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2771. Or 11615

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11615
Title:
Quwá al-adwiyah al-mufradah قوى الأدوية المفردة Ibn Abī al-Ash‘ath, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ابن أبي الأشعث، أحمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Volume One (الجزء الأول) of a compendium on materia medica by Abū Ja‘far Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Ash‘ath (أبو جعفر أحمد بن محمد ابن أبي الأشعث; d. 970). In the preface (f. 7v), the author states that the text is divided into three treatises (مقالات), but the manuscript is defective at the...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+190+iii

2772. Or 11857

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11857
Title:
Qānūn al-idrāk fī tashrīḥ al-aflāk قانون الإدراك في تشريح الأفلاك Tankābunī, Muḥammad Kāẓim تنكابني، محمد كاظم
Scope & Content:
Commentary by Muḥammad Kāẓim ibn ‘Abd al-‘Alī al-Tankābunī (محمد كاظم عبد العلي التنكابني, d. after 1623-4, see al-Amīn, Mustadrakāt a‘yān al-shī‘ah, vol 2, p. 308) on the Anatomy of the Spheres (تشريح الأفلاك) by al-Tankābunī''s teacher Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محم...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
8 Rajab 1033
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+160+i

2773. Or 11864

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11864
Title:
Kitāb al-Tashīl wa-al-taqrīb fī al-ḥall wa-al-tarkīb كتاب التسهيل والتقريب في الحل والتركيب Majdī, Aḥmad ibn Rajab مجدي، أحمد بن رجب
Scope & Content:
Astronomical handbook also known more fully as Simplification and Clarification Concerning Analysis and Compilation (التسهيل والتقريب في بيان طرق الحل والتركيب) on the calculation of planetary trajectories, by the Cairene astronomer and muwaqqit (timekeeper) Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
10 Jumādá II 886
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+47

2774. Or 11875

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11875
Title:
Fātiḥat al-ʿulūm فاتحة العلوم Ghazzālī غزالي
Scope & Content:
A treatise on knowledge, and on the value, classification and study of the sciences and the required qualities of the scholar, in seven sections (باب), by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī al-Ghazzāli (أبو حامد محمد بن محمد الطوسي الغزّالي), also known as al-Ghazālī (الغزالي, latinised as ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
7 Shawwāl 833
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+49+i

2775. Or 11888

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11888
Title:
al-Kashf wa-al-bayān ʿammā yataʿallaq bi-al-nisyān الكشف والبيان عما يتعلق بالنسيان al-Nābulusī, ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʿīl النابلسي، عبد الغني ابن اسماعيل
Scope & Content:
The Damascene litterateur ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʿīl al-Nābulusī (عبد الغني ابن اسماعيل النابلسي, b. 1641, d.1731) composed this short treatise on forgetfulness ( الكشف والبيان عما يتعلق بالنسيان, f. 1r, line 1 and f. 3r, line 2) following his Ḥajj journey of 1694. A carefully-organised compilati...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

ff. xxxiv+20+ii

2776. Or 12150

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12150
Title:
Two treatises on medicine
Scope & Content:
Contents: (1) Ibn al-Masīḥī (ابن المسيحي), Kitāb al-iqtiḍāb al-majmūʿ ʿalá ṭarīq al-masʾalah wa-l-jawāb ( كتاب الاقتضاب المجموع على طريق المسألة والجواب, ff. 2v-57v); (2) Muhadhdhab al-Dīn al-Dakhwār (مهذب الدين الدخوار), Sharḥ Kitāb Taqdimat al-maʿrifah li-Abuqrāṭ (شرح كتاب تقدمة المعرفة لأب...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+140

2777. Or 12150, ff 2v-57v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12150, ff 2v-57v
Title:
Kitāb al-iqtiḍāb al-majmūʿ ʿalā ṭarīq al-masʾalah wa-l-jawāb كتاب الاقتضاب المجموع على طريق المسألة والجواب Ibn al-Masīḥī, Saʻīd ibn Abī al-Khayr ابن المسيحي، سعيد بن أبي الخير
Scope & Content:
A compendium of medicine composed in a question and answer format, by Saʻīd ibn Abī al-Khayr ibn ʿIsá al-Ṭabīb al-Masīḥī (سعيد بن أبي الخير بن عيسى الطبيب المسيحي, b. 1177, d. 1259 or 1260). Ibn al-Masīḥī was famous for healing the caliph al-Nāṣir (الناصر, reg. 1180–1225) from a serious illnes...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:

Ff. 2v-57v

2778. Or 12150, ff 58r-139v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12150, ff 58r-139v
Title:
Muhadhdhab al-Dīn al-Dakhwār, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn ʻAlī مهذب الدين الدخوار، عبد الرحيم بن علي Sharḥ Kitāb Taqdimat al-maʿrifah li-Abuqrāṭ شرح كتاب تقدمة المعرفة لأبقراط
Scope & Content:
A commentary on the Kitāb taqdimat al-maʿrifah li-Abuqrāṭ (كتاب تقدمة المعرفة لأبقراط), a translation of the Prognosticon of Hippocrates (أبقراط, d. ca 370 BC), probably by the physician and translator Abū Zayd Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī (أبو زيد حنين بن إسحق العبادي, d. 873). The text of the ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:

Ff. 58r-139v

2779. Or 12151

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12151
Title:
al-Mufradāt المفردات Shāhīn ibn Jirjis شاهين بن جرجس
Scope & Content:
Treatise on medicine and diatetics mostly composed of 115 tables (ff. 26r-141r). The work is preceded by an introduction to the tables and general medical principles. Tables of synonymous drug names are found on ff. 144r-152r. The tables at least are attributed to the otherwise unknown Shāhīn ib...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+152+v

2780. Or 12152

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12152
Title:
Kitāb anīs al-jalīs fī kull ḥadīth nafīs كتاب أنيس الجليس في كل حديث نفيس Najjār, Ibrāhīm ibn Khalīl النجار، إبراهيم بن خليل
Scope & Content:
Pharmacological handbook, re-bound out of order and with sections missing. The text is organised into chapters (فصول) on major ingredients and on effective categories of drugs, and records recipes for medications such as pills (حبوب), drops (قطرة), gargles (غرغرة), ointments (مرهم), oral draught...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1845-1864
Extent:

ff. iv+128+iv

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