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2511. Or 2601, ff 79r-88v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2601, ff 79r-88v
Title:
Ḥikāyat Zayn al-Mawāṣif wa-mā jarā lahā ma‘a Masrūr al-ʿaṭṭār حكاية زين المواصف وما جرا لها مع مسرور العطار
Scope & Content:
Fragment of the 'Tale of Zayn al-Mawāṣif and Masrūr the Druggist'. The tale is found in The 1001 Nights (ألف ليلة وليلة; see Macnaghten edition, also known as Calcutta II, vol. 4, pp. 190-246), but appears here without the frame-narrative. The narrator of the tale is referred to simply as the st...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

Ff. 79r-88v

2512. Or 2784

Reference (shelfmark):
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

2513. Or 2805

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2805
Title:
Two medical treatises
Scope & Content:
Composite manuscript comprising two codicological units. Contents: (1) al-Qalānisī (القلانسي), Qarābādīn (aqrābādhīn) (قرابادين [أقراباذين]; ff. 1v-110v); (2) Ibn Hubal (ابن هبل), al-Mukhtār fī al-ṭibb (المختار في الطب; ff. 111r-282r).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
976-988
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+282+iv

2514. Or 2805, ff 1v-110v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2805, ff 1v-110v
Title:
Qarābādīn (aqrābādhīn) قرابادين (أقراباذين) Qalānisī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad قلانسي، بدر الدين محمد
Scope & Content:
Formulary or pharmacopoeia by Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Bahrām ibn Muḥammad al-Qalānisī al-Samarqandī (بدر الدين محمد بن بهرام بن محمد القلانسي السمرقندي, fl. 1194) divided into forty-nine chapters (باب). The chapters are listed with their titles in the preface (f. 2r-2v). The copy was completed...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1 Jumādá II 988
Extent:

Ff. 1v-110v

2515. Or 2805, ff 111r-282r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2805, ff 111r-282r
Title:
al-Mukhtār fī al-ṭibb المختار في الطب Ibn Hubal, ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ابن هبل، علي بن أحمحد
Scope & Content:
Volume Two (المجلد الثاني; see colophon, f. 282r, lines 14, transcribed below) of a comprehensive encyclopaedia of medicine in four volumes by Muhadhdhab al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Hubal al-Baghdādī (مهذب الدين أبو الحسن علي بن أحمد بن علي بن هبل البغدادي, d. 1213). The tex...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
8 Ramadan 976
Extent:

Ff. 111v-282r

2516. Or 2920

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2920
Title:
Nautical almanac
Scope & Content:
Nautical almanac containing tables, diagrams and short texts useful for navigation in the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, and Red Sea. A concise overview of the navigational methods discussed, without reference to this manuscript, can be found in Yacoub Yusuf al-Hijji, 'Arab Navigational Methods aft...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1260
Extent:
Codex; ff. ii+17+i+60+ix+1+i+21+vi+2+iv+23+i+1+i

2517. Or 3129

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 3129
Title:
Tuḥfat al-ṭullāb fī sharḥ nuzhat al-ḥussāb تحفة الطلاب في شرح نزهة الحسّاب Ibn Imām al-Naḥḥāsīyah, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad إمام النحّاسية، محمد بن أحمد
Scope & Content:
A commentary on the Nuzhat al-ḥussāb fī ‘ilm al-ḥisāb (نزهة الحُسّاب في علم الحِساب; see f. 1v, line 21), a treatise on arithmetic and ḥisāb al-ghubār, or calculation by means of a dust covered board (تخت), by Shihāb al-Dīn Abū ‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ‘Imād al-Qarāfī, known as Ibn al-Hā’im...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+100+ii

2518. Or 3131

Reference (shelfmark):
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

2519. Or 3134

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 3134
Title:
al-Wāḍiḥ fī al-ramy wa-al-nushshāb الواضح في الرمي والنشاب al-Ṭabarī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad طبري، عبد الرحمن ابن أحمد
Scope & Content:
A copy of a practical treatise on archery, very popular especially in the Mamluk period, by Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭabarī (أبو محمد عبد الرحمن بن أحمد الطبري, active ca 9th century). The author's nisbah is frequently invoked by the copyist using the formula 'al-Ṭabarī said:...'...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Codex; iii+34+iv

2520. Or 3135

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 3135
Title:
Treatise on archery Jūkhī al-Mawṣilī, Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad جوخي الموصلي، يوسف بن محمد
Scope & Content:
A short untitled treatise on archery by Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad al-Jūkhī al-Mawṣilī (يوسف بن محمد الجوخي الموصلي, dates unknown) in the tradition of al-Kitāb al-wāḍiḥ fī al-ramy wa-al-nushshāb (كتاب الواضح في الرمي والنشاب) by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭabarī (عبد الرحمن بن أحمد طبري, active ca 9th...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+23+i

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