Summary View

Country

Turkey

City

Istanbul

Institution

Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi

Collection

Şehid Ali Paşa

Shelfmark

2118

Contents

Yaʿqūbiyya (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

Yaʿqūbiyya

يعقوبية

Notes

Composed between the years of 1402 [1402 CE] and 1420 [1420 CE] and dedicated to the Germiyanid Bey, Yaʿḳūb Beg (r. 1402-1429), this medical work of 23 chapters deals with the preservation of health (regimen sanitatis). This was a popular genre of medical literature in both the medieval Islamic and Christian world. Rooted in Greek humoral theory, it discusses how to keep in check the six non-naturals (air, food and drink, exercise and rest, sleeping and waking, repletion and excretion, and passions and emotions) through a moderate lifestyle and proper hygiene in order to prevent illness. The work exists in a unique manuscript.

The place of composition is possibly Kütahya

Main language of text

Arabic

Foliation

1v-95v

Bibliography

Studies

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

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

Physical Description

Number of folios

95 ff.

Columns

1

Ruled lines

9

Seal

Waqf seal of Şehīd ʿAli Paşa on 1r and 95v; Unreadable seal on 1r

History

Date of copy

20th. century