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Daiber I Ms. 154

17 folios; 13×17 cm; ll lines; naskhi. Paper damaged and text sometimes illegible. Loose folios of a ms. from the 8th/14th or 9th/15th century.

IIIF Collection

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  1. [2] [1420] fol. 1r - 17v

    A fragment of a magic-medical work about the sympathetic effects (khawass خواص ) of parts of animals. The text has some similarity to Isa Ibn Ali عيسى بن علي (3rd/9th century), Kitab Manafi' a'da' al-hayawan كتاب منافع أعضاء الحيوان ; on this cf. M.ULLMANN, Die Naturund Geheimwissenschafteh im Islam (Leiden 1972), p.21f. and on the khawass cf. ULLMANN 393ff.