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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 20736, ff 37r, 38r, 39r, 40r, 45r, 47r, 50r, 51r, 52r, 53r, 54v, 56r, 57r, 58r, 59r, 59v, 60v, 61v, 63r, 64r, 65r, 65v, 66v, 74r, 75v, 78r, 78v, 79r, 81v, 82r, 87v, 88r
Title:: Risale-yi Şecaiye رساله شجاعیه
Scope & Content:: An Ottoman Turkish translation of an Arabic treatise discussing how a perfect mounted soldier should handle his weapons in battle. The text of this work was copied into blank spaces left for illustrations to the Arabic treatise for which the volume was originally created. (see Add MS 20736, ff. ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Ff. 37r, 38r, 39r, 40r, 45r, 47r, 50r, 51r, 52r, 53r, 54v, 56r, 57r, 58r, 59r, 59v, 60v, 61v, 63r, 64r, 65r, 65v, 66v, 74r, 75v, 78r, 78v, 79r, 81v, 82r, 87v, 88r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5931
Title:: Two medical texts
Scope & Content:: The manuscript was produced in Egypt as confirmed by the use in the colophon (f. 184v, lines 7-8, transcribed below) of the Coptic date alongside the hijrī year. The copy was completed on 28 Hatūr 1393 (of the Coptic era)/28 Ramaḍān 1087/4 December 1676. A small note below the colophon gives the...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 28 Ramaḍān 1087
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+185+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5931, ff 2r-172v
Title:: al-Kāfī fī ṣinā‘at al-ṭibb الكافي في صناعة الطب ‘Aynzarbī, ‘Adnān ibn Naṣr عينزربي، عدنان بن نصر
Scope & Content:: Treatise on medicine by Abū Naṣr ‘Adnān ibn Naṣr al-‘Aynzarbī (أبو نصر عدنان بن نصر العينزربي, d. 1153), personal physician to the Fatimid caliph al-Ẓāfir bi-amr Allāh (الظافر بأمر الله, reg. 1149-54). The treatise is divided into 195 chapters (باب) describing diseases arranged from head to food...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 28 Ramaḍān 1087
Extent:: Ff. 2r-172v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5931, ff 173r-185r
Title:: Zād al-masīr fī ʿilāj al-bawāsīr زاد المسير في علاج البواسير Qawṣūnī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad قوصوني، محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the treatment of haemorrhoids by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Qawṣūnī (محمد بن محمد القوصوني, known as Qīṣūnīzādah [قيصوني زاده]), personal physician to the Ottoman sultans Suleiman I the Magnificent (سليمان اول, reg. 1520-66) and Selim II (سليم ثاني, reg. 1566-74). The treatise is divid...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 28 Ramaḍān 1087
Extent:: Ff. 173r-184v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5932
Title:: al-Taqsīm wa-al-tashjīr التقسيم والتشجير al-Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā الرازي، أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا and Nihayat al-ikhtiṣār fī ‘ilm al-farā’iḍ نهاية الاختصار في علم الفرائض Ibn al-Labbān, Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd Allāh ابن اللبان، محمد بن عبد الله
Scope & Content:: The manuscript was copied in Egypt as indicated by the Coptic numerals used in the table of contents on ff. 3r-4v. Contents: (1) al-Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā (الرازي، أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا), al-Taqsīm wa-al-tashjīr (التقسيم والتشجير; ff. 1v-107r); (2) Ibn al-Labbān, Muḥammad ibn ‘A...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+110+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5932, ff 1v-107r
Title:: al-Taqsīm wa-al-tashjīr التقسيم والتشجير Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā رازي، أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا
Scope & Content:: Guide to medical diagnosis and treatment by the physician and philosopher Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرأزي; d. ca 925). The text is divided into 150 chapters (أبواب) each describing an ailment and methods for treating it. The chapters are arranged by affected ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: Ff. 1v-107r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5932, ff 107v-110v
Title:: Nihayat al-ikhtiṣār fī ‘ilm al-farā’iḍ نهاية الاختصار في علم الفرائض Ibn al-Labbān, Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd Allāh ابن اللبان، محمد بن عبد الله
Scope & Content:: Fragment of treatise on the calculation of inheritance shares (علم الفرائض) by Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Faraḍī al-Baṣrī (أبو الحسين محمد بن عبد الله الفرضي البصري; d. 1011; see ff. 107v, line 2, transcribed below), known as Ibn al-Labbān (ابن اللبان; see ff. 107v, note in right-h...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: Ff. 107v-110v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 6026
Title:: Kitāb al-ḥikmah fī al-ṭibb كتاب الحكمة في الطب Qurashī, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh قرشي، علي بن عبد الله
Scope & Content:: Collection of prescriptions, notes on materia medica, anecdotes and poetry concerning medicine and related topics drawn from various sources. The author is said to be Abū al-Ḥasan ‘Alī ibn ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad al-Qurashī (أبو الحسن علي بن عبد الله محمد القرشي, see ff. 93v, line 13-94r, line 2). T...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. 111

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 6903
Title:: Aphorisms كتاب الفصول Hippocrates أبقراط
Scope & Content:: A copy of the Aphorisms (Kitāb al-fuṣūl) attributed to Hippocrates (ca 460-370 BC), in an Arabic translation perhaps by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī (AD 809-873). John Tytler, the editor of the first printed edition of this text (Calcutta, 1832), owned this manuscript as recorded on f. 1a (see Cus...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+27+v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 6940
Title:: Ardā vīrāf nāmah اردا ویراف نامه by Zartusht Bahrām
Scope & Content:: The Ardā vīrāf nāmah (اردا ویراف نامه), a poetical version in Persian by Zartusht Bahrām ibn Pazhdū of the book of Ardā Vīrāf, based on a Pahlavi original of the 9th/10th century describing Arda Viraf's journey through heaven and hell and his return home afterwards. Copied by the Rev. John Hadd...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+64+i

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