al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb القانون في الطبّ Avicenna ابن سينا
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The Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطبّ) by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, 980-1037). An unsigned note, without date, in the upper margin of f. 1r states that the physycian Ibn al-Nafīs (ابن النفيس, d. 1288), h...
al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb القانون في الطبّ Avicenna ابن سينا
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The Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطبّ) by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, Latinised as Avicenna, 980-1037). This complete copy of one of the most influential Arabic medical texts is richly illuminated, decorated and bound in Safavid ...
Kitāb al-ṭabīkh كتاب الطبيخ Ibn al-Karīm, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ابن الكريم، محمد بن الحسن
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A manual on cookery in ten chapters (أبواب), composed by Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Karīm, known as al-Kātib al-Baghdādī (محمد بن الحسن بن الكريم الكاتب البغدادي, d. 1239/40) in 623/1226. The present copy lacks a colophon, however an inscription in gold ink outlined in black records that the ...
[Kitāb al-masālik wa-al-mamālik كتاب مسالك الممالك] [Iṣṭakhrī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad إصطخري، إبراهيم بن محمد]
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A descriptive geography of the Islamic world by Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Fārisī al-Karkhī al-Iṣṭakhrī (أبو إسحاق إبراهيم بن محمد الفارسي الكرخي الإصطخري, d. 957/98). The present volume's colophon attributes it to the scribe Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad Faq[ī]h al-Sīnābī (إبراهيم بن أحمد فقه السي...
al-Kitāb al-Manṣūrī الكتاب المنصوري Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā رازي، أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا
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Influential compendium of medicine written in 903 by the physician and philosopher Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرأزي; d. ca 925) and dedicated to the Governor of Rayy, Abū Ṣāliḥ Manṣūr ibn Isḥāq (أبو صالح منصور بن إسحق; see fol. 1v, line 3, transcribed below). ...
Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thābitah كتاب صور الكواكب الثابتة Ṣūfī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar صوفى، عبد الرحمن ابن عمر
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An illustrated description by ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣūfī (عبد الرحمن الصوفي; d. 986) of the 48 classical constellations discussed by Ptolemy in his Almagest. The text contains labelled illustrations of the 48 constellations as viewed on a celestial globe and as viewed in the sky, along with supporti...
Six treatises on arithmetic and use of the quadrant
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A collection of three texts on algebra and arithmetic, and three on the use of the quadrant. The texts in the volume were copied between Rabīʿ II-Jumādá II 1070/December 1659- February 1660 by ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-ʿĀmilī (علي بن محمد بن الحسن بن زين الدين العاملي, wh...
Irshād al-ṭullāb ilá wasīlat al-ḥisāb إرشاد الطلاب إلى وسيلة الحساب Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad سبط المارديني، بدر الدين محمد بن محمد
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A commentary on Wasīlat al-ḥisāb (وسيلة الحساب), by Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Hāʼim al-Maqdisī al-Faraḍī (شهاب الدين أبو العباس أحمد بن محمد بن الهائم المقدسي الفرضي, d. 1412), known as Ibn al-Hā’im (ابن الهائم), which is itself an abstract from its author's own al-Ma...
Sharḥ al-Urjūzah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī ʿilm al-jabr شرح الأرجوزة الياسمينية في علم الجبر
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Anonymous commentary on the didactic poem (أرجوزة) on algebra al-Manẓūmah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah (المنظومة الياسمينية في الجبر والمقابلة) by Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥajjāj ibn al-Yāsamīn al-Adrinī al-Ishbīlī (أبو محمد عبد الله بن محمد بن حجاج بن الياسمين الأدر...
Nuzhat al-ḥussāb fī ‘ilm al-ḥisāb نزهة الحُسّاب في علم الحِساب Ibn al-Hāʾim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ابن الهائم، أحمد بن محمد
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Abridgement of a treatise also by the author, Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ha’im al-Maqdisī al-Faraḍī (شهاب الدين أبو العباس أحمد بن محمد بن الهائم المقدسي الفرضي, d. 1412), entitled al-Murshidah fī ṣinā‘at al-ghubār (المرشدة في صناعة الغبار) on arithmetic and ḥisāb al-g...
