Details

Standardized Title:

Nūr al-fuʼād
نور الفؤاد

Other Title:

Ṭibb
Īn kitāb dar ṭibb az nuskhahā-yi hinduyān.
طب
اين كتاب در طب از نسخهاى هنديان.

Subjects:

Medicine, Persian.
Medicine, Ayurvedic.

Language:

Persian.

Summary:

Copy of a book on medicine in 49 chapters. Text composed in 1066 A.H. (1656 CE) (f. 2r).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title statement (f. 1r): Īn kitāb dar ṭibb az nuskhahā-yi hinduyān taṣnīf Shaykh Tahir.
Collation: Paper, 189 + i; 1-19⁸ 20⁶ 21¹⁰ 22⁶ 23¹⁰ 24⁶ [i]; [1], 2-74, 79-127, 129-147, 147-153, 155-164, 166-171, 171-178, 189, 180-194, foliation in ink, upper right verso, carelessly done in terms of skipping numbers, repeating numbers, and turning the leaves while the foliation was still wet.
Layout: Written in 11-13 long lines; catchwords every verso, lower left.
Decoration: Rubrications in red.
Binding: Reddish leather over pasteboard (Type III); blind stamped central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis.
Item is not dated, likely copied in the late 17th to 18th century.
Catalog entry, 744, pasted onto front inside cover.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis (bookplate inside front cover).

Cited as:

CAJS Rar Ms 214.

Contributor:

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner.

OCLC:

961922982