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2 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Cookery, Medicine, and Pharmacopeias

1.
Author: Anonymous
Title: Nān va namak
Title: نان و نمك

An anonymous manual of cookery, based on recipes used in Shahjahan's kitchens in ten aqsam. The colophon incorrectly calls this work Khan [Khvan]-i ni'mat which is the title of a well known work by Niʻmat Khān ʻAlī.

Incipit: دستور پختن اطعمه که در سرکار پادشاه شاهجهان
Explicit: تمت تمام شد نسخه خان نعمت شهر شعبان المعظم سنه 1243 هجری ...کاتب الحروفات...غلام حسین
Language(s): Persian
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Author: ‘Alavī Shīrāzī, Muḥammad Hāshim, d. 1747 علوي شيرازي، محمد هاشم
Author: Ḥakīm ʻAlī Riḍā حكيم علي رضى
Title: Khulāṣat qawānīn al-‘ilāj
Title: خلاصة قوانين العلاج

An imperfect copy, lacking some folios at the beginning of a work of pharmacopoeia. It is ascribed to 'Alawi Khan in the colophon but is identical with the Khulasat qawanin al-'ilaj by Hakim 'Ali Riza.

Incipit: خردل سوده سرکه طلاى نمايند بدانكه اصل علاج اين مرض است كه اول نضج
Explicit: تمت تمام شد رساله علويخان بتاريخ هشتم شهر جمادى الثاني سنه 1242...الراقم ...شیخ غلام حسین
Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
1-83 f. 84-166 f.
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Nasta'liq

History

Origin: 1243 AH; 1828 CE 1242 AH; 1827 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Bequest of Douglas Craven Phillott

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

Subjects

  • Cookery
  • Medicine, Persian
  • Pharmacopeias

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