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Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Makhzan al-Adwiyah wa Tadhkirat Uli al-Nuha. Vol. I by ʻAqīlī ʻAlavī Shīrāzī, Muḥammad Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad Hādī, 18th cent. .

Author: ʻAqīlī ʻAlavī Shīrāzī, Muḥammad Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad Hādī, 18th cent. .

Title: Makhzan al-Adwiyah wa Tadhkirat Uli al-Nuha. Vol. I.

Ends abrubtly, but Codrington/Reade No 199 continues directly from it and is uniform and by the same scribe. F1a: Presented by H.T. Colebrooke Esq Feby 7, 1824. A dictionary of Materia Medica. Vol. I. Preface and first five and part of the sixth chapter of the first part of the dictionary. The word Qarabidin (applied to works on materia medica) is mentioned in the preface, but is not the title. Headings in red. The colophon to vol. V implies that the patron for the whole manuscript was Mawlawi Sahib Nazir(?). (Bi-tawfiq-i Mawlawi Sahib Nazir?)

Incipit: Al-hamdu lillah alladhi azhara athar qudratihi bi-ijad al-mawjudat

Language(s): Persian.

References

Storey, ii, pp. 280-3.

Ethe, No 2361.

Donations Register for 7 February 1824.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 349 folios

Dimensions (leaf): 15 × 10 in.

Layout

21 lines to the page

Hand(s)

Nasta'liq.

Binding

Brown European half-leather binding, with some blind tooling and gilding on the spine. Covers detached.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Presented by H.T. Colebrooke.

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