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拍品專文
This manuscript is dated twice to AH 800/1397-98 AD: in a colophon on the last bifolio of Part I (the tables) and on the final folio of Part II (the text). However, the first page of Part II bears the date of AH 947/1540-41 AD. This very probably indicates that the beginning of Part II (two folios) went missing shortly after the completion of the copy and a later scribe, identifiable by a different hand, replaced the missing text in AH 947. The work lists ailments, arranged by categories, and their treatments. It deals for instance with fevers that last a day, detailing their names, followed by a description of their nature, an explanation of their cause, their symptoms and the recommended remedies for sultans and kings, as well as for thepoors. It also discusses on one of the last folios illnesses in the breasts of pregnant women. The treatise (Part II) is titled Risala-ye Bikh-i Jini, a kind of root, known to the Europeans and which the author, a certain Nurullah known as 'Ala, came to know from physicians in India where he spent 20 years.
The copious added notes visible throughout this copy, in the margins or on the fly-leaves, clearly show that this manuscript was very much used and studied. A number of these added notes are written in this distinctive Qajar hand, and were probably written by important physicians of the time.
The copious added notes visible throughout this copy, in the margins or on the fly-leaves, clearly show that this manuscript was very much used and studied. A number of these added notes are written in this distinctive Qajar hand, and were probably written by important physicians of the time.