These are “Dastur al-’ilaj” (A Manual on Medical Treatment) and “Muqaddima-i dastur al-’ilaj” (Introduction into the Manual for Medical treatment ) by Sultan ‘Ali, “a Khorasani doctor” who practiced medicine for many years in the courts of the Shaybani rulers. The calligraphic copies from 1589 of both works are bound into one volume.
In the history of medicine Abu Bakr al-Razi may be considered a founder of the clinical records, used in every medical office nowadays. His disciples who worked together with him in the hospitals of Ray and Bagdad kept similar “medical patient’s history.” One group of medical books includes an autograph by Turkish doctor, poet and calligrapher Katib-zade Muhammad Rafi’i (18th century), who translated from Arabic into Turkish “Medical Patients’ Histories” by Abu al-Hasan Allan (9th – 10th centuries), a disciple of Abu Bakr al-Razi,. In this work, Katib-zade proved to be not only a translator, but also a skilled calligrapher and a master of bookmanship.
You can learn more about this topic in the book-album “The Collection of the Al-Biruni Institute of Oriental studies, the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan” (part two, “Miniature and Calligraphy”) (Volume XXII) from the series "Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan in the World Collections".
The main sponsor of the project is the oilfield services company Eriell-Group.
