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

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Kahvecizâde, Ahmed bin Hüseyin.

Language:

Arabic

Turkish, Ottoman

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.

Medicine.

Materia medica.

Medicine, Arab.

Medicine, Medieval.

Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic.

Manuscripts, Turkish.

Manuscripts, 18th century.

Manuscripts, 19th century.

codices (bound manuscripts)

notes (documents)

prescriptions

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

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

Other Title:

Cerîdetü'l-etibbâ ve harîdetü'l-elibba

Place of Publication:

[Turkey?], [between 1750 and 1850?]

Language Note:

Ottoman Turkish with titles in Arabic.

Summary:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.

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.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1998.

OCLC:

1130309371