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NAJM AL-DIN MAHMUD BIN DIYA' AL-DIN [BIN] ILYAS AL-SHIRAZI (D. AH 730/1329-30 AD): AL-HAWI FI 'ILM AL-TADAWI

IRAN, ANATOLIA OR EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN, 14TH/15TH CENTURY

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NAJM AL-DIN MAHMUD BIN DIYA' AL-DIN [BIN] ILYAS AL-SHIRAZI (D. AH 730/1329-30 AD): AL-HAWI FI 'ILM AL-TADAWI
IRAN, ANATOLIA OR EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN, 14TH/15TH CENTURY
An early copy of The Comprehensive Book on the Art of Curing, a medical treatise, Arabic manuscript on paper, 274ff., 25ll. of neat black naskh to the page, titles in large elegant black thuluth, important words and subtitles in red, with catchwords, occasional marginal commentary in Arabic and Persian, pencil pagination, with old candle wax stains throughout, the first five folios an 18th or 19th century replacement with index, approximately 10 folios a later 16th century replacement, final folio lacking, in early 20th century green paper-covered binding
Folio 8 ¼ x 5 ½in. (21 x 14cm.)

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A 14th century copy of this work is in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin (A. Arberry, A Handlist of the Arabic Manuscripts, volume IV, Dublin, 1959, p.80, no.3985). Three copies, the earliest of which is dated AH 731/1331 AD, are in the British Library (P. Stocks and C. Baker, Subject – Guide to the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Library, London, 2001, p.367, M.3).

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