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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5856
Title:: Tadhkirat al-kaḥḥālīn تذكرة الكحّالين Kaḥḥāl, ‘Alī ibn ‘Īsá كحّال، علي بن عيسى
Scope & Content:: A treatise on diseases of the eye by ‘Alī ibn ‘Īsá al-Kaḥḥāl (علي بن عيسى الكحّال; fl. first half of 11th century), the leading oculist of his time at the Abbasid capital, Baghdad. The text is divided into three books (مقالات): المقالة الأولى (‘Book 1’; ff. 3v-16r); المقالة الثاني أذكر فيها أ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 690
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+162+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5860
Title:: [Taqwīm al-adwīyah تقويم العدوية] Isfarāyīnī, Muḥammad إسفراييني، محمد and Treatise on drugs Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ṣadr al-Dīn ‘Alī تقي الدين محمد ابن صدر الدين علي
Scope & Content:: Composite volume containing two manuscripts on drugs. Contents: (1) Isfarāyīnī, Muḥammad (إسفراييني، محمد), Taqwīm al-adwīyah (تقويم العدوية; ff. 1r-135v); (2) Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ṣadr al-Dīn ‘Alī (تقي الدين محمد ابن صدر الدين علي), Treatise on drugs (ff. 136r-237v).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1633-19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+237+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5860, ff 1r-135v
Title:: [Taqwīm al-adwīyah تقويم العدوية] Isfarāyīnī, Muḥammad إسفراييني، محمد
Scope & Content:: Treatise on drugs by Muḥammad Ibn ‘Alī al-Isfarā’inī (محمد بن علي الإسفرائني, see f. 3v, line 10), according to the spelling of the nisba given in the manuscript and followed by Brockelmann (GALS II, 592), who gives the author a floruit date of 1543. Kaḥḥālah (III, 552, no. 14963) gives the auth...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18 Rabī‘ II 1043
Extent:: Ff. 1r-135v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5914
Title:: Sharḥ fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ شرح فصول أبقراط Ibn al-Nafīs, ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm ابن النفيس، علي بن أبي الحزم
Scope & Content:: Commentary by ‘Alā’ al-Dīn ‘Alī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm al-Qurashī (علاء الدين علي بن أبي الحزم القرشي), known as Ibn al-Nafīs (ابن النفيس, d. 1288) on the Aphorisms (كتاب الفصول) of Hippocrates (أبقراط, d. ca 370 BC). The manuscript is defective at end, terminating abruptly during Aphorism 55, the pen...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+161+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5916
Title:: Tadhkirat al-kaḥḥālīn تذكرة الكحّالين Kaḥḥāl, ‘Alī ibn ‘Īsá كحّال، علي بن عيسى
Scope & Content:: Treatise on diseases of the eye by ‘Alī ibn ‘Īsá al-Kaḥḥāl (علي بن عيسى الكحّال; fl. first half of 11th century), the leading oculist of his time at the Abbasid capital, Baghdad. The copy was completed on Tuesday 3 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 894/29 September 1489 at Sāveh (الساوة, Iran) by Aḥmad ibn Niẓām a...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 3 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 894
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+198+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5923
Title:: Zubdat al-ṭibb زبدة الطب Jurjānī, Ismāʿīl ibn Ḥasan جرجاني، إسماعيل بن حسن
Scope & Content:: Defective copy of a medical compendium tabulated in synoptic charts, by Zayn al-Dīn Abū Ibrāhīm Ismā‘īl ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī (زين الدين أبو إبراهيم إسماعيل بن محمد الحسيني الجرجاني, d. 1136). He is also known as Ismā‘īl ibn al-Ḥasan (إسماعيل بن الحسن) or Ismā‘īl ibn al-Ḥusayn (إسما...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: ca 13th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+86+i+8+i+1+i+1+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5927
Title:: Four treatises on pharmacopoeia, cookery and craft techniques
Scope & Content:: Ṣināʿat al-yad (صناعة اليد, ff. 1r-67v, defective at beginning); Ibn Zuhr (ابن زهر), Kitāb al-aghdhiyyah (كتاب الأغذية, ff 68r-100r, defective at beginning and end); Ibn Razīn al-Tujībī (ابن رزين التجيبي), Fiḍālat al-khiwān fī ṭayyibāt al-ṭaʻām wa-al-alwān (فضالة الخوان في طيبات الطعام والألوان, ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th or 16th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+219+i (plus five unfoliated leaves after ff. 11, 34, 101, 208 and 217)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5927, ff 1r-67v
Title:: Ṣināʿat al-yad صناعة اليد Anonymous
Scope & Content:: Treatise on pharmacopoeia comprising seventeen chapters (باب). The text is defective at beginning and the author's name is not known. Some folios are missing and unfoliated leaves have been inserted after ff. 11 and 34 to mark locations of missing leaves. The text is followed by a short note o...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th or 16th century
Extent:: Ff. 1r-67v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5927, ff 68r-100r
Title:: [Kitāb al-aghdhiyyah] [كتاب الأغذية] [Ibn Zuhr, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ] [ابن زهر، عبد الملك بن أبي العلاء]
Scope & Content:: Treatise on dietetics by the Andalusian physician Abū Marwān ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ Zuhr (أبو مروان عبد الملك بن أبي العلاء زهر, d. 1162), known as Ibn Zuhr (ابن زهر), Latinised as Avenzoar. The copy is defective at beginning and the surviving text mentiones neither the author nor the ti...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th or 16th century
Extent:: Ff. 68r-100r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5927, ff 101r-204v
Title:: [Fiḍālat al-khiwān fī ṭayyibāt al-ṭaʻām wa-al-alwān فضالة الخوان في طيبات الطعام والألوان] [Ibn Razīn al-Tujībī ابن رزين التجيبي]
Scope & Content:: Extensive treatise on cookery by the Andalusian scholar Ibn Razīn al-Tujībī (ابن رزين التجيبي, d. 1293). The copy is defective at end and finishes abruptly with recipes calling for tuna (التنّ). Begins (f. 101r, lines 2-4): الحمد لله فضل نوع الإنسان على جميع الخلق وأختصه بمزية قل مسز (؟) حرم...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th or 16th century
Extent:: Ff. 101r-204v

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