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Collection Area Oriental Manuscripts Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Language English

1. Add MS 9690

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Add MS 9690
Title:
Kitāb al-ishārāt fī ʿilm al-ʿibārāt كتاب الإشارات في علم العبارات Ibn Shāhīn, Khalīl ابن شاهين، خليل
Scope & Content:
Manual of dream interpretation in eighty chapters (أبواب) by the mamluk historian Ghars al-Dīn Khalīl ibn Shāhīn al-Ẓāhirī (غرس الدين خليل بن شاهين الظاهري, d. 1468). A list of the chapters with their title and the folio on which they begin is given on ff. 4v-6v On the title page (f. 2r) and on...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+278+ii

2. Add MS 23409

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Add MS 23409
Title:
Kitāb al-‘umdah fī ṣinā‘at al-jirāḥah كتاب العمدة في صناعة الجراحة Ibn al-Quff, Abū al-Faraj ibn Ya‘qūb ibn Isḥāq ابن القف ,أبو الفرج بن يعقوب بن إسحاق
Scope & Content:
A general introduction to the the art of surgery by Amīn al-Daulah Abū al-Faraj ibn Ya‘qūb ibn Isḥāq ibn al-Quff (أمين الدولة أبو الفرج بن يعقوب بن إسحاق بن القف; 630/1233-685/1286). The treatise it thought to be the earliest Arabic text devoted to surgery. It comprises twenty chapters (مقالات,...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1052
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+131+iv

3. IO Islamic 1249, ff 1v-35r

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IO Islamic 1249, ff 1v-35r
Title:
تحرير كتاب المعطيات لأقليدس Taḥrīr kitāb al-mu‘tīyāt li-Uqlīdis Euclid أقليدس
Scope & Content:
Arabic version of the Data (Δεδομένα; كتاب المعطيات) by the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (Εὐκλείδης; أقليدس; fl. 300 BC). The text was translated by Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn (إسحق بن حنين; d. ca 910), revised by Thābit ibn Qurrah (ثابت بن قرة; d. 901) and is presented here in the edition (تحرير) o...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jumādá I 1198
Extent:

ff. 1v-35r