Medicine

Celâleddin Hızır Hekim Haci Pasa, 740 - 827 [1339 - 1424]

Müntehab-ı Şifâ (Selected Writings on Health)

Manuscript in Ottoman Turkish
Copied 990 [1582]
623 pp., 20 x 15 cm

One of the very early medical works in the Ottoman Empire which consists of three parts: Basic information on healthy living, nutrition, sex; production of medicines (pharmacy); diseases and their treatment. In Turkish medical history, Hekim Haci Pasa is one of the outstanding physicians of the period of Anatolian Principalities. Some refer to him as Ibn Sina of Anatolia. After completing his primary education in Konya, he went to Cairo, the center of learning at the time. Due to a severe illness during his school years in C...
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE & MEDICINE IN ISLAM

WORKING LIBRARY OF PROFESSOR HANS-HINRICH BIESTERFELDT 
(University of Bochum)

❧ 130 titles in a total of 151 volumes
❧ 36% in Arabic, 28% in German, 27% in English, and other languages
❧ Focus on transmission, editing, and study of Greek and Arabic knowledge of medicine, astronomy, mathematics and philosophy.
❧ Books are in very good condition
❧ Complete list of all titles available.
❧ NEW: Bibliographic data in Zotero allow output in various formats
❧ The collection is being sold in its entirety.

HISTORY OF MEDICINE is the most important subject. Examples are three Göttingen Academy volumes on the Arabic Dioscorides tradition, each with the Arabic text and an annotated German translation: the anonymous Dioscurides triumphans, Ibn al-Bayṭār’s Dioskurides-Erklärung and Die Ergänzung Ibn Ğulğul’s. Ibn al-Jazzār’s Zād al-musāfir is present in three critical editions: Book 6, Book 7, chapters 1 to 6, and Books III to V. Two Cairo editions are based on the only two known manuscripts: al-Ġāfiqī’s Muntaḫab, fascicles II to I...
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