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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14155, ff 1r-37v
Title:: Ḥaqāʾiq asrār al-ṭibb حقائق أسرار الطب Sijzī, Masʿūd ibn Muḥammad سجزي، مسعود بن محمد
Scope & Content:: An introduction to medicine and compendium of medical terminology in three chapters (funūn), each subdivided into sections (aqsām) and headings (fusūl), by Masʿūd ibn Muḥammad al-Sijzī (مسعود بن محمد السجزي, fl. before 1334). The treatise, the title of which is given in the preface (f. 1v, line...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: ca 1576
Extent:: Ff. 1r-37v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14155, ff 38r-68r
Title:: Uṣūl al-tarākīb أصول التراكيب Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī نجيب الدين السمرقندي، محمد بن علي
Scope & Content:: Content: Treatise on pharmacology by Najīb al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Samarqandī (نجيب الدين أبو حامد محمد بن علي بن عمر السمرقندي, d. 1222). The copy was made during Rabīʿ I 984 (May-June 1576) (see colophon, f. 68r, lines 9-10, transcribed below). The treatise comprises ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Rabīʿ I 984
Extent:: Ff. 38r-68r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14155, ff 68v-80v
Title:: Dhikr al-adwiyah al-mufradah ذكر الأدوية المفردة Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī نجيب الدين السمرقندي، محمد بن علي
Scope & Content:: Inventory of pharmaceutical ingredients, arranged in alphabetical order. Each entry includes the item's humoral properties and uses. This is followed by a short list of laxative ingredients and preparations (في ذكر الأدوية المسهلة, f. 78r-80v) and two pages of medical recipes and notes in Arabic...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 984
Extent:: Ff. 68v-80v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14155, ff 82r-98v
Title:: Kitāb aghdhiyat al-marḍá كتاب أغذية المرضى Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī نجيب الدين السمرقندي، محمد بن علي
Scope & Content:: Treatise on dietetics for patients suffering from a range of ailments, given as headings in the text, by Najīb al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Samarqandī (نجيب الدين أبو حامد محمد بن علي بن عمر السمرقندي, d. 1222). The copy was made in Rabīʿ II 984/June-July 1576 (see colophon, f...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Rabīʿ II 984
Extent:: Ff. 82r-98v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14155, ff 99v-163v
Title:: al-Qarābādhīn ʿalá tartīb al-ʿilal القراباذين على ترتيب العلل Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī نجيب الدين السمرقندي، محمد بن علي
Scope & Content:: Treatise on pharmacopoeia arranged head to toe by ailment by Najīb al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Samarqandī (نجيب الدين أبو حامد محمد بن علي بن عمر السمرقندي, d. 1222). 　 Begins (f. 99v, lines 2-6): الحمد لله رب العالمين حمد الشاكرين والصلوة على رسوله محمد وآله أجمعين كتاب ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1576
Extent:: Ff. 99v-163v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14221
Title:: An anonymous treatise on the interpretation of dreams
Scope & Content:: A manual on the interpretation of dreams. The scribe (and 'compiler'?: كاتبه ومحرّره ) is ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Rahmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Muqrī al-Ḥanafī (عبد الله بن عبد الرحمن بن عبد الله المقري الحنفي, see colophon, f. 477r, lines 8-17, transcribed below). The date of copying (تبع [!] مائة) c...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 719
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+477+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14270
Title:: Three technological treatises
Scope & Content:: Volume containing three technological treatises: Kitāb Arshimīdas fī ‘amal al-binkamāt (كتاب أرشميدس في عمل البنكامات, ff. 2v-14r); Apollonius the carpenter and geometer (أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي), San‘at al-zāmir (صنعة الزامر, ff. 14r-21r); Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad (فرغاني، أحمد بن محمد), a...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 28 Shawwāl 691
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+73+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14270, ff 2v-14r
Title:: Kitāb Arshimīdas fī ‘amal al-binkamāt كتاب أرشميدس في عمل البنكامات Archimedes أرشميدس
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the hydraulic and pneumatic machinery of water-clocks with eighteen diagrams, attributed to Archimedes (Ἀρχιμήδης; أرشميدس; fl. 3rd century BC). The title page gives the title wrongly as كتاب أرشميدس في عمل الساعات (Kitāb Arshimīdas fī ‘amal al-sā‘āt). This early known copy of the te...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 28 Shawwāl 691
Extent:: ff. 2v-14r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14270, ff 14r-21r
Title:: San‘at al-zāmir صنعة الزامر Apollonius the carpenter and geometer أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the design and construction of an hydraulic flute playing machine. The treatise is attributed to 'Apollonius the carpenter and geometer (أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي)', who some have identified as the geometer Apollonius of Perga (Ἀπολλώνιος; أبلونيوس; fl ca 200 BC). The text in this copy...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 28 Shawwāl 691
Extent:: Ff. 14r-21r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14270, ff 21v-73r
Title:: al-Kāmil fī ṣan‘at al-asṭurlāb al-shimālī wa-al-junūbī wa-‘ilalihuma bi-l-handasah wa-al-ḥisab الكامل في صنعة الأسطرلاب الشمالي والجنوبي وعللهما بالهندسة والحساب Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr فرغاني، أحمد بن محمد بن كثير
Scope & Content:: Earliest known Arabic treatise on the construction of the astrolabe, by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Farghānī (أحمد بن محمد الفرغاني; fl. ca 820-860). The text contains seventy-two diagrams and tables: Geometric diagram (f. 22v); Geometric diagram (f. 24r); Geometric diagram (f. 24v); Geometric diagra...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 28 Shawwāl 691
Extent:: ff. 21v-73r

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