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<dl><dd>101 leaves : 17 cm</dd>
<dd>Describes a variety of ophthalmological subjects, including: vision, the retina, the cornea, the optic nerves, ocular humours, layers of the eye, diseases of the eyes and eyelids, useful prescriptions and blindness. Galen is frequently cited as a source of information</dd>
<dd>Manuscript</dd>
<dd>Persian</dd>
<dd>Title given on fol. 2b</dd>
<dd>Dated in colophon on fol. 100a line 1</dd>
<dd>An illustrated ophthalmological treatise based on two texts: Kitāb Shifāʼ al-ʻAyn (fol. 7a-28a) and Kitāb ʻAyn al-Diwāʼ (fol. 29a-99a)</dd>
<dd>The name of the author of the Kitāb Shifāʼ al-ʻAyn (fol. 7a-28a) is given on fol. 3b line 5-6 as: Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-kamāl al- Marūf, and his father's name is given on fol. 3b line 14 as: Jamāl al- Din Hasan Marūf. This text may be the Shifāʼ al-ʻAyn written by the Safavid author Shams al'Din Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Kamāl ibn Jamāl al-Din, which is preserved in a manuscript in Tehran, but not recorded in the standard lists of Persian medical manuscripts. For more information, see Elgood, C. Savafid medical practice. London, 1970, p. 68</dd>
<dd>The text and author of the Kitāb ʻAyn al-Diwāʼ have not been identified</dd>
<dd>Text written in shikasteh script, mostly in one hand, in black ink with red headings and red underlinings. Fol. 1a and 100a-101b are in a later hand. Fol. 1a contains casually written notes and recipes written at various angles. Fol. 100a-101b contain recipes and therapeutic procedures in various hands</dd>
<dd>Marginalia in several hands: on fol. 92b a scribe has indexed the birth announcement of his four children (three boys and one girl), with their names and birth years (1297,1299,1301,1307); simple or compound drug recipes written on several folios</dd>
<dd>Numerous illustrations in ink and watercolor depict the iris and ocular diseases by showing the eyes, nose, and location of the disease</dd>
<dd>On fol. 94b is a Qajar-style miniature of a physician operating on a patient's eye, while an assistant holds his head and a third man observes</dd>
<dd>Paper is glossy, thin and beige; 163 by 115 mm</dd>
<dd>Purchase; Sam Fogg;</dd>
<dd>Bound in pasteboard covers of brown morocco with central designs of ogival scalloped medallions and small gilt fillets; envelope-flap, reinforced with green cloth on fore-edge; modern paper pastedowns</dd>
<dd>Condition reviewed 20180628</dd>
<dd>digitized. 2018</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Eye Diseases; Eye -- anatomy &amp; histology; Iris -- anatomy &amp; histology; Humoralism</div>
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