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Manuscript/Mixed Material [Ikhtiyārāt-i badīʻī.] [اختيارات بديعي.]

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Title

  • [Ikhtiyārāt-i badīʻī.]

Other Title

  • [اختيارات بديعي.]

Summary

  • Early medical work on diseases, pharmacology and materia medica.

Names

  • Anṣārī Shīrāzī, ʻAlī ibn Ḥusayn, approximately 1329-1403 or 1404, author

Created / Published

  • 1272 [1855]

Headings

  • -  Medicine, Arab
  • -  Medicine, Persian
  • -  Pharmacopoeias--Early works to 1800
  • -  Materia medica--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Persian--Washington (D.C.)
  • -  Iran

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Persian.
  • -  Title based on comparison with printed editions.
  • -  Name of scribe not indicated.
  • -  Written in Iran.
  • -  Paper; cream color nineteenth century commercial paper; text within ruled border of multiple lines in blue, gold, and red; fol. 1b has elaborate unvan in dark blue, gold, and red, with remainder of page borders in gold with floral designs; black ink with rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Storey, C.A. Persian literature, II, 221
  • -  Rieu, C. Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts, II, 469
  • -  Naskh; 20 lines in written area 11.5 x 6 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-487a.
  • -  Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M94.
  • -  Maroon leather binding; embossed center medallions in blue, gold, red, and grey; corner medallions, embossed border in gold, red, and blue; rebacked in maroon leather.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.

Medium

  • 487 leaves (20 lines), paper : bound ; 19 x 11 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • R128.3 .A57 1855

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016503589

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Rights & Access

The contents of the Library of Congress Persian Language Manuscript Project are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions and are free to use and reuse.

Credit Line: Library of Congress, African and Middle East Division, Near East Section Persian Manuscript Collection

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Chicago citation style:

Anṣārī Shīrāzī, ʻAlī Ibn Ḥusayn, Approximately Or 1404, Author. Ikhtiyārāt-I Badīʻī. [1855] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016503589/.

APA citation style:

Anṣārī Shīrāzī, ʻ. I. Ḥ. (1855) Ikhtiyārāt-I Badīʻī. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2016503589/.

MLA citation style:

Anṣārī Shīrāzī, ʻAlī Ibn Ḥusayn, Approximately Or 1404, Author. Ikhtiyārāt-I Badīʻī. [1855] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2016503589/>.