Kitāb fī al-adwiya al-mufrada

Title Variants

Alternative: Adwiya al-mufrada

Uniform: Jāmiʻ fī al-ṭibb fī al-adwiyah al-mufradah

By

Ghāfiqī, Abū Jaʻfar Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad, 1165

Osler Library.

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

A.H. 654 [1256]

Notes

Manuscript.

Title from Bibliotheca Osleriana.

284 folios, thick, wove Oriental paper, elegant, old Iraqi hand.

23 lines per page, catch words, rubricated.

Marginal notes and corrections.

Contains part one only. (letter alif through kaf in the Maghribi abjad).

Folios 1-9 supplied in 19th century.

Arranged alphabetically: vol. I (A-K) only; with about 367 coloured drawings of plants and 6 of animals.

In oriental binding; inserted: copies of letters from Dr. A. Cowley, and J.H. Bill, through whom the ms. was acquired from Persia (cf. Osler 346).

Osler | 7508

Gacek, Adam. Arabic manuscripts in the libraries of McGill University, | 102

In Arabic.

Subjects

Early works , Early works to 1800 , Herbs , Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts , Manuscripts, Arabic , Materia medica , Materia medica, Vegetable , Montréal , Pharmacognosy , Québec , Québec (Province) , Therapeutic use

Call Number

RM666 H33 G53 1256

Language

Arabic

Identifiers

NLM: 0WZ 290 G4106k 1256