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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5619, ff 124r-192r
Title:: al-Qarābādhīn ʿalá tartīb al-ʿilal القراباذين على ترتيب العلل Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī نجيب الدين السمرقندي، محمد بن علي
Scope & Content:: Treatise on pharmacopoeia arranged head to toe by ailment by Najīb al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Samarqandī (نجيب الدين أبو حامد محمد بن علي بن عمر السمرقندي, d. 1222). The treatise was copied at Tabriz during the last ten days of Ramaḍān 703/late-April or early-May 1304 by ‘U...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Ramaḍān 703
Extent:: Ff. 124r-192r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5620, ff 1r-59v
Title:: Anonymous treatise on ophthalmology
Scope & Content:: Anonymous treatise on ophthalmology divided into forty-six chapters (باب). A table of contents listing the chapter titles is found on ff. 1r-2v. The manuscript is defective at the beginning and f. 1 is a replacement written in a later hand. The treatise is followed by a poem on sexual hygiene ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 1r-59v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5620, ff 60v-74v
Title:: Kitāb al-raḥmah fī al-ṭibb wa-al-ḥikmah كتاب الرحمة في الطب والحكمة [Ṣubunrī, Mahdī ibn ʻAlī صبنري، محمد بن علي]
Scope & Content:: Treatise on prophetic medicine (الطب النبوي) by Muḥammad al-Mahdawī ibn ‘Alī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṣubunrī (محمد المهدوي بن علي بن إبراهيم الصبنري, d. 1412). The author's name, which does not appear in this manuscript, is disputed and his nisba is also reported as Ṣanawbarī (صنوبري, GAL II, 189; GALS I...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 60v-74v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5620, ff 75v-308r
Title:: Manual of therapeutics
Scope & Content:: Manual of therapeutics based on the Book of Those Who are Not Attended By a Physician (كتاب من لا يحضره الطبيب, ff. 76v-117v) by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرازي; d. ca 925) and a Collection (مجموع, ff. 117v-307v) attributed to ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (ع...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 75v-308r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5786, ff 1v-95v
Title:: Minhāj al-dukkān wa-dustūr al-a‘yān منهاج الدكّان ودستور الأعيان al-Kūhīn al-ʻAṭṭār, Abū al-Munā ibn Abī Nāṣr الكوهين العطار، أبو المنى ابن أبي نصر
Scope & Content:: A comprehensive manual on pharmaceutical practice and ethics composed at Cairo in 658 AH/AD 1260 by the Jewish pharmacist Abū al-Muná Dāwūd ibn Abī Naṣr ibn Ḥifāẓ al-Kūhīn al-'Attar al-Isrā’īlī al-Hārūnī (أبو المنى داوود ابن أبي نصر بن حفاظ الكوهين العطار الإسرائيلي الهاروني, see f. 1v, lines 5-...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 715
Extent:: Ff. 1v-95v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5786, ff 96r-121v
Title:: Fragments of texts on opthalmology and pharmacology
Scope & Content:: Fragments of texts on opthalmology and pharmacology including: (1) Text on opthalmology with alphabetical list of remedies (ff. 96r-107v); (2) Fragments of texts attributed to Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ‘Alī ibn Qays al-Kasdānī (أبو بكر أحمد بن علي بن قيس الكسداني), known as Ibn Waḥshiyah (ابن وحشية; ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 715
Extent:: Ff. 96r-121v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5786, ff 122v-139v
Title:: Anonymous text on pharmacology
Scope & Content:: Anonymous treatise on pharmacology divided by drug type and degrees of qualities. Contents: Chapter One (ff. 122v-125r); Chapter Two: On Herbs (المقالة الثانية في الحشائش; ff. 125r-129v); Chapter Three: On Principles Hot in the First Degree (المقالة الثالثة في الأصول الحارة في الدرجة الأولى; ff...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 715
Extent:: Ff. 122v-139v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5820, ff 2v-177r
Title:: Sharḥ Fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ شرح فصول أبقراط Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-Nīsābūrī, Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī ابن أبي صادق النيسابوري، أبو القاسم عبد الرحمن بن علي
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-Nīsābūrī (أبو القاسم عبد الرحمن بن علي ابن أبي صادق النيسابوري, d. ca 1068) on the Aphorisms (كتاب الفصول) of Hippocrates (أبقراط, d. ca 370 BC). The commentary is based on Galen of Pergamon's (جالينوس, d. ca 216) co...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1094
Extent:: Ff. 2v-177r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5820, ff 178v-208v
Title:: Kitāb fī-dafʿ al-maḍarr al-kullīyah li-l-abdān al-insānīyah كتاب في دفع المضار الكلية للأبدان الإنسانية Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Treatise on hygiene by Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The text is also known as Treatise on the Obviation of the Errors Occuring in Medical Treatment (المقالة في تدارك الخطأ الواقع في التدبير الطبي), h...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1094
Extent:: Ff. 178v-208v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5831, ff 1r-283r
Title:: Jāmiʿ al-mabādiʾ wa-al-ghāyāt fī ʿilm al-mīqāt جامع المبادئ والغايات في علم الميقات Marrākushī, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī مراكشي، الحسن بن علي
Scope & Content:: Encyclopaedia of practical astronomy and astronomical instruments by Sharaf al-Din Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Marrākushī (شرف الدين أبو علي الحسن بن علي بن عمر المراكشي, fl. second half of the 13th century). The treatise was composed in in the years 1276-82 (see Charette, 2007, p. 7...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 3 Ṣafar 1074
Extent:: Ff. 1r-283r

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