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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11211
Title:: Ghāyat al-itqān fī tadbīr badan al-insān غاية الاتقان في تدبير بدن الإنسان Ḥalabī, Ṣāliḥ Naṣr Allāh ibn Sallūm حلبي، صالح نصر الله بن سلوم
Scope & Content:: Book One (الكتاب الأول) of a medical compendium on pharmacognosy by Ṣāliḥ ibn Naṣr Allāh ibn Sallūm al-Ḥalabī (صالح بن نصر الله بن سلوم الحلبي, d. 1669), personal physician to the Ottoman sultan Mehmet IV (محمد رابع, reg. 1648-87). The subject of Book One is diseases and their therapies. ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+236+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11213
Title:: Kitāb al-bāhīyah wa-al-tarkībāt al-Sulṭānīyah كتاب الباهية والتركيبات السلطانية Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي, نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: A short work on medicine composed upon request, as the author Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274) relates in the preface, in response to the ailments of unidentified prince (see preface, f. 1r, line 9-2r, line 1). Its 18 short chapters (أبواب) co...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+31+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11247
Title:: Risālat al-shifāʾ li-adwāʾ al-wabāʾ رسالة الشفاء لأدواء الوباء Ṭāshkubrīʹzādah, Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafá طاشكبريزاده، أحمد بن مصطفى
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the prevention and cure of plague by the Ottoman polymath ʿIṣām al-Dīn Abū al-Khayr Aḥmad ibn Muṣliḥ al-Dīn Muṣṭafá Ṭāshkubrīʹzādah (عصام الدين أبو الخير أحمد بن مصلح الدين مصطفى طاشكبريزاده, Taşköprīzāde, d. 1561). The text is divided into the following sections, of which all but t...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+74+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11314
Title:: al-Amān min akhṭār al-asfār wa-al-azmān الأمان من أخطار الأسفار والأزمان Ibn Ṭāwūs, ‘Alī ibn Mūsá ابن طاووس، علي بن موسى
Scope & Content:: Handbook on health and medicine for use while travelling or at home, divided into 14 chapters (أبواب) by Raḍī al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim ‘Alī ibn Mūsá ibn ibn Ja‘far ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭāwūs al-‘Alawī al-Fāṭimī (رضي الدين أبو القاسم علي بن موسى بن جعفر بن محمد بن محمد الطاووس العلوي الفاطمي; ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 28 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1092
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+138+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11591
Title:: al-Ishārah ilá ‘ilm al-ʿibārah الإشارة إلى علم العبارة Sālimī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad سالمي، محمد بن أحمد
Scope & Content:: A manual on dream interpretation in fifty sections (باب), by Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Sālimī ibn ‘Umar al-Sālimī (أبو عبد الله محمد بن أحمد السالمي بن عمر السالمي, d. 1398). The copy was completed in the evening of 13 Muḥarram 855/14 February 1451 by the scribe ‘Īd ibn Muhannā’ ibn ‘...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 13 Muḥarram 855
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+126+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11613
Title:: Sharḥ masāʾil fī al-ṭibb شرح مسائل في الطب Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-Nīsābūrī, Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī ابن أبي صادق النيسابوري، أبو القاسم عبد الرحمن بن علي
Scope & Content:: Volume One (الجزء الأول) of a commentary by Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-Nīsābūrī (أبو القاسم عبد الرحمن بن علي ابن أبي صادق النيسابوري, d. ca 1068) on the Questions on Medicine for Students (المسائل في الطب للمتعلّمين) by Abū Zayd Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+167+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11614
Title:: al-Jāmiʿ fī al-adwīyah al-mufradah الجامع في الأدوية المفردة Ibn Samajūn, Ḥāmid حامد، ابن سمجون
Scope & Content:: Part Two (الجزء الثاني) of a multi-volume work on materia medica by Abū Bakr Ḥāmid ibn Samajūn (أبو بكر حامد بن سمجون, fl. ca 1000). The work, also known as the Compendium of Statements of the Ancient and Modern Physicians and Philosophers on Simple Drugs (الجامع لأقوال القدماء والمتحدثين من الأ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+201+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11615
Title:: Quwá al-adwiyah al-mufradah قوى الأدوية المفردة Ibn Abī al-Ash‘ath, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ابن أبي الأشعث، أحمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Volume One (الجزء الأول) of a compendium on materia medica by Abū Ja‘far Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Ash‘ath (أبو جعفر أحمد بن محمد ابن أبي الأشعث; d. 970). In the preface (f. 7v), the author states that the text is divided into three treatises (مقالات), but the manuscript is defective at the...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+190+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11857
Title:: Qānūn al-idrāk fī tashrīḥ al-aflāk قانون الإدراك في تشريح الأفلاك Tankābunī, Muḥammad Kāẓim تنكابني، محمد كاظم
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Muḥammad Kāẓim ibn ‘Abd al-‘Alī al-Tankābunī (محمد كاظم عبد العلي التنكابني, d. after 1623-4, see al-Amīn, Mustadrakāt a‘yān al-shī‘ah, vol 2, p. 308) on the Anatomy of the Spheres (تشريح الأفلاك) by al-Tankābunī''s teacher Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محم...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 8 Rajab 1033
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+160+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11864
Title:: Kitāb al-Tashīl wa-al-taqrīb fī al-ḥall wa-al-tarkīb كتاب التسهيل والتقريب في الحل والتركيب Majdī, Aḥmad ibn Rajab مجدي، أحمد بن رجب
Scope & Content:: Astronomical handbook also known more fully as Simplification and Clarification Concerning Analysis and Compilation (التسهيل والتقريب في بيان طرق الحل والتركيب) on the calculation of planetary trajectories, by the Cairene astronomer and muwaqqit (timekeeper) Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 10 Jumādá II 886
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+47

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