al-Dustūr
By: lil-Samarqandī
Published: 1514
Language: ara
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Arab Medicine; Formulae, receipts, prescriptions; Early works to 1800; Pharmacology; Arabic Manuscripts
Description: Manual on pharmaceutics, including composition, preparation and use of medicines.
Notes: Ms.

Title from margin of fol. 55b.

Paper:  yellowed cream; originally  split from spine; damage from termites and humidity throughout manuscript; many pages now repaired.  Text in black ink, with names of medicines in red; marginal notes on first four leaves.  No title page.

Library of Congress. Arabic manuscripts, SM-4.

Nastaʻliq script.

fol. 55b-fol. 86b.

Binding:  new leather.

With: al-Adwīyah al-maʻrūfah al-mustaʻmalah / Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī

Fihris al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʻArabīyah fī maktabat al-Kungris, 9.

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

Arabic.