IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1538 S101
Held at: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Title: Arabic book of pharmaceutical recipes
Date(s): [19th century]
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 vol.
Name of creator(s): [Dija | Abu Muhammed Abdullah Ahmad]
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Unknown
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Copy of a manuscript volume containing pharmaceutical recipes according to the teachings of Najm Aldean Ayyûb by his student [Abu Muhammed Abdullah Ahmad Dija]. The manuscript is dated 890 in the Islamic calendar (1469 in the Gregorian calendar), this is thought to be the date of the original manuscript of which this is a copy.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: Arabic
System of arrangement:
Single volume
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Physical characteristics:
Bound in a volume.
Finding aids:
No additional finding aids.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Acquired by the College Library from the estate of Roy Dobbin in 1938.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred from the Library to the College Archives in April 2008.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 2008