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2211. Or 8254

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8254
Title:
Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ رسائل إخوان الصفاء Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ إخوان الصفاء
Scope & Content:
The second volume (المجلد الثاني, probably of an original three) of the well-known Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ (رسائل إخوان الصفاء, Epistles of the Brethren of Purity), compiled by an anonymous group calling themselves Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ wa Khullān al-Wafāʾ ( إخوان الصفاء وخلان الوفاء, Brethren of Puri...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
644
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+279+i

2212. Or 8293

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8293
Title:
Aqrābādhīn madīnat al-salam أقراباذين مدينة السلم Ibn al-Tilmīdh, Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣā‘id ابن التلميذ، هبة الله بن صاعد and other pharmaceutical texts
Scope & Content:
The manuscript was completed in 625 AH/AD 1227-28 by ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Alī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥalabī (علي بن أبي طالب بن علي بن علي بن علي بن الحسين الحلبي), probably at Baghdad (see title page f. 2v, lines 6-9, transcribed below). Title page (f. 2v, lines 1-9): إقراباذين...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
625
Extent:
Codex; ff. i+170+ii

2213. Or 8293, f 170v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8293, f 170v
Title:
Three medical prescriptions
Scope & Content:
On f. 170v a hand other than that of the main scribe, ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Ḥalabī, probably that of one of the manuscript’s owners, has copied out three prescriptions: (1) a tested remedy for haemorrhoids taken from Ibn al-Ḥadhdhā; (2) ‘hospital dried fruit (al-nuqū‘ al-māristānī)’; and (3) an ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
625
Extent:

f. 170v

2214. Or 8293, ff 2r-128v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8293, ff 2r-128v
Title:
Aqrābādhīn madīnat al-salam أقراباذين مدينة السلم Ibn al-Tilmīdh, Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣā‘id ابن التلميذ، هبة الله بن صاعد
Scope & Content:
The medical formulary of Amīn al-Dawlah Abū al-Ḥasan Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣā‘id (أمين الدولة أبو الحسن هبة الله بن صاعد) known as Ibn al-Tilmīdh (ابن التلميذ, d. 560 AH/AD 1165), chief physician at the ‘Aḍudī Hospital in Baghdad, and later court physician to the Abbasid Caliph al-Muqtafī (المقتفي, re...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
625
Extent:

ff. 2r-128v

2215. Or 8293, ff 129v-170r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8293, ff 129v-170r
Title:
Collection of medical extracts and prescriptions
Scope & Content:
This collection begins (ff. 129v-163v) with prescriptions similar in style and format to those of the Aqrābādhīn of Ibn al-Tilmīdh, and at least one is said to have been chosen by Ibn al-Tilmīdh (اختاره أمين الدولة; f. 151v, line 3). Next is a ‘selection from Galen’s Substitutions [مختار من أبدا...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
625
Extent:

ff. 129v-170r

2216. Or 8294

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8294
Title:
Quwá al-adwīyah قوى الأدوية Ibn al-Tilmīdh, Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣāʿid ابن التلميذ، هبة الله بن صاعد
Scope & Content:
Handbook on the potencies of materia medica by Amīn al-Dawlah Abū al-Ḥasan Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣā‘id (أمين الدولة أبو الحسن هبة الله بن صاعد) known as Ibn al-Tilmīdh (ابن التلميذ, d. 1165), chief physician at the ‘Aḍudī Hospital in Baghdad, and later court physician to the Abbasid Caliph al-Muqtafī ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
15 Shawwāl 654
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+224+i

2217. Or 8296

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8296
Title:
Taḥṣīl al-ṣiḥḥah bi-al-asbāb al-sittah تحصيل الصحة بالأسباب الستة Tiflīsī, Ḥubaysh ibn Ibrāhīm تفليسي، حبيش بن إبراهيم
Scope & Content:
Treatise on hygiene by means of the six non-natural causes of health and disease by Abū al-Faḍl Ḥubaysh ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Tiflīsī (أبو الفضل حبيش بن إبراهيم بن محمد التفليسي, fl. ca 1200). The manuscript is defective at beginning and end. Begins (f. 1r, lines 1-4, defective at beginn...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13th century-14th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+179+i

2218. Or 8349

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8349
Title:
Kitāb al-tafhīm li-awā’il ṣinā‘at al-tanjīm كتاب التفهيم لأوائل صناعة التنجيم Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad بيروني، محمد بن أحمد
Scope & Content:
Comprehensive introduction to the principles of astrology by Abū al-Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī (أبو الريحان محمد بن أحمد البيروني, ca 973-1048). The text is written in question and answer format (على طريق المسئلة والجواب, f. 2v, line 8), and it deals with the sciences needed by the astr...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
839
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+159+ii

2219. Or 8350

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8350
Title:
Talkhīṣ al-Āthār تلخيص الآثار Bakuwī, ʿAbd al-Rashīd ibn Ṣāliḥ بكوي، عبد الرشيد بن صالح
Scope & Content:
Acephalous copy of an abstract by ʿAbd al-Rashīd ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Bakuwī (عبد الرشيد بن صالح البكوي, active 14th-15th centuries) of Monuments of places and reports of the peoples (آثار البلاد وأخبار العباد) by Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Qazwīnī (زكريا بن محمد بن محمود القزويني, d. 1283). To...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
11 Ramaḍān 803
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+107+ii

2220. Or 8415

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8415
Title:
Four treatises on astronomy
Scope & Content:
Collection of four treatises on astronomy copied between 15 (?) Dhū al-Qa‘dah 1226/1 (?) December 1811 and 20 Jumādá I 1227/29 (?) May 1812 by Muḥammad Muḥsin ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Dawrī (محمد محسن بن محمد صالح بن محي الدين الدوري, see ff. 1r, 235r, 245v, and 255v), Qāḍī at Ūrdá...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1226-1227
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+257+ii

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