Qarābādīn-i Maʻṣūmī - Persian manuscript

Treatise on medicine and medicinal plants.

Manuscript.

Persian.

Title from fol. 1b.

Name of scribe not indicated

Probably written in India.

Paper; cream-color Indian paper; black ink with rubrication; numerous marginal notes; worm damage throughout; leaves 74-77 missing lower right corner with complete loss of text; catchwords on rectos.

Nastaʻliq; 17 lines in written area 18 x 10.5 cm.

Fol. 1b-86a.

LC copy formerly owned by Navāb Bahū Mumtāz al-Nisā Begum.

Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M88.

Binding is red morocco leather with small gold medallion and narrow gold border; recently rebacked; original spine in container with manuscript.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.

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01/01/1790

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