This is a copy of Ḥall al-Mūjiz (The resolution of the Mūjiz)
by Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Āqsarā’ī (d.
779/1379). It is an extensive and popular commentary on the Mūjiz,
an epitome of the Ibn Sīnā’s (Avicenna's) Qānūn fī al-ṭibb
composed by the Damascene physician Ibn al-Nafīs (d.
687/1288).
This copy was completed on 9 Jumādá I 883 AH (7 Aug. 1478 CE) by
ʿAbd al-Razzāq ibn Ḥasan al-Kātib. Written diagonally
alongside the colophon, in red ink, is a statement providing the
information that it was made in the Gawhar Shad Madrasah, which was
built in Herat in 1417-38 CE. Written diagonally on the right-hand
side of the colophon, there is a statement that the volume was
collated at the beginning of Jumādá II in 883 AH. Also on this
folio there is a marginal note stating that on 12 Ramaḍān 988 AH
(21 Oct. 1580 CE) there arrived an order from Constantinople to the
effect that Jews and Christians were not to wear turbans but rather
to wear high conical hats (taratir), red for Jews and black for
Christians, and many turbans were removed throughout the Ottoman
territories; however it resulted in many becoming ill because their
heads were uncovered, since it was in the middle of the autumn.
