Alfīyah fī al-ṭibb ismuhā Mughnīyat al-muʻānī ṣināʻat al-ṭibb
By: lil-Shaykh Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad al-Shiwī [sic] al-Dasūqī al-Shāfiʻī
Contributors: Mālikī, Yāqūt najl Aḥmad, scribe; Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner; Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1874
Language: ara
Number of pages: 44
Subjects: Arab Medicine; Poetry; Arabic Manuscripts
Other titles: Mughnīyat al-muʻānī ṣināʻat al-ṭibb; Alfīyah al-ṭibb; Maʻnīyat al-maʻānī
Work titles: Muʻīnat al-maʻānī
Description: Text is a treatise on medicine, including drugs and their pharmaceutical properties, written in 1254 H [1838].  It consists of more than 1,000 verses.  Includes table of contents (fol. 1b-2a).  Second colophon, dated 10 Shawwāl 1291 H [20 November 1874] added by same scribe on fol. 43a.
Notes: Ms.

Title page written in later hand in violet pencil and in different script.

Transcribed by Yāqūt ibn Aḥmad al-Mālikī on 17 Shaʻbān 1291 H [28 September 1874].

Paper:  yellowed cream, untrimmed, with watermarks, in good condition.  Few diacritical marks.  Text in black with violet decorations. Formula on fol. 2a to protect book from bookworms (Yā Kabīkīj, yā Kabīkīj, yā Kabīkīj, iḥfaẓ al-waraq). Catchwords on rectos.

Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-581.

Naskhī script; 15 lines in written area, 17 x 11 cm.

Fol. 1a-43a (fol. 44 blank).

Partially erased and illegible ownership stamp on fol. 2a, 11a, 21a, 31a, 41a, and 43a.

Binding:  modern cardboard covered with cloth; leather spine.

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

Arabic.

Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.