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Book/Printed Material "Nourishment for the Ailing" and "Nourishment for the Healthy".

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Title

  • "Nourishment for the Ailing" and "Nourishment for the Healthy".

Summary

  • This volume contains copies of two works by Najīb al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn 'Alī ibn 'Umar al-Samarqandī: Aghdhīyat al-marḍā (Nourishment for the ailing) and Aghdhīyat al-aṣiḥḥa' (Nourishment for the healthy). Al-Samarqandī was a Persian scientist who lost his life during the cataclysmic Mongol invasions of the early 13th century. He appears to have died during the siege of Herat in 1222. He was a famous physician and the author of many medical texts. Nothing more is known of his life. The frontispiece of each of the books in the volume is illuminated with a scroll and vine design and a medallion in which the name of the author and the title of the book appear. The pages of both books consist generally of 25 lines of text, set in a rectangular border. The copyist has signed his name as 'Abd al-'Alī al-Kātib al-Shirāzī. The copying of the first work was completed on April 12, 1601. Both works contain numerous explanatory notes and marginalia in Arabic, as well as some in Persian. There are also notes recording the purchase of the book by previous owners and an elaborate but effaced seal.

Names

  • Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf, 13th century Author.
  • Shirāzī, 'Abd al-'Alī al-Kātib Scribe.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1601-04-12.

Headings

  • -  Uzbekistan
  • -  1150 to 1221
  • -  Arabic manuscripts
  • -  Nutrition

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 24 x 13.5 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Qatar National 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

  • 2021667245

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Chicago citation style:

Samarqandī, Muḥammad Ibn Ashraf, 13Th Century Author, and 'Abd Al-'Alī Al-Kātib Scribe Shirāzī. "Nourishment for the Ailing" and "Nourishment for the Healthy". [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, -04-12, 1601] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667245/.

APA citation style:

Samarqandī, M. I. A. & Shirāzī, '. A. A. S. (1601) "Nourishment for the Ailing" and "Nourishment for the Healthy". [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, -04-12] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667245/.

MLA citation style:

Samarqandī, Muḥammad Ibn Ashraf, 13Th Century Author, and 'Abd Al-'Alī Al-Kātib Scribe Shirāzī. "Nourishment for the Ailing" and "Nourishment for the Healthy". [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, -04-12, 1601] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667245/>.