Jāmiʻ al-fawāʼid

Title:

Jāmiʻ al-fawāʼid
جامع الفوائد

Creator:

Yūsufī, Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad
يوسفى، يوسف بن محمد

Contributor:

Nuttall, Frank E., former owner

Date:

[1800 to 1850].

Description:

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 880Origin: Colophon on fol.66a (p.121) does not specify date or place of transcription, nor identify copyist ; paper would suggest early to mid 19th century.Accompanying materials: a. Slip of paper with notes in handwriting of Meredith-Owens, marked 'MO. 1 PERSIAN' reads: "Medical prescriptions by Yūsuf b. Muḥammad b. Yūsuf al-Ṭabīb. (author of the well-known Ṭibb-i Yūsufī). XIXth century."-- b. Slip of paper 'Persian MSS (Heyworth-Dunne?) with Meredith-Owens notes' -- c. Slip of paper 'Counted for 1968/69 Annual Report'.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 29 ; inscription in pencil on interior of upper cover "BL 6679"Binding: Pasteboards covered in red leather (sheep) with band painted black ; Type III binding (without flap) ; upper and lower covers bear series of simple gold-painted rulings ; board linings in laid paper ; doublure hinges in same red leather ; red and white (cream to yellow) chevron endbands ; difficult to discern original sewing, appears to have been oversewn at some point ; in good condition with only some abrasion, wear, staining, and some negative draw in upper and lower covers (slightly warped).Support: European laid paper (likely early to mid 19th century, see watermark), with chain lines running horizontally spaced roughly 27 mm. apart and "laid lines" forming a crosshatch with roughly 12-14 laid lines per cm. in the vertical and horizontal directions (resembling machine laid) ; essentially unburnished ; watermark "scrollwork" shield with eagle above castle "GIOR MAGNANI" (Compare Heawood 3748).Decoration: Textual dividers in the form of inverted commas (three, etc.) appear occasionally; text rubricated with key words, overlining, and some headings in red.Script: Naskh-nastaʻlīq ; Persianate or Indian hand in a medium line ; virtually serifless with slight effect of words descending to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, some flattened, elongation descenders (rāʼ in particular), shaqq / sarkash of kāf sweeping dramatically upward (approach vertical) with a gentle curve, pointing for two and three dots in strokes or conjoined dots (rather than distinct dots).Layout: Written in 12 lines per page ; frame-ruled with impression of ruling board evident.Collation: ii, 7 IV (56), V (66), ii ; chiefly quaternions; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during cataloguing).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, partly in Arabic, reads: "تمت تمام شد كار من نظام شد وصلى الله على محمد واله اجمعين"Explicit: "صاف كنند و بده درم قند شيرين كرده ده درم روغن زيت يا روغن گاو اضافه نموده ونيم گرم بياشامند و خوردن روغن وشير گاو افراط كردن دفع مضرت جميع زهر هه بكند تمت تمام شد"Incipit: "رب يسر وتمم بالخير والظفرحمد نا محدود حكيمى را كه بقانون حكمت و كامل الصناعت رحمت دافع انواع امراض و رافع اصناف اعراض ست جلت الاؤه و عمت انعامه ودر ود بيعد رسولى را كه بجاده رسالت و زبده نبوت طبيب عيوب است و شفاء صدور هلت ست صلى الله عليه وسلم اجمعين الى يوم الدين اما بعد چنين گويد بنده ضعيف وكمينه نحيف المستفاد بعلم النافع المجيب يوسف ابن محمد ابن يوسف الطبيب ستر الله تعالى عيوبه وغفر ذنوبه كه چون بتوفيق حضرت فياض جل جلاله رساله علاج الامراض كه علاج هر مرض و دوائ هر عرض در وي مسطور ومذكور ست صورة ... اشاره فرمودند كه كتابى در شرح مشكلات و طريق ترتيب مركبات كه درين رساله مبين و بيان شده با زوائد فوائد علامات امراض و امارات اعراض و غيرها ... لا جرم عنان قلم بصورت اين مرقوم كه بجامع الفوائد موسوم ست مصروف گشته..."Title from opening on fol.2a (p.3).Ms. codex.Neat copy of Yūsufī's commentary on his versified treatise of therapeutics, ʻIlāj al-amrāz̤.

Language:

Persian

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Manuscripts, Persian
Materia medica Early works to 1800.
Pharmacopoeias Early works to 1800.
Traditional medicine Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Medicine, Persian Early works to 1800.

Extent:

66 leaves : paper ; 212 x 148 (160 x 95) mm. bound to 216 x 155 mm.

Rights:

Public Domain

Format:

Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print

Same as:

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/006837367

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