[Akrabadin] - [اقربادين]

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 7321
  • Dates of Creation
    • 18th century
  • Language of Material
    • Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 1 text 315 ff Materials : Paper. Foliation : European, 315 ff. Dimensions : 203 mm x 144 mm. Script : Nestalik, with marginalia in nesih. Binding : Contemporary binding with gilded inset medallion and ropework around the edges.

Scope and Content

This volume contains a treatise on medicines by Nuh İbn-i Abdülmennan, a Hekimbaşı who died in 1119 AH (1707-08 CE). On f 24v, the author states that his late son Ömer Efendi began to translate this treatise from a Greek original entitled Akrabadin malkiyo (اقربادين ملكيو), but died before the work was completed, having finished only the müfredat. The translation was therefore finished by his father. There is a detailed table of contents (ff 1v-21v), and the work begins on f 22v. It contains many medical prescriptions written in the margin. The manuscript was likely copied in the 18th century CE.

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Acquisition Information

Bequeathed by E. J. W. Gibb in 1901.

Related Material

For more information about the compiler, see SO IV, p. 579, where it is recorded that he was a European Christian who had embraced Islam; and Ünver, A Suheyl, Tıb tarihi (İstanbul: Ahmet İhsan Matbaası, 1943), p. 172, where he is called Giritli Nuh. For more information on the text, see OM III, p. 239.