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Fāʾidah to cure all manner of bodily ills and the necessary verses from the Qur'an to copy out, along with a number square. 247v is a separate Fāʾidah with a diagram containing the names of angels and Caliphs.
On the basis of a brief examination. Dr. Th. G. Th. Pigeaud describes this as a primbon consisting of three or more parts, one part concerns medical lore and legal material; another contains Arabic in Javanese script. The MS seems to be of considerable antiquity. It is written on very thin and d...
Kitāb Jālīnūs fī al-Buḥrānكتاب جالينوس في البحران Galen (Jālīnūs) جالينوس
Scope & Content:
Arabic translation, probably by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī (c 809-873; see colophon of Item 2, f. 142v, line 8), of Galen’s (Claudius Galenus of Pergamum, 129- c 200) treatise on crises, De crisibus libri III. The manuscript was completed in Damascus 580 AH/AD 1184 by Ibrāhīm ibn Naṣr ibn Ibrā...
Kitāb Jālīnūs fī ayyām al-Buḥrānكتاب جالينوس في أيام البحران Galen (Jālīnūs) جالينوس
Scope & Content:
Arabic translation, probably by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī (c 809-873; see colophon, f. 142v, line 8, transcribed below), of Galen’s (Claudius Galenus of Pergamum, 129- c 200) treatise on critical days, De diebus decretoriis libri III (Περὶ κρισίμων ἡμερῶν βιβλία γ΄; أيام البحران). The manuscrip...
Kitāb Jālīnūs fī aṣnāf al-ḥummayyāt كتاب جالينوس في أصناف الحميّات Galen (Jālīnūs) جالينوس
Scope & Content:
Arabic translation, probably by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī (c 809-873; see colophon of Item 2, f. 142v, line 8), of Galen’s (Claudius Galenus of Pergamum, 129- c 200) treatise on the differences between fevers, De differentiis febrium libri II. The manuscript was completed in Damascus, 580 AH/AD...
A story concerning Moses meeting the devil with five donkeys taken from the "History of the Prophets and Kings" by Ṭabari (839–923). Below, several sentences mentioning the torments of the grave.
A short prayer asking for the intercession of God against anyone doing the creator harm. "Whoever wishes to do me harm, may God do him harm before he harms me."
