al-Kalām al-yasīr fī ʻilāj al-maqʻadah wa-al-bawāsīr
By: li-mawlānā wa-ustādhinā al-shaykh Aḥmad al-Damanhūrī ...
Contributors: Suwayfī, Aḥmad Muḥammad ʻAlī Kishk, scribe; Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner; Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1848
Language: ara
Number of pages: 21
Subjects: Arab Medicine; Proctology; Arabic Manuscripts
Description: The text addresses the causes, diagnosis, and medical treatment by diet and drugs of calculi (stones) in the kidney, bladder, hemorrhoids, and hips.  The text was written in 1169 H [1755].  The colophon is followed by a second incomplete text.
Notes: Ms.

Transcribed by Suwayfī Aḥmad Muḥammad ʻAlī Kishk on 26 Shaʻbān 1264 H [27 July 1848].

[Egypt?]

Paper:  yellowed cream, with watermarks (tre lune, initials E A N), in medium condition; stains on bottom of most leaves.  Black ink on title page, text in black with some rubricated words.  Some underlining in red; marginal notes on fol. 8a.  Catchwords on rectos.

Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-588.

Naskhī script; 21 lines in written area, 16 x 10 cm.

Fol. 1a-14b; fol. 15-18 blank.

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

Arabic.

Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.