English: Prophetic medicine' was the creation of Muslim clerics, based on the Qur'an and practices of the Prophet Muhammad as recorded in the hadith, deliberately avoiding the essentially Greek tradition ... See full description on web site.
The volume bears an illuminated dedication to the Ottoman Süleyman the Magnificent. It also bears the sultan’s monogram (tughra), once on the first page in blue outlined in gold, and once on the last, where it is in gold outlined in blue. Süleyman is not known to have resorted to prophetic medicine and had both Muslim and Jewish physicians at his court, but the duplication of his monogram, rather than his seal, indicates how highly he prized the manuscript.
Date
dated 21 shawwal 926 (4 October 1520)
Medium
ink, gold and opaque watercolour on paper; contemporary brown leather binding with stamped, painted and blind-tooled decoration
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Kitab al-Hadi al-Muhammadi fi'l-Tibb al-Nabawi (a Treatise on Prophetic Medicine)
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Khalili Collections
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Khalili Collections
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