Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Or 14106 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Oriental Manuscripts

Contents

Manuscript with ten texts (nine in Persian) mainly on medicine

1. ff 1v-38v

A treatise on Yūnānī medicine, composed for one Sultan Iskandar ibn Dāra

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 32.
2. ff 39v-44r
Author: Unknown

A brief introduction to chronology

For the author of this work see Vol 2, part 1, p. 109

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 30.
3. ff 45v-64r

An unidentified tract on foods and remedies beneficial to vitality

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 32.
4. ff 64v-68r

Verses on diseases and remedies

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 32.
5. ff 64v-68r

On medical remedies and other means of increasing sexual potency, written for Faṣīḥ al-Dīn Maḥramī, , فصیح الدین محرمي

Title has been supplied by M. I. Waley 1998, page 32.

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 32.
6. ff 91v-126v

Replies to questions arising from the author’s work ʻIlāj al-amrāz̤, علاج الامراض ; with quatrains by him

Title has been supplied by M. I. Waley 1998, page 32.

Defective at the end

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 32.
7. ff 127v-140r

On Yūnānī medicine and aspects of the occult sciences

Title has been supplied by M. I. Waley 1998, page 32.

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 32.
9. ff 140v-147rr
Title: Risālah
Title: رساله

A tract on potions and talismans

Title has been supplied by M. I. Waley 1998, page 32.

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 32.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 157 ff
Dimensions (leaf): 25 × 14 cm.

History

Origin: 1051-8 AH ; Delhi

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on M. I. Waley: Supplementary handlist of Persian manuscripts, 1966-1998. London, 1998

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