Manuscript/Mixed Material Tuḥfat al-muʼminīn تحفة المؤمنين / Manuscript on treatment of illness by herbs

Title

• Tuḥfat al-muʼminīn

Other Title

• تحفة المؤمنين
• Manuscript on treatment of illness by herbs

Summary

• Work on materia medica dedicated to the Safavid Shāh Sulaymān.

Names

• Ḥusaynī, Muḥammad Muʼmin, -1698

Created / Published

• 1246? [1830 or 1831?]

Headings

• -  Medicine, Arab
• -  Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800
• -  Pharmacology--Early works to 1800
• -  Manuscripts, Persian--Washington (D.C.)
• -  India

Notes

• -  Manuscript.
• -  Persian.
• -  Title from fol. 2a.
• -  Scribe not identified.
• -  Written in India.
• -  Paper; tan color laid paper with no visible chain lines or watermarks; unwan in gold, green, blue and red; black ink with rubrication; text within a double ruled border of an outer border of a single blue line and an inner border of a single blue and two red lines; some marginal comments; catchwords.
• -  Storey, C.A. Persian literature, III, 261
• -  Nastaʻliq. 24 lines in written area 22.3 x 11 cm.
• -  Paintings, in varying sizes on fol. 11a, 42a, 63b, 94a, 101b, 130b, 145a, 151a, 174b, 181a, 220b, 252a.
• -  Fol. 1b-262b.
• -  Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M144.
• -  Reddish-brown leather binding; lacks spine.
• -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.

Medium

• 262 leaves (24 lines), paper : bound ; 30.4 x 17.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

• R128.3 .H87 1830

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.amed/plmp.m144

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2017481041

Online Format

• pdf
• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2017481041

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