SHAYKH DAWŪD AL-ANṬĀKĪ. Extracts from the third part of the - Lot 272

SHAYKH DAWŪD AL-ANṬĀKĪ. Extracts from the third part of the (d. 1599). [s.l., s.d - ca. 17th-early 20th c.?]. 8 ff. or 16 pp. (21.5 x 16 cm), 23-line text in Maghribi script, black and red ink for subtitles and defined terms is inserted in a box drawn in red ink, advertisements and a few words in margin. Extract from a copy of the important medical textbook composed in the 16th century by Dawūd al-Anṭākī, a Christian physician, blind from birth, born in Antioch in 1543. He traveled throughout Asia Minor, lived in Damascus and Cairo and died in Mecca in 1599. His work Tadhkira uli al-albab wa'l-Jami' li al-ajab al-ujab is a compendium of medical knowledge divided into three parts. The manual deals with all types of illness and is considered the physician's most important work. The 8 sheets presented here preserve extracts from the third chapter on simple and compound remedies and on diseases and their symptoms, therapies and remedies, all listed in alphabetical order. The extracts presented preserve the end of the section devoted to the letter tāʾ, the entire section on the letter thāʿ and the beginning of the section on jīm.