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Title

  • The Sea of Gems.

Summary

  • Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Harawī, who flourished in the late 15th--early 16th centuries, was a physician and author of at least two medical treatises, including this lexicon Baḥr al-jawāhir (The sea of gems). It is a medical dictionary arranged alphabetically, covering anatomical and pathological terms and concepts and medicinal substances. The colophon gives the composition date as 924 AH (1518 AD). This manuscript was copied in 1601 in a clear medium-sized naskh script with some rubrication. The manuscript was a gift of Harvey Cushing (1869--1939), a Yale-educated neurosurgeon, whose collection of rare medical books forms a key part of the Medical Historical Library in the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University.

Names

  • Harawī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, 16th century Author.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1601.

Headings

  • -  1518
  • -  Arabic manuscripts
  • -  Medicine, Arab

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  "Historical Medical Library: Cushing Arabic Ms. 2."--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
  • -  Original resource at: Yale University Library.
  • -  Content in Arabic.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021667274

Online Format

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  • pdf
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Chicago citation style:

Harawī, Muḥammad Ibn Yūsuf, 16Th Century Author. The Sea of Gems. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1601] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667274/.

APA citation style:

Harawī, M. I. Y. (1601) The Sea of Gems. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667274/.

MLA citation style:

Harawī, Muḥammad Ibn Yūsuf, 16Th Century Author. The Sea of Gems. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1601] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667274/>.