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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 16v-24v
Title:: Sharḥ risālat Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān شرح رسالة حي بن يقظان Ibn Zaylah ابن زيلة
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Abū Manṣūr al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṭāhir ibn Zaylah (أبو منصور الحسين بن طاهر بن زيلة, d. 1048) on the Epistle of Alive Son of Awake (رسالة حي بن يقظان), a philosophical allegory by his teacher Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latin...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 16v-24v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 25v-34v
Title:: Risālah aḍḥawīyah fī amr al-maʿād رسالة أضحوية في أمر المعاد Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Treatise on eschatology in seven parts (فصول) by Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The colophon states that the copy was completed in 1182/1768-9 (f. 34v, line 29). 　 Colophon (f. 34v, line 29): تمت ك...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 25v-34v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 35r-100v
Title:: Kitāb al-najāh كتاب النجاة Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Treatise on logic, physics and metaphysics by Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). 　 Contents: Chapter One from the Elements of Logic (المقالة الأولى من أصول المنطق, ff. 35v-51v); Chapter One from the Phys...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 35v-100v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 141r-200v
Title:: Taʻlīqāt تعليقات Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Notes (تعليقات) on philosophical subjects by Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 141r-200v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 201r-228v
Title:: [al-Mubāḥathāt المباحثات] Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Questions on metaphysical topics posed by Abū al-Ḥasan Bahmanyār ibn al-Marzubān (أبو الحسن بهمنيار بن المرزبان, d. 1066) and answered by his teacher Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The manuscript gives...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 201r-228v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 235v-258r
Title:: Risālat Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān رسالة حي بن يقظان Ibn Ṭufayl, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ابن طفيل، محمد بن عبد الملك
Scope & Content:: Philosophical novel by the Andalusian physician, astronomer and philosopher Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭufayl al-Qaysī (أبو بكر محمد بن عبد الملك بن محمد بن طفيل القيسي, d. 1185).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 235v-258r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 342v-345r
Title:: Risālat taqsīm al-ʿulūm رسالة تقسيم العلوم Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the classification of sciences 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). Compare text 52, below (ff. 572r-574v).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 342v-345r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 346r-368v
Title:: Ṭarīqat Ibn Sīnā min Kitāb al-milal wa-al-niḥal طريقة ابن سينا من كتاب الملل والنحل Shahrastānī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm شهرستاني، محمد بن عبد الكريم
Scope & Content:: Outline of the doctrines of Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037) extracted from the Book of the Religions and Sects (كتاب الملل والنحل) by Tāj al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Aḥmad al-Shahra...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 346r-368v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 368v-369v
Title:: Risālah fī dhikr asbāb al-raʿd wa-al-barq رسالة في ذكر أسباب الرعد والبرق Theophrastus ثيوفراسط
Scope & Content:: Extract on the causes of thunder and lightning from the work on meteorology by Theophrastus (Θεόφραστος, ثيوفراسط, d. ca 287 BC) commonly, as here, misattributed to Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037, see Gu...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 368v-369v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 369v-370r
Title:: [Answer to a question on a Sufi saying] Anonymous
Scope & Content:: Answer to a question posed by an anonymous individual 'on the meaning of the Sufi saying "he who knows the secret of predestination has become an apostate"' (عن معنى قول الصوفية من عرف سر القدر ألحد, f. 369v, lines 14-15) falsely attributed to Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 369v-370r

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