Or 5860 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

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A collection of medical tracts

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1 copy of Mīzān al-ṭabā’i‘-i Quṭbshāhī by Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ṣadr al-Dīn ‘Alī

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Author: Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ṣadr al-Dīn ‘Alī تقی الدین محمد ابن در الدین علی
Title: Mīzān al-ṭabā’i‘-i Quṭbshāhī
Title: میزان الطبائع قطبشاهی

Dedicated to Muḥammad Quṭbshāh

A pharmacopoeia

Language(s): Persian

References

Meredith-Owens 1968, page 27.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 237 ff
Dimensions (leaf): 28.2 × 17.1 cm.

History

Origin: 18th-19th century CE

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on G. M. Meredith-Owens: Handlist of Persian manuscripts 1895-1966. London, 1968, with additional enhancements.

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Funding of Cataloguing

BL

Subjects

  • Medicine, Arab--History
  • Medicine, Persian
  • Science--Islamic Empire--History
  • Pharmacopeias

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