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Lot Essay
This is an alphabetical list of simple medicines indicating their properties and methods of preparation. A note on the flyleaf gives the name of the author as Hunayn ibn Ishaq, If he is indeed the author, this is a previously unrecorded work. He is the author of another work on medicine called Kitab fi asma' al-adwiyah al-mufradah 'ala huruf al-mu'jam.
Hunayn ibn Ishaq was the most famous translator of the Ancient texts of his time. He served at the court of the Caliph al-Mutawakkil as his personal physician and translated numerous medical and philosophical texts from the Greek.
This manuscript is written on good quality Persian paper of the 14th century with 7 laid lines per cm. and without chain lines or rib shadows. The manuscript has unusual titles written in a large and idiosyncratic form of Eastern kufic.
Hunayn ibn Ishaq was the most famous translator of the Ancient texts of his time. He served at the court of the Caliph al-Mutawakkil as his personal physician and translated numerous medical and philosophical texts from the Greek.
This manuscript is written on good quality Persian paper of the 14th century with 7 laid lines per cm. and without chain lines or rib shadows. The manuscript has unusual titles written in a large and idiosyncratic form of Eastern kufic.