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51. Add MS 7511

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Title:
Kitāb fī ma‘rifat ṭabā’i‘ al-ḥayawān al-barrī wa-al-baḥrī كتاب في معرفة طبائع الحيوان البري والبحري Aristotle أرسطاطاليس
Scope & Content:
This Arabic work on zoology is in fact a compilation of translations of three treatises by Aristotle (384-322 BC). The Arabic text is arranged into 19 books (أقوال), which divide the Aristotelian treatises as follows: Books 1-10 (Historia animalium), Books 11-14 (De partibus animalium), and Book...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13th-14th century
Extent:
Codex; ff. iv+232+iii

52. Add MS 7514

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Title:
Treatise on swordmanship, archery and other military skills [Dhikr al-ʿamal bi-al-sayf] [ذكر العمل بالسيف]
Scope & Content:
Anonymous compendium on military technologies and skills. The manuscript is defective at the beginning and the author's name is unknown. The assumed title 'On Using the Sword' (ذكر العمل بالسف) is taken from a heading on f. 1r. The copy was completed on 9 Rabī' I 739/24 September 1338 by an ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
9 Rabī' al-Awwal 739
Extent:
Codex; ff. iii+65+iii

53. Add MS 7515

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Title:
Kitāb fī al-shaṭranj wa-manṣūbātihi wa-mulaḥih كتاب في الشطرنج ومنصوباته وملحه
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Anonymous handbook on chess, dealing with its legality, origins, symbolism, classes of players, poetry in praise of chess, poetry to be recited at various stages of play, and chess techniques. The sections on techniques cover chess problems (منصوبات), openings (تعبيات) and puzzles (مخارق). For a...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
6 Jumādá II 655
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+132+i

54. Add MS 7527

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Title:
Three treatises on natural philosophy and medicine
Scope & Content:
(1) Sākhīyūs al-Qass (ساخيوس القس), Tafsīr kitāb al-ʿilal (تفسير كتاب العلل; ff. 2v-170r); (2) Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا), Risālah fī tadbīr safar al-ḥajj (رسالة في تدبير سفر الحج; ff. 171v-185v); (3) Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا), Kitāb fī ʿilal al-shaʿr (كتاب في علل الشعر; ff. 186v-194r)....
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1097
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+194+i

55. Add MS 7527, ff 2v-170r

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Title:
Tafsīr kitāb al-ʿilal تفسير كتاب العلل Sākhīyūs al-Qass ساخيوس القس
Scope & Content:
Compendium of natural philosophy attributed to the Greek Pythagorean sage Apollonius of Tyana (Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Τυανεύς, here transliterated بلينوس, fl. 1st century). The text is presented as a translation and commentary by a certain priest Sākhīyūs resident at Nablus (ساخيوس القس الذي منزل بنابلس; ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Rabī‘ II 1097
Extent:

Ff. 2v-170r

56. Add MS 7527, ff 171v-185v

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Title:
Risālah fī tadbīr safar al-ḥajj رسالة في تدبير سفر الحج Qusṭā ibn Lūqā قسطا بن لوقا
Scope & Content:
Treatise on hygiene and diet for pilgrims by Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا; ca 820-912) written for the vizier Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Makhlad ibn al-Jarrāḥ (أبو محمد الحسن بن مخلد بن الجراح, d. 882). The treatise is also known by the title Treatise on the Regimen of Bodies During Travel for Sa...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Jumādá I 1097
Extent:

Ff. 171v-185v

57. Add MS 7527, ff 186v-194r

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Title:
Kitāb fī ʿilal al-shaʿr كتاب في علل الشعر Qusṭā ibn Lūqā قسطا بن لوقا
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the causes of the growth, lack and diseases of hair by Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا; ca 820-912) written for the vizier Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Makhlad ibn al-Jarrāḥ (أبو محمد الحسن بن مخلد بن الجراح, d. 882). The treatise is divided into twelve chapters (باب), which are listed on...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1097
Extent:

Ff. 186v-194r

58. Add MS 9589

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Title:
Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār, vols. 14 and 15 مسالك الأبصار في ممالك الأمصار، السفر ١٤ والسفر ١٥ Ibn Faḍl Allāh al-ʻUmarī ابن فضل الله العمري
Scope & Content:
A section of Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār (مسالك الأبصار في ممالك الأمصار), a 27-volume geographical, historical and biographical compendium by Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá Ibn Faḍl Allāh al-ʻUmarī (أحمد بن يحي بن فضل الله العمري, d. 1349). The present copy corresponds to volume 14 in which al-ʻ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+250+i

59. Add MS 9596

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Title:
Natījat al-ijtihād fī al-muhādanah wa-al-jihād نتيجة الاجتهاد في المهادنة والجهاد Ghazzāl, Aḥmad ibn al-Mahdī غزال، أحمد بن المهدي
Scope & Content:
First-person travel narrative by Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn al-Mahdī al-Ghazzāl al-Fāsī al-Andalusī al-Mālaqī (أبو العباس أحمد بن المهدي الغزال الفاسي الأندلسي المالقي, d. 1777), ambassador and secretary under the ʿAlawī sultan Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh (Muḥammad III; محمد بن عبد الله, reg. 1757-90)....
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1767-1777
Extent:

Codex; ff. v+120+v

60. Add MS 9598

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Title:
A collection of treatises on astronomical instruments and their use
Scope & Content:
Composite volume containing fourteen texts on astronomy and the construction and use of astronomical instruments. All the texts are copied in various Maghribī hands, and a number are by Maghribī authors. The volume itself is assembled from sections dating to over a 300-year period between 9 Mu...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
903-1199
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+158+i+24+ii

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