Al-Kafi al-Adawieh

The author›s full name was Abdul Rashid bin Saleh bin Nouri Najm al-Din Ba­kui (lived in 806 AH/1403 AD) from the people of Baku in the Republic of Azer­baijan. The date of his birth and death is not known, but the corrector of the book of Takhlais Al-Aqteor has mentioned the year of the book›s composition in 806 AH.In Daira al-Maarif Bozhar Islamic, it is said about the author: «Among the fa­mous people of Baku, we can mention Abd al-Rashid bin Saleh Bakui, the author of the collection of antiquities and wonders of Mulk al-Khahar, who is one of the ge­ographers. Researchers have considered his work to be taken from the book of Zecha­riah Qazvini›s Seven Climates. Apparently, the place of his death was the city of Cai­ro.On leaf (1) there is a manuscript of the name of the book «Kaf al-Hadiram» au­thored by Abdul Rashid Tabib and on leaf (3) the name of the book «Kaf al-Hadiram authored by Abdol Rashid Tabib» is writ­ten in gold font, but in the introduction of the book on leaf (3 p) written by the author It has been written that he says: «I wanted to make a summary of medicines in brief» and besides, he did not mention the name of the book, and therefore some people have called this book «Mukhtsari fi al-Har­madir al-Mufarda», but it seems that the author with This sentence did not intend to put a name on the book, he just wanted to say that he has collected brief information about Fardaeh spices, and according to the name in the Haj Bashir Agha library copy and its name in the manuscript of Malek Library in Tehran, Therefore, we conclude that the name of the book is «Al-Kafi Fi Al-Hadiram».This book has 146 main en­tries, and sometimes one entry leads to several sub-entries, and there is no alpha­betical order in the sub-entries.The subject of the main entries is as follows:1. Plants (grasses, bushes, trees, etc.), including 431 entries.2. Mines (including stones, min­erals and the like) including 81 entries.3. Animals (mammals, birds, fish and animal products), body parts and their products, including 84 entries.4. Insects including 9 entries.5. Drinks including 7 entries.6. Food includes 29 entries.The author first mentions the singular name and then its other synonyms and describes it, then ex­plains the benefits of singular, its consump­tion amount and the characteristics of its high-quality type, and finally, in case of lack of access to it, introduces its substi­tute to the reader.The used manuscript is the manuscript of the library of Haj Bashir Agha, Turkey, numbered 515.Date of writ­ing: unknown and author unknown, font: copy, number of pages: 94, number of lines: 21, illustrated and has 397 color pictures.

The handwriting of the copy is almost clean and readable and it speaks of a pro­fessional calligrapher and painter, who in addition to writing the text was probably an illustrator and also drew the pictures of the book, and therefore this copy must have been probably prepared for the au­thor himself and under his supervision. The copy is written in black ink and with manuscript, and the name of the drug sub­stance is in red color from the beginning to the end of the book, and the picture of almost every drug substance is drawn in a square or rectangular frame next to its description, and there is no page numbe­ring Apparently, later the numbering with Latin numbers is written on the left side of the pages in blue color, the writer has put some brackets at the end of the page on the even pages, the copy does not have the name of the writer and the date of writing, and the only date listed is 1158 lunar year. Apparently, Haji Bashir.