Ɵ Kitab Dastoor al-Adviyeh al-Mubarak fi Ilm al-Tibb (a guide to herbal medicine)

Ɵ Kitab Dastoor al-Adviyeh al-Mubarak fi Ilm al-Tibb (a guide to herbal medicine), in Arabic, decorated manuscript on paper [Jerusalem ("in the Salahi Hospital"), dated Shahban 1717 "miladi" AD] single volume, complete, 49 leaves, single column, 21 lines cursive black naskh, headings and important phrases in red, title and colophon copied in triangular 'v' shape decorated with red teardrops in outline, some contemporary marginalia throughout the volume, a few scattered smudges and stains, overall good condition, 225 by 160 mm.; contemporary leather-backed boards with flap, rubbed and worn with some chips to extremities (with loss) A rare medical treatise by thirteenth-century physician and doctor Hakim Davud bin al-Bayan Suleyman al-Israili al-Misri al-Matufi (d. 1244 AD). The colophon of the present manuscript stipulates that this eighteenth-century witness to the text was copied by a working physician, named Ilyas bin Abdullah al-Naseri, in the Sahahi Hospital in Jerusalem. The contemporary marginalia and informal presentation of the text strongly suggest that this was al-Naseri's personal copy, used as a guide to making herbal remedies for patients as he treated them in the Salahi Hospital.