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ACQUISITIONS OF 1980-7 (Or. 17.956, cont., 17.957)

Catalogue entries: Rieu, pp. 129-30; Fihris 4447 (IV, p. 91); Medical Manuscripts, pp. 264-5.

Literature: ‘OM III, pp. 227-8.

Cod.Or. 17.957 A treatise on medicine

A late 19th- or early 20th-century copy of a treatise on medicine; no author or title are mentioned. The work, whose text, according to the colophon on p. 103, was selected from a great many books on medicine, is preceded by a brief introduction on the human body and its frailty, followed by a series of short chapters (bab) on the human temperament (emzice-i insan, p. 6), maladies, and remedies for curing them. The treatise mostly consists of recipes. The last chapter (pp. 102-3) gives a prescription for ammonia oil (diihn-i ‘ukab), which is useful for making teeth white as pearls. Extensive marginal additions and indications of the contents. A price stamp with the word 'thamo.ro.' and the handwritten number ‘415’ is found on the unnumbered ‘title page’. Without covers; light brown paper of low quality; 100 pages, originally numbered 5-103; 213x165 mm (pp. 3'-80), 243x178 mm (pp. 81-104’) and (text) 175x70 mm, varying; 15 lines; catchwords; nk‘a; indications of content and lines in purple; without the name of a copyist; dated in coded numbers (cf. quotation below) and according to the kamerT chronology. Acquired from F. de Jong, November 1981.