This is a copy of Nuzḥat al-hukamā’ al-rawḍat
al-aṭibbā’ (The Delight of the Wise and the Garden of the
Physicians) by Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī (d. 710 AH/1311 CE). It
is an extensive commentary on the first book of Ibn Sīnā’s
(Avicenna’s) Qānūn fī al-ṭibb, dedicated to Sa’d al-Dīn
Muḥammad al-Sāvujī, wazir to an Ilkhanid ruler of Iran,
apparently Muhammad Khudābanda Öljeytū (Uljāytū), who ruled
from 703 AH/1304 CE to 716 AH/1317 CE and moved the capital from
Tabriz to a new location at Sulṭāniyah near Qazwīn in 707
AH/1307 CE. The copy was completed by an unknown scribe in Tabriz
in the middle of Rabi’ II 707 AH/9-19 Oct. 1307 CE.
There is an inscription in the hand of the author, Quṭb al-Dīn
al-Shīrāzī, in which he states that he commissioned this copy of
his commentary on Sīnā’s Qānūn as a gift for the custodian of
the library of an unidentified sovereign. This inscription provides
a specific date by which the commentary was completed.
