Kitāb al-bāhīyah wa-al-tarkībāt al-Sulṭānīyah كتاب الباهية والتركيبات السلطانية Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي, نصير الدين محمد بن محمد

Content

A short work on medicine composed upon request, as the author Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274) relates in the preface, in response to the ailments of unidentified prince (see preface, f. 1r, line 9-2r, line 1).

Its 18 short chapters (أبواب) cover physiology, drugs, and dietetics with a particular focus on aphrodisiacs and the attainment of sexual potency and pleasure (see contents and introduction, ff. 2r, line 2-6v, line 5).

The second unnumbered flyleaf bears a list of months in the Ottoman Turkish calendar (f. ii-v).

Begins (f. 1r, lines 2-6):

الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله

وصحبه أجمعين وبعد فإن الله تعالى قد كمل

النفوس الناطقة الإنسانية بمواهب إنعامه

وملأ معادن خواطر الحكماء بإعلامه لهم جواهر

حكمته كما قال الله سبحانه...

Ends (f. 31v, lines 1-4):

تم الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب وهذه...

اللطيفة هي التركيبات العجيبة النافعة المفيدة التي

هي من أسرار الأطباء ومن اختصاراتهم المفيدة لأنها

جعلت لخزانة سلطان من السلاطين المسلمين لنفع

Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 31v, lines 5-11):

انتهى على يد كاتبه العبد الفقير الراجي رحمة

ربه القدير الغازي في بحر ذنوبه محمد

علي بن حسين بن حسن الجزائري

غفر الله له ولجميع المسلمين

والمسلمات الأحياء

منهم والأ

موات

Extent and format

Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. ii+31+ii

Physical characteristics

Material: Thin, western wove paper embossed 'BATH' within a rectangular frame surrounded by a scrolling floral design

Dimensions: 208 x 135mm leaf [153 x 100mm written] many folded tabs especially to fore edge.

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil

Ruling: Misṭarah ; 13 lines per page; vertical spacing 9 lines per 10 cm

Script: Naskh ; the scribe is Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Ḥusayn ibn Ḥasan al-Jazāʾirī (محمد علي بن حسين بن حسن الجزائري, see colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , f. 31v, lines 6-7)

Ink: Black ink with rubricated headings

Decoration: Black double frames around text areas on each page

Binding: British Museum maroon buckram binding

Condition: Generally good, some smudging; spine sewing mended with paper inserts towards front of volume. F. 31 guarded

Marginalia: Very few

Seals: British Museum stamp (ff. 1v and 31v)

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Or 11213

History of this record

Date(s)

19th century (CE, Gregorian)

Immediate source of acquisition

Purchased from Oskar Rescher (1884-1972), 10 May 1930

Related material

Select Bibliography

Study:

• Newman, D (ed. and trans.), The Sultan's Sex Potions: Arab Aphrodisiacs in the Middle Ages (London: Saqi Books, 2014)

Subjects

Medicine--Early works to 1800

People & organisations

Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ṭūsī

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Kitāb al-bāhīyah wa-al-tarkībāt al-Sulṭānīyah كتاب الباهية والتركيبات السلطانية Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي, نصير الدين محمد بن محمد, British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, Or 11213, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100106888804.0x000001> [accessed 24 December 2024]

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