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Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel Or 10, ff 105v-108v
Title:: Untitled work on the virtues and uses of the letters Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥarālī أبو الحسن الحرالي
Scope & Content:: A short, untitled treatise on the properties and uses of the letters and associated magical practices. The treatise is attributed to Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥarālī, who may be identical with the author of works on astronomical instruments Abū al-Ḥasan (or al-Ḥasan ibn) ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Marrākūshī (d. c...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 711-712
Extent:: ff. 105v-108v (foliation reversed)

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel Or 10, ff 109r-123r
Title:: al-Maqālah al-Amīnīyah fī faṣad al-‘urūq المقالة الأمينية في فصد العروق Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: This treatise on venesection (i.e. bloodletting; فصد) is usually attributed to Abū al-Ḥasan Hibat Allāh ibn al-Tilmīdh (أبو الحسن هبة الله بن التلميذو, d. 594 AH/AD 1154 or 560 AH/AD 1165), and the word Amīnīyah (‘of Amīn’) is taken to refer to Ibn al-Tilmidh’s laqab, Amīn al-Dawlah. The treatis...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 711-712
Extent:: ff. 109r-123r

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel Or 10, ff 124r-174r
Title:: Maqālat al-ḥudūd wa-al-furūq مقالة الحدود والفروق Sa‘īd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Hasan سعيد بن هبة الله بن الحسن
Scope & Content:: A treatise in which technical terms relating to philosophy and theoretical medicine are defined. The author's name is usually given as Abū al-Ḥasan Sa‘īd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn (أبو الحسن سعيد بن هبة الله بن الحسين, d. 1101). The text was copied in late Sha‘bān 711/early January 1312. T...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 711-712
Extent:: ff. 124r-174r

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel Or 14
Title:: al-Ḥāwī fī al-ṭibb الحاوي في الطب Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā رازي، أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا
Scope & Content:: Parts (أجزاء) eight, nine, and ten of the Kitāb al-Ḥāwī (كتاب الحاوي, Liber continens), an encyclopaedic medical compendium by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرأزي; d. ca 925). The volume comprises two separate codicological units (manuscripts): Parts Eight and...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 14th and 15th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+415+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel Or 14, ff 1r-274v
Title:: al-Juz’ al-thāmin wa-al-juz’ al-tāsi‘ min al-ḥāwī fī al-ṭibb الجزء الثامن والجزء التاسع من الحاوي في الطب Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā رازي، أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا
Scope & Content:: Parts Eight and Nine (الجزء الثامن والجزء التاسع) of the Kitāb al-Ḥāwī (كتاب الحاوي, Liber continens), an encyclopaedic medical compendium by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرأزي; d. ca 925). The title page (f. 3r) gives the following title: الجزء الثامن من كتاب...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: c 711
Extent:: Ff. 1r-274v

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel Or 14, ff 275r-415v
Title:: al-Juz’ al-‘āshir min kitāb al-ḥāwī fī al-ṭibb الجزء العاشر من كتاب الحاوي في الطب Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā رازي، أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا
Scope & Content:: Part Ten (الجزء العاشر) of the Kitāb al-Ḥāwī (كتاب الحاوي, Liber continens), an encyclopaedic medical compendium by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرأزي; d. ca 925). Begins (f. 275, lines 2-6): فيما يسهل الولاد ويطرح الجنين والمشيمة ويمنع من الحبل وتدبير النفسا...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Ff. 275r-415v

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel Or 17
Title:: كتاب اختصار الستة عشر لجالينوس تلخيص يحيى النحوي Kitāb ikhtiṣār al-sittat ‘ashr li-Jālīnūs talkhīṣYahyá al-Naḥwī
Scope & Content:: Epitome of the Sixteen Books of Galen, treatises by Galen for beginners selected to form the primary medical curriculum in late-antique Alexandria. The title page (f. 2) reads: كتاب اختصار الست عشر لجالينوس تلخيص يحيى النحوي ('Epitome of the Sixteen Books by Galen summarised by Yaḥyá the grammar...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 615
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii.141.iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel Or 35
Title:: Sharḥ al-asbāb wa-al-ʿalāmāt شرح الأسباب والعلامات Nafīs ibn ʿIwaḍ نفيس بن عوض
Scope & Content:: A copy, incomplete at the beginning, of a commentary by Nafīs ibn ʿIwaḍ al-Kirmānī (نفيس بن عوض الكرماني; d. approximately 1449) on Causes and Indications (الأسباب والعلامات; see Or. 5687), a medical reference work on the causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of diseases compiled by Najīb al...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Shawwāl 981
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+346+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel Or 41
Title:: Firdaws al-ḥikmah فردوس الحكمة Ṭabarī, ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban طبري، علي بن سهل ربن
Scope & Content:: Encyclopedia of medicine by the Persian physician ʿAlī ibn Sahl ibn Rabban al-Ṭabarī (810- c 855). This undated copy was produced by a maghribī scribe, probably in the late 13th century as suggested by Hebrew and Arabic ownership inscriptions (f. 2r) dateable to early fourteenth-century Georgia ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+276+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel Or 52
Title:: Ars medica (Ars parva) الصناعة الصغيرة Galen جالينوس With commentary by Abū al-Faraj ‘Abd Allāh Ibn al-Ṭayyib (أبو الفرج عبد الله بن الطيب)
Scope & Content:: A copy of Galen''s Τέχνη ἰατρική (Ars medica) in the Arabic version thought to be by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī. In Arabic, the text is called الصناعة الصغيرة (Ars parva). The text is accompanied by a commentary by Abū al-Faraj ‘Abd Allāh Ibn al-Ṭayyib (أبو الفرج عبد الله بن الطيب). The copy is ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 448
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+114+ii

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