Dustūr al-ʿajāʾib دستور العجائب Anṭākī, Dāwūd ibn ʿUmar أنطاكي، داوود بن عمر
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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 of texts on talisman making and related occult sciences
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Eleven texts on talisman making, the occult properties of stones and other natural substances, amulet engraving and related subjects. The first five items in the manuscript form parts of the cycle of texts known as the pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica, which purport to contain the occult knowledge...