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Maqālah fī ṣūrat al-kusūf مقالة في صورة الكسوف Alhazen ابن الهيثم
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Treatise on the observation of solar eclipses through a camera obscura by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham (أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم; d. ca 1040). The text is copied in a hand much coarser and less polished than that of the previous text in the manuscript, and was transcrib...
[Taqwīm al-adwīyah تقويم العدوية] Isfarāyīnī, Muḥammad إسفراييني، محمد
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Treatise on drugs by Muḥammad Ibn ‘Alī al-Isfarā’inī (محمد بن علي الإسفرائني, see f. 3v, line 10), according to the spelling of the nisba given in the manuscript and followed by Brockelmann (GALS II, 592), who gives the author a floruit date of 1543. Kaḥḥālah (III, 552, no. 14963) gives the auth...
Treatise on pharmacopoeia comprising seventeen chapters (باب). The text is defective at beginning and the author's name is not known. Some folios are missing and unfoliated leaves have been inserted after ff. 11 and 34 to mark locations of missing leaves. The text is followed by a short note o...
[Kitāb al-aghdhiyyah] [كتاب الأغذية] [Ibn Zuhr, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ] [ابن زهر، عبد الملك بن أبي العلاء]
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Treatise on dietetics by the Andalusian physician Abū Marwān ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ Zuhr (أبو مروان عبد الملك بن أبي العلاء زهر, d. 1162), known as Ibn Zuhr (ابن زهر), Latinised as Avenzoar. The copy is defective at beginning and the surviving text mentiones neither the author nor the ti...
[Fiḍālat al-khiwān fī ṭayyibāt al-ṭaʻām wa-al-alwān فضالة الخوان في طيبات الطعام والألوان] [Ibn Razīn al-Tujībī ابن رزين التجيبي]
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Extensive treatise on cookery by the Andalusian scholar Ibn Razīn al-Tujībī (ابن رزين التجيبي, d. 1293). The copy is defective at end and finishes abruptly with recipes calling for tuna (التنّ). Begins (f. 101r, lines 2-4): الحمد لله فضل نوع الإنسان على جميع الخلق وأختصه بمزية قل مسز (؟) حرم...
Treatise includes instructions for the production of soap (f. 207v), glass (f. 209r), and naphtha (f. 210v). The treatise begins with a discussion of fruit waters, the removal of stains from and dyeing of clothes all of which topics are reminiscent of 'Chapter Fifteen: Using fruit waters and a d...
Excerpt on dysmenorrhoea from Kitāb al-dhakhīrah (كتاب الذخيرة)
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Excerpt on the treatment of dysmenorrhoea said to be from the Book of the Treasure (كتاب الذخيرة) attributed to Thābit ibn Qurrah (ثابت ابن قرة, d. 901; see line 18). Although material on this topic features in the edited text of the Book of the Treasure (see ed. Sobhy, chapter 18, pp. 117-18), ...
Two short extracts on tuberculosis. The first extract (ff. 1v, line 1-2r, line 9) is said to be from the Hippocratic Treatments (المعالجات البقراطية), a medical compendium by Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭabarī al-Turunjī (أبو الحسن أحمد بن محمد الطبري الترنجي), personal physician to the B...
Kitāb Qarābādhīn كتاب قراباذين Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī نجيب الدين السمرقندي، محمد بن علي
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Pharmacopeia 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 main text is preceded by a table of contents (ff. 2v-3r). Begins (f. 3v, lines 11-16): هذا كتاب قراباذين نجيب الدين السمرقندي مؤلف كتاب الأسباب ...
Collection of prescriptions and short chapters on medical topics
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Contents: 1) Recipes and prescriptions for the preparation and use of various medicines (ff. 90v-93v); 2) Chapter explaining the definition of the pillars on which the animal body stands, which are the four elements (فصل في بيان تعريف الأركان التي عليها قوام البدن الحيواني وهي العناصر الأربعة, f...
