Anṭākī, Dāʾūd ibn ʻUmar, -1599 أنطاكي، داؤد بن عمر، -1599
Published / Created:
1081 [1670]
Call Number:
Manuscript Arabic 18
Image Count:
342
Alternative Title:
Nuzhah al-mubhijah fi tashḥīdh al-adhhān wa-taʻdīl al-amzijah 880-02 and نزهة المبهجة في تشحيذ الأذهان وتعديل الأمزجة 240-02/(3/r
Description:
Manuscript., Arabic., In neat, small naskh. The 164 folios measure 15x23 cm. The written surface measure 9x17.5 cm., 24 lines to page; few marginalia; the catchwords on bottom of page are sometimes cropped; the paper is beige and glazed. Leather binding of European origin., and "Ākhir mā wujida fī nuskhat al-muṣannif. Wa-qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min hādhihi al-nuskhah al-sharīfah fī yawm al-Aḥad, sādis ʻishrīn shahr Rajab al-Murjib, min shuhur sanat iḥdá wa-thamānīn baʻda al-alf min al-Hijrah al-Madanīyah, ʻalá muhājirihā alf alf taḥīyah wa-al-salām, ʻalá yad al-ʻabd Muḥammad Ṭāhir al-Aṣfahānī"--Colophon.
Manuscript., Persian., and Anonymous treatise on medicine in Persian, assigned to a certain ʻAyn al-Ḥayat Iskandarī who may or may not have been a real person. Another copy in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris (Catalogue des manuscrits persans, par E. Blochet, no. 874). Undated ca. 17th cent. in fair taʻlīq writing. Seems to be incomplete at the end. 175 leaves; 20x15 cm.; the written surface measures 14x7.5 cm; 15 line to the page; commentaries on the margins of most pages.
Publisher:
s.n. and د.ن.،
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, Persian, Medicine, and Therapeutics
Translated from Arabic into Hebrew by Jacobus Hebraeus; into Latin by Paravicius., Includes Averroes: Colliget., Yale Med copy from Ulrich Ellenbog, who signed, annotated, and decorated the text with some red and blue letters., and Yale Med copy has contemporary German binding, K109 Salve-Meister, Memmingen. Described by Scott Husby, 2010.
Manuscript, on paper, in at least three unidentified hands, containing a collection of medical texts. Includes: recipes for cosmetics (ff. 1-10), herbal (ff. 11-28), medical and pharmacological treatise (ff. 28-42), Petrus Hispanus' Thesaurus Pauperum (ff. 44-122), medical recipes (ff. 123-125), De dolore capitis et emigrania et dolore dencium et gutturis (ff. 126-135), medical recipes--some in English (ff. 135-136), De passionibus et opillacionibus epatis et splenis et apostematibus (ff. 138-141), medical recipes (ff. 141-152), Constantinus Africanus' De passionibus matricis et de omni fluxu menstruoso (ff. 153-166), medical recipes (ff. 167-192).
Description:
In Latin and Middle English., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: secretary hand., Layout: single column of around 25 lines., Binding: fifteenth-century English dark brown leather binding, blind-tooled with a single strap and clasp. Later covered by a sheepskin chemise binding, now wanting. Pictures available in manuscript file., Watermarks include a bull’s head (Briquet 14345 or 6), and an armorial shield with 3 fleur-de-lys (Briquet 1697 or 8)., and Front pastedown is early printed waste (Dutch or Italian) containing work on clerical topics (e.g. fugiens clericus). End papers are rubricated, 15th-century vellum leaves from a religious work.
Subject (Topic):
Materia medica, Medicine, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval, Therapeutics, Traditional medicine, and Recipes
Manuscript, written with black, red, and blue ink on vellum, includes 3 leaves in front and 5 leaves at end upon which are written an index and materia medica in a later [Italian?] hand. and Purchased in 1958 from Lathrop C. Harper Inc. as a gift to Yale Med from the Library Associates.
