Aithippā (Scribe)
Person
Biography
Copyist of Or Ms 257. Aithippā was a physician attached to the dispensary at Bījāpūr, who had spent a long time attending for his instruction upon Ḥakīm Muḥammad Ḥusayn Yūnānī and Ḥakīm Muḥammad Ma‘ṣūm Iṣfahānī.
There appears to be some confusion surrounding the copyist. The preface of Or Ms 257 appears to mention an Aithippā father of Chanpā, but the colophon appears to reference the author/scribe as Chanpā father of Aithippā. Furthermore, The catalogue by Hukk et al identifies the compiler of Or Ms 257 as Aithippā who compiled it for his son Chanpā. However, the catalogue also assumes that OR MS 251 and OR MS 252 were copied by Chanpā, son of Aithippā.
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Or Ms 257: طب بحری وبری Ṭibb-i baḥrī-u barrī, undated
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 257
Scope and Contents
A treatise on medicine, of which this is a holograph copy. It includes a short list of parts of the human body, drugs with their equivalents in Arabic and Hindi, and advice on the examination of patients, symptoms and treatment of a number of diseases, and pregnancy.
The material for the work was derived principally from the Zakhīra-yi Khwārazmshāhī and Qarābādī (of Zayn al-Dīn Abū Ibrāhīm Isma‘īl b. al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī, who died 531 or 535 A.H. (1136-1137 or...
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