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<p>S.l.<br>s.n.<br>1071 [1661]<br><br>388 leaves ; 27 cm.<br><br>"Wa-tamma fī yawm al-Sabt thālith shahr Rajab al-murjib sanat 1071 [5 March 1661 C.E.]"--Colophon.<br>Composed in the year 907 H. (1501 or 2 M.). "A general work on medicine, written
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<pre>in traditional form; at the end a special chapter is added on foreign 
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<p>medical technical expressions and on medical weights. It contains much 
that is noteworthy, such as the writings of the famous physician and 
scholar living in the 10th/16th century, ʻImād al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn 
Masʻūd of Shīrāz" (Cf. History of Iranian literature / Jan Rypka, p. 474)<br><br>In elegant, rather small naskh; red binding; the written surface
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<pre>measures 10x18 cm., 28 lines per page; read headings and catchwords; 
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<p>catchwords on bottom of page. Laid paper is brown. Ref. Storey II pt., 
p. 23, incipit agrees; Browne, p. 186; Fonahn, Zur Quellenkunde # 28; 
Catalogue of Perisian manuscripts, India Office, no. 2955.<br><br>The manuscript is from the library of Ibrāhīm Pāshā son of Muḥammad ʻAlī the Khedive of Egypt
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<br>Subjects: Manuscripts; Medicine, Arab.; Medicine, Persian.</div>
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Nūrbakhshī, Bahāʾ al-Dawlah, d. ca. 1505</div>
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