Zayn al-Din Jurjani (d.1136 AD), al-Aghradh al-tibbiyah wa'l-mabahith al-‘ala’iyah, a comprehensive medical work in two main parts, ascribed to Ghiyath al-Din Zahir, Persia, Ilkhanid, late 13th/early 14th century

Persian manuscript on paper, 125 leaves, 19 to 23 lines to the page, written in at least three hands in black and brown naskh script, titles in darker muhaqqaq script, catchwords, lacking one folio at the beginning and end, some replacement folios, several seal impressions throughout, ownership inscriptions on the interior of the brown leather binding

In discreet overall condition, the margins have been trimmed and the volume rebound, the margins of f.6b to f.9a with dense annotation, sporadic catchwords throughout the rest of the manuscript, water and various other stains, some pages with restorations to the borders, as viewed.
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Al-Jurjani's al-Aghradh al-tibbiyah wa al-mabahith al-‘ala’iyah is a comprehensive medical work in two main parts one of which is an abridgment of Zakhirah-yi Khwarazmshahi by the same author. Al-Jurjani attended the court of the Khwarazmshahis, and composed the work for the ruler ‘Ala’ al-Daulah Atzis (r.1156-57 AD).

Another copy of this work is in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London (see F. Keshavarz, A Descriptive and Analytical Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, 1986, pp.107-8, no.24).