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Walters Ms. W.595, Compendium of medicine

Walters Ms. W.595, Compendium of medicine

Ẕakhīrah-i Khvārazmshāhī

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Zayn al-Dīn Ismāʿil ibn Ḥasan al-Jurjānī (author)

Zayn al-Dīn al-Jurjānī (d. 531 AH / 1136 CE) (author)

زين الدين اسماعيل بن حسن الجرجانى (author)

Muḥammad ibn Maʿrūf ibn Maḥammad al-Zarīr [?] al-Kāzarūnī Shīrānī (scribe)

This manuscript is a compendium/encyclopedia of medicine entitled Ẕakhīrah-i Khvārazmshāhī, composed by Zayn al-Dīn al-Jurjānī (d. 531 AH / 1136 CE). It was copied by Muḥammad ibn Maʿrūf ibn Maḥammad al-Zarīr [?] al-Kāzarūnī Shīrānī in 889 AH / 1484 CE. The text opens with a double-page illuminated incipit with verses alluding to the title of the work. For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W595/description.html

The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.

Double-page illuminated incipit; gilt frame

22 Rabīʿ II 889 AH / 1484 CE

Catch-title and former shelf mark on tail edge: Khvārazmshāhī 2029

Ownership statement (min kutub) and seal: ʿAlī (fol. 1a)

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Persian

paper

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