Explanation of Causes (and Symptoms), (Sharh al-Asbab [wa'l-Alamat]), 
Burhan-ud-din Kermani, or...

Explanation of Causes (and Symptoms), (Sharh al-Asbab [wa'l-Alamat]), 
Burhan-ud-din Kermani, or Nafīs ibn ‘Iwad ibn Hakim [al-Kirmanī] the Doctor, 15th C., 

Dedicated to Ulugh Beg, Arabic and Persian manuscript on paper, 225ff., 2fl., 26ll. of black naskh script to the page, words overlined in red, marginal annotations in red and black ink, catchwords to the lower right folios, previous owners annotations to opening fly leaves ; including statements, in Arabic, on types of remedial treatments, a guidance, in Persian, on how to treat wounds, in Farsi, instructions, for an incantation, another, in Arabic, referring to "he who is God-wary" paired with a date of 18 Shaban, another in Arabic, which calls upon Muhammad, Noah and Abraham to protect the writer from spiders, snakes and scorpions and a story about Bozorgmehr, including a quote from the poet Saadi ; the closing folio's verso with a line of Persian invoking Muhammad to repel the enemy of Ali (‘sad-u-dah’, or 110) in Farsi, two lines of Persian verse from the Sufi poet Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr, a faded exaltation of God, and a rearticulating of the title of the manuscript and praise upon Muhammad and his family, all in Persian to the centre ; in contemporary black leather binding, each cover tooled with central lobed medallions, similar smaller medallions above and below, one folio from a different manuscript loosely inserted, text bloc slightly loose, back cover lightly torn,2 fragile and torn spine in part, covers scuffed with losses

Manuscript 30.5 x 22cm, folio 30 x 21cm.