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2291. Or 11875

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11875
Title:
Fātiḥat al-ʿulūm فاتحة العلوم Ghazzālī غزالي
Scope & Content:
A treatise on knowledge, and on the value, classification and study of the sciences and the required qualities of the scholar, in seven sections (باب), by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī al-Ghazzāli (أبو حامد محمد بن محمد الطوسي الغزّالي), also known as al-Ghazālī (الغزالي, latinised as ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
7 Shawwāl 833
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+49+i

2292. Or 11888

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11888
Title:
al-Kashf wa-al-bayān ʿammā yataʿallaq bi-al-nisyān الكشف والبيان عما يتعلق بالنسيان al-Nābulusī, ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʿīl النابلسي، عبد الغني ابن اسماعيل
Scope & Content:
The Damascene litterateur ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʿīl al-Nābulusī (عبد الغني ابن اسماعيل النابلسي, b. 1641, d.1731) composed this short treatise on forgetfulness ( الكشف والبيان عما يتعلق بالنسيان, f. 1r, line 1 and f. 3r, line 2) following his Ḥajj journey of 1694. A carefully-organised compilati...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

ff. xxxiv+20+ii

2293. Or 12150

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12150
Title:
Two treatises on medicine
Scope & Content:
Contents: (1) Ibn al-Masīḥī (ابن المسيحي), Kitāb al-iqtiḍāb al-majmūʿ ʿalá ṭarīq al-masʾalah wa-l-jawāb ( كتاب الاقتضاب المجموع على طريق المسألة والجواب, ff. 2v-57v); (2) Muhadhdhab al-Dīn al-Dakhwār (مهذب الدين الدخوار), Sharḥ Kitāb Taqdimat al-maʿrifah li-Abuqrāṭ (شرح كتاب تقدمة المعرفة لأب...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+140

2294. Or 12150, ff 2v-57v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12150, ff 2v-57v
Title:
Kitāb al-iqtiḍāb al-majmūʿ ʿalā ṭarīq al-masʾalah wa-l-jawāb كتاب الاقتضاب المجموع على طريق المسألة والجواب Ibn al-Masīḥī, Saʻīd ibn Abī al-Khayr ابن المسيحي، سعيد بن أبي الخير
Scope & Content:
A compendium of medicine composed in a question and answer format, by Saʻīd ibn Abī al-Khayr ibn ʿIsá al-Ṭabīb al-Masīḥī (سعيد بن أبي الخير بن عيسى الطبيب المسيحي, b. 1177, d. 1259 or 1260). Ibn al-Masīḥī was famous for healing the caliph al-Nāṣir (الناصر, reg. 1180–1225) from a serious illnes...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:

Ff. 2v-57v

2295. Or 12150, ff 58r-139v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12150, ff 58r-139v
Title:
Muhadhdhab al-Dīn al-Dakhwār, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn ʻAlī مهذب الدين الدخوار، عبد الرحيم بن علي Sharḥ Kitāb Taqdimat al-maʿrifah li-Abuqrāṭ شرح كتاب تقدمة المعرفة لأبقراط
Scope & Content:
A commentary on the Kitāb taqdimat al-maʿrifah li-Abuqrāṭ (كتاب تقدمة المعرفة لأبقراط), a translation of the Prognosticon of Hippocrates (أبقراط, d. ca 370 BC), probably by the physician and translator Abū Zayd Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī (أبو زيد حنين بن إسحق العبادي, d. 873). The text of the ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:

Ff. 58r-139v

2296. Or 12151

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12151
Title:
al-Mufradāt المفردات Shāhīn ibn Jirjis شاهين بن جرجس
Scope & Content:
Treatise on medicine and diatetics mostly composed of 115 tables (ff. 26r-141r). The work is preceded by an introduction to the tables and general medical principles. Tables of synonymous drug names are found on ff. 144r-152r. The tables at least are attributed to the otherwise unknown Shāhīn ib...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+152+v

2297. Or 12152

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12152
Title:
Kitāb anīs al-jalīs fī kull ḥadīth nafīs كتاب أنيس الجليس في كل حديث نفيس Najjār, Ibrāhīm ibn Khalīl النجار، إبراهيم بن خليل
Scope & Content:
Pharmacological handbook, re-bound out of order and with sections missing. The text is organised into chapters (فصول) on major ingredients and on effective categories of drugs, and records recipes for medications such as pills (حبوب), drops (قطرة), gargles (غرغرة), ointments (مرهم), oral draught...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1845-1864
Extent:

ff. iv+128+iv

2298. Or 12802

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12802
Title:
Kitāb al-aḥkām ‘alá al-nisbah al-falakīyah كتاب الأحكام على النسبة الفلكية Sahl ibn Bishr سهل بن بشر
Scope & Content:
A treatise on interrogatory astrology by Abū ‘Uthmān Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isrā’īlī (أبو عثمان سهل بن بشر الإسرائيلي; AD 786-c 845). The copy was produced by an anonymous scribe on the night of 5 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1093 (5 December 1682). Folio 45r contains an astrological table written by a hand that a...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
5 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1093
Extent:

Codex; ff. iii+45+iii

2299. Or 12830

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12830
Title:
Ghars al-anshāb fī al-ramy bi-al-nushshāb غرس الأنشاب في الرمي والنشاب Suyūṭī سيوطي
Scope & Content:
A compilation of hadiths, reports, verses and comments on the subject of archery by the prolific Egyptian jurist and historian Jalāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Suyūṭī (جلال الدين عبد الرحمن بن أبي بكر السيوطي, d. 1505). This work (see title on ff. 1r, line 2, and 1v, line 7) c...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
4 Muḥarram 918
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+35+xviii

2300. Or 13006

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13006
Title:
Compendium of alchemical treatises in Arabic, Persian and Ottoman
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises two manuscripts. The first (ff. 3-112) was the notebook of Qudrat Allāh al-Marandī al-Ādharī, who copied into it thirteen alchemical texts between 919 AH/AD 1513 and 925 AH/AD 1519, first at Fez and then at Damascus (see colophons on ff. 11r, 14r, 57r and 66r). The second (f...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
919-1177
Extent:
Codex; ff. 159+i

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