Oriental medical manuscripts in Gazi Husrev-bey's library at Sarajevo

Abstract

At The First Congress of the History of Health Culture of Yugoslavia that took place in Sarajevo from 1-3 October 1970, professor Kasim Dobrača presented the paper titled: ”Oriental manuscripts from the scope of medicine, veterinary medicine and pharmacology in Gazi Husrev-beg Library in Sarajevo”. In his paper, he prepared all manuscripts from Gazi Husrev-beg Library concerning that branch of Science. A shorter conclusion of the report was published in the Congress Proceedings.
On this occasion we bring the whole text of the report except the manuscripts dealing with the veterinary medicine because they are analysed in a separate work of this volume of Annals.
The work contains 42 manuscripts from ”The Messanger’s Medicine” and ”Kanun” of Ibn Sina to ”The Collection of Medicaments” written Turkish language. The manuscripts are arranged according to their relative importance and chronologically.