Old number 31. An anonymous treatise, being a practical handbook of medicine and the treatment of different diseases, to which is added, beginning with f. 45b prescriptions of other kinds, e.g. methods against thieving and dealing with thiefs, and furthermore drawings of various kinds of amulets (f. 46b-47a). On f. 52b-53a an eulogy of the qualities of the book, quoting i.e. the holy Luqman. Cf. Prov. 357
paper, very coarse, primitive Khotan-paper of bad quality, greyish-white, unpolished. As the paper is very thin the leaves have been folded.
The ms. is foliated by Gunnar Jarring.
Good
Cardboard binding, the whole book is covered with blue cloth with flower pattern
Place of origin:
Date of origin:
Eastern Turkistan (?). There is no date in the book but there is a receipt glued on to f. 2a carrying the date 1331/1912-13 which may roughly indicate the year of the copying of the book.
There is a name of a former owner on f. 53b probably to be read: Molla 'Abd-ul-Hamid. Acquired in Kashghar in 1929 by Gunnar Jarring from the itinerant book peddler Roze Akhon.
The ms. was part of the Jarring collection of Eastern Turkistan manuscripts donated to the Lund University Library in 1982.
This manuscript description was derived by LUB in part from Gunnar Jarring's handwritten catalog of the collection.
Jarring's catalog entry is transcribed here in full: