Abstract: Elegant copy of a collection of six texts by Galen.Binding note: Red leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Both covers and envelope flap have an outer border consisting of gilt fillets and a guilloche. Gilt fillets on fore-edge flap. Red leather doublure, with outer border consisting of two gilt fillets. Flap detached.Contents: 1. fol. 1b-85b: Kitāb al-ʻIlal wa-al-aʻrāḍ / Jālīnūs.Contents: 2. fol. 85b-198a: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī taʻarruf al-mawāḍiʻ al-bāṭinah idhā ḥadatha bihā āfah wa-huwa al-maʻrūf bi-Kitāb al-Aʻḍāʾ al-ālimah / Jālīnūs.Contents: 3. fol. 198a-297a: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī al-nabḍ / Jālīnūs.Contents: 4. fol. 297b-328b: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī aṣnāf al-ḥummayāt / Jālīnūs.Contents: 5. fol. 329a-378b: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī al-buḥrān / Jālīnūs.Contents: 6. fol. 378b-411a: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī ayyām al-buḥrān / Jālīnūs.Ms. codex.Title provided by cataloger, from title of first text.Physical description: 27 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh (professional hand) in black ink with use of red. The text is framed within a border in gold outlined in black inscribed in a blue line. European paper. Spine label (horizontal), with inscription in Arabic script reading "ʻIlal al-amrāḍ". Stained with water and humidity; some loose leaves.Decoration: Opens with a double page of magnificent illumination (fol. 1b-2a), with text written in gold clouds, margins filled with scrollwork bearing stylized floral motifs, executed in gold and colors on a natural ground, and a large headpiece (ʻunwān), in gold and colors, with floral scrolls and title of first text in white (fol. 1b).Origin: Copy of Kitāb al-Nabḍ dated Dār al-Mulk Shīrāz, Jumādá al-Thānī 1061 May-June 1651, by Manūchihr Ibn Maqṣūd (fol. 297a). The rest of the copy is apparently written by the same hand.
Abstract: Collection of several treatises on medicine, translated into Arabic by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq. The ms. contains two main parts: the first text which is a later addition and texts 2-10, all written by the same hand. There seems to be two parts in this last section, the first called "al-Jawāmiʻ" (texts 2-6, see colophon, fol. 244b) and the last four texts.Binding note: Dark brown leather over pasteboards. Upper and lower covers have a simple outer frame made of single fillets.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-40a: Kitāb Jālīnūs al-maʻrūf bi-al-Ṣināʻah al-ṣaghīrah / Galen.Contents: 2. fol. 41a-58b: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī al-buḥrān / Galen.Contents: 3. fol. 59b-68a: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī ayyām al-buḥrān / Galen.Contents: 4. fol. 69b-83a: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī aṣnāf al-ḥummayāt / Galen.Contents: 5. fol. 83b-84a: Blank.Contents: 6. fol. 84b-197b: Jumal min jawāmiʻ Kitāb Jālīnūs fī al-ḥīlat lil-burʼ / Galen.Contents: 7. fol. 198a: Blank.Contents: 8. fol. 198b-244b: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī tadbīr al-aṣiḥḥā / Galen.Contents: 9. fol. 245a-262a: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī firaq al-ṭibb / Galen.Contents: 10. fol. 262b-263a: Blank.Contents: 11. fol. 263b-278b: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī al-nabḍ ilá Ṭūtharun lil-mutaʻallimīn / Galen.Contents: 12. fol. 279a-281a: Blank.Contents: 13. fol. 281b-342b: Kitāb Jālīnūs ilá Aghlūqun fī shifāʼ al-amrāḍ / Galen.Contents: 14. fol. 343a: Blank.Contents: 15. fol. 343b-377b: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī al-Usṭuqusāt ʻalá raʼy Buqrāṭ / Galen.Ms. codex.Title from inscription on the lower edge of the text block.21 lines per page. The first text is written in nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for the headings on European glazed paper with watermark. From text 2 on: written in careful and professional vocalized medium large naskh in black ink (faded to brown) on light cream glazed paper with horizontal laid lines visible ; frame-ruled. Marginal notes (mostly ḥāshiyah from the author, copied by the same hand, see fol. 42b, 53a). Smaller leaves are inserted between the ms. leaves, with inscriptions by the same hand as the main text (mostly ḥāshiyah from the author, see between fol. 51 and 52; 112-113; 211-212). On fol. 1a: Obliterated seal. On fol. 41a (i.e., fol. 1a of the original ms.): Table of contents; several ownership statements, one dated 623 H., one dated 8 Muharram 902 H. in Dār al-Islām Qusṭanṭinīyah; one signed Kamāl al-Dīn al-mutaṭabbib al-Mūsawī. On fol. 377a: Seal with waqf inscription signed Dāmādzādah Fayḍ Allāh Afandī, dated 1174 H. On fol. 377b: Ownership statements. The quires are numbered using Arabic numerals in the form "7 min 3" (often cut off due to the trimming of the leaves, but still visible on some quires, see fol. 96a, 126a, 136a, 146a, 156a). Signs in the upper corner and lower corner of the opposite leaf marking the middle of the quire (see fol. 130-131; 220-221). Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Copied by ʻUthmān ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Samarqandī in 572 H. (colophon of text 6, fol. 244b), except the first text, copied for Dāmādzādah by Muḥammad Amīn al-Ḥasanī ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Tūqātī in Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1138 H. (colophon, fol. 40a).