Abu al-Muna Dawud ibn Abi Nasr better known as al-Kuhin al-'Attar al-Isra'ili al-Haruni (flourished 658 AH/1260-61 AD) Minhaj ad-dukkan wa dustur al-a'yan fi'l-tibb wa'l-saydalah ('The Management of [Apothecary] and Regulations of Important Matters in Medicine and Pharmaceutics'), signed by Muhammad bin Isma'il al-'Ajluni al-Shafi'i, Mamluk, Syria or Palestine, dated 886 AH/1481-82 AD

Arabic manuscript on paper, 279 leaves plus 2 flyleaves, 15 lines to the page, written in Naskh script in black ink, keywords and titles picked out in red, some marginal glosses written diagonally, f.1a with title written within a lobed shamsa in colours and gold, brown morocco binding with tooled strapwork border and central medallion outlined in gold, with flap 

In generally good overall condition, repair to spine, a few other abrasions to binding, some worm holes with associated repair, pages generally clean with some occasional stains and smudges, as viewed.
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The text is an extensive guide to simple and compound remedies and their uses, addressed to the author's son. The treatise is divided into twenty-five chapters and the heading are enumerated in detail in N. Serikoff, Arabic Medical Manuscripts of the Wellcome Library: A Descriptive of the Haddad Collection, Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, 6, Leiden, 2005, pp.200-5. See also L.N. Chipman and E. Lev' 'Syrups from the Apothecary's Shop': A Genizah Fragment containing one of the Earliest Manuscripts of Minhaj a-dukkan, Journal of Semitic Studies,51, 2006, pp.137-68 and E. Savage-Smith, A New Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, volume I, Medicine, Oxford, 2011, pp.603-609, entry no.171.

See also Brockelmann, I, 492 (648); Suppl. I, 897.