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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Language Arabic Name Aristotle, philosopher, 384 BC-322 BC

1. Add MS 7511

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Add MS 7511
Title:
Kitāb fī ma‘rifat ṭabā’i‘ al-ḥayawān al-barrī wa-al-baḥrī كتاب في معرفة طبائع الحيوان البري والبحري Aristotle أرسطاطاليس
Scope & Content:
This Arabic work on zoology is in fact a compilation of translations of three treatises by Aristotle (384-322 BC). The Arabic text is arranged into 19 books (أقوال), which divide the Aristotelian treatises as follows: Books 1-10 (Historia animalium), Books 11-14 (De partibus animalium), and Book...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13th-14th century
Extent:
Codex; ff. iv+232+iii

2. Add MS 23403, ff 225r-226v

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Add MS 23403, ff 225r-226v
Title:
Mukhtaṣar fī qawl al-nafs li-Arisṭū مختصر قول في النفس لأرسطو Aristotle أرسطاطاليس
Scope & Content:
A summary of the seven principles concerning the soul, attributed to Aristotle (أرسطاطاليس, d. 322 BC) While Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا; Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037), author of other works in the present volume, produced both a lost Comm...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1019
Extent:
Ff. 225r-226v

3. Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 1v-21r

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 1v-21r
Title:
Kitāb al-Isṭimākhīs كتاب الإسطماخيس Aristotle أرسطاطاليس
Scope & Content:
Text on the making and use of talismans. The text is said to have been taken from Hermes (هرمس) and recorded by Aristotle (أرسطاطاليس, d. 322 BC) for his pupil Alexander the Great (الإسكندر, d. 323 BC) while he was planning his expedition to the east, during the fourth year of his reign (see f. ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. 1v-21r

4. Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 21v-32r

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 21v-32r
Title:
Kitāb istijlāb rūḥānīyat al-bahāʼim kullihā كتاب استجلاب روحانية البهائم كلها Aristotle أرسطاطاليس
Scope & Content:
Treatise on attracting the spiritual beings (روحانيات) of animals taken from Hermes (هرمس) and recorded by Aristotle (أرسطاطاليس, d. 322 BC). The introduction to the text gives it the alternative title al-Madhāṭīs (المذاطيس, see f. 21v, line 3, transcribed below), while the colophon suggests tha...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. 21v-32r

5. Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 32v-52v

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Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 32v-52v
Title:
Extract from Kitāb al-Iṣṭimāṭīs من كتاب الإصطماطيس Aristotle أرسطاطاليس
Scope & Content:
Text on the making and use of talismans said to have been taken from Hermes (هرمس) and recorded by Aristotle (أرسطاطاليس, d. 322 BC) for his pupil Alexander the Great (الإسكندر, d. 323 BC). 　 Begins (f. 32v, lines 2-8): من كتاب الإصطماطيس الذي وضعه هرمس في علل الروحانيات والمقسوم من الأقاليم...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. 32v-52v

6. Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 85v-92v

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Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 85v-92v
Title:
Faṣl min kitāb al-Ashnūṭās فصل من كتاب الأشنوطاس Aristotle أرسطاطاليس
Scope & Content:
Text on the making and use of talismans said to have been taken from Hermes (هرمس) and recorded by Aristotle (أرسطاطاليس, d. 322 BC). A marginal note (حاشية) by a hand other than that of the main scribe in the edge margin of f. 88r claims that the adjacent text and similar material is found in ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. 85v-92v

7. Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 126r-197r

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 126r-197r
Title:
al-Kitāb al-majmūʻ fī khawāṣṣ al-aḥjār الكتاب المجموع في خواص الأحجار Aristotle أرسطاطاليس
Scope & Content:
Collection of five texts on the occult properties (خواصّ) of stones and other natural substances attributed to Hermes (هرمس), Aristotle (أرسطاطاليس, d. 322 BC) and other sages. Contents: (1) Book on the Knowledge of Stones, their Occult Properties and Inscriptions (كتاب معرفة الحجارة وخاصيتها ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. 126r-197r

8. Or 2784

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Or 2784
Title:
Kitāb na‘t al-ḥayawān كتاب نعت الحيوان
Scope & Content:
Bestiary describing the characteristics and medical uses of a large number of animals. The anonymous compiler of the work (see f. 95r) claims it is based on writings by Aristotle (أرسطاطاليس; d. 322 BC) and Abū Sa‘īd ‘Ubayd Allāh ibn Jibrā’īl ibn ‘Ubayd Allāh ibn Bakhtīshū‘ ibn Jibrā’īl ibn Bakh...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+258+iii

9. Or 5591, ff 3r-18r

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Or 5591, ff 3r-18r
Title:
al-Kitāb fīhi manāzil al-qamar wa-mā fīhā min al-ikhtīyārāt wa-al-aʻmāl wa-dhālika min qawl Hirmis al-ḥakīm wa-ghayrih الكتاب فيه منازل القمر وما فيها من الاختيارات والأعمال وذلك من قول هرمس الحكيم وغيره Aristotle أرسطاطاليس
Scope & Content:
Treatise on astral elections, or choosing propitious times to begin various actions, judging by the stations of the Moon. The treatise belongs to the genre of Islamicate occult scientific literature known as the pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica, which takes its name from the fact that it is made u...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
0867
Extent:

Ff. 3r-18r

10. Or 5591, ff 68v-89r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5591, ff 68v-89r
Title:
Kitāb al-ḥukm ʻinda ṭulūʻ al-shiʻrá كتاب الحكم عند طلوع الشعرى Hermes هرمس
Scope & Content:
Handbook on making astrological judgments based on the rising of Sirius (الشعرى). As with the first item (ff. 3r-18r) in the present manuscript, this text belongs to the genre of Islamicate occult scientific literature known as the pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica, which takes its name from the f...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
0867
Extent:

Ff. 68v-89r