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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6273, ff 165v-171r
Title:: Extracts from Muḥammad Amīn Bek Yāsīn Afandīzādah (محمد أمين بك ياسين أفنديزاده), Kitāb al-shifāʾ al-ʿājil (كتاب الشفاء العاجل)
Scope & Content:: Extracts from the Speedy Cure and Guaranteed Remedy (الشفاء العاجل والدواء الكافل) by the Ottoman litterateur, poet and physician of Mosul Muḥammad Amīn Bek ibn Ibrāhīm Bek ibn Yūnus Afandī ibn Yāsīn Afandī al-Muftī ibn Maḥmūd Afandī (محمد أمين بك بن إبراهيم بك بن يونس أفندي بن ياسين أفندي المفت...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 165v-171r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6273, ff 171v-180v
Title:: Kitāb al-abrār fī barī al-qalam wa-ʿamal al-aḥbār كتاب الأبرار في بري القلم وعمل الأحبار
Scope & Content:: Treatise on pen trimming and ink making in eleven chapters (أبواب). The author is not named. Begins (f. 171v, lines 2-3): اعلم وفقنا الله تعالى وإياك وجعل الجنة منزلك ومأواك يشتمل هذا الكتاب على إحدى عشر بابًا... 　 Ends (f. 180v, lines 6-14): ... صفة حبر يابس تأخذ درهم عفص وصمغ عربي وزاج ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 171v-180v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6280
Title:: Three texts on mathematics and astronomy
Scope & Content:: Three texts on mathematics and astronomy related to Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621), two by al-‘Āmilī, and a commentary by his student Jawād ibn Saʿd ibn Jawād al-Kāẓimī (جواد بن سعد بن جواد الكاظمي, d. ca 1654-5 see al-Amīn, A‘yān al-shi‘ah,...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1114
Extent:: Codex; ff. 158+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6280, ff 2r-131v
Title:: Sharḥ khulāṣat al-ḥisāb شرح خلاصة الحساب Kāẓimī, Jawād ibn Saʿd كاظمي، جواد بن سعد
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Jawād ibn Saʿd ibn Jawād al-Kāẓimī (جواد بن سعد بن جواد الكاظمي, d. ca 1654-5 [see al-Amīn, A‘yān al-shī‘ah, vol. 4, p. 271]) on the Summa of Arithmetic (خلاصة الحساب) by his teacher Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621). The text co...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1114
Extent:: Ff. 2r-131v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6280, ff 132r-142r
Title:: Tashrīḥ al-aflāk تشريح الأفلاك ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين
Scope & Content:: Summary of theoretical astronomy (هيئة) by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621) in which the author argues that the earth rotates around its axis. The copy was completed on 9 Sha‘bān 1114/29 December 1702 by Ibn Muḥammad Riḍá Muḥammad Amīn (ابن م...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 9 Sha‘bān 1114
Extent:: Ff. 132r-142r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6280, ff 142v-158v
Title:: Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb خلاصة الحساب ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين
Scope & Content:: Very popular Safavid textbook of arithmetic by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621). The treatise consists of an introduction (مقدمة), nine chapters (أبواب), and a conclusion (خاتمة). Each chapter subdivided into sections (فصول), in some cases pr...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1114
Extent:: Ff. 142v-158v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6285
Title:: Fragments of two medical manuscripts
Scope & Content:: Fragments of two medical manuscripts: (1) Fragment of a commentary on Ibn Sīnā's (ابن سينا) Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (القانون في الطب, ff. 1r-26v); (2) Three fragments of a medical manuscript (ff. 27r-147r).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 13th-14th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+26+i+76+i+14+i+31+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6285, ff 1r-26v
Title:: Fragment of a commentary on Ibn Sīnā's (ابن سينا) Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (القانون في الطب)
Scope & Content:: Two quires from a fragment of a commentary on Ibn Sīnā's (ابن سينا, d. 1037) Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطب), defective at beginning and end. The present fragment comprises quires three and four of the original volume (ff. 2r-26v; see quire signatures on ff. 2r and 17r, and mid-quire marks o...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: Ff. 1r-26v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6285, ff 27r-147r
Title:: Three fragments of a medical manuscript
Scope & Content:: Fragments of a medical manuscript, divided into three sections each separated by an unfoliated blank flyleaf. Each section is defective at beginning and all but the last also at the end with no indication of authors or titles. Contents: (1) Anonymous commentary on Ibn Sīnā's (ابن سينا, d. 1037)...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: Ff. 27r-147r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6386
Title:: Sharḥ Fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ شرح فصول أبقراط Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-Nīsābūrī, Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī ابن أبي صادق النيسابوري، أبو القاسم عبد الرحمن بن علي
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-Nīsābūrī (أبو القاسم عبد الرحمن بن علي ابن أبي صادق النيسابوري, d. ca 1068) on the Aphorisms (Kitāb al-fuṣūl) of Hippocrates (أبقراط, d. ca 370 BC). The commentary is based on Galen of Pergamon's (جالينوس, d. ca 216)...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+128+i

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