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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23403, ff 172r-177r
Title:: Risālah fī al-bāh رسالة في الباه Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Treatise on coitus, written at the request of an anonymous nobleman (بعض الأكابر) suffering from impotency, by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1019
Extent:: Ff. 172r-177r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23403, ff 177v-190v
Title:: [Risālah fī ḥujaj al-muthbitīn lil-māḍī mabdāʼan zamānīyan رسالة في حجج المثبتين للماضي مبداءً زمانيًا] Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: A philosophical discussion of the eternity of the world in eleven sections (فصل), ascribed in the present volume the title Risālah fī al-māḍī mabdaʼan zamānīyan (رسالة في الماضي مبداءً زمانيًا, ff. 2r and 177v), by Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1019
Extent:: Ff. 177v-190v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23403, ff 191r-193v
Title:: Risālah fī ithbāt al-Ṣāniʻ رسالة في إثبات الصانع Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Treatise affirming the existence of the Creator, in three chapters (فصول), without introduction, attributed to Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The transcription of the present text together with those p...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Shaʿbān 1019
Extent:: Ff. 191r-193v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23403, ff 194r-199r
Title:: Risālah fī al-ṣalāh رسالة فيالصلاة Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Treatise on prayer in three chapters (فصول), written at the request of a family member, and usually attributed to Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). Doubt is cast on its authenticity by Gutas [Gutas, Dimit...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1019
Extent:: Ff. 194r-199r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23403, ff 199v-201r
Title:: Risālat al-ʻarūs رسالة العروس Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Metaphysical notes on the nature of God as the creator of the universe and of finite things, by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The work is sometimes transmitted as part of a group of texts extant in va...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1019
Extent:: Ff. 199v-201r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23403, ff 201r-217v
Title:: Risālah fī asmāʼ Allāh رسالة في أسماء الله
Scope & Content:: Anonymous commentary on a treatise on the names of God, ascribed the title Risālah fī asmāʼ Allāh in the present volume (رسالة في أسماء الله, ff. 2r and 201r). A passage at the end of the text identifies Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī’s al-Maqṣad al-aqṣá (المقصد الأقصى) as the source for the names discusse...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1019
Extent:: Ff. 201r-217v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23403, ff 218r-223v
Title:: Risālah fī al-ṣalāh رسالة فيالصلاة Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Treatise on prayer in three chapters (فصول), written at the request of a familymember, and usually attributed to Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). Doubt iscast on its authenticity by Gutas [Gutas, Dimitri...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1019
Extent:: Ff. 218r-223v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23403, ff 224r-225r
Title:: Risālah fī wujūd al-jawhar رسالة في وجود الجوهر Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Short treatise demonstrating the existence of the Universal Intellect (العقل الكل), entitled Risālah fī wujūd al-jawhar (f. 224r, line 1), attributed to Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي, d. 1274 [see Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, Ayasofya 4862, ff. ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1019
Extent:: Ff. 224r-225r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23403, ff 225r-226v
Title:: Mukhtaṣar fī qawl al-nafs li-Arisṭū مختصر قول في النفس لأرسطو Aristotle أرسطاطاليس
Scope & Content:: A summary of the seven principles concerning the soul, attributed to Aristotle (أرسطاطاليس, d. 322 BC) While Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا; Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037), author of other works in the present volume, produced both a lost Comm...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1019
Extent:: Ff. 225r-226v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23403, ff 226v-229v
Title:: Mukhtaṣar Kitāb tahdhīb al-akhlāq مختصر من كتاب تهذيب الأخلاق Ibn Miskawayh, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ابن مسكويه، أحمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Abstract of a treatise on ethics with the fuller title Kitāb tahdhīb al-akhlāq wa-taṭhīr al-aʻrāq (مختصر من كتاب تهذيب الأخلاق وتطهير الأعراق), by the philosopher, historian and minister Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn Miskawayh (أحمد بن محمد بن مسكويه, d. 1030).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1019
Extent:: Ff. 226v-229v

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