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Compilation of technical and practical advice for navigators
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A compilation of technical and practical advice for navigators, attributed to the 'wise men of the sea' (علماء البحر), and completed by an un-named scribe on 2 Jumādá II 1287/30 August 1870 (see colophon, f. 76r, transcribed below). The first half of the work (ff. 51r-59v) is divided into an in...
Didactic manual of nautical and navigational practices
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A teaching manual transmitted from an anonymous author (المؤلف) on navigational practices and nautical information, interspersed with poems. Following an introductory sermon (خطبة), the first part of the work contains numerous sections (أبواب) on theoretical astronomy and observation (understan...
al-Juzʼ al-thānī min Kitāb jāmiʻ al-asrār الجزء الثاني من كتاب جامع الأسرار Ṭughrāʼī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī طغرائي، الحسين بن علي
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Incomplete copy of Part Two (الجزء الثاني) of a defense of alchemy against an unnamed detractor by the Seljuq chancellor (صاحب ديوان الإنشاء) and vizier, poet and alchemist Muʼayyad al-Dīn Abū Ismāʻīl al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī al-Ṭughrāʼī (مؤيد الدين أبو إسماعيل الحسين بن علي الطغرائي, d. 1121). The c...
[al-Juzʼ al-awwal wa-huwa Mafātīḥ al-raḥmah الجزء الأول وهو مفاتيح الرحمة] Ṭughrāʼī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī طغرائي، الحسين بن علي
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Incomplete copy of a two-part alchemical text by the Seljuq chancellor (صاحب ديوان الإنشاء) and vizier, poet and alchemist Muʼayyad al-Dīn Abū Ismāʻīl al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī al-Ṭughrāʼī (مؤيد الدين أبو إسماعيل الحسين بن علي الطغرائي, d. 1121). The copy is defective at beginning, with folios missing...
al-Juzʼ al-thānī wa-huwa Maṣābīḥ al-ḥikmah الجزء الثاني وهو مصابيح الحكمة Ṭughrāʼī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī طغرائي، الحسين بن علي
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Incomplete copy of an alchemical text by the Seljuq chancellor (صاحب ديوان الإنشاء) and vizier, poet and alchemist Muʼayyad al-Dīn Abū Ismāʻīl al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī al-Ṭughrāʼī (مؤيد الدين أبو إسماعيل الحسين بن علي الطغرائي, d. 1121). This text is part two of the preceding item in the present volum...
[Alchemical dream vision] Ṭughrāʼī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī طغرائي، الحسين بن علي
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Record of an alchemical dream vision by the Seljuq chancellor (صاحب ديوان الإنشاء) and vizier, poet and alchemist Muʼayyad al-Dīn Abū Ismāʻīl al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī al-Ṭughrāʼī (مؤيد الدين أبو إسماعيل الحسين بن علي الطغرائي, d. 1121). The text is preceded by a brief preface (f. 160v, lines 2-4, tra...
Kitāb tarākīb al-anwār كتاب تراكيب الأنوار Ṭughrāʼī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī طغرائي، الحسين بن علي
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Alchemical text by the Seljuq chancellor (صاحب ديوان الإنشاء) and vizier, poet and alchemist Muʼayyad al-Dīn Abū Ismāʻīl al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī al-Ṭughrāʼī (مؤيد الدين أبو إسماعيل الحسين بن علي الطغرائي, d. 1121). This text is a companion piece to items one and six in the present volume, the Collect...
al-Juzʼ al-awwal min Kitāb jāmiʻ al-asrār الجزء الأول من كتاب جامع الأسرار Ṭughrāʼī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī طغرائي، الحسين بن علي
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Part One (الجزء الأول) of a defense of alchemy against an unnamed detractor by the Seljuq chancellor (صاحب ديوان الإنشاء) and vizier, poet and alchemist Muʼayyad al-Dīn Abū Ismāʻīl al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī al-Ṭughrāʼī (مؤيد الدين أبو إسماعيل الحسين بن علي الطغرائي, d. 1121). An incomplete copy of the...
On f. 170v a hand other than that of the main scribe, ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Ḥalabī, probably that of one of the manuscript’s owners, has copied out three prescriptions: (1) a tested remedy for haemorrhoids taken from Ibn al-Ḥadhdhā; (2) ‘hospital dried fruit (al-nuqū‘ al-māristānī)’; and (3) an ...
Aqrābādhīn madīnat al-salam أقراباذين مدينة السلم Ibn al-Tilmīdh, Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣā‘id ابن التلميذ، هبة الله بن صاعد
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The medical formulary of Amīn al-Dawlah Abū al-Ḥasan Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣā‘id (أمين الدولة أبو الحسن هبة الله بن صاعد) known as Ibn al-Tilmīdh (ابن التلميذ, d. 560 AH/AD 1165), chief physician at the ‘Aḍudī Hospital in Baghdad, and later court physician to the Abbasid Caliph al-Muqtafī (المقتفي, re...
