[MANUSCRIT - MEDICINE - SYRIA] Medical manuscript of the end - Lot 287

[MANUSCRIT - MEDICINE - SYRIA] Medical manuscript of the end of the 18th century, consisting of four books, dealing with medicine and dietetics. 1) Book of Medicine in questions - answers by Abi Nasr Said Ibn Abi el Khair Al Massihi Ibn Issa 102 p. 17 lines per page, with red frame, Treatise on anatomy, muscles, joints, vessels As well as the diseases related to them. 2) Recipes, on 3 pages 3) 3 blank pages 4) Book of food for the preservation of health and Dietetics of the sick, by the doctor Nagib el Dine al Samarkandi, August 1769. 165 p. 17 lines per page. The author reviews the benefits of all fruits and vegetables (grapes, pears, pomegranates, watermelon, quince, figs, olives, walnuts, raisins, pistachios, carob, sugar cane, chard, egg whites and yolks, etc.). ) 5) Book of food for the sick, by Maoula Najib el Dine Al Samarkandi. This book deals with migraine, eye pain, tooth pain, muscle contracture, tremor, epilepsy, hemiplegia etc. The author prescribes the appropriate diet in each case. 50 Pages, 17 lines per page. Last pages missing. Wetness of the upper half of the last pages, without altering the reading of the text. Discrete worm gallery on the last two leaves. All pages have a red fillet frame. Black, red and green ink. In the margins, a green or red writing, is a reminder of the subject treated in the page. Full period basane, flap binding, cold stamped on the boards, decorated with arabesque foliage 6 cm X 4cm. Framing of the plates of nets decorated with six medallions. Trace of the title on a label on the back. In frontispiece a leaf bearing the 35 titles of works from the owner's library. On the next leaf handwritten bookplate in French and Arabic of Fathalla Zogbi and the stamp of the doctor Chekralla Elias Abboud. Dimensions : 162 mm x 115 mm x 25 mm (one of the leaves is torn and a part is missing)