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Country

France

City

Paris

Institution

Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Collection

Ancien Fonds Turcs

Shelfmark

171

Contents

Work 1: Tuḥfe-i Mübārizī (Ḥekīm Bereket)

LOC subject headings

Turkish language To 1500

Medicine, Arab

Medicine (Early works to 1800)

Author

Ḥekīm Bereket

حكيم بركت

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حكيم بركة

Ḥekīm Bereket, fl. 14th century (authorised)

حكيم بركت (variant)

Biographical notes

Nothing is known of the author other than that he must have been a physician and may have been of Khwarazmian origins.

Title

Tuḥfe-i Mübārizī

تحفة مبارزي

Notes

Ḥekīm Bereket’s Tuḥfe-i Mübārizī is a Turkish medical work written in the name of a certain melikü’l-ümerāʾ Mübārizeddīn (ملك الامراء مبارز الدين) (Ar.malik al-umarāʾ ) , the identity of whom has been the subject of dispute. M. M. Koman claims that he was Aydınoğlu Mübārizeddīn Mehmed Bey (d. 1334) who served as the commander-in-chief (melikü’l-ümerāʾ; malik al-umarāʾ) of the Germiyanid army before establishing himself as an independent warlord based in Birgi (İzmir İli, Turkey)‏ in around 1308 [1308 CE], and came to found the Aydınid dynasty. M. C. Ş. Tekindağ reads the name of the patron in the Konya manuscript malik al-umarāʾ Mubāriz al-Dīn al-Mujāhid al-Ghāzī Khalīfat Alp b. Tūlī b. Turkānshāh (ملك الامرا مباريزالدين المجاهد الغازي خليفت آلب بن تولي نن تركانشاه), whom he identifies as a Seljuq amīr from the early thirteenth century [1200-1299 CE]. Most scholars, however, remain sceptical of Tekindağ’s identification, and consider the patron to be the Aydınid bey. The author states that he first composed an Arabic version of the work, entitled Lubāb al-nukhab(لباب النخب), which he then translated first into Persian and then into Turkish. Based on Ibn Sīnā's Qānūn (قانون), Ḥekīm Bereket's Tuḥfe-i Mübārizī consists of fours sections, with an introduction on the basics of Galenic humoural theory, a description of illnesses, maintaining health through diet and lifestyle, and the control of emotions and exposure to the elements. The fourth section concludes with an overview of treatments. Of interest is the work's identification of three kinds of malaria. The work survives in two manuscripts (Paris and Konya). The work place of composition is the Aydınid realm of western Anatolia (Aegean region).

Main language of text

Turkish

Foliation

1-60

Bibliography

Editions

Erdağı Doğruer, Binnur. Hekim Bereket. Tuhfe-i Mübarizi. Metin, Sözlük. Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 2013.

Koman, Mahmud Mesut. Tuhfe-i Mübarizi: Lübabü’n-nuhab tercümesi: Aydınoğlu Mehmed Bey namına Türkçe’ye çevrilen bir tıp kitabı. Istanbul: Bilgi Basım ve Yayınevi, 1955.

Studies

Koç, Mustafa. "Anadolu’da İlk Türkçe Telif Eser." Bilig. 57 2011: 159-174.

Tekindağ, M. C. Şehabeddin. "İzzet Koyunoğlu Kütüphanesinde Bulunan Türkçe Yazmalar Üzerinde Çalışmalar I." Türkiyat Mecmuası. 16 1971: 133-162.

Yurdakök, Murat. "Tuhfe-i Mübārizī’de Çocuk Hekimliği Bilgileri." Çocuk Sağlığı ve Hastalıkları Dergisi. 47 2004: 233-236.

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İzzet Koyunoğlu Kütüphanesi 12049

Work 2: Kitāb der Ḫulaṣa ʿIlm-ı Ṭıbb (Ḥekīm Bereket)

Author

Ḥekīm Bereket

حكيم بركت

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حكيم بركة

Ḥekīm Bereket, fl. 14th century (authorised)

حكيم بركت (variant)

Biographical notes

Nothing is known of the author other than that he must have been a physician and may have been of Khwarazmian origins.

Title

Kitāb der Ḫulaṣa ʿIlm-ı Ṭıbb

كتاب در خلسه علم طبّ

Notes

Main language of text

Old Anatolian Turkish

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İzzet Koyunoğlu Kütüphanesi 12049

Work 3: Ṭabiʿat-nāme ()

Author

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Anonymous (authorised)

Title

Ṭabiʿat-nāme

طبعةنامه

Notes

Main language of text

Old Anatolian Turkish

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İzzet Koyunoğlu Kütüphanesi 12049

Physical Description

Number of folios

xx ff.

History

Date of copy

Late 15th-century or early 16th-century copy