Summary View

Country

Turkey

City

İstanbul

Institution

Fatih Millet Ktp.

Collection

Ali Emiri Koleksiyonu Tıbbiye

Shelfmark

45

Contents

Bāhnāme-i Pādişāhī (Mūsā b. Mesʿūd)

Author

Mūsā b. Mesʿūd

موسى بن مسعد

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Mūsā b. Mesʿūd (authorised)

موسى بن مسعد (variant)

Biographical notes

Nothing is known about the author.

Title

Bāhnāme-i Pādişāhī

باهنامۀ پادشاهی

Notes

This work is the oldest Turkish bāhnāme, a kind of health manual dealing sexual activity and intercourse, or jimāʿجِمَاع), one of the six non-naturals effecting one’s humoural balance, and thus in need of careful regulation according to traditional Galenic medicine. Composed of eighteen chapters, this work is a Turkish translation/adaptation of Nasīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī (d. 673/1274)’s Persian work al-Bāb al-bāhiyya fī’l-tarākībiya al-ṣulṭaniyya, produced for Saruhanoğlu Yaʿqūb b. Devletḫān (r. ca. 809-815/1407-1412) ruler of the Demirci branch of the Saruhanid beylik.

Western Anatolia, most likely in the Manisa region.

The work is catalogued as Bāznāme-i Pādişāhī

Main language of text

Turkish

Bibliography

Studies

Bayat, Ali Haydar. Tıp Tarihi. İstanbul: Merkezefendi Geleneksel Tıp Derneği, 2010, 289-290.

Özcan, Abdülkadir. "Bahnâme." TDVİA. 4 1991: 489-490.

Ünver, A. Süheyl. "XIV. Asırda Saruhanlıların Türk Tababetine Hizmetleri ve Yakuphan Namına Tercüme Edilen Bahname." Türk Tıp Tarihi Arşivi. 1942: 19-20.

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Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 2074

Çorum Hasan Paşa İl Halk Kütüphanesi 2941

Beyazıt Devlet Ktp. 4083

Hacı Selim Ağa Yazma Eser Ktp. 347

Fatih Millet Ktp. 46

Manisa Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 1860

Milli Kütüphane no. A 1315

Milli Kütüphane no. A 1728

Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 5427

Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 5536

Atatürk Kitaplığı 491

Atatürk Kitaplığı 140

Fatih Millet Ktp. 159

Kastamonu İl Halk Ktp. 3019

Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 342

Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 575

Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 113

Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 206

Physical Description

Number of folios

22 ff.

Columns

1

Ruled lines

15

History

Date of copy

20th. century