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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12150
Title:: Syriac Codex
Scope & Content:: A codex of six Syriac texts, all copied in the same Madenḥāyā hand. f. 1r: A series of notes in Arabic and Syriac written in a hand other than that of the scribe, primarily religious formulae, as well as a brief, partially illegible inscription in Greek or Coptic; ff. 1v-72v: The Recognition...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Coptic, and Syriac, Classical
Date Range:: 412
Extent:: Codex, 255 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12187, ff 3v-324v
Title:: Tadhkirat ūlī al-albāb wa-al-jāmi‘ lil-‘ajb al-‘ujāb تذكرة أولي الألباب والجامع للعجب للعجاب Anṭākī, Dāwūd ibn ‘Umar أنطاكي، داوود بن عمر
Scope & Content:: A copy of the medical encyclopaedia Tadhkirat ūlī al-albāb wa-al-jāmi‘ lil-‘ajb al-‘ujāb (تذكرة أولي الألباب والجامع للعجب للعجاب) by Dāwūd al-Ḍarīr ibn ‘Umar al-Anṭākī (داوود الضرير بن عمر الأنطاكي; d. 1599). The title page to the text (f. 3r, line 5) calls the author al-Qaṣīr (القصير, 'the sho...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1838
Extent:: ff. 3v-324v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12187, ff 325r-326r
Title:: Anonymous notes on the medical properties of foods
Scope & Content:: Anonymous notes on the medical properties of foods drawn from various medical books (من بعض كتب الطب). The manuscript was copied in 1838, in Cairo, by the scribe Ayyūb of Nazareth (see colophon to item four, f. 330, lines 9-13). Begins (f. 325r, lines 2-5): الحلو حار إلا أنه ليس يقوى الحرارة...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1838
Extent:: ff. 325r-326r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12187, ff 326r-327v
Title:: Kitāb al-buthūr fī ‘alāmāt al-mawt كتاب البثور في علامات الموت Hippocrates بقراط
Scope & Content:: The Kitāb al-buthūr fī ‘alāmāt al-mawt (كتاب البثور في علامات الموت) is the Arabic version of a pseudo-Hippocratic text known as the Ἱπποκράτους νοήματά τε καὶ σημειώσεις περὶ ζωῆς καὶ θανάτου. A Latin version made from the Arabic exists, and is known variously as the Secreta Hippocratis due to ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1838
Extent:: ff. 326r-327v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12187, ff 327v-330r
Title:: Extracts from the Canon [of Medicine] نقل من القانون Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: A collection of extracts from Avicenna's (ابن سينا, Ibn Sīnā; 980-1037) Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطب). The manuscript was copied in 1838, in Cairo, by the scribe Ayyūb of Nazareth (see colophon, f. 330, lines 9-13, transcribed below). Begins (f. 327v, lines 2-5): مرهم نافع للخنازير جيد ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1838
Extent:: ff. 327v-330r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12312
Title:: Qur'an
Scope & Content:: Qur’ān, in Arabic; a copy from Java. Contents: ff.1v-200r: text of the Quran, ends with the repetition of the S. al-Fatihah. Text frames are triple-ruled black lines. Verse markers are red circles with a black dot in the middle, 6 mm diameter. Surah headings are in red ink, often with multipl...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 vol.; 200 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12343
Title:: Qur'an
Scope & Content:: Qur’ān, in Arabic; a copy from Java. Contents: f.1r: punika syarat Nifðn abdi dalem pa‘ulu sila; ff.1v-189v, text of the Qur’an; f.190r, S. al-Fatihah; f.191r: (in pen) A Legend in the Pegon; (in pencil) 'This is a copy of the Coran, in Arabic, written in Java. J.M.' Text frames are four rule...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th-early 19th century
Extent:: 1 vol.; 190 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12349
Title:: Bugis diary from Bone, 1780-5
Scope & Content:: A court diary from Bone, written in Bugis language and script. A: ff. 2v. et seqq. Buginese diary, A.D. I780-5 (A.H. 1194-9). The keeper of the diary seems to have had close relations with the court of Bone. Various activities are mentioned. B: ff. 38v.-44r. An astronomical, meteorological, and...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Buginese
Date Range:: 1780-5
Extent:: 64 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12363
Title:: Sufi tracts in Bugis
Scope & Content:: Collection of short tracts and formulae, mostly in Buginese, used in Sufi orders (tarīka) in South Celebes, especially in Naksh(i)bandīya circles, in the second half of the 18th century. On f. 13v. it is stated that the foregoing was written in Palopo, 4 Jum. II A.H. 1172 [A.D. 1759]. Kasaba...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Buginese
Date Range:: 1759
Extent:: 90 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12367
Title:: Mystical treatises in Arabic, Makasar and Bugis
Scope & Content:: Collection of mystical treatises, teachings, and sayings of well-known mystics in Arabic, Makasarese, and Buginese. A: ff. 4v.-28r. Ar-Risāla al-mubāraka, by Shaikh Abu'l Fatḥ Abū Yaḥya 'Abd al-Baṣīr aḍ-Ḍarīrī al-Khalwatĩ ar-Raffanī. Finished on a Thursday evening at the beginning of Safar A.H....
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Buginese, and Makasar
Date Range:: Late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:: 193 folios; 1 volume

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