كتاب الاغذية والاشربة لمولانا الشيخ نجيب الدين السمرقندي قدس الله روحه

كتاب الاغذية والاشربة لمولانا الشيخ نجيب الدين السمرقندي قدس الله روحه.
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202 leaves, bound, (21 lines; leaves 88ab, 89a blank) : 21 cm Manuscript Arabic No general title page; the first 3 treatises in this volume are generally grouped together under the title: al-Najībīyāt al-Samarqandīyah Author’s name appears on item [1] title page (fol. 1a): Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī; author’s name does not appear in items [2] but it is attributed to Samarqandī; author’s name appears in item [3] fol.177b as mulāna Najīb al-Dīn Samarqandi.̄ Item [1] (fol. 1a-87a): Kitāb al-Aghdhīyah wa-al-ashribah; translation: The book of food and drinks; title appears on title page (fol. 1a) and in colophon (fol. 87a line 6); dated in colophon (lines 8-10): 3 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1012 [3 May 1604] and written by scribe Muḥammad ibn Gharīb al-Sūfī (last part of name not certain); concerns dietetics and regimen; catchwords; rubrications; some marginal corrections apparently by scribe; a few other marginal notes; several owners’ notes on fol. 1a, some defaced; fol. 87b has two later notes giving recipes Item [2] (fol. 89b-176b): Kitāb al-Qarābādhīn ʻalá tartīb al-ʻilal (translation: Compound remedies arranged according to ailment); an incomplete copy: text breaks off in middle of discussion of theriac; other copies of text are found in UCLAMS Ar. 72 and MS Ar. 73; script appears identical to that of item [3]; marginalia mostly in Turkish; on fol. 101b a small slip giving recipes is attached; catchwords; no rubrications Item [3] (fols. 177a-201a): Kitāb al-Aghdhīyat al-marḍá (translation: Nourishment for the ill); also known by the title: Aṭʻimat al-marḍá; Hamarneh (“Arabic MSS. NLM.” J. Hist. Arab. Science, 1977), p. 99, mistakenly identifies this as another copy of NLM MS A 80.1, which is a different treatise by al-Samarqandī; dated (fol. 201a lines 16-19) 14 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1012 [14 April 1604] by scribe Muḥammad ibn Musá ibn Muḥammad; handwriting appears to be identical to that in item [2]; catchwords; rubrications; fol. 177a contains casually written recipes in various later hands; treatise itself begins on fol. 177b Item [4] (fol. 201b-202a): Risālah fī al-aṣūlah al-ṭabīʻīyah; title taken from fol. 202a line 15; no author given; written in a very different hand from rest of volume and of more recent date; fol. 202b contains misc. later notes and recipes; an unidentified treatise on questions regarding the natural world, perhaps part of the Arabic versions of Problemata physica (see Ullmann, M. Medizin im Islam, 1970: p. 93-96) Purchased in 1941 by the Army Medical Library from A. S. Yahuda who acquired it in Damietta, Egypt (ELS 1691 Med. 20) Entire volume is written on the same type of paper; paper lightly burnished; watermarked with visible laid lines and single chain lines; ruled on a ruling board (mastarah); water damaged and stained near corners Binding is of red leather; the front cover has a blind-tooled medallion and border; the spine and back cover are recent red leather replacements; modern paper pastedowns and endpapers Described in: Schullian & Sommer. Cat. of incun. & MSS., 1950, A82; Hamarneh, S. “Arabic MSS. NLM.” J. Hist. Arab. Science (1977), p. 99-100 Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Army Medical Library, 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm Condition reviewed 20180806 digitized. 2018