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Country

Turkey

City

Manisa

Institution

Manisa Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi

Shelfmark

1840

Contents

Mürşid (شروانى، محمد بن محمود)

Author

شروانى، محمد بن محمود

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Şirvānī, Muḥammed b. Maḥmūd (d. ca. in between 841/1438 and 1451)

Muhammed bin Mahmûd-ı Şirvânî, active 15th century (authorised)

Mehmet bin Mahmûd-ı Şirvânî, active 15th century (variant)

Muhammed bin Mahmûd-ı Şirvânî, 15th cent (variant)

Muhammed ibn Mahmûd-ı Şirvânî, active 15th century (variant)

Şirvânî, Muhammed bin Mahmût, active 15th century (variant)

Biographical notes

A physician and author in the service of several rulers, including the Germiyanid Yaʿḳūb Beg of Kütahya, and the Ottoman sultans, Meḥmed I and Murad II. He spent the latter part of his life in Bursa. He has been confused with his contemporary, Maḥmūd b. Muḥammed Dilşad Şükrullâh Şirvānī, author Murādnāme and Tarīḫ-i İbn Kesīr Tercümesi, and has been dubiously attributed with these following works: Kemāliyye, Bāhnāme Tercümesi and Harīdetü’l-Acā’ib ve Cerīdetü’l-Garā’ib Tercümesi.

Title

Mürşid

مرشد

Notes

This is the most comprehensive work in Turkish on ophalmology. It consists of three major sections on eye anatomy, the description of eye diseases and their treatments.

Main language of text

Turkish

Bibliography

Editions

Muhammed b. Mahmûd-ı Şirvânî, . Mürşid (Göz Hastalıkları). Edited by Bayat, Ali Haydar and Necdet Okumuş. Ankara: Atatürk Kültür Merkezi Başkanlığı, 2004.

Studies

Muhammed b. Mahmûd-ı Şirvânî, . Tuhfe-i Murâdî. İnceleme - Metin - Dizin. Edited by Argunşah, Mustafa. Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1999.

Bayat, Ali Haydar. "Muhammed Bin Mahmud Şirvani ve Göz Hastalıklarına Ait Bilinmeyen Eseri ‘Mürşid’." Tıp Tarihi Araştırmaları. 7, no. 1998, [n.d.]: 24-46.

Okumuş, Necdet. "Şirvānī, Muhammed b. Mahmūd." TDVİA. 39 2010: 206-208.

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Manisa Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 1640

Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi Ktp. 1061

Physical Description

Number of folios

335 ff.

Columns

1

Ruled lines

13

Hand

Copyist:ʿAli b. ʿAbdullaḥ

History

Date of copy

NaNth. century