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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 12273-12401
Title:: Collection of Oriental Manuscripts purchased from John Crawford, Esq., author of the " History of the Indian Archipelago," and obtained by him during his official residence in Java, etc., in 1811-15.
Scope & Content:: Javanese MSS: Collection by John Crawfurd, Esq.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Buginese, English, Javanese, Malay, and Persian
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 133 items

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 12345-12375
Title:: 31 volumes in the Bugis and Arabic languages, captured in 1814, in the palace of the Rajah of Boni, in the island of Celebes
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Buginese, English, and Javanese
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 31 items

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