Medicine [IO Islamic 1132]

Medicine.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1132 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 794 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

794.

1132. Size 10 in. by 7 in.; foll. 171. Twenty-one lines in a page.

The first portion of a large work on diseases and their remedies, entitled ترويج الارواح من علل الاشباح.

The author calls himself IBN SA’D AL-DÎN, and dedicates his work to a Wazîr, whose name he does not mention. At the beginning of his preface he speaks of the تنقيح المكنون من مباحث القانون ; but as this passage is mutilated , it cannot be ascertained if he speaks of it as a work of his own.

According to Ḥ. Kh. (ii. 451), the work I question is by Fakhr al-dîn Khujandî. Ḥ. Kh. ii. 285, also mentions a ترويح الارواح فى الطبّ , which he ascribes to Ḥakîm al-dîn Maḥmûd Tabrîzî.

Begins: الله احمد علی ان جبلنى بقدرته طالباً لمعرفة ماهية مواليد الاركان .

The work consists of an introduction, in fifteen مسلك , and of twenty chapters (قول) , in which the author treats first of the single parts of the body , from the head downwards , and afterwards of general diseases. A detailed list of the contents is inserted in the preface.

This MS. contains the introduction and the first eight chapters, which are inscribed as follows:-- 1.القول الاول فى احوال الدماغ و ترويحه ; 2. فى احوال العين ; 3. فى احوال الاذن 4. فى احوال الانف 5. فى احوال اللسان و الفم و الشفتين و الاسنان و اللثة ; 6. فى احوال الحلق و المرئ و قصبة الرئة و الصدر ; 7. فى احوال الرئة ; 8. في احوال القلب و الثديين .

Legibly written in Nasta’liḳ. Ends abruptly.

Worm-eaten. The first leaf is mutilated.

[Johnson.]