Summary View

Country

Turkey

City

İzmir

Institution

Tire Necip Paşa Kütüphanesi

Collection

Diğer Vakıf Yazmaları

Shelfmark

13

Contents

Work 3: Bāhnāme (ʿAlī b. İshāḳ)

LOC subject headings

Turkish language To 1500

Medicine (Early works to 1800)

Author

ʿAlī b. İshāḳ

على بن اسحاق

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ʿAlī b. İshāḳ (authorised)

على بن اسحاق (variant)

Biographical notes

Nothing is known about the author.

Title

Bāhnāme

باهنامه

Notes

Composed for Murad II, this work represents an early Turkish version of a bāhnāme or a kind of health manual dealing sexual activity and intercourse, or jimāʿ (جِمَاع), one of the six non-naturals effecting one’s humoural balance, and thus in need of careful regulation according to traditional Galenic medicine. The work was largely based on Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf at-Tīfāshī (d. 651/1253)’s Arabic Rujūʿ al-shaykh ilā al-ṣibāh fī’l-quwwa ʿalā al-bāh (رجوع الشيخ الى الصباح في القوّة على الباه) and consists of 25 chapters on sexual knowledge specifically intended for men and 15 chapters specifically intended for women.

Western Anatolia, most likely in the Bursa region.

Main language of text

Turkish

Foliation

16v-206v

Bibliography

Studies

Bayat, Ali Haydar. "Osmanlı Devleti’nde Telif İlk Bahname Alî Bîn Îshak’ın Bahnamesi [~1430]." In Essays in Honour of Ekmeleddin İhsanoglu. Istanbul: IRCICA, 2006, 647.

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

Physical Description

Number of folios

n/a ff.

Columns

1

Ruled lines

21

History

Date of copy

18th. century