Ff. 1403

Dimensions: 31 × 21.5 cm.

Layout

28 lines

Hand(s)

Written in a fairly good modern ta'liq with rubrications.

History

Origin: undated AH; Gregorian CE

Provenance and Acquisition

This MS., bought of the late Hájjí 'Abdu'l-Majid Belshah for £15 on Dec. 17, 1919, separately from the other MSS. acquired from him.

Bequest of E. G. Browne.

Record Sources

Summary, physical description and provenance copied from R. A. Nicholson: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS belonging to the late E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932.

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

P. 16 (University Library, Cambridge University)

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