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<h1><a name="top"></a>Catalogue: Pharmaceutics</h1>
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<em>Alfaz al-adwiyah</em> <span class="ms">&nbsp;&nbsp;(MS P 4)</span></dt>
<dd>(<em>Pharmacological Dictionary</em>)</dd>
<dd><strong>&#1575;&#1604;&#1601;&#1575;&#1592; &#1575;&#1604;&#1575;&#1583;&#1608;&#1610;&#1607;</strong></dd>
<dd> by N&#363;r al-D&#299;n Mu<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>ammad &#8216;Abd All&#257;h ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>ak&#299;m &#8216;Ayn al-Mulk Quraysh&#299; <a href="bioS.html#shiraziN">Sh&#299;r&#257;z&#299;</a> (<a href="glossary.html#fl">fl.</a> mid-17<sup>th</sup> century)</dd>
<dd><strong>&#1606;&#1608;&#1585; &#1575;&#1604;&#1583;&#1610;&#1606; &#1605;&#1581;&#1605;&#1583; &#1593;&#1576;&#1583; &#1575;&#1604;&#1604;&#1607; &#1575;&#1576;&#1606; &#1581;&#1603;&#1610;&#1605; &#1593;&#1610;&#1606; &#1575;&#1604;&#1605;&#1604;&#1603; &#1602;&#1585;&#1610;&#1588;&#1609; &#1588;&#1610;&#1585;&#1575;&#1586;&#1609;</strong></dd>
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<p class="indent">The treatise was dedicated to the <a href="glossary.html#mughal">Mughal</a> Emperor Shah Jahan in the first year of his reign. The title of the treatise forms a <a href="glossary.html#chronogram">chronogram</a> giving the year of composition as 1038 (= 1628-9).</p>
<p class="indent">The pharmacological dictionary is divided into an introduction (<em>muqaddimah</em>), an alphabetical list (<em>natijah</em>) of medieval medicaments, and a conclusion (<em>khatimah</em>) on early modern additions to the pharmocopeia consisting of bezoar, bitumen (<em>mumiya'i</em>), China root (<em>chub-i chini</em>), tea, coffee, and tobacco.</p>
<p class="indent">An English translation of the treatise was published in Calcutta in 1793: <em>Ulfaz udwiyeh, or The Materia Medica, in the Arabic, Persian, and Hindevy languages. Compiled by Noureddeen Mohammad Abdullah Shirazy ... with an English translation by F. Gladwin</em>, Calcutta, 1793.</p>
<p class="indent">For other copies, see <a href="abbreviation.html#storey2">Storey PL II,2</a>, pp. 255-8, and <a href="abbreviation.html#keshavarzW">Keshavarz, "Wellcome"</a>, p. 78.</p>
<p class="indent"><em>Alfaz al-adwiyah</em> (MS P 4)</p>
<h2><span class="h2blue">Illustrations</span></h2>
<div class="img"><a href="images2/p41b.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="images2/p41b-small.jpg" alt="Folio 1b from Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad Abd Allāh Shīrāzī's Alfaz al-adwiyah (Pharmacological Dictionary). The glossy, thin paper is dyed blue and has laid lines. The text is written in a small taliq script in black ink with headings in red and red overlinings." title="MS P 4, fol. 1b" /></a>
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<p class="indent">The opening of a Persian pharmacological dictionary composed in 1628/1038 by N&#363;r al-D&#299;n Mu<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>ammad &#8216;Abd All&#257;h Sh&#299;r&#257;z&#299;. The treatise was dedicated to the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan. The copy was made in 1719/1131. Near the top is an impression of an oval owner's stamp bearing the name &#8216;Abd [All&#257;h] Mu<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>ammad ibn Mu<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>ammad &#8216;Al&#299; and dated 1268 (= 1851). The <a href="glossary.html#manuscript">manuscript</a> is made of paper dyed blue. The outer edge of the <a href="glossary.html#folio">folio</a> has been repaired with a very brighter blue paper.</p>
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<p class="indent">The <a href="glossary.html#bindings">binding</a> has covers made of red leather over <a href="glossary.html#pasteboards">pasteboards</a>, decorated with a central ovate blind-stamped medallion and two pendants. There is a vertical central line and a thin <a href="glossary.html#frames">frame</a> of a single <a href="glossary.html#fillet">fillet</a>. This design is then enclosed by another frame formed of two fillets.</p>
