TUHFAT US-SA'DIYA: A COMMENTARY ON IBN SINA'S QANUN BY QUTB-UDDIN MAHMUD SHIRAZI (1236 - 1311 AD) Iran, 18th - 19th century A commentary on pharmaceuticals and medicine, Arabic manuscript on paper, 246ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 47ll. of black ink naskh script, underscores, marginal comments and keywords in red ink, profuse marginal annotations, the opening folio with polychrome and gold polylobed decoration filled with arabesques, split palmette and floral tendrils, several ownership stamps, bound in later blind-tooled black calf leather, incomplete, the text panel 22cm x 9cm and the folio 29cm x 17cm.