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Manuscripts

Mizan al-Tibb (میزان الطب)

 Introductory

S.NO :4456 AMAR ID :AMAR/MS/4456
TITLE OF THE MANUSCRIPT :Mizan al-Tibb (میزان الطب) SOURCE LOCATION :Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences (IAMMS), Aligarh, UP, India
PLACE & STATE :Uttar Pradesh ACCESSION NO. AT SOURCE :
ACCESSION NO.AT NIIMH, HYDERBAD :382

 Technical

OTHER TITLE :INA/ AUTHOR NAME :Muhammad Akbar Arzani (محمد اکبر ارزانی)/INA
CO-AUTHOR NAME :INA REDACTOR'S NAME :INA
COMMENTATOR NAME : NAME OF THE COMMENTARY :
LANGUAGE OF THE COMMENTATOR: AUTHOR DATE :d.1722 AD
COMMENTATOR DATE : SCRIBE :
SCRIBE DATE AND PLACE : AYUSH SYSTEM :Unani
SUBJECT:Diseases, diagnostics and therapeutics LANGUAGE :Persian
SCRIPT :Persian

 Textual

AUTHOR'S BEGINNING SENTENCE (UNICODE)/(DIACRITICAL) :Amma baad al-Abd al-Jani al-Musamma bi/
SCRIBE'S BEGINNING SENTENCE (UNICODE)/(DIACRITICAL) :/
AUTHOR'S ENDING SENTENCE (UNICODE)/(DIACRITICAL) :En Nuskha marghub bait mam rasid/
SCRIBES ENDING SENTENCE (UNICODE)/(DIACRITICAL) :/INA
COLOPHON (UNICODE)/(DIACRITICAL) :08-03-1189 AH/ CHAPERTIZATION:Chapterised
EXTENT :Complete
REMARKS :Red letters ware seen in the manuscript especially to highlight the chapters

 Physical

MATERIAL : SIZE :
No. of FOLIOS :100 No. of PAGES :200
No. of LINES PER FOLIOS : No. of LINES PER PAGE:17
No. of LETTERS PER LINE :16 GRANTHAMANA :
MISSING FOLIOS : ILLUSTRATIONS :
CONDITION :Good, Readable

 Catalogue

CATALOGUE STATUS : CATALOGUE MSS.NUMBER :
CATALOGUE TITLE :INA CATALOGUE PART :INA
CATALOGUE VOLUME :INA CATALOGUE EDITOR:INA
CATALOGUE PUBLISHER :INA CATALOGUE YEAR OF PUBLICATION :INA
CATALOGUE ADDITIONAL DETAILS :INA

 Publication Details

PUBLICATION STATUS :Published PUBLICATION LANGUAGE :Persian
PUBLICATION AVAILABILITY :INA PUBLICATION EDITOR :
PUBLICATION TRANSLATOR :INA PUBLICATION PUBLISHER:Munshi Nawal Kishore
PUBLICATION YEAR:1884 PUBLICATION PLACE :Lucknow,India
ABOUT MANUSCRIPT :Mīzānal-Ṭibb (The Measure of Medicine) is a popular medical work written by Muhammad Akbar Arzani (d. 1772). In the introduction Arzani states that his purpose in composing this text was to serve destitute students who desired to study medicine as did others of greater means. The clarity of Arzani's text and its abridged but comprehensive nature likely contributed to its becoming the principal work to be mastered by beginning medical students from the 18th century onwards. The work is written in three sections: the first on the four qualities, i.e., heat, cold, moistness, and dryness): the second on the simple and compound drugs and food); and the third on diseases and their cures. The major part of the book is taken up by the third section, which is divided into chapters that primarily deal with treating diseases of individual organs. Also included in this section are diseases specific to women and men and sections on fevers and swellings. The present volume concludes with shorter ta tises by other authors on the pulse and urine.Muhammad Akbar Arzānī was an influential Mughal physician famous throughout Iran and South Asia. His reputation is considered from contemporary accounts of his importance within the broader scholarship in South Asian culture and history. Scholars differ on whether Arzani was born in Persia or India, but he is generally considered the first physician of the Mughal Empire to systematically translate Arabic medical works into Persian. His medical texts enjoyed great popularity in India and Persia and served as instructional texts for medical students throughout these lands. It is also known that Arzani was a Sufi and that he belonged to the Qadiriyya order

 Digitization Status

DIGITIZED BY :CCRAS-NIIMH DIGITIZATION DATE :March 2023