Make it Yours.Edit, remix and personalize with your own textCustomizeOr start from these designshttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/https://www.rawpixel.com/image/9974065Edit ImageSaveSaveEditCropCustom Text Title: Tibb-i Akbar / Muhammad Akbar `urf Muhammad Arzani ibn Mir Haji Muhammad Muqim.Tb khbr / mHmd khbr aarf mHmd rzn~ bn myr Hj~ mHmd mqym. Translated Title: The medicine of Akbar. Variant Title: Sharh al-asbab wa-al-`alamat Author(s)/Name(s): Muhammad Akbar ibn Mir Hajji Muhammad Muqim, known as Muhammad Arzani, d. 1722. Nafis ibn 'Iwad al-Kirmani, d. ca. 1447, Sharh al-asbab wa-al-'alamat. Publisher: [17--?] Description: [1], 559 leaves, bound, (15-20 lines; leaves 554a, 555b, 556a, 557b, 558a, 559b blank) : paper, ill.(some col.) ; 23 cm. Language: perNotes: Tibb-i Akbar is an expanded version of Sharh al-asbab wa-al-`alamat written by Burhan al-Din Nafis ibn `Ivad al-Kirmani a 15th century Persian physician. Manuscript. Persian. Title given on fol. 1b line 1. Author's name given in preface to text (fol. 10a line 5). Copy undated: appearance of paper, handwriting, ink, etc. suggests a dating of ca. 18th century. Purchased in 1940 by the Army Medical Library from the New York dealer Maggs (see Maggs catalogue 687, spring 1940: Manuscripts of Asia, Africa and Europe in thirty different languages. London, 1940, p.31). Catchwords, rubrications, red overlinings; subtitles and new enteries in red; marginal corrections with a few later marginalia in various hands. Paper is thin, burnished, yellow-brown; only laid lines are visible; wormeaten; waterdamaged at top; leaves have been trimmed; the first 50 leaves have been numbered in pencil in Western numerals, paginated from left to right (i.e. numerals 511 through 560); volume recently refoliated correctly. Dark red leather modern library binding with modern pastedowns and endpapers. Fol. 554-559 contain illustrations; fol. 554b: in ink and opaque watercolors, full-page illustration of a pregnant woman with abdomen and chest opened to reveal the internal organs and fetus, with drawings of the heart, lungs, and rectum surrounding the figure; fol. 555a: in ink and opaque watercolors, full-page male figure with abdomen and chest opened to reveal the internal organs, the right hand holding the genitalia, a drawing of the liver and gallbladder in the upper left corner; fol. 556b:in ink and opaque watercolors, drawings of the liver with gallbladder, the stomach with intestines, the testicles, and detail of the stomach; fol. 557a: in ink and opaque watercolors, a composite drawing of the tongue, larynx, heart, trachea, stomach, and liver, a composite drawing of the ureters, urethra, kidneys, testicles and penis, and of the bladder with female genitalia, womb, and fetus; fol. 558b: in ink with light gray wash, a skeleton leaning on a pedestal; fol. 559a: in ink with gray wash, a skeleton leaning on a scythe. Described in: Schullian & Sommer. Cat. of incun. & MSS., 1950, P20. An amplified Persian translation of the Arabic treatise Sharh al-asbab wa-al-'alamat written by Nafis ibn 'Iwad al-Kirmani (fl. 1423-1438), as described on fol. 10a lines 12-14 of this copy; the Persian expanded version was composed by Muhammad Akbar in 1112 [1700]; a copy of the Arabic original is found in NLM MS A66.1. The treatise consists of 24 chapters (babs) and a conclusion (khatimah) on the symptoms and treatment of diseases specific to particular parts and general diseases, arranged under the names of illnesses beginning with those affecting the head; the conclusion (in two parts) deals with the properties of compound remedies and medical terminology. Fol. 1b-9b contain a table of contents for this treatise in a different hand from main text, written 15 lines to a page; main text begins in middle of introduction before the first bab on fol. 10a and ends on fol. 553b. Fol. 1a is blank except for a later note on compound remedies (mujarrabat); fol. [1] contains a table of contents for a different treatise, on diseases of the head, eyes and, ears, written in a different hand. Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Army Medical Library, 1948. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. 17--? NLM Unique ID: 9404088https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/historicalanatomies/a_persian_anatomies_home.htmlhttps://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/historicalanatomies/a_persian_anatomies_bio.htmlOriginal public domain image from Wikimedia CommonsMorePublic DomainFree CC0 image for Personal and Business useInfoView CC0 LicenseJPEGSmall JPEG 793 x 1200 px | 300 dpiLarge JPEG 1134 x 1715 px | 300 dpiEdit ImageMonthlyYearlySave 50%Get PremiumProfessional design resources and creative toolsfromfrom$6.50/mo$78 billed yearlyUnlimited downloadsAd-free experienceUnlock millions of creative assets and our entire Creative Studio of editable templates, mockups and design toolsBuy Now