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al-Mughnī fī sharḥ al-mūjiz المغني في شرح الموجز Kāzarūnī, Muḥammad ibn Masʿūd كازروني، محمد بن مسعود
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Sections (فنون) One and Two from The Sufficient Concerning the Commentary on the Summary (المغني في شرح الموجز) by Sadīd al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Mas‘ūd al-Kāzarūnī (سديد الدين محمد بن مسعود الكازروني; d. 1357), a commentary on Ibn al-Nafīs' (ابن النفيس; d. 1288) Summary of the Canon (موجز القانون), ...
Sharḥ Mūjiz al-Qānūn شرح موجز القانون Kāzarūnī, Muḥammad ibn Masʿūd كازروني، محمد بن مسعود
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Commentary by Sadīd al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Mas‘ūd al-Kāzarūnī (سديد الدين محمد بن مسعود الكازروني; d. 1357) on Ibn al-Nafīs' (ابن النفيس; d. 1288) Mūjiz al-Qānūn (موجز القانون), an epitome of Avicenna's (Ibn Sīnā, ابن سينا; d. 1037) Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطبّ). The commentary deals with se...
Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān كتاب حياة الحيوان Damīrī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá دميري، محمد بن موسى
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A zoological encyclopaedia by Kamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Mūsá al-Damīrī (كمال الدين محمد بن موسى الدميري, d. 1405). The work, completed in draft in 773/1371-2 and arranged in alphabetical order, deals not only with strictly zoological material, but also with legal considerations about animals, th...
al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb القانون في الطبّ Avicenna ابن سينا
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Treatises (فنون) Fourteen to Twenty-two of Book Three (كتاب الثالث) of 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). Treatise Eighteen (الفن الثامن عشر) has been erroneous...
This work was gifted (?) to the British Museum Library by a Muhammad Shami on October 10th 1903 and catalogued in 1904. According to a slip of paper pasted on blank recto of first folio "in handwriting of donor", this work is a "book on Reml (Ar. ʻIlm al-Raml, sand divination) and magic and some ...
West African Illuminated copy of the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt
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A finely copied and illuminated West African edition of the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt, a popular prayer book by the Moroccan Muḥammad Ibn Sulaymān Jazūlī (d.1465). The work is illuminated by illuminations on folios 2v, 65v, 77r, 99v, 128r and 147r, many of them consisting of a square of geometric design...
An instruction book for the preparation of amulets, talismans and other supernatural protective devices which the copyist calls kitāb al-balagh al-minan, roughly translated "The Book of Attaining Destiny". Folios 1-4 concern the methods of preparation, while the rest of the work consists of 4x4 n...
Kāmil al-ṣināʿah al-ṭibbīyah كامل الصناعة الطبية Majūsī, ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās مجوسي، علي بن العباس
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Encyclopaedia of the art of medicine. The text is divided into two books (جزئان), the first dealing with theory and the second with practice. Each book is divided into ten chapters (مقالات), which are further subdivided into parts (أبواب). The manuscript appears to previously have been bound in...
On the basis of a brief examination. Dr. Th. G. Th. Pigeaud describes this as a primbon consisting of three or more parts, one part concerns medical lore and legal material; another contains Arabic in Javanese script. The MS seems to be of considerable antiquity. It is written on very thin and d...
al-Ghiná wa-al-muná الغنى والمنى Qumrī, Abū Manṣūr al-Ḥasan ibn Nūḥ قمري، أبو منصور الحسن بن نوح
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Medical compendium by Abū Manṣūr al-Ḥasan ibn Nūḥ al-Qumrī (أبو منصور الحصن بن نوح القمري, fl. 10th century). The text is divided into three treatises (مقالات), each subdivided into chapters (أبواب). A table of contents listing the three treatises and all of their chapters is found on ff. 2r-4r...
