Kitāb zubdat al-ṭibb
By: lil-Jurjānī
Contributors: Ibn ʻUthmān, ʻUmar, former owner; Yamanī, Maḥmūd ibn Ḥasan, former owner
Published: 1677
Language: ara
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: Arab Medicine; Arabic Manuscripts
Work titles: Zubdat al-ṭibb
Description: Text is an Arabic medical treatise in fomat of a symoptic chart in two parts:  the first is devoted to theoretical medicine and discusses diagnosis by means of the pulse and urine; the second discusses anatomy and the treatment of disease.  The second part is divided into 20 chapters and deals systematically with the anatomy and physiology of the human body and the treatment of disease.
Notes: Ms.

Paper:  yellowed cream, of varying thickness, some with watermarks, damaged by termites; pages repaired. Red and black ink on title page and in text; few diacritical marks.  The text is framed by a single red line; many tables written veritically or horizontally.  Catchwords at bottom of rectos.

Library of Congress. Arabic manuscripts, SM-5.

Naskhi script, with headings in thuluth; 18-33 lines in written area, 21 x 12 cm.

Fol. 1a-258a.

Names of former owners ʻUmar ibn ʻUthmān and Maḥmūd ibn Ḥasan al-Yamanī (?)  on title page.  Other partially erased ownership signatures on title page.

Binding:  old red leather decorated with blind tooling; repaired.

Fihris al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʻArabīyah fī maktabat al-Kūngris, 10.

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

Arabic.
Table of contents: title: The first part of the manuscript contains nine essays in 51 leaves, followed by Tash ́rīh aʻḍāʼ badan (anatomy of the human body; fol. 51a-98a); and Kitāb al- ḥummayāt (fevers; 98b-123a).  The second part includes al-Muʻālajāt (medications), 20 essays on fol.123b-229a:  al-Awrām (tumors), 6 essays (fol. 229b-240a); al-Zīnah (fol. 240a-246b) and al-Sumūm (toxins), 6 essays (fol. 247a-257b)