Medicine [IO Islamic 1217]

• Medicine.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1217 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 791 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

791.

1217. Size 8 in. by 4^3/4 in.; foll. 140. Seven lines in a page.

A Compendium of Medicine, called قانونچه , by Sharaf al-dîn Maḥmûd b. ‘Omar ¹ JAGHMÎNÎ. See Ḥ. Kh. iv. 495, and Cat. Mus. Brit. 226, where the name of the author and the title are not given. Cf. Catal. Lugd. iii. 241. Printed at Calcutta, 1827.²

Begins: الحمد لله رب العالمين ... و بعد فهذا مختصر مشتمل على زبدة ما يجب استحضاره من صناعة الطب انتخبته من كتب الاقدمين و رتبته على عشر مقالات.

Boldly written, with copious notes, many of which are derived from the author (منه) . Of the tenth century.

The beginning and the end have been supplied by a more modern hand. A defect after fol. 3.

[Gaikwar.]

¹ Alias b. Muḥammad.

² Bibl. Sprenger. 1892.