2571. Or 5591, ff 136r-150r
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2572. Or 5591, ff 150r-153v
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- Or 5591, ff 150r-153v
- Title:
- Bāb yudhkaru fīhi al-ḥukm ʻalá al-khusūf al-qamar fī jihat lawnihi fī wasaṭ al-kusūf باب يذكر فيه الحكم على خسوف القمر في جهة لونه في وسط الكسوف
- Scope & Content:
- A short chapter divided into three parts on making judgements based on lunar eclipses. The final word of the title كسوف ('solar eclipse') is almost certainly an error for خسوف ('lunar eclipse'). This text is numbered 14 (يد) in the present collection. Contents: Section discussing of its colour...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Date Range:
- 0867
- Extent:
-
Ff. 150r-153v
2573. Or 5591, ff 154r-157r
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 5591, ff 154r-157r
- Title:
- Faṣl fī dhikr dalālāt dhāt al-dhawāʼib ʻalá raʼī Baṭlīmūs wa-l-hind فصل في ذكر دلالات ذات الذوائب على رأي بطليموس والهند
- Scope & Content:
- Chapter on making astrological judgments based on comets allegedly drawn from the works of Ptolemy (بطلميوس, here بطليموس, Claudius Ptolemaeus, d. ca AD 168) and Indian sources. This text is numbered 15 (يه) in the present collection. Begins (f. 154r, lines 2-5): ... قالو (!) إذا ظهر في بر...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Date Range:
- 0867
- Extent:
-
Ff. 154r-157r
2574. Or 5591, ff 157r-160v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 5591, ff 157r-160v
- Title:
- Astrological judgments and excerpts
- Scope & Content:
- A collection of astrological judgments and other extracts each introduced with the word نكثه (= نكتة). The same incorrect pointing of this word (ث instead of ت) is found on the contents page (f. 2v), where this section of the text is referred to as 'wise sayings and excerpts' (نكث واختيارات). A...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Date Range:
- 0867
- Extent:
-
Ff. 157r-160v
2575. Or 5591, ff 162r-184v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 5591, ff 162r-184v
- Title:
- Excerpts from the Kitāb al-madkhal fī ʻilm al-nujūm (المدخل في علم النجوم) Balkhī, Nūr al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad بلخي، نور الدين أبو القاسم علي بن أحمد
- Scope & Content:
- Excerpts from The Introduction to the Science of the Stars (المدخل في علم النجوم) by Nūr al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Balkhī (نور الدين أبو القاسم علي بن أحمد البلخي, fl. ca 900). The source of the excerpts is identified at f. 162r, line 1 ('from al-Balkhī's Book of the Introduction', م...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Date Range:
- 0867
- Extent:
-
Ff. 162r-184v
2576. Or 5591, ff 185r-211v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 5591, ff 185r-211v
- Title:
- Thirty-seven tables, diagrams and short texts related to astrology, divination and astral magic
- Scope & Content:
- Thirty-seven tables, diagrams and short texts related to astrology, divination and astral magic. Most of these are extracted from unknown sources, although the items on ff. 187v-188r and ff. 202v-203r mention Hermes (هرمس) and Dorotheus of Sidon (Δωρόθεος Σιδώνιος, ذوروثيوس, fl. AD 50-100) and t...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Date Range:
- 0867
- Extent:
-
Ff. 185r-211v
2577. Or 5593
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 5593
- Title:
- Kitāb istī‘āb al-wujūh al-mumkinah fī ṣan‘at al-asṭurlāb كتاب استيعاب الوجوه الممكنة في صنعة الأسطرلاب Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad بيروني، محمد بن أحمد
- Scope & Content:
- One of only three recorded copies of an influential treatise on the construction and use of astrolabes by Abū al-Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī (أبو الريحان محمد بن أحمد البيروني, ca 973-1048) containing 122 diagrams, 7 tables and 1 space for a diagram or table left blank and marked بياض صح...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Date Range:
- 700-800
- Extent:
- Codex; ff. ii+89+iii
2578. Or 5596
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 5596
- Title:
- Sharḥ Kitāb al-Qānūn lil-Qurashī شرح كتاب القانون للقرشي Ibn al-Nafīs, ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm ابن النفيس، علي بن أبي الحزم
- Scope & Content:
- Commentary by ‘Alā’ al-Dīn ‘Alī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm al-Qurashī, known as Ibn al-Nafīs (1210 or 1211-1288), on Avicenna's (Ibn Sīnā's) Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb). The volume contains the last page of Ibn al-Nafīs' commentary on Book 2 (on materia medica) and the commentary on Book 3 (on ...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Date Range:
- 902
- Extent:
- Codex; ff. i+92+i
2579. Or 5618
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 5618
- Title:
- Kitāb mā lā yasaʿ al-ṭabīb jahluhu كتاب ما لا يسع الطبيب جهله Kutubī, Yūsuf ibn Ismāʿīl كتبي، يوسف بن إسماعيل
- Scope & Content:
- Treatise on materia medica arranged in alphabetical order by Yūsuf ibn Ismā‘īl ibn Ilyās al-Khūwaīyī al-Baghdādī al-Kutubī (يوسف بن إسماعيل بن إلياس الخويي البغدادي الكتبي, d. 1353), and based on the Comprehensive Book on Simple Drugs and Foods (جامع لمفردات الأدوية والأغذية) by Ibn al-Bayṭār ...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Extent:
-
Codex; ff. i+336+ii
2580. Or 5619
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 5619
- Title:
- Four medical works Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī نجيب الدين السمرقندي، محمد بن علي
- Scope & Content:
- Four treatises on pharmacy and dietetics 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). Contents: (1) Uṣūl al-tarākīb (أصول التراكيب, ff. 2r-36r); (2) Kitāb aghdhiyat al-marḍá (كتاب أغذية المرضى, ff. 36v-55v); (3)...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Date Range:
- Ramaḍān 703
- Extent:
-
Codex; ff. i+192+i
