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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23407, ff 208v-239v
Title:: جوامع كتاب جالينوس في القوى الطبيعية إخراج حنين بن إسحق Jawāmi‘ kitāb Jālīnūs fī al-quwá al-ṭabī‘īyah ikhrāj Ḥunayn ibn Isḥaq Galen جالينوس
Scope & Content:: Alexandrian Summary (جوامع الإسكندرانيين) of Galen's (جالينوس ; d. ca 216) De facultatibus naturalibus (Περὶ δυνάμεων φυσικῶν βιβλία γ'; في القوى الطبيعية) translated from the Greek by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (حنين بن إسحق; d. 873). Contents: Book One (المقالة الأولى; ff. 208v-219v); Book Two (المقا...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: Ff. 208v-239v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23407, ff 239v-291r
Title:: Jawāmi‘ kitāb Jālīnūs fī al-tashrīḥ lil-muta‘allimīn Galen جالينوس
Scope & Content:: Alexandrian Summary (جوامع الإسكندرانيين) of Galen's (جالينوس ; d. ca 216) De anatomicis administrationibus (Περὶ ἀνατομικῶν ἐγχειρήσεων τῶν σωζομένων βιβλία ἐννέα) translated from the Greek by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (حنين بن إسحق; d. 873). The Arabic title of this summarised version is Fī al-tashrīḥ ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: Ff. 239v-291r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23410
Title:: Kāmil al-ṣināʿah al-ṭibbīyah كامل الصناعة الطبية Majūsī, ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās مجوسي، علي بن العباس
Scope & Content:: Encyclopaedia of the art of medicine composed by ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Majūsī al-Arrajānī (علي بن العباس المجوسي الأرجاني) for the Būyid king (ملك) ʿAḍud al-Dawlah (عضد الدولة, reg. 949-83), which explains the works other title: The Royal Book (الكتاب الملكي). The text is divided into two books ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 978-984
Extent:: ff. ii+441+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23416
Title:: Kitāb al-furūsīyah wa-shiyāt al-khayl كتاب الفروسية وشيات الخيل Ibn Akhī Ḥizām, Muḥammad ibn Yaʻqūb ابن أخي حزام، محمد بن يعقوب
Scope & Content:: One of the earliest Arabic texts on veterinary medicine, the treatise on hippiatrics, was written by Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb Ibn Akhī Ḥizām (أبو يوسف بن يعقوب بن أخي حزام, see title page, f. 2r), horse trainer of the Abbasid caliph al-Mu‘taḍid (المعتضد, reg. 892-902). The treatise is more commonly know...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+173+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23417
Title:: al-Jamharah fī ‘ilm al-bayzarah الجمهرة في علم البيزرة Asadī, ‘Īsá ibn ‘Alī أسدي، عيسى بن علي
Scope & Content:: General manual on hunting with falcons, dogs and other animals by Abū al-Rūḥ ʿIsá ibn ‘Alī al-Asadī al-Baghdādī (أبو الروح عيسى بن علي الأسدي البغدادي, fl. 1150-70). The work was divided into two parts (جزءان), the first on the methods and techniques of hunting, and the second on the care and tr...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+184+v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23487
Title:: Kitāb al-sūl wa-al-umnīyah fī taʿallum aʻmāl al-furūsīyah كتاب السول والأمنية في تعلم أعمال الفروسية [Aqsarā’ī, Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsá أقسرائي، محمد بن عيسى]
Scope & Content:: A Mamluk manual on horsemanship, military arts and technology, also known as Nihāyat al-sūl wa-al-umnīyah fī taʿlīm ʿamal al-furūsiyya (نهاية السول والأمنية في تعليم عمل الفروسية), attributed to Muḥammad ibn ‘Īsá ibn Ismā‘īl al-Ḥanafī al-Aqsarā’ī (أقسرائي، محمد بن عيسى بن اسماعيل) (died c.1349)....
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 20 Shaʿbān 785
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+166+iv; f. 1 missing.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23488
Title:: Kitāb al-suʾl wa-al-umnīyah fī taʿlīm al-furūsīyah كتاب السؤل والامنية في تعلم أعمال الفروسية Aqsarā’ī, Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsá أقسرائي، محمد بن عيسى
Scope & Content:: A Mamluk manual on horsemanship, military arts and technology, attributed to Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsá ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ḥanafī al-Aqsarāʾī (محمد بن عيسى بن إسماعيل الحنفي الأقسرائي, d. ca 1349). The copy was completed on 12 Rabīʻ II 1257/ 3 June 1841 by a scribe who names himself in the colophon simply as...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 12 Rabīʻ II 1257
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+154+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23489
Title:: Ghunyat al-ṭullāb fī maʿrifat al-ramy bi-al-nushshāb غنية الطلاب في معرفة الرمي بالنشاب Ṭaybughā al-Ashrafī al-Baklamishī al-Yūnānī طيبغا الأشرفي البكلمشي اليوناني
Scope & Content:: An undated copy of a technical treatise on archery, partly in verse, by Ṭaybughā al-Ashrafī al-Baklamishī al-Yūnānī (طيبغا الأشرفي البكلمشي اليوناني, d. c. 1394, see f. 19r, line 4), and probably written under the Mamluk sultan al-Ashraf Shaʻbān (reg. 1368-77). The title is given in a frontispi...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: ff. iv+139+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23492
Title:: Khazīndār, Al-Ḥājj Luṭf Allāh الحاج لطف الله الشهير بالخزيندار [Mukhtaṣar kashf al-ẓunūn مختصر كشف الظنون]
Scope & Content:: A summary by al-Ḥajj Luṭf Allāh, known as al-Khazīndār (الحاج لطف الله الشهير بالخزيندار; see f. 2v, lines 5-6), based on the bibliographical encyclopaedia completed in about 1062/1652 by the Ottoman scholar Muṣṭafá ibn ʿAbd Allāh (مصطفى بن عبد الله, d.1067/1657), also known as Kâtip Çelebi (كات...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1245
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+284+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23494
Title:: al-Durr al-naqī fī fann al-mūsīqī الدرّ النقيّ في الفنّ الموسيقي Mawṣilī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥman موصلي، أحمد بن عبد الرحمن
Scope & Content:: Treatise on music theory relating the musical modes, or maqams (مقامات), to the Prophets, signs of the zodiac, hours of the day, etc. by Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Sayyid Aḥmad al-Rifā‘ī ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, given the laqab al-Musallam al-Mawṣilī (أبو صالح السيّد الرفاعي الملقّب بالمسلم الموصلي ابن عبد الرحمن,...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. v+1+iii+9+xiii

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