A richly illuminated copy of the Qur'an, probably Hausa. Probably from Nigeria. The writing style is not consistent, changing slightly in size and style throughout. There are some additions and crossings out in a later hand as well as pre-BL repairs, suggesting the book was passed down to several...
Tadhkirat al-Fuqahā’ تذكرة الفقهاء Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī, al-Ḥasan ibn Yūsuf ابن المطهر الحلي، الحسن بن يوسف
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A portion of a compendium of formal legal opinions and decisions on legal cases according to the Shī’ah school of Islamic law by Jamal al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn Yūsuf (جمال الدين الحسن بن يوسف), called Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī (ابن المطهر الحلي). Two parts are bound in one volume: Part 7 (folios 2v-...
‘Ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharā’ib al-mawjūdāt عجائب المخلوقات وغرائب الموجودات Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad قزويني، زكريا بن محمد
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The London Qazwīnī. Encyclopaedic work on cosmology by Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Qazwīnī (زكريا بن محمد بن محمود القزويني, d. 1283). The text is lavishly illustrated with 368 paintings. In the undated colophon (f. 135v, lines 7-8; transcribed below) the anonymous scribe claims to have...
al-Mughnī fī sharḥ al-mūjiz المغني في شرح الموجز 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). For the title see f. 6r, li...
[Sharḥ qaṣīdah fī al-nafs شرح قصيدة في النفس] Āwī, Aḥmad ibn Balkū آوي، أحمد بن بلكو
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Commentary by Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Futūḥ Aḥmad ibn Abī ‘Abd Allāh Balkū ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Āwī (جمال الدين أبو الفتوح أحمد بن أبي عبد الله بلكو بن أبي طالب الآوي, fl. 1320) on the Qaṣīdah on the Soul (قصيدة في النفس), also known as the Qasīḍah Rhyming in ‘Ayn (القصيدة العينية), by Avicenna (Ibn Sīn...
Sharḥ tashrīḥ al-qānūn شرح تشريح القانون Ibn al-Nafīs, ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm ابن النفيس، علي بن أبي الحزم
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Commentary by ‘Alā’ al-Dīn ‘Alī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm al-Qurashī (علاء الدين علي بن أبي الحزم القرشي, d. 1288), known as Ibn al-Nafīs (ابن النفيس), on the anatomical material in Avicenna's (Ibn Sīnā, ابن سينا, d. 1037) Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطب). The copy was completed on 15 Sha‘bān 842/31 ...
A collection of treatises on medicine and pharmacology
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Treatises and excerpts on medicine and pharmacology, four of which are 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). Collections of medical works by al-Samarqandī often circulated in various compilations under the...
Ḥaqāʾiq asrār al-ṭibb حقائق أسرار الطب Sijzī, Masʿūd ibn Muḥammad سجزي، مسعود بن محمد
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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...
