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<dl><dd>iii, 290 leaves, bound, (17 lines; leaf [1] a blank) : 19 cm</dd>
<dd>Manuscript</dd>
<dd>Persian and Arabic</dd>
<dd>Title given on fol. 16a line 7</dd>
<dd>Author's name given on fol. 15b lines 16-17</dd>
<dd>Copy dated in colophon (fol. 289b line 6-7) as 24 Shawwāl 959 [13 October 1552]; scribe not named</dd>
<dd>A complete copy of the medical handbook dedicated to Mujāhid al-Dīn Zayn al-'Ābidīn Muzaffarī, the ruler of the Iranian province of Fars from 1384 to 1387 (dedication on fol. 16a); treatise consists of two fanns, one on theoretical principles (in 4 maqālahs) and practical medicine (in 5 maqālahs) and one on simple and compound remedies (in 2 maqālahs)</dd>
<dd>Volume includes several short, unrelated treatises on fols. 1a-14a</dd>
<dd>Anonymous, illustrated treatise on astronomy, in Persian (fol. 1a-10a); text consists of 4th through 23rd sections (maqsid); copy dated in colophon (fol. 10a line 16-19) 20 Dhū al-Qa'dah 959 (7 Nov. 1552) and scribe's name given: Sadr al-Dīn al-mutatabbib; includes diagram of the spheres (fol. 2b) and four planetary diagrams (fol. 3b-4a); catchwords (most cut off) and rubrications, but with later headings not filled in</dd>
<dd>Fī al-istifrāgh (fol. 10b-11a); translation: On vomiting; anonymous, Arabic treatise; in a different hand from the rest of the volume</dd>
<dd>Anonymous, untitled story concerning Moses (fol. 13b-14a); Persian; text written around margins as well as center of both pages; in a different hand from the rest of the volume</dd>
<dd>Misc. notes in later hands on various topics, including alchemy, found on fol. 11b-13a and 289b-290b; note on fol. 12b dated 1031 [1621-2]; fol. [1]b blank, but for a casual note dated 1284 [1867-8]; fol. [2]a has a recipe and an owner's note and stamp; fol. [3]ab has misc. notes, including a horoscope for 29 Jumādah I 1070 [11 Feb. 1660]</dd>
<dd>Catchwords, red overlinings, rubrications, and copious marginalia in several later hands, including magic and divinatory material with a small diagram in the margin of fol. 28a and a geomantic chart on fol. 51b</dd>
<dd>Paper is yellow-brown, burnished, with only laid lines visible; waterstained, especially at the bottom</dd>
<dd>Modern Western foliation added in pencil to reflect iii prelim leaves followed by 290 leaves; however numbers 63-64 were omitted from the foliation</dd>
<dd>Manuscript fragment laid in at end that contains a description of the steps for ruqya, a faith-healing formula; written in Arabic (in black) and Persian (in red) in a different hand from the rest of the volume</dd>
<dd>Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Army Medical Library, 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm</dd>
<dd>In the collection of the Army Medical Library in 1946</dd>
<dd>Bound in light-brown leather over boards with, on each cover, a blind stamped medallion and two pendants enclosed by a blindtooled frame filled with s-shaped stamps with the space between frame and medallions having stamped diagonal lines; spine repaired; dark blue paper pastedowns; modern endpapers</dd>
<dd>Condition reviewed 20171121</dd>
<dd>digitized. 2018</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Moses (Biblical leader); Medicine, Arabic; Astronomy; Vomiting</div>
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Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, active 14th century</div>
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