Bāhnāme-i Pādişāhī

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Country
Turkey
City
İstanbul
Institution
Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi
Collection
Kadızade Mehmed
Shelfmark
342

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.
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. 45
Fatih Millet Ktp. 159
Kastamonu İl Halk Ktp. 3019
Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 575
Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 113
Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 206

Physical Description

Number of folios
25+5 ff.
Columns
1
Ruled lines
14
Hand
Copyist:Muṣṭafā b. Ḫüsrev b. Muṣṭafā

History

Date of copy
16th. century
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