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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23398, ff 66v-86r
Title:: al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī ‘ilm al-hay’ah al-basīṭah الملخص في علم الهيئة البسيطة Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Jaghmīnī محمود بن محمد الجغميني
Scope & Content:: Popular elementary textbook of astronomy by Sharaf al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn ‘Umar al-Jaghmīnī al-Khwārizmī (شرف الدين محمود بن محمد بن عمر الجغميني الخوارزمي; fl. early 13th century). The text contains the following diagrams: (1) The cosmos (f. 67r); (2) The spheres of the Sun, the stars,...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Ff. 66v-86r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23403
Title:: 23 treatises on philosophy and science, most by Ibn Sīnā
Scope & Content:: Acollection of twenty-three works on various philosophical, metaphysical, andmedical topics, mostly 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). Accordingto a colophon at the end of the fifteenth text in the vol...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Shaʻbān 1019
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+247+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23403, ff 4v-8v
Title:: Tadhkirah li-Ibn Sīnā تذكرة لابن سينا Jūzjānī, ʻAbd al-Wāḥid جوزجاني، عبد الواحد
Scope & Content:: Biography 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), with a list of his works (ff. 6r-7v). The text is a paraphrased version of the widely-circulated autobiography by Ibn Sīnā, completed by his pupil ʻAbd al-...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1019
Extent:: Ff. 4v-8v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23403, ff 9r-42r
Title:: [Risālat al-maʿād al-aṣghar رسالة المعاد الأصغر] Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: A treatise in 16 chapters (فصل) on the future of the human soul, by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The text is ascribed in the present volume the alternative title [Risālah] fī al-nafs al-nāṭiqah (رسال...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1019
Extent:: Ff. 9r-42r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23403, ff 42v-53v
Title:: Risālah fī al-ḥikmah رسالة في الحكمة Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Notes, lacking introduction, title or author’s name, divided into many short sections (فصول) that discuss various philosophical topics, by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). Ascribed in the present volume...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1019
Extent:: Ff. 42v-53v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23403, ff 54r-60v
Title:: Risālah fī hifẓ al-ṣiḥḥah رسالة في حفظ الصحة Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Treatise on hygiene, in thirteen chapters (باب), by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The content is apparently extracted from the author's al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (see Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manu...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1019
Extent:: Ff. 54r-60v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23403, ff 61r-106r
Title:: Risālah fī al-ʻilm wa-al-nuṭq رسالة في العلم والنطق
Scope & Content:: Philosophical treatise in two parts (قسم), discussing the human faculties of understanding (علم) and articulation (نطق). The first page of the present copy (f. 61r) is heavily annotated. Begins (f. 61r, lines 3-6): ...وبعد فإن عزيمتنا في هذه الرسالة مقصورة على ذكر حال الحالتين الخاصتين بنوع ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1019
Extent:: Ff. 61r-106r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23403, ff 106v-118r
Title:: [al-Ishārah ilá ʻilm fasād aḥkām al-nujūm الإشارة إلى علم فساد أحكام النجوم] Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Polemical treatise attacking the false premises of astrology, by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037), ascribed in the present volume the title Risālah fī ibṭāl aḥkām al-nujūm (رسالة في إبطال أحكام النجوم, ff...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1019
Extent:: Ff. 106v-118r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23403, ff 118v-127v
Title:: Risālah fī al-insān mā huwa رسالة في الإنسان ما هو
Scope & Content:: Anonymous metaphysical treatise on the essential nature of humankind, ascribed in the present volume the title [Risālah] fī al-insān mā huwa ([رسالة في الإنسان ما هو]). A deleted note (f. 118v, head margin) identifies the text as Kitāb al-Fuṣūṣ, attributing it to ‘the second master’ (المعلم الثا...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1019
Extent:: Ff. 118v-127v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23403, ff 128r-133r
Title:: [Risālah fī ʿillat qiyām al-arḍ fī ḥayyizihā رسالة في علة قيام الأرض في حيزها] Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: A treatise in ten chapters (فصول), by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037), discussing the causes of the Earth’s remaining in its position in the middle of the heavens. In the introduction, the author states...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1019
Extent:: Ff. 128r-133r

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