Risālah-i yanbūʿ رساله ينبوع 'Imād al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Maḥmud ibn Masʿūd عماد الدين شيرازى، محمود بن مسعود

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A Persian-language manual on medicine in nineteen chapters ( faṣls ) by ʽImad al-Din Maḥmud ibn Masʿūd Shirāzī (عماد الدين محمود بن مسعود شيرازى, fl. 16th century). The transcription was completed on Friday, 12 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1099/8 October 1688 (see colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , f. 98r, transcribed below).

Contents:

• Introduction (ff. 2v-5r);
• Chapters 2-16 on anatomy and diseases affecting the head, eye, ear, nose, mouth, throat, breast, heart, stomach, liver, gall-bladder, kidneys and bladder, bowels, genitals, and joints (ff. 5r-13v);
• Chapter 17 on tumours and ulcers (در اورام و ثبور, ff. 13v-14v);
• Chapter 18 on fevers (در حميات, ff. 14v-20r);
• Chapter 19, section 1 (در أغذية, ff. 20r-46r);
• Chapter 19, section 2 (در بعضى أدوية مفردة ومركبة, ff. 46r-98r).

The final chapter comprises the main part of the work and is subdivided into two sections ( qism s): (1) on diet (ff. 20r-46r), and (2) simple and compound medicaments, classed according to their effect and the diseases for which they are used (ff. 46r-98r).

Begins (f. 2v, lines 2-3):

الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على رسوله وحبيبه محمد وآله الطيبين الطاهرين أما بعد بدانكه آدمي

مركبست ازين جسد محبوس و روحى غير محبووس كه حكما آنرا نفس ناطقه گويند …

Ends (f. 98r, line 5):

...از هر یک درمی جمع کند و حب سازد هفتهٔ چند نوبت تناول کند

Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 98r, lines 5-7):

...تم الكتاب

بعون الله وحسن توفيقه بتاريخ يوم الجمعة ١٢

شهر ذ[و] الحجة الحرام موافق سنه لوى ئيل ١٠٩٩

Extent and format

Ff. 2v-98r

It is part of

A compendium of medical texts in Arabic and Persian

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Ref: Add MS 23560

Written in

Farsi and Persian in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript item

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Add MS 23560, ff 2v-98r

History of this record

Date(s)

12 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1099 (AH, Hijri qamari)

Related material

Finding aids

Rieu, Charles, Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum , 2 vols (London: The British Museum, 1879), p. 474.

Select Bibliography

• Emilie Savage-Smith, ʿEmad-al-Dīn Maḥmūd', in Encyclopædia Iranica , ed. Ehsan Yarshater, 8 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul and Costa Mesa: Mazda, 1983 to present), pp. 381–82;
• Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, 'Ḥakīm ʿImāduddīn Shīrāzī', Studies in History of Medicine and Science , 9 (New Delhi: IHMMR, 1985), pp. 15–21.

People & organisations

Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd ʿImād al-Dīn Shīrāzī

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Risālah-i yanbūʿ رساله ينبوع 'Imād al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Maḥmud ibn Masʿūd عماد الدين شيرازى، محمود بن مسعود, British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, Add MS 23560, ff 2v-98r, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100128471558.0x000005> [accessed 28 August 2024]

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