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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9639, ff 114r-120v
Title:: Kashf al-astār ʿan ʿilm ḥurūf al-ghubār كشف الأستار عن علم حروف الغبار Qalaṣādī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad قلصادي، علي بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Opening of a treatise on making arithmetical calculations by means of a dust board (takht) and the so-called 'dust numbers' (ḥurūf al-ghubār, see f. 114r, line 14). The text is a précis of the author's own Kashf maʿānī al-jilbāb ʿan ʿilm al-ḥisāb, (اقتطفتها من كتابي المسمي بكشف معاني الجلباب عن ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: ca 1654
Extent:: Ff. 114r-120v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9690
Title:: Kitāb al-ishārāt fī ʿilm al-ʿibārāt كتاب الإشارات في علم العبارات Ibn Shāhīn, Khalīl ابن شاهين، خليل
Scope & Content:: Manual of dream interpretation in eighty chapters (أبواب) by the mamluk historian Ghars al-Dīn Khalīl ibn Shāhīn al-Ẓāhirī (غرس الدين خليل بن شاهين الظاهري, d. 1468). A list of the chapters with their title and the folio on which they begin is given on ff. 4v-6v On the title page (f. 2r) and on...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+278+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 10461
Title:: Kitāb al-filāḥah كتاب الفلاحة Ibn al-ʻAwwām, Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad ابن العوام، يحيى بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Comprehensive treatise on agriculture by the Andalusian agronomist Abū Zakariyā Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ishbīlī (أبو زكريا يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد الإشبيلي, fl. late 12th century?), known as Ibn al-ʻAwwām (ابن العوام). The copy was made by an anonymous Spanish Arabist, reputedly from Madri...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+205+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11559
Title:: A collection of twenty-six Druze texts
Scope & Content:: Part two of a collection of Druze texts in four volumes. This volume contains twenty-six texts. The other volumes are Add MS 11558, Add MS 11560, Add MS 11562.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: Codex; ff.105

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11560
Title:: Collection of fifteen Druze texts
Scope & Content:: Part three of a collection of Druze texts in four volumes. This volume contains fifteen texts. The other volumes are Add MS 11558, Add MS 11559, Add MS 11562.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. 105

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12187
Title:: Tadhkirat ūlī al-albāb wa-al-jāmi‘ lil-‘ajb al-‘ujāb تذكرة أولي الألباب والجامع للعجب للعجاب Anṭākī, Dāwūd ibn ‘Umar أنطاكي، داوود بن عمر and three other short medical texts
Scope & Content:: A copy of the medical encyclopaedia Tadhkirat ūlī al-albāb wa-al-jāmi‘ lil-‘ajb al-‘ujāb (تذكرة أولي الألباب والجامع للعجب للعجاب) by Dāwūd ibn ‘Umar al-Anṭākī (داوود بن عمر الأنطاكي; d. 1599). The encyclopaedia is accompanied by three other short medical texts. The manuscript was copied in 183...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1838
Extent:: Codex; ff. vi+330+viii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12187, ff 3v-324v
Title:: Tadhkirat ūlī al-albāb wa-al-jāmi‘ lil-‘ajb al-‘ujāb تذكرة أولي الألباب والجامع للعجب للعجاب Anṭākī, Dāwūd ibn ‘Umar أنطاكي، داوود بن عمر
Scope & Content:: A copy of the medical encyclopaedia Tadhkirat ūlī al-albāb wa-al-jāmi‘ lil-‘ajb al-‘ujāb (تذكرة أولي الألباب والجامع للعجب للعجاب) by Dāwūd al-Ḍarīr ibn ‘Umar al-Anṭākī (داوود الضرير بن عمر الأنطاكي; d. 1599). The title page to the text (f. 3r, line 5) calls the author al-Qaṣīr (القصير, 'the sho...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1838
Extent:: ff. 3v-324v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12187, ff 325r-326r
Title:: Anonymous notes on the medical properties of foods
Scope & Content:: Anonymous notes on the medical properties of foods drawn from various medical books (من بعض كتب الطب). The manuscript was copied in 1838, in Cairo, by the scribe Ayyūb of Nazareth (see colophon to item four, f. 330, lines 9-13). Begins (f. 325r, lines 2-5): الحلو حار إلا أنه ليس يقوى الحرارة...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1838
Extent:: ff. 325r-326r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12187, ff 326r-327v
Title:: Kitāb al-buthūr fī ‘alāmāt al-mawt كتاب البثور في علامات الموت Hippocrates بقراط
Scope & Content:: The Kitāb al-buthūr fī ‘alāmāt al-mawt (كتاب البثور في علامات الموت) is the Arabic version of a pseudo-Hippocratic text known as the Ἱπποκράτους νοήματά τε καὶ σημειώσεις περὶ ζωῆς καὶ θανάτου. A Latin version made from the Arabic exists, and is known variously as the Secreta Hippocratis due to ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1838
Extent:: ff. 326r-327v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12187, ff 327v-330r
Title:: Extracts from the Canon [of Medicine] نقل من القانون Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: A collection of extracts from Avicenna's (ابن سينا, Ibn Sīnā; 980-1037) Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطب). The manuscript was copied in 1838, in Cairo, by the scribe Ayyūb of Nazareth (see colophon, f. 330, lines 9-13, transcribed below). Begins (f. 327v, lines 2-5): مرهم نافع للخنازير جيد ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1838
Extent:: ff. 327v-330r

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