. English: Title: Ṭibb-i Akbar / Muḥammad Akbar ʻurf Muḥammad Arzānī ibn Mīr Ḥājī Muḥammad Muqīm. ‏طب اکبر /‏ ‏محمد اکبر عرف محمد ارزانى بن مير حاجى محمد مقيم. Translated Title: The medicine of Akbar. Variant Title: Sharḥ al-asbāb wa-al-ʻalāmāt Author(s)/Name(s): Muḥammad Akbar ibn Mīr Ḥajjī Muḥammad Muqīm, known as Muḥammad Arzānī, d. 1722. Nafīs ibn ’Iwad al-Kirmānī, d. ca. 1447, Sharh al-asbāb wa-al-’alāmāt. Publisher: [17--?] Description: [1], 559 leaves, bound, (15-20 lines; leaves 554a, 555b, 556a, 557b, 558a, 559b blank) : paper, ill.(some col.) ; 23 cm. Language: per Notes: Tibb-i Akba


. English: Title: Ṭibb-i Akbar / Muḥammad Akbar ʻurf Muḥammad Arzānī ibn Mīr Ḥājī Muḥammad Muqīm. ‏طب اکبر /‏ ‏محمد اکبر عرف محمد ارزانى بن مير حاجى محمد مقيم. Translated Title: The medicine of Akbar. Variant Title: Sharḥ al-asbāb wa-al-ʻalāmāt Author(s)/Name(s): Muḥammad Akbar ibn Mīr Ḥajjī Muḥammad Muqīm, known as Muḥammad Arzānī, d. 1722. Nafīs ibn ’Iwad al-Kirmānī, d. ca. 1447, Sharh al-asbāb wa-al-’alāmāt. Publisher: [17--?] Description: [1], 559 leaves, bound, (15-20 lines; leaves 554a, 555b, 556a, 557b, 558a, 559b blank) : paper, ill.(some col.) ; 23 cm. Language: per Notes: Tibb-i Akbar is an expanded version of Sharḥ al-asbāb wa-al-ʻalāmāt written by Burhan al-Dīn Nafīs ibn ʻIvād al-Kirmānī a 15th century Persian physician. Manuscript. Persian. Title given on fol. 1b line 1. Author’s name given in preface to text (fol. 10a line 5). Copy undated: appearance of paper, handwriting, ink, etc. suggests a dating of ca. 18th century. Purchased in 1940 by the Army Medical Library from the New York dealer Maggs (see Maggs catalogue 687, spring 1940: Manuscripts of Asia, Africa and Europe in thirty different languages. London, 1940, ). Catchwords, rubrications, red overlinings; subtitles and new enteries in red; marginal corrections with a few later marginalia in various hands. Paper is thin, burnished, yellow-brown; only laid lines are visible; wormeaten; waterdamaged at top; leaves have been trimmed; the first 50 leaves have been numbered in pencil in Western numerals, paginated from left to right ( numerals 511 through 560); volume recently refoliated correctly. Dark red leather modern library binding with modern pastedowns and endpapers. Fol. 554-559 contain illustrations; fol. 554b: in ink and opaque watercolors, full-page illustration of a pregnant woman with abdomen and chest opened to reveal the internal organs and fetus, with drawings of th


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