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Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel Or 10, ff 109r-123r
Title:: al-Maqālah al-Amīnīyah fī faṣad al-‘urūq المقالة الأمينية في فصد العروق Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: This treatise on venesection (i.e. bloodletting; فصد) is usually attributed to Abū al-Ḥasan Hibat Allāh ibn al-Tilmīdh (أبو الحسن هبة الله بن التلميذو, d. 594 AH/AD 1154 or 560 AH/AD 1165), and the word Amīnīyah (‘of Amīn’) is taken to refer to Ibn al-Tilmidh’s laqab, Amīn al-Dawlah. The treatis...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 711-712
Extent:: ff. 109r-123r

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel Or 10, ff 124r-174r
Title:: Maqālat al-ḥudūd wa-al-furūq مقالة الحدود والفروق Sa‘īd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Hasan سعيد بن هبة الله بن الحسن
Scope & Content:: A treatise in which technical terms relating to philosophy and theoretical medicine are defined. The author's name is usually given as Abū al-Ḥasan Sa‘īd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn (أبو الحسن سعيد بن هبة الله بن الحسين, d. 1101). The text was copied in late Sha‘bān 711/early January 1312. T...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 711-712
Extent:: ff. 124r-174r

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel Or 14
Title:: al-Ḥāwī fī al-ṭibb الحاوي في الطب Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā رازي، أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا
Scope & Content:: Parts (أجزاء) eight, nine, and ten of the Kitāb al-Ḥāwī (كتاب الحاوي, Liber continens), an encyclopaedic medical compendium by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرأزي; d. ca 925). The volume comprises two separate codicological units (manuscripts): Parts Eight and...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 14th and 15th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+415+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel Or 14, ff 1r-274v
Title:: al-Juz’ al-thāmin wa-al-juz’ al-tāsi‘ min al-ḥāwī fī al-ṭibb الجزء الثامن والجزء التاسع من الحاوي في الطب Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā رازي، أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا
Scope & Content:: Parts Eight and Nine (الجزء الثامن والجزء التاسع) of the Kitāb al-Ḥāwī (كتاب الحاوي, Liber continens), an encyclopaedic medical compendium by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرأزي; d. ca 925). The title page (f. 3r) gives the following title: الجزء الثامن من كتاب...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: c 711
Extent:: Ff. 1r-274v

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel Or 14, ff 275r-415v
Title:: al-Juz’ al-‘āshir min kitāb al-ḥāwī fī al-ṭibb الجزء العاشر من كتاب الحاوي في الطب Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā رازي، أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا
Scope & Content:: Part Ten (الجزء العاشر) of the Kitāb al-Ḥāwī (كتاب الحاوي, Liber continens), an encyclopaedic medical compendium by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرأزي; d. ca 925). Begins (f. 275, lines 2-6): فيما يسهل الولاد ويطرح الجنين والمشيمة ويمنع من الحبل وتدبير النفسا...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Ff. 275r-415v

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel Or 15
Title:: Psalms, Odes, Prayers
Scope & Content:: This volume consists of a beautifully illuminated Mamluk codex. It contains a carefully copied translation of the Psalms and related texts into Arabic as well as a guide how to approach them. In a lengthy introduction, the Psalms are contextualized both in historical (Biblical) time and within t...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Coptic
Date Range:: 13th century -16th century
Extent:: Codex, fols. 332

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel Or 17
Title:: كتاب اختصار الستة عشر لجالينوس تلخيص يحيى النحوي Kitāb ikhtiṣār al-sittat ‘ashr li-Jālīnūs talkhīṣYahyá al-Naḥwī
Scope & Content:: Epitome of the Sixteen Books of Galen, treatises by Galen for beginners selected to form the primary medical curriculum in late-antique Alexandria. The title page (f. 2) reads: كتاب اختصار الست عشر لجالينوس تلخيص يحيى النحوي ('Epitome of the Sixteen Books by Galen summarised by Yaḥyá the grammar...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 615
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii.141.iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel Or 19
Title:: Bible
Scope & Content:: This volumes contains the Gospels, Acts, the Pauline Epistles according to the Egyptian Vulgate (Syr.3), the Catholic Epistles, 151 Psalms according to Ibn al-Fadl’s version, and ten biblical Odes. Contents: Matthew, fols. 1v–42v Mark, fols. 43r–69r Luke, fols. 69v–115v John, fols. 116r–15...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1616
Extent:: Codex, 419 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel Or 20
Title:: Gospels
Scope & Content:: This volume contains an Arabic translation of the Gospels, according to the so-called Alexandrian Vulgate. The introduction is by Simʿān ibn Kalīl, (ca. 1150–1240 CE) structured according to the seven isagogic questions. Contents : Introduction (beginning is missing), fols. 1r–3v Eusebian can...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Syriac
Date Range:: 1280
Extent:: Codex, 154 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel Or 23
Title:: Kitāb al-ʿaqāʾiq fī ishārāt al-daqāʾiq wa-jawāhir al-ḥaqāʾiq ilkh
Scope & Content:: Author: Maʿarrī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Marwān Subject: Islamic Empire--Biography--Early works to 1800
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1004
Extent:: 1 item

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