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1. Add MS 5934

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Add MS 5934
Title:
Minhāj al-bayān fīmā yastaʿmiluhū al-insān منهاج البيان فيما يستعمله الإنسان Ibn Jazlah, Yaḥyá ibn ʿĪsá ابن جزلة، يحيى بن عيسى
Scope & Content:
Alphabetically arranged handbook on pharmacology by Abū ‘Alī Yahyá ibn ‘Īsá (أبو علي يحيى بن عيسى), known as Ibn Jazlah (ابن جزلة; d. 493/1100), composed for the Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadī bi-Amr Allāh (المقتدي بأمر الله; reg. 1075-94, see f. 1v, line 11). The manuscript was collected by the Sco...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+221+iv

2. Add MS 7556, ff 89r-92v

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Add MS 7556, ff 89r-92v
Title:
al-Urjūzah fī al-mujarrabāt الأرجوزة في المجربات Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:
Didactic poem (أرجوزة) on tested prescriptions (مجربات) by Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). Begins (f. 89r, lines 7-9): بدأت بسم الله في نظم حسن أذكر ما جربته طول الزمن ما هو بالطبع وبالخواص لكل عام ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. 89r-92v

3. Add MS 19619

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Add MS 19619
Title:
A collection of Arabic and Persian texts on medicine and pharmacology
Scope & Content:
A collection of Persian and Arabic texts on medicine and pharmacology. The colophon to the first text in the volume (ff. 3r-128r) records that it was transcribed by an un-named scribe on 21 Jumādá II 1103/10 March 1692 (f. 128r, lines 7-15). Contents: (1) Qāz̤ī ibn Muḥammad Yazdī (قاضي بن محمد ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
Jumādá II 1103
Extent:
Codex; ff. ii+310+ii

4. Add MS 23560

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Add MS 23560
Title:
A compendium of medical texts in Arabic and Persian
Scope & Content:
Four texts in Arabic and one in Persian on medicine and pharmacology. Colophons to the first three texts in the volume bear dates between Ramaḍān and Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1099/July-October 1688. Contents: (1) ʽImād al-Dīn Shīrāzī (عماد الدين شيرازي), Risālah-i yanbūʿ (رساله ينبوع, ff. 2v-98r); (2) ʽImā...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
1099
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+311+iii

5. Add MS 23604

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Add MS 23604
Title:
Kitāb sumūm wa-tiryāqāt كتاب السموم والترياقات Ibn Waḥshīyah, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn أحمد بن الحسين، ابن وحشية
Scope & Content:
Treatise on poisons, theriacs and antidotes composed by Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ‘Alī ibn Qays al-Kasdānī (أبو بكر أحمد بن علي بن قيس الكسداني), known as Ibn Waḥshiyah (ابن وحشية; fl. first half of the 10th century), then dictated to Abū Ṭālib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Alī ibn Aḥmad al-Zayyāt (أبو طالب...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
25 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 919
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+108+iii

6. IO Islamic 1044

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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. Or 2601, ff 1r-38v

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Or 2601, ff 1r-38v
Title:
Kitāb fīhī ajzā’ min Minhāj al-ṭibb كتاب فيه أجزاء من منهاج الطب
Scope & Content:
Extracts concerning pharmacology from the Minhāj al-bayān fīmā yastaʿmiluhū al-insān (منهاج البيان فيما يستعمله الإنسان) by Abū ‘Alī Yahyá ibn ‘Īsá (أبو علي يحيى ابن عيسى), known as Ibn Jazlah (ابن جزلة; d. 493/1100) and from the Pandects or Kunnāsh (كناش), called here the Nushat al-bīmāristān (...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

Ff. 1r-38v

8. Or 3131

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Or 3131
Title:
Jāmiʿ li-quwá al-adwiyah wa-al-aghdhiyah جامع لقوى الأدوية والأغذية Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ابن البيطار، عبد الله بن أحمد
Scope & Content:
Part (جزء) one (containing entries in letters ا through ز) of 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 البيط...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
15 Shawwāl 852
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+310+iii

9. Or 5786

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Or 5786
Title:
Minhāj al-dukkān wa-dustūr al-a‘yān منهاج الدكّان ودستور الأعيان al-Kūhīn al-ʻAṭṭār, Abū al-Munā ibn Abī Nāṣr الكوهين العطار، أبو المنى ابن أبي نصر and other anonymous treatises on pharmacology and ophthalmology
Scope & Content:
A collection of texts on pharmacology and ophthalmology transcribed in 715 AH/AD 1315-16 (see colophon of third item, f. 139v, lines 11). Contents: (1) al-Kūhīn al-ʻAṭṭār (الكوهين العطار), Minhāj al-dukkān wa-dustūr al-a‘yān (منهاج الدكّان ودستور الأعيان) (ff. 1v-95v); (2) Fragments of texts...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
715
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+139+i

10. Or 6273, ff 2v-90v

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Or 6273, ff 2v-90v
Title:
Kitāb Qarābādhīn كتاب قراباذين Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī نجيب الدين السمرقندي، محمد بن علي
Scope & Content:
Pharmacopeia by Najīb al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Samarqandī (نجيب الدين أبو حامد محمد بن علي بن عمر السمرقندي, d. 1222). The main text is preceded by a table of contents (ff. 2v-3r). 　 Begins (f. 3v, lines 11-16): هذا كتاب قراباذين نجيب الدين السمرقندي مؤلف كتاب الأسباب ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 2v-90v