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<h2><span class="h2blue">Physical Description</span></h2>
<p class="indent">Persian. 118 <a href="glossary.html#leaves">leaves</a> (fols. 1b-118a). <a href="glossary.html#dimensions">Dimensions</a> 21.7 x 10.4 (text area 16.3 x 7.3) cm; 20-21 lines per page. The title is given on title page (fol. 1a) and in the <a href="glossary.html#colophon">colophon</a> (fol. 118a line 19). The author is given on fol. 3b, line 2, as N&#363;r al-D&#299;n Mu<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>ammad &#8216;Abd All&#257;h ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>ak&#299;m &#8216;Ayn al-Mulk Sh&#299;r&#257;z&#299;. The dedication to Shah Jahan is given on fol. 3a, line 11.</p>
<p class="indent">The copy is dated in colophon (fol. 118a lines 19-20): 24 Rabi&#8216; I [11]31 (= 14 February 1719); the first two numerals of the year are illegible because of worming, and the numeral 3 is not clearly written. The <a href="glossary.html#copyist">copyist</a> is named, but only part of his name, Ibr&#257;h&#299;m, is readable.</p>
<p class="indent">A complete copy.</p>
<p class="indent">The text is written in a small <a href="glossary.html#taliq">ta&#8216;liq</a> script in black ink with headings in red and red <a href="glossary.html#overlinings">overlinings</a>. There are <a href="glossary.html#catchword">catchwords</a>.</p>
<p class="indent">There are <a href="glossary.html#marginalia">marginalia</a> in several hands, some of it rather extensive. There are miscellaneous later jottings on the preliminary folio [1a].</p>
<p class="indent">The glossy, thin paper is dyed various shades of blue and pink; it has only <a href="glossary.html#laid">laid lines</a> visible. The paper is very wormeaten. A number of folios have been repaired and strengthed, and all the edges have been trimmed from their original size. The paper of the preliminary folio [1] and the end leaf [fol. 119] is thick <a href="glossary.html#watermarked">watermarked</a> paper of a later date.</p>
<p class="indent">The volume consists of 118 leaves, with one preliminary <a href="glossary.html#leaf">leaf</a> and one end leaf [119]. Fol. 118b is blank and fol. 1a is blank except for the title written in a later hand. Preliminary folio [1]a has unrelated miscellaneous notes by a later owner, with the <a href="glossary.html#verso">verso</a> (prelim folio [1]b) blank. The end leaf, fol. [119], has been bound in upside-down; it has three unrelated notes in different later hands.</p>
<h2><span class="h2blue">Binding</span></h2>
<p class="indent">The volume is bound in red leather over <a href="glossary.html#pasteboards">pasteboards</a>, both covers decorated with blind stamped medallions and two small devices enclosed in thin frames. The spine and edges have been repaired with red leather. There are paper <a href="glossary.html#pastedowns">pastedowns</a> of the same paper as used for the preliminary and end leaf [119]; there are some notes written on them, partially defaced. There are modern <a href="glossary.html#endpapers">endpapers</a>.</p>
<h2><span class="h2blue">Provenance</span></h2>
<p class="indent">On fol. 1b there is the impression of an oval owner's stamp with the name &#8216;Abd [All&#257;h] Mu<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>ammad ibn Mu<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>ammad &#8216;Al&#299; and dated 1268 (= 1851), and on fol. 118a there is a light impression of a different, undated, oval stamp with a name possibly reading &#8216;Al&#299; ibn Mu<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>ammad ibn &#8216;Al&#299;.</p>
<p class="indent">The volume was in the collection of the Army Medical Library in 1946. Further information on provenance is unavailable.</p>
<h2><span class="h2blue">References</span></h2>
<p class="indent"><a href="abbreviation.html#schullian">Schullian/Sommer</a>, <em>Cat. of incun. &amp; MSS.</em>, entry P 4, pp. 330-1, where the manuscript is described as undated and probably of the 16th century.</p>
<p class="psource">NLM Microfilm Reel: FILM 48-131 no. 2 </p>
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