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Medicine

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Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:

تشریح منصوری Tashrīḥ-i Manṣūrī, undated (original text compiled 14th Cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 416
Scope and Contents A treatise on the anatomy of the human body by Manṣūr bin Muḥammad bin Aḥmad, who dedicated it to Amīr-Zādah Pīr Muḥammad Bahādur Khān (either the one grandson of Timur who was murdered in 809 A.H., 1407 C.E., or the other grandson who ruled over Fars during 796-812 A.H., 1394-1409 C.E.).Large anatomical illustrations on several folios. See A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library by Mohammad...
Dates: undated (original text compiled 14th Cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

خلاصة الاطبّاء حميد خانى Khulāṣat al-Aṭibbā-i Ḥamīdkhānī, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 415
Scope and Contents

An incomplete thesaurus of the science of medicine.

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

دستور الاطباء Dastūr al-aṭibbāʼ, undated (extant by 19th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 249
Scope and Contents

A work on the Indian system of medicine. It was compiled by the celebrated Muḥammad Qāsim Hindū-Shāh, commonly known as Firishtāh.

Dates: undated (extant by 19th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

شفاء المرض Shifāʼ al-marz̤, undated (original text compiled 16th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 250
Scope and Contents

A compendium of medicine in verse, compiled, 990 A.H. (1582 C.E.) by Shihāb al- Dīn b. ‘Abd al- Karīm.

Dates: undated (original text compiled 16th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

شفاء المرض Shifāʼ al-marz̤, 1133 A.H., 1720 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 251
Scope and Contents

A compendium of medicine in verse, compiled, 990 A.H. (1582 C.E.) by Shihāb al-Dīn b. ‘Abd al- Karīm.


A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library by Mohammad Hukk et al. (1925) says of the dating: "about 1133 A.H. (1720 C.E.)" and that the scribe is "Chanpā, son of Aithippā'. See Or Ms 257 for further discussion of this scribe.

Dates: 1133 A.H.; 1720 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

طب بحری وبری Ṭibb-i baḥrī-u barrī, undated

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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...
Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

طب نوری Ṭibb-i nūrī, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 258
Scope and Contents

A treatise on medicine in verse, which, after a few folios, is continued on the margins of Or Ms 251 (with which it is bound).


A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library by Mohammad Hukk et al. (1925) Hukk et al. gives the dating as "about 1133 A.H. (1720 C.E.)".

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

عیون الانباء فی طبقات الاطبّاء ‘Uyūn al-anbāʼ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʼ', undated (original text compiled 13th Cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 429
Scope and Contents

A fragment of a manuscript containing part of the preface and first chapter of the work on the lives of physicians by Aḥmad b. al-Qāsim b. Abū ʼUṣaybi‘ah al-Sa‘dī al-Khazrajī (d. 668 A.H., 1270 C.E.). His work was composed in 643 A.H., 1245 C.E.

Dates: undated (original text compiled 13th Cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

فرهنگ طب Farhang-i Ṭibb, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 252
Scope and Contents

A treatise in prose on materia medica by Shihāb al- Dīn b. ‘Abd al- Karīm. The names of simple medicinal substances are arranged in alphabetical order.


A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library by Mohammad Hukk et al. (1925) says of the dating: "about 1133 A.H. (1720 C.E.)" and that the scribe is "Chanpā, son of Aithippā'. See Or Ms 257 for further discussion of this scribe.

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

قرابادین (طب قادری) Qarābādīn (Tibb-i Qādirī), 1219 A.H., 1804 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 255
Scope and Contents

An elaborate work on the compound medicaments for the human body, compiled, between 1126-1130 A.H. (1714-1718 C.E.), by a famous physician, Mīr Muḥammad Akbar, also called "Muḥammad Arzānī", who flourished during Mughal Emperor Awrangzīb's reign (1658-1707 C.E.), and was the son of Mīr Ḥājī Muqīm.


See Or Ms 256 for a further example of a work by this author.


Illuminated frontispiece.

Dates: 1219 A.H.; 1804 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia