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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11313, ff 144v-148v
Title:: Risālat al-Zawrāʼ رسالة الزوراء Dawānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad دواني، محمد بن أسعد
Scope & Content:: Philosophical treatise by Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Asʻad al-Dawānī (جلال الدين محمد بن أسعد الدواني, d. 1502) composed at Najaf in 872/1467 (see Newman, 'Davānī, Jalāl-al-Dīn Moḥammad', in Encyclopaedia Iranica Online [accessed 2 June 2023] http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2330-4804_EIRO_COM_8169). B...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Ff. 144v-148v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11313, ff 149v-159r
Title:: Risālat al-Ḥawrāʼ رسالة الحوراء Dawānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad دواني، محمد بن أسعد
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Asʻad al-Dawānī (جلال الدين محمد بن أسعد الدواني, d. 1502) on his own philosophical treatise the Risālat al-Zawrāʼ (رسالة الزوراء, item 7 in the present volume). Begins (f. 149v, lines 2-4): أما بعد الحمد لوليه والصلوة على نبيه فإني لما فرغت من تهذيب الر...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Ff. 149v-159r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11313, ff 160v-169v
Title:: [Treatise on geomantic divination (علم الرمل)] Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the 'science of sand' (علم الرمل), or geomantic divination, by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي, d. 1274). The text is perhaps the Sufficient Treatise on the Science of Sand (الرسالة الوافي في علم الرمل) also known as the Sultanic Treatise o...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Ff. 160v-169v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 12150, ff 2v-57v
Title:: Kitāb al-iqtiḍāb al-majmūʿ ʿalā ṭarīq al-masʾalah wa-l-jawāb كتاب الاقتضاب المجموع على طريق المسألة والجواب Ibn al-Masīḥī, Saʻīd ibn Abī al-Khayr ابن المسيحي، سعيد بن أبي الخير
Scope & Content:: A compendium of medicine composed in a question and answer format, by Saʻīd ibn Abī al-Khayr ibn ʿIsá al-Ṭabīb al-Masīḥī (سعيد بن أبي الخير بن عيسى الطبيب المسيحي, b. 1177, d. 1259 or 1260). Ibn al-Masīḥī was famous for healing the caliph al-Nāṣir (الناصر, reg. 1180–1225) from a serious illnes...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 2v-57v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 12150, ff 58r-139v
Title:: Muhadhdhab al-Dīn al-Dakhwār, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn ʻAlī مهذب الدين الدخوار، عبد الرحيم بن علي Sharḥ Kitāb Taqdimat al-maʿrifah li-Abuqrāṭ شرح كتاب تقدمة المعرفة لأبقراط
Scope & Content:: A commentary on the Kitāb taqdimat al-maʿrifah li-Abuqrāṭ (كتاب تقدمة المعرفة لأبقراط), a translation of the Prognosticon of Hippocrates (أبقراط, d. ca 370 BC), probably by the physician and translator Abū Zayd Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī (أبو زيد حنين بن إسحق العبادي, d. 873). The text of the ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 58r-139v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13006, f 14r
Title:: Extract from Kitāb al-Ghayth al-musjam fī sharḥ Lāmīyat al-ʿAjam (كتاب الغيث المسجم في شرح لامية العجم) Ṣafadī, Khalīl ibn Aybak صفدي، خليل بن أيبك
Scope & Content:: An extract concerning the life and alchemical writings of Muʾayyad al-Dīn abū Ismāʿīl al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Ṭughrāʾī (d. 515 AH/AD 1121) from Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Khalīl ibn Aybak al-Ṣafadī’s (ca 1297-1363) Kitāb al-Ghayth al-musjam fī sharḥ Lāmīyat al-ʿAjam. This text has ben copied in a much smaller...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: ca 920
Extent:: f. 14r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13006, f 159r
Title:: Anonymous fragment of a treatise on practical chemistry
Scope & Content:: Instructions for the production of a distilled ‘hot water’ (ماء حار ; f. 159r, line 23, transcribed below) that can split and dissolve stone. The text begins abruptly and appears to have been copied by Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Mawṣilī (محمد بن سليمان الموصلي) (see colophon, f. 158v, line 21). B...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: c 1181
Extent:: f. 159r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13006, f 159v
Title:: Anonymous instructions for producing perfumes
Scope & Content:: Lines 1-9 give instructions for producing false ambergris (عنبر); lines 9-15 give instructions for a distillation process for oil of cloves and roses; and lines 16-17 give brief instructions for the washing of ṭaḥīnah. Begins (f. 159v, lines 1-4): خذ من الشب ٣٠ درهم ومن البارود ٣٠ درهم وقطرهم ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: c 1181
Extent:: f. 159v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13006, ff 3r-11r
Title:: Risālah nāfi‘ah fī ghāyat al-naf‘ wa-al-nafāsah lam yu‘raf muṣannifuhā رسالة نافعة في غاية النفع والنفاسة لم يعرف مصنّفها
Scope & Content:: A treatise on the elixir containing many extracts from poetical and prose sources. The text was copied in late Rajab 919 (Sept-Oct 1513) at al-Madrasah al-Maulawiyyah al-ʿAlawiyyah in Fez by Qudrat Allāh al-Marandī al-Ādharī (see colophon, fol. 11a). Although the title states that the author is ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Rajab 919
Extent:: ff. 3r-11r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13006, ff 11v-14r
Title:: Risālah li-Abī Hishām al-Amīr Khālid رسالة لأبي هشام الأمير خالد Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Umawī خالد بن يزيد الأموي
Scope & Content:: A treatise on alchemy attributed to Abū Hāshim Khālid ibn Yāzīd al-Umawī (ca 48 AH/AD 668 - 85 AH/AD 704), the Umayyad prince credited (probably spuriously) with sponsoring the first translations in Islam, and notably the first translations of alchemical texts into Arabic (Ibn Nadīm, Fihrist, 30...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Rajab 919
Extent:: ff. 11v-14a

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