Jarīdat al-aṭibbāʼ kharīdat al-alibbāʼ; جريدة الاطباء خريدة الالباء

Alternate Title:

Cerîdetü'l-etibbâ ve harîdetü'l-elibba

Name:

Kahvecizâde, Ahmed bin Hüseyin

Date:

1750

Description:

Collection of formulae or recipes for medical remedies in 15 chapters; table of contents at the beginning lists the conditions and type of remedy.

Language:

Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)

Provenance:

Sold at Bloomsbury Auctions (London), lot 78, December 4, 2018.

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/mscodex1998.html

Subject:

Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions; Materia medica; Medicine, Arab; Medicine, Medieval

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts, Turkish; Manuscripts, 18th century; Manuscripts, 19th century; Codices (bound manuscripts); Notes (documents); Prescriptions; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

iii, 81, ii leaves : paper; 226 x 155 (180 x 105) mm bound to 227 x 155 mm.

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Ottoman Turkish with titles in Arabic.; Title from introduction (f. 2v); Foliation: Contemporary foliation in ink (3-7 upper center recto, 24-79 upper right verso); catchwords every verso, lower left. Modern foliation in pencil added, upper left recto (1-23, 25-81).; Layout: 17-23 long lines, ruled with a misṭarah.; Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.; Decoration: Rubrications in red, including all titles.; Binding: Blue decorated pasteboard sides, somewhat rubbed, with red leather outer edges (Type III); black embossed pastedowns.; Origin: The item is undated, probably copied in the 18th or 19th century.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1998