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301. Add MS 45158 A-C

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 45158 A-C
Title:
Oblong duodecimo notebooks, map and list of buildings, belonging to Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell
Scope & Content:
two volumes of notes, made on a trip from Damascus via Baghdad to Aleppo in 1911 (Add MS 45158 A-B) a map of the locations of villages in western Syria, possibly dating from 1905, and an undated list of buildings for David George Hogarth (Add MS 45158 C)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, Greek, Ancient, and Syriac
Date Range:
1905-1911
Extent:
3 items (72 folios)

302. Add MS 45158 B

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 45158 B
Title:
‘Diary of Gertrude Bell, 1911.’
Scope & Content:
The second of two oblong duodecimo volumes containing abbreviated notes recorded by Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, during the course of a journey through Syria, Turkey and Iraq, from Damascus to Aleppo via Baghdad. The volume covers the period 19 April to 23 May 1911, covering the journey from...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, Greek, Ancient, and Syriac
Date Range:
19 Apr 1911-23 May 1911
Extent:
1 volume (37 folios)

303. Arundel Or 10

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel Or 10
Title:
Medical compendium
Scope & Content:
Manuscript completed by an anonymous scribe on 3 Dhū al-Ḥijja 712/4 April 1313 in part in Aleppo (see colophon to Item 1; f. 9v, lines 5-7). The final colophon in the manuscript is dated late Sha‘bān 711/early January 1312, which perhaps indicates that the manuscript is bound out of its original...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
711-712
Extent:
Codex; ff. iv+174+iii

304. Arundel Or 10, ff 4v-9v

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel Or 10, ff 4v-9v
Title:
Refutation of an anonymous poem excusing disbelief in God Ibn Taymīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm ابن تيمية، أحمد بن عبد الحليم
Scope & Content:
The text begins with eight lines of a poem in which the anonymous poet tries to excuse his disbelief in God (f. 4v, lines 2-9), and continues with a refutation of the poet's points by the theologian Taqī al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm ibn Taymīyah (تقي الدين أحمد بن عبد الحليم بن تيمية; AD 1263-...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
711-712
Extent:
ff. 4v-9v

305. Arundel Or 10, ff 10r-27v

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel Or 10, ff 10r-27v
Title:
Fragment of an anonymous text on domestic economy Anonymous
Scope & Content:
This text on domestic economy and commerce is defective at both the beginning and the end, and begins abruptly with a discussion of the positive and negative aspects of money (or property more generally, Ar. مال) and royal patronage. It continues with five sections, the first three of which are ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
711-712
Extent:
ff. 10r-27v

306. Arundel Or 10, ff 28r-55r

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel Or 10, ff 28r-55r
Title:
Isagoge كتاب إيساغوجي Galen جالينوس Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī حنين بن إسحق العبادي
Scope & Content:
An Arabic translation in question-and-answer format of the Ars medica (Τέχνη ἰατρική) by Galen of Pergamon (جالينوس ; d. ca 216). The Arabic title إيساغوجي (Īsāghūjī) transcribes the the Greek word εἰσαγωγή (eisagōgē), meaning ‘introduction’. The Arabic version was begun by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
711-712
Extent:
ff. 28r-55r

307. Arundel Or 10, ff 55v-82r

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel Or 10, ff 55v-82r
Title:
al-Rawḍah al-ṭibbīyah الروضة الطبي Anonymous
Scope & Content:
An anonymous list of definitions of fifty philosophical terms useful for physicians. The text is defective at the end, and contains only forty-eight definitions. The author states that he has abridged his definitions from the practical section (al-juz’ al-‘ilmī) of a work called Tadhkarat al-ḥāḍ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
711-712
Extent:
ff. 55v-82r

308. Arundel Or 10, ff 82r-104v

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel Or 10, ff 82r-104v
Title:
Mukhtaṣar fī ‘ilm al-uṣūl مختصر في علم الأصول Anonymous
Scope & Content:
An anonymous compendium of questions and answers concerning metaphysics (علم الأصول, lit. ‘the science of principles’). The text, as preserved here, is divided into four chapters (أبواب): الباب الأول في المباحث المتعلقة بالعلم والنظر (‘Chapter 1: Studies related to knowledge and theory’; ff. 82v...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
711-712
Extent:
ff. 82r-104v

309. Arundel Or 10, ff 105v-108v

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel Or 10, ff 105v-108v
Title:
Untitled work on the virtues and uses of the letters Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥarālī أبو الحسن الحرالي
Scope & Content:
A short, untitled treatise on the properties and uses of the letters and associated magical practices. The treatise is attributed to Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥarālī, who may be identical with the author of works on astronomical instruments Abū al-Ḥasan (or al-Ḥasan ibn) ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Marrākūshī (d. c...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
711-712
Extent:
ff. 105v-108v (foliation reversed)

310. Arundel Or 10, ff 109r-123r

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel Or 10, ff 109r-123r
Title:
al-Maqālah al-Amīnīyah fī faṣad al-‘urūq المقالة الأمينية في فصد العروق Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:
This treatise on venesection (i.e. bloodletting; فصد) is usually attributed to Abū al-Ḥasan Hibat Allāh ibn al-Tilmīdh (أبو الحسن هبة الله بن التلميذو, d. 594 AH/AD 1154 or 560 AH/AD 1165), and the word Amīnīyah (‘of Amīn’) is taken to refer to Ibn al-Tilmidh’s laqab, Amīn al-Dawlah. The treatis...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
711-712
Extent:
ff. 109r-123r

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