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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23418/15
Title:: Sirāj al-ḥikmah fī tadbīr al-karīm
Scope & Content:: Author: Barmakī, Yaḥyá ibn Abī Bakr Subject: Islam and science
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1237
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23418/16
Title:: Risālah al-shams ilá al-hilāl (lawāmiʿ al-afkār al-muḍīʾah)
Scope & Content:: Author: Jildakī, Aydamur ibn ʿAlī Subject: Islam and science
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1237
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23419
Title:: Three texts on alchemy and cookery
Scope & Content:: Three texts on alchemy and cookery. The volume was purchased from Rosa, the widow of Colonel Robert Taylor (1788-1852), Political Resident in Baghdad (1828-43). The three texts were copied in 1215/1800-01 by an un-named scribe. The second text in the volume was the first to be copied, as testif...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Shaʻbān-Shawwāl 1215
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+280+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23419/1
Title:: Kashf al-asrār fī hatk al-astār
Scope & Content:: Author: Iznīqī, ʻAlī, active 15th century VIAF ID: 49012113 Subject: Islam and science
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1215
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23419/2
Title:: Kitāb al-khawāṣṣ al-kubrá (kAbīr)
Scope & Content:: Author: Jābir ibn Ḥayyān VIAF ID: 3268479 Subject: Islam and science
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1215
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23419/3
Title:: al-Wuṣlah (waṣīlah) ilá al-ḥAbīb fī waṣf al-tayyibāt wa-al-ṭīb
Scope & Content:: Author: Ibn al-ʿAdīm, Kamāl al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad, 1192-1262 VIAF ID: 10028380 Subject: Agriculture--Early works to 1800
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1215
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23419, ff 2v-89v
Title:: Kashf al-asrār fī hatk al-astār كشف الأسرار في هتك الأستار Iznīqī, ʻAlī Bak إزنيقي، علي بك
Scope & Content:: A work on alchemy, in an introduction (مقدمة), five sections (أقسام), and a conclusion (خاتمة) attributed to the semi-legendary figure ʻAlī Bak al-Iznīqī (علي بك الإزنيقي, d. 1609), also known as ʻAlī Çelebī ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn al-Ṣarūkhānī (علي جلبي علاء الدين الصروخاني). The copy was completed on 19...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19 Ramaḍān 1215
Extent:: Ff. 2v-89v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23419, ff 90v-233v
Title:: Kitāb al-khawāṣṣ al-kabīr كتاب الخواص الكبير Jābir ibn Ḥayyān جابر بن حيان
Scope & Content:: Complete copy of a treatise attributed to the alchemist Abū Mūsá Jābir ibn Ḥayyān (أبو موسى جابر بن حيان), concerning the occult properties (خواصّ) of animals, plants and stones, chemistry and other related subjects. The copy was completed on 1 Shaʻbān 1215/18 December 1800 by an un-named scribe...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1 Shaʻbān 1215
Extent:: Ff. 90v-233v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23419, ff 234r-280r
Title:: Extracts from al-Wuṣlah ilá al-ḥabīb fī waṣf al-tayyibāt wa-al-ṭīb ملتقط من الوصلة إلى الحبيب في وصف الطيبات والطيب Ibn al-ʻAdīm, Kamāl al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad ابن العديم، كمال الدين عمر بن أحمد
Scope & Content:: Excerpts (ملتقط) from chapters 2-10 of an important culinary treatise entitled Letter to the beloved on the description of delicacies and perfumes (الوصلة إلى الحبيب في وصف الطيبات والطيب). The copy was completed in Shawwāl 1215 (see colophon, f. 280r, transcribed below) by an un-named scribe. ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Shawwāl 1215
Extent:: Ff. 234r-280r

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