Jalal al-din Abu al-Fadi Abd’alrahman bin Abu’Bakir al-Sayuti, known as ‘al-Suyuti’, work on prophetic medicine, in Arabic, decorated manuscript on paper [Cairo, dated 7 Rabi al-Awwal 887 AD (1482 AD)]

Jalal al-din Abu al-Fadi Abdalrahman bin AbuBakir al-Sayuti, known as al-Suyuti, work on prophetic medicine, in Arabic, decorated manuscript on paper [Cairo, dated 7 Rabi al-Awwal 887 AD (1482 AD)]

single volume, 38 leaves, apparently complete, single column, 23 lines of black cursive naskh, some words in red, some small spots to outer edges of leaves rarely affecting text, leaves slightly trimmed with loss to some catch-words, overall very clean copy 183 by 135 mm.; sixteenth century leather-backed boards, rather worn

Al-Suyuti (1445-1505) was an Egyptian scholar who wrote on on Islamic theology, with a focus on the religious sciences. The text in the present manuscript, on prophetic medicine, offer remedies for a wide range of illnesses from headaches to smallpox, while simultaneously discussing the Islamic principles of these and the medical ethics behind the proposed practices.

This particular copy was copied in the Masjid al-Sultan Hassan, the prominent mosque in the Old Town of Cairo, by the scribe Omar bin Ahmad al-Baraji. The date of the manuscript is during the authors lifetime and al-Sayuti was based in Cairo, suggesting that this was copied from an manuscript associated directly with him.

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