Kemaliye - كماليه

A medical treatise, composed and named for a certain Şeyh Kemalüddin. The author, who is not named, evidently belonged to the Sufi milieu in Bursa. The last part of the work consists of healing invocations. He mentions in the preface that having treated Şeyh Kemalüddin he was moved to write down some of the remedies known to him, in order to benefit from the saint's prayers and blessing. According to the introduction, Kemaliye comprises ten chapters, the first six of which each offer remedies for ailments of a specific part of the body: (1) head; (2) eyes; (3) mouth; (4) teeth; (5) waist or loins; and (6) incontinence (sülüsu'l-bavl). The following chapters are more varied in nature: (7) prescriptions for sexual virility; (8) causes of and remedies for bevasir zahmeti (haemorrhoids); (9) preparation of sherbets or infusions (şerbetler); and (10) reasons behind the prescriptions and orders of physicians. However, the author seems partially to have set aside his original plan. Chapter seven is present, but is mislabelled as the eighth, the heading el-babü's-samin being repeated for the actual eighth chapter. The ninth and tenth chapter are followed by an eleventh (f 9r). Then follows the bulk of the treatise, beginning with an additional three-line Bab, on elimination of phlegm and by the 'Counsel of Plato the Sage' (Vasiyet-i Eflatun-i Hekim), both on f 9v. In the remainder of the work the author moves from one subject to another apparently at random, the text being divided only by rubrics such as faide or nev'-i diğer. Begins:. Besmele elhamdülillah şükür o Allah-i Kadir-i bi-zevala kim ten hastalıklarına deva edip bildirdi ve salavat ve teslimat ol Tabibu'l-Kulub üzerine olsun…. Ends:. Ve eger masum ise bu tilsimin suyu ile masumun yüzün ve gözün boyalar. Tilsim budur ... Her ki 3 m z v ne (?) La havle ve la kuvvete illa billah il-'Aliyi'l-'Azim. Temmetu'r-risale. Other contents of this volume include arithmetical calculations on f 1r, 44v, and 45r, a medicinal formula, talismanic squares, scribbles on 42r, part of a story of a merchant from Istanbul who was taken captive while en route for Arabia on 42v, recipes for perfumed soap on 42v-43r, invocations on 43v, and finally, Qur'anic verses and formulae for invocation on 44r. The volume is undated, but is probably from around the 12th century AH/18th century CE.

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For other Ottoman medical treatises from the 12th century AH/18th century CE see Or 5815, Or 6905, Or 10954, Or 11063, Or 11211, Or 12667, Or 12734, and Or 144557. On Ottoman medicine, see Miri Shefer-Mossensohn, Ottoman medicine: healing and medical institutions, 1500-1700 (Albany: SUNY Press, 2009).