1. Kifāyah-i Mujāhidīyah

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Abstract: Treatise on medicine in two parts (see description of contents in the preamble of the text, fol. 3a-4b), also known as "Kifāyah-i Manṣūrī". The text is dedicated to Sulṭān Mujāhid al-Dīn Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn, i.e. Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn al-Muẓẓafarī, ruler of Fars, 786-789/1384-1387, according to the Mashhad catalogue. Rieu suggests that the dedicatee is rather Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn of Kashmīr, 823-875/1420-1470. There is no evidence however that the laqab of the latter is Mujāhid al-Dīn (Storey, C. Persian Literature).Binding note: Half bound in paper and purple cloth.Ms. codex.Title from inscription on the pastedown of the upper cover.Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Thin laid paper ; frame-ruled. Stained with water ; insect damage.Chiefly quaternions ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Origin: The copy is not dated. The paper and the script suggest the 19th cent.Incipit: يا فتاح رب يسر وتمم بالخير بسم ... شكر وسپاس مر خالقي را كه در خلقت انساني دقايق حكمت او بي پايانستExplicit: با عسل بر ذكر طلا كنند همين عمل كند والله اعلم بالصواب تمام شد