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Country

UK

City

London

Institution

British Library

Collection

British Library Turkish Manuscripts

Shelfmark

15049

Contents

Work 1: Sulṭāniyye (شروانى، محمد بن محمود)

LOC subject headings

Medicine, Arab

Turkish language To 1500

Medicine (Early works to 1800)

Author

شروانى، محمد بن محمود

Show other names

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

Sulṭāniyye

Kitāb-i Güzīde-i ʿİlm-i Tıbb

سلطانية

Notes

Dedicated to Meḥmed I, this medical work of 14 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.

Main language of text

Turkish

Foliation

1v-41

Bibliography

Editions

Kurban, Ferhat. "Şirvani Mahmud. Sulṭāniye (Giriş – Metin – Sözlük)." Master’s Thesis, Marmara Üniversitesi, 1990.

Studies

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

Küçüker, Paki. "Kitab-ı Güzide ya da Sultaniyye." U. Ü. Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 11. 18 2010: 173-181.

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

Show filiations

Gazi Husrev Library Turkish Manuscripts 1585

Köprülü Kütüphanesi 184

Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 2074

Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 2756

Physical Description

Number of folios

xx ff.

Columns

1

Ruled lines

15

History

Date of copy

15th. century