Daftar-i avval-i Ṭibb-i akbarī - Public domain document scan

Based on the Arabic treatise Sharḥ al-asbāb by Nafīs ibn ʻIwaḍ (-approximately 1449); covers the symptoms and treatment of diseases specific to particular parts and general diseases.

Manuscript.

Persian.

Caption title.

Name of scribe not indicated.

Probably written in India.

Paper; cream color thin Asian paper; text enclosed in ruled border of thin lines of black and red; black ink with rubrication and overlining; catchwords on rectos.

Nastʼaliq; 19 lines in written area 23 x 11 cm.

Volume 1 fol. 1b-291b; volume 2 fol. 1b-278b.

Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M64/M65.

Binding is poor quality marbled paper over cardboard; front cover of volume one is broken in half; black cloth spine.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.

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01/01/1822

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