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<dl><dd>607 leaves, bound, (19-21 lines; fol. 607b blank) : 18 cm</dd>
<dd>Manuscript</dd>
<dd>Arabic</dd>
<dd>Title taken from item [1] title, given in illuminated heading (fol. 1b); it is more commonly written as Sharḥ al-Asbāb wa al-ʻalāmāt</dd>
<dd>Name of author of item [1] given in text (fol. 1b line 9) as Nafīs ibn ʻawaḍ ibn Ḥakīm (the physician)</dd>
<dd>Commentary written in 1423 or 1424 and dedicated to Ulugh Beg (fol. 2b line 5)</dd>
<dd>Manuscript is undated; appearance of paper, handwriting, illuminated heading and medallion suggests a dating ca. 1500; an owner's stamp dated 1082 [1671 or 1672] is over the medallion on fol. 1a</dd>
<dd>Purchased in 1941 by the Army Medical Library from A. S. Yahuda who acquired it in Baghdad (ELS 2374 M; former 47)</dd>
<dd>Item [1] (fol. 1a-594a): a complete copy of the original version of Nafīs ibn ʻIwaḍ's commentary on the Asbāb wa al-ʻalāmāt. written by al-Samarqandī; the commentary does not cover the last section of al-Samarqandī's treatise, but stops after the section on dislocated and sprained joints</dd>
<dd>Item [2] (fol. 594b-607a): Fī saqy al-sumūm (translation: On drinking poisons); the author's name is not given, but the item corresponds to the final chapter of al-Samarqandī's treatise Asbāb wa al-ʻalāmāt., as found on fols. 154a-166b of NLM MS A83; for other manuscripts which append this chapter by al-Samarqandī to the treatise by al-Kirmānī, see A. Z. Iskandar, "A study of al-Samarqandī's medical writings," Le Muséon, 1972, 85:451-479</dd>
<dd>Although the items have separate colophons, both are in the same hands and intended to be part of the same volume</dd>
<dd>Fol. 1b has an illuminated opening in opaque watercolor and gold; fol. 1a has an illuminated medallion with gold center and wide frame of opaque watercolor; the writing in the center over the gold center has been defaced and partly cut out, and an owner's stamp dated 1082 [1671 or 1672] over part of the medallion; the area around the medallion has been pasted over with blank paper; the text throughout is written within frames of blue and black ink and gold</dd>
<dd>A fine and careful copy in Naskhi script with considerable voweling in the first half of the volume; at fol. 313 the hand changes slightly (though still clearly part of the same workshop), the number of lines per page change from 19 to 21, the handwriting becomes smaller, and there is no voweling; fols. 82, 83, 224, and 225 are written by the same scribe as copied fols. 313-607</dd>
<dd>Some catchwords, mostly in the part written by the second scribe; marginal emendations, some by the scribes; a number of glosses throughout, occasionally interlinear, in several hands, some in Persian; the borders are missing from fols. 483b, 484a, 485a and 486a</dd>
<dd>One illustration, drawn in red and black ink, appears within the text on fol. 355b, in the section on diseases of the liver; two marginal illustrations of the eye and visual system appear on fols. 191b and 201a</dd>
<dd>Much later misc. notes in a casual Eastern hand are tipped onto fols. 180b and 313b</dd>
<dd>Paper is very thin with a grayish cast; laid lines barely visible; no chain lines visible; edges have been trimmed to fit binding; grease stained at top; folios near start of text have had edges replaced</dd>
<dd>Bound in black leather with blind-tooled borders on covers and envelope flap; fairly recent blue, white and maroon printed paper doublures repaired with blue cloth tape; paper endpapers</dd>
<dd>Described in: Schullian &amp; Sommer. cat. of Incun. &amp; MSS., 1950, A60; Hamarneh, S. "Arabic MSS. NLM." J. Hist Arab. Science (1977), p. 100</dd>
<dd>Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Army Medical Library, 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm</dd>
<dd>Condition reviewed 20180806</dd>
<dd>Conserved 20180810</dd>
<dd>digitized. 2018</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, -1222. Asbāb wa al-ʻalāmāt; Medicine, Arabic</div>
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Nafīs ibn ʻIwaḍ, -approximately 1449</div>
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