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2041. Or 2411/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2411/1
Title:
Ḥāwī al-mukhtaṣarāt fī al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-muqanṭarāt حاوي المختسرات في العمل بربع المقنطرات Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad سبط المارديني، بدر الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the use of the astrolabe quadrant (ربع المقنطرات) by Badr al-Dīn Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shāfi‘ī al-Miṣrī al-Dimashqī (بدر الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن محمد بن أحمد الشافعي المصري الدمشقي, b. 1423), known as Sibṭ al-Māridīnī (سبط المارديني), timekeeper (موقّت)...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+38+i

2042. Or 2411/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2411/2
Title:
Quadrant ربع
Scope & Content:
Quadrant (رُبْع), comprising an astrolabe quadrant (ربع المُقَنْطَرَات, Side A), and a sine quadrant (ربع المُجَيَّب, Side B). The quadrant is signed by its maker, Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Sharbatlī (أحمد ابن إبراهيم الشربتلي, Side A), and dated 1256/1840-1 (Side B).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1256
Extent:

Instrument

2043. Or 2600

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2600
Title:
Kitāb al-ghādhī wa-al-mughtadhī كتاب الغاذي والمغتذي Ibn Abī al-Ash‘ath, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ابن أبي الأشعث، أحمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Treatise on dietetics and the nourishment of the parts of the body by Abū Ja‘far Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Ash‘ath (أبو جعفر أحمد بن محمد ابن أبي الأشعث; d. 360/970). The text is in two parts (مقالتان), divided into chapters (جمل), and further subdivided into sections (أبواب). This copy is m...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Dhū al-Qa‘dah 348
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+17+xxxiv

2044. Or 2601

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2601
Title:
Composite manuscript, mostly medical
Scope & Content:
A composite volume, consisting of three manuscripts apparently from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The first two are medical texts, and the last is a tale also found in the Thousand Nights and a Night (ألف ليلة وليلة). Contents: (1) Kitāb fīhī ajzā’ min Minhāj al-ṭibb (كتاب فيه أجزاء ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1200-1399
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+88+ii

2045. Or 2601, ff 1r-38v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2601, ff 1r-38v
Title:
Kitāb fīhī ajzā’ min Minhāj al-ṭibb كتاب فيه أجزاء من منهاج الطب
Scope & Content:
Extracts concerning pharmacology from the Minhāj al-bayān fīmā yastaʿmiluhū al-insān (منهاج البيان فيما يستعمله الإنسان) by Abū ‘Alī Yahyá ibn ‘Īsá (أبو علي يحيى ابن عيسى), known as Ibn Jazlah (ابن جزلة; d. 493/1100) and from the Pandects or Kunnāsh (كناش), called here the Nushat al-bīmāristān (...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

Ff. 1r-38v

2046. Or 2601, ff 39r-78v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2601, ff 39r-78v
Title:
al-Irshād li-maṣāliḥ al-anfus wa-al-ajsād الإرشاد لمصالح الأنفس والأجساد Ibn Jumayʿ, Hibat Allāh ibn Zayn ابن جميع، هبة الله بن زين
Scope & Content:
Fragment of a general guide to medicine by al-Muwaffiq Shams al-Riyāsah abū al-‘Ashā’ir Hibat Allāh ibn Zayn (الموفق شمس الرياسة أبو العشائر هبة الله بن زين; d. 1198) known as Ibn Jumay‘ (ابن جميع), personal physician to the sultan of Egypt and Syria Saladin (صلاح الدين الأيوبي; d. 1193). The w...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

Ff. 39r-78v

2047. Or 2601, ff 79r-88v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2601, ff 79r-88v
Title:
Ḥikāyat Zayn al-Mawāṣif wa-mā jarā lahā ma‘a Masrūr al-ʿaṭṭār حكاية زين المواصف وما جرا لها مع مسرور العطار
Scope & Content:
Fragment of the 'Tale of Zayn al-Mawāṣif and Masrūr the Druggist'. The tale is found in The 1001 Nights (ألف ليلة وليلة; see Macnaghten edition, also known as Calcutta II, vol. 4, pp. 190-246), but appears here without the frame-narrative. The narrator of the tale is referred to simply as the st...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

Ff. 79r-88v

2048. Or 2784

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2784
Title:
Kitāb na‘t al-ḥayawān كتاب نعت الحيوان
Scope & Content:
Bestiary describing the characteristics and medical uses of a large number of animals. The anonymous compiler of the work (see f. 95r) claims it is based on writings by Aristotle (أرسطاطاليس; d. 322 BC) and Abū Sa‘īd ‘Ubayd Allāh ibn Jibrā’īl ibn ‘Ubayd Allāh ibn Bakhtīshū‘ ibn Jibrā’īl ibn Bakh...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+258+iii

2049. Or 2805

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2805
Title:
Two medical treatises
Scope & Content:
Composite manuscript comprising two codicological units. Contents: (1) al-Qalānisī (القلانسي), Qarābādīn (aqrābādhīn) (قرابادين [أقراباذين]; ff. 1v-110v); (2) Ibn Hubal (ابن هبل), al-Mukhtār fī al-ṭibb (المختار في الطب; ff. 111r-282r).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
976-988
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+282+iv

2050. Or 2805, ff 1v-110v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2805, ff 1v-110v
Title:
Qarābādīn (aqrābādhīn) قرابادين (أقراباذين) Qalānisī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad قلانسي، بدر الدين محمد
Scope & Content:
Formulary or pharmacopoeia by Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Bahrām ibn Muḥammad al-Qalānisī al-Samarqandī (بدر الدين محمد بن بهرام بن محمد القلانسي السمرقندي, fl. 1194) divided into forty-nine chapters (باب). The chapters are listed with their titles in the preface (f. 2r-2v). The copy was completed...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1 Jumādá II 988
Extent:

Ff. 1v-110v

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