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1. Bijapur 442

Reference (shelfmark):
Bijapur 442
Title:
al-Tuḥfah al-jāmiʿah li-mufradāt al-ṭibb al-nāfiʿah التحفة الجاميعة لمفردات الطب النافعة ‘Āmirī, Yaḥyā ibn Abī Bakr عامري، يحيى ابن أبي بكر
Scope & Content:
Treatise on medicine by Yaḥyā ibn Abī Bakr ibn Yaḥyá al-ʿĀmirī (يحيى ابن أبي بكر بن يحيى العامري, d. 893/1488). Contrary to what is suggested by the title, the treatise deals not only with materia medica (covered in the introduction), but also with diagnosis and therapy. On the title page (f. 1...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
21 Shawwāl 1058
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+47+iii

2. Delhi Arabic 1941

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1941
Title:
Dustūr al-ʿajāʾib دستور العجائب Anṭākī, Dāwūd ibn ʿUmar أنطاكي، داوود بن عمر
Scope & Content:
A treatise on medicine preceded by a number of sections dealing with the various subjects which should be included in the physician's education. The title appears at f. 3r, line 3. The author's name does not appear but he can be identified as Dā’ūd ibn ‘Umar al-Qaṣīr al-Anṭākī (داوود بن عمر القص...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. vii+320+iv

3. Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 197v-199r

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 197v-199r
Title:
al-Taʻlīq al-zāʼid ʻalā kitāb al-aḥjār al-ṣaghīr التعليق الزائد على كتاب الأحجار الصغير
Scope & Content:
Unattributed collection of magico-medical prescriptions said to be an 'supplementary appendix to The Small (?) Book of Stones' (التعليق الزائد على كتاب الأحجار الصغير[؟], see Colophon, f. 199r, line 11, transcribed below). 　 Begins (f. 197v, lines 2-3): تعليق إذا كثر بكاء الصبي فخذ طرف أذن قط...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. 197v-199r

4. Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 199r-200r

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 199r-200r
Title:
Bāb nuqila min kitāb ākhar li-Suqraqṭis باب نقل من كتاب آخر لسقرقطس Suqraqṭis سقرقطس
Scope & Content:
Instructions for the making of protective amulets and talismans attributed to the sage Suqraqṭis (سقرقطس, perhaps meant to be Socrates [سقراطس] or Hippocrates [بقراطس]). 　 Begins (ff. 199r, line 13-199v, line 2): ينقش هذه الأسماء على فص ياقوت أو نجادي (؟) أو بلور وهي الأسماء التي دعا بها سلي...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. 199r-200r

5. IO Islamic 854

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 854
Title:
al-Tuḥfah al-saʿdīyah التحفة السعدية Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd قطب الدين الشيرازي، محمود بن مسعود
Scope & Content:
Commentary by Quṭb al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Mas‘ūd al-Shīrāzī (قطب الدين محمود بن مسعود الشيرازي; d. 1310, see f. 2v, line 10 ) on the Colliget (كتاب الكلية), the first book of the Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطب) by Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, d. 1037). Al-Shīrāzī composed the commentary in the context of ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+676+iv

6. IO Islamic 1044

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 1044
Title:
Minhāj al-bayān fīmā yastaʿmiluhū al-insān منهاج البيان فيما يستعمله الإنسان Ibn Jazlah, Yaḥyá ibn ʿĪsá ابن جزلة، يحيى ابن عيسى
Scope & Content:
Alphabetically arranged handbook on pharmacology by Abū ‘Alī Yahyá ibn ‘Īsá (أبو علي يحيى ابن عيسى, d. 1100), known as Ibn Jazlah (ابن جزلة), composed for the Abbasid Caliph al-Muqtadī bi-Amr Allāh (المقتدي بأمر الله, reg. 1075-94). The copy is defective at end; the final folio contains the beg...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+269+iii

7. IO Islamic 1132

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 1132
Title:
Tarwīḥ al-arwāḥ min ʿilal al-ashbāḥ ترويح الأرواح من علل الأشباح Khujandī, Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad خجندي، فخر الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
The introduction, first seven chapters and beginning of the eighth chapter of a large work on diseases and their symptoms, complications and remedies. The identity of the author is somewhat confused; the author names himself in this copy only as Ibn Saʻd al-Dīn (ابن سعد الدين, f. 6r, line 7). C...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+171+ii

8. IO Islamic 1142

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 1142
Title:
Jāmiʿ li-mufradāt al-adwiyah wa-al-aghdhiyah جامع لمفردات الأدوية والأغذية Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ابن البيطار، عبد الله بن أحمد
Scope & Content:
The most influential and important Arabic handbook of materia medica, written by the Andalusian botanist Ḍiyā’ al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad (ضياء الدين أبو محمد عبد الله بن أحمد; d. 1248), known as Ibn al-Bayṭār (ابن البيطار), Chief Herbalist (رئيس العشابين) to the Ayyubid sultan...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
29 Sha‘bān 925
Extent:

Codex; iii+550+iv ff

9. IO Islamic 1296

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 1296
Title:
al-Mu‘ālajah al-buqrāṭīyah المعالجة البقراطية Ṭabarī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad طبري، أحمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Compendium (كناش) of medicine by Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭabarī al-Turunjī (أبو الحسن أحمد بن محمد الطبري الترنجي), personal physician to the Buyid amīr Rukn al-Dawlah (ركن الدولة; reg. 947-76). A table of contents by a hand other than that of the main scribe appears on ff. 1Cr-3v. ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1117-1121
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+661

10. IO Islamic 2171

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 2171
Title:
Baḥr al-jawāhir بحر الجواهر al-Harawī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf الهروي، محمد بن يوسف and Two lists of weights and measures
Scope & Content:
(1) al-Harawī (الهروي), Baḥr al-jawāhir (بحر الجواهر, ff. 1r-365v); (2) Two lists of weights and measures (ff. 366r-368v)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
1096
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+369+i