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531. Add MS 88942/1/137

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Add MS 88942/1/137
Title:
Talbot: Notebook (''Miscellanea Assyria Vol. III'')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes on Assyrian cuneiform text and continues the previous notebook. Talbot tries to find out which elements he can compare with other languages. In the notebook he gives up Greek and Latin for the comparison and works on Semitic languages while refering to Gesen''s Semiot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Arabic, Hebrew, and Syriac
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 notebook (46 folios, 93 pages of text)

532. Add MS 88942/1/141

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Add MS 88942/1/141
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Miscellanea Assyrica')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes on Greek and Assyrian cuneiform text discussing individual Assyrian words and their meaning. It includes a few notes in Arabic, references to Hebrew and to mythology. The inside back cover lists an index of words. Notebook started: Millburn Tower, [Edinburgh], 10 Nov...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Arabic, English, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1862-[1863]
Extent:
1 notebook (32 folios, 65 pages of text)

533. Add MS 89463/1/2

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Add MS 89463/1/2
Title:
Papers relating to service with the Egyptian Army in Sudan
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to Henry de Coëtlogon's role in Sudan. These include: - documents relating to de Coëtlogon's military promotions during and following his service in the Sudan, including his appointment as Kaimakarn, Qaim-Maqam (Governor General) of Sudan, Mirliwa' (Major General) - mostly wri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1883-1887
Extent:
1 folder

534. Add MS 89684/2/1

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Add MS 89684/2/1
Title:
Family press cuttings
Scope & Content:
Press cuttings relating to the Quilliam family, featuring cuttings from the Crescent (1893-1908), an Islamic newspaper, and the Porcupine, a satirical magazine. Both publications were edited by Abdullah Quilliam. Includes: One photocopy of a cutting, undated, probably 1874. The funeral of Samuel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
[1874]-2 Aug 2003
Extent:
1 folder

535. Arundel Or 10, ff 4v-9v

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Arundel Or 10, ff 4v-9v
Title:
Refutation of an anonymous poem excusing disbelief in God Ibn Taymīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm ابن تيمية، أحمد بن عبد الحليم
Scope & Content:
The text begins with eight lines of a poem in which the anonymous poet tries to excuse his disbelief in God (f. 4v, lines 2-9), and continues with a refutation of the poet's points by the theologian Taqī al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm ibn Taymīyah (تقي الدين أحمد بن عبد الحليم بن تيمية; AD 1263-...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
711-712
Extent:
ff. 4v-9v

536. Arundel Or 10, ff 10r-27v

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Arundel Or 10, ff 10r-27v
Title:
Fragment of an anonymous text on domestic economy Anonymous
Scope & Content:
This text on domestic economy and commerce is defective at both the beginning and the end, and begins abruptly with a discussion of the positive and negative aspects of money (or property more generally, Ar. مال) and royal patronage. It continues with five sections, the first three of which are ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
711-712
Extent:
ff. 10r-27v

537. Arundel Or 10, ff 28r-55r

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Arundel Or 10, ff 28r-55r
Title:
Isagoge كتاب إيساغوجي Galen جالينوس Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī حنين بن إسحق العبادي
Scope & Content:
An Arabic translation in question-and-answer format of the Ars medica (Τέχνη ἰατρική) by Galen of Pergamon (جالينوس ; d. ca 216). The Arabic title إيساغوجي (Īsāghūjī) transcribes the the Greek word εἰσαγωγή (eisagōgē), meaning ‘introduction’. The Arabic version was begun by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
711-712
Extent:
ff. 28r-55r

538. Arundel Or 10, ff 55v-82r

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Arundel Or 10, ff 55v-82r
Title:
al-Rawḍah al-ṭibbīyah الروضة الطبي Anonymous
Scope & Content:
An anonymous list of definitions of fifty philosophical terms useful for physicians. The text is defective at the end, and contains only forty-eight definitions. The author states that he has abridged his definitions from the practical section (al-juz’ al-‘ilmī) of a work called Tadhkarat al-ḥāḍ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
711-712
Extent:
ff. 55v-82r

539. Arundel Or 10, ff 82r-104v

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel Or 10, ff 82r-104v
Title:
Mukhtaṣar fī ‘ilm al-uṣūl مختصر في علم الأصول Anonymous
Scope & Content:
An anonymous compendium of questions and answers concerning metaphysics (علم الأصول, lit. ‘the science of principles’). The text, as preserved here, is divided into four chapters (أبواب): الباب الأول في المباحث المتعلقة بالعلم والنظر (‘Chapter 1: Studies related to knowledge and theory’; ff. 82v...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
711-712
Extent:
ff. 82r-104v

540. Arundel Or 10, ff 105v-108v

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel Or 10, ff 105v-108v
Title:
Untitled work on the virtues and uses of the letters Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥarālī أبو الحسن الحرالي
Scope & Content:
A short, untitled treatise on the properties and uses of the letters and associated magical practices. The treatise is attributed to Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥarālī, who may be identical with the author of works on astronomical instruments Abū al-Ḥasan (or al-Ḥasan ibn) ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Marrākūshī (d. c...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
711-712
Extent:
ff. 105v-108v (foliation reversed)

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