Translation of the Aphorisms of Hippocrates translated by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq in the mid to late AD 9th/3rd AH century. The text is divided into 7 maqālahs: Maqālah 1 (begins f. 1r); Maqālah 2 (f. 3v); Maqālah 3 (f. 6v); Maqālah 4 (f. 8v); Maqālah 5 (f. 13r); Maqālah 6 (f. 16v); Maqālah 7 (19r). T...
Fuṣūl al-sittah فصول الستة Ibn Jazlah, Yaḥyá ibn ‘Īsá ابن جزلة، يحيى بن عيسى
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Alphabetical handbook on pharmacology by Abū ‘Alī Yahyá ibn ‘Īsá (أبو علي يحيى ابن عيسى ), known as Ibn Jazlah (ابن جزلة; d. 493/1100). The full title is Minhāj al-bayān fī mā yast‘amaluhu al-insān (منهاج البيان فيما يستعمله الإنسان), but the title page (f. 1r) records the title as Fuṣūl al-sitt...
The three short poems on f. 62r are not about medicine. The seven medical extracts are as follows: 1. Recipe for the medicine bakhtajūsh (بختجوش) made from grape juice (f. 62v) 2. Discussion of two bezoars (بادزهر), the ḥajar al-thīrān (حجر الثيران) and the ḥajar al-tays (حجر التيس) and their...
Kitāb al-waḍīḥ fī maʿrifat ʿilm al-ramy كتاب الوضيح في معرفة علم الرمي [Ṭabarī,ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad طبري، عبد الرحمن أحمد]
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Luxury copy of a practical treatise on archery, very popular and widely-used especially in the Mamluk period, by Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭabarī (أبو محمد عبد الرحمن بن أحمد الطبري, active ca 9th century). The present copy was completed by an un-named scribe on 9 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 78...
This volume contains the following texts : (I) ff 1v106r : Correspondence of Abu Bakr al-Khwārazmī in Arabic; (II) ff 107v-112r : Makale-yi Vehbi Efendi, on the peace negotiations with Austria in 1129 AH (1716-17 CE) ; (III) ff 113v-137v : An Ottoman Turkish exposition of verses from the Sū...