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Manuscript/Mixed Material Durrat al-ghawwāṣ wa-kanz al-ikhtiṣāṣ fī al-adwiyah : ʻilm al-ṭibb درة الغواص وكنز الاختصاص في الادوية : علم الطب

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Title

  • Durrat al-ghawwāṣ wa-kanz al-ikhtiṣāṣ fī al-adwiyah : ʻilm al-ṭibb

Other Title

  • درة الغواص وكنز الاختصاص في الادوية : علم الطب

Summary

  • Incomplete medical treatise on various simple and compound drugs.

Names

  • Jaldakī, Aydamar ibn ʻAbd Allāh, active 1349-1361

Created / Published

  • [19th century]

Headings

  • -  Medicine, Arab--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800
  • -  Herbs--Therapeutic use--Early works to 1800
  • -  Materia medica--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  At head of title: "al-Adwiyah al-mufradah wa-al-murakkabah".
  • -  Paper; slightly yellowed cream color commercial paper with no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Naskh; 19 lines in written area 18.5 x 11 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-125b (incomplete).
  • -  Library of Congress. Arabic manuscript, SM-60.
  • -  Binding; black leather with embossed center panel; spine reinforced in black cloth and leather; most of the surface of the leather is worn away an almost appears to have been burned; binding is quite loose and is nearly split and in very poor condition generally; small sticker in upper left corner of front cover "Near East 144".
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GII, p. 139; SII, p. 172
  • -  Fihris al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʻArabīyah fi Maktabat al-Kūnghris, p. 46-47
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة. الحمد لله الذي نور قلوب اوياءه بذكره المصون ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: وقطر في العين من منقوعها جلا ظلمه البصر، وانقا العين

Medium

  • 125 leaves (19 lines), (incomplete), paper : bound ; 23.5 x 16.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • R128.3 .J35 1800z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017498786

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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IIIF Presentation Manifest

Rights & Access

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, African and Middle East Division, Near East Section Arabic Language Rare Materials Collection

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Chicago citation style:

Jaldakī, Aydamar Ibn ʻAbd Allāh, Active. Durrat Al-Ghawwāṣ Wa-Kanz Al-Ikhtiṣāṣ Fī Al-Adwiyah: ʻilm Al-Ṭibb. [19th Century] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498786/.

APA citation style:

Jaldakī, A. I. ʻ. A. Durrat Al-Ghawwāṣ Wa-Kanz Al-Ikhtiṣāṣ Fī Al-Adwiyah: ʻilm Al-Ṭibb. [19th Century] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498786/.

MLA citation style:

Jaldakī, Aydamar Ibn ʻAbd Allāh, Active. Durrat Al-Ghawwāṣ Wa-Kanz Al-Ikhtiṣāṣ Fī Al-Adwiyah: ʻilm Al-Ṭibb. [19th Century] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498786/>.