A statistic analysis of medical manuscripts in Ayatollah Mar'ashi Najafi Library in Qom

This study examined the medical manuscripts in the library of Ayatollah Mar'ashi Najafi as well as the influential factors in increasing or decreasing the trend of collecting manuscripts in this library. This study uses an analytical method which the population (statistical samples) of 701 medical manuscripts are chosen out of 18409 volumes. To answer some questions, field method and using library resources, collecting data through preparing checklists, using the list of manuscripts in the Mar'ashi Najafi Library 's bibliographic database and sometimes referring to the books on the shelves have been employed. And also to provide descriptive statistics, frequency percentage was used and Chi-square test was used in statistical inference.
Findings: Considering findings of the study, among 701 samples of statistical samples, most manuscripts have been written in the thirteenth century with 26/4 percent, 99/7 percent of the samples have title, most resources are in Farsi with a frequency of 48/1 percent and 42/8 percent of manuscripts have been written in Naskh handwriting style. The results show that the Library policy in the bibliography of manuscripts has been oral and in the past decades, the process of providing manuscripts has been by buying but the purchase of manuscripts was reduced due to inflation; hence more effective efforts should be made to maintain the existing versions