ZAYN AL-DIN JURJANI (D.1136 AD), ZAKHIRAH-I KHWARAZMSHAHI ('TREASURY DEDICATED TO THE KING OF KHWARAZMSHAHI'), AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF MEDICAL SCIENCE, PERSIA, LATE 15TH/EARLY 16TH CENTURY, WITH LATER ANNOTATIONS IN HEBREW

ZAYN AL-DIN JURJANI (D.1136 AD), ZAKHIRAH-I KHWARAZMSHAHI ('TREASURY DEDICATED TO THE KING OF KHWARAZMSHAHI'), AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF MEDICAL SCIENCE, PERSIA, LATE 15TH/EARLY 16TH CENTURY, WITH LATER ANNOTATIONS IN HEBREW

Persian manuscript on cream paper, 656 leaves, plus 2 fly-leaves, 1 replacement page at the end, 29 lines to the page, written in naskh in black ink, indexes and chapter headings ('unwar) written in Eastern Kufic or bold cursive, decorated in gold and polychrome and often ruled in gold and blue, keywords picked out in red, various Hebrew inscriptions in different hands, in light brown leather binding

37.5 by 25cm.

Condition Report:
The manuscript is overall in good condition, the margins are clean, only occasionally restored (f.2), the lower edge pf the paper have most probably been mice bitten, minor stains not affecting the text, Persian numeral written on the top in pencil, some annotations in pen and pencil, mainly in the margins but occasionally over the text as well, written both in Persian and in Hebrew, minor smudges to the illuminated headings, the last folio replaced, the binding with minor damages, as viewed.

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