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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2361, ff 157r-164r
Title:: Mūsīqī-yi ḥikmat-i ʿAlāʾī موسيقي حكمت علائي Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Section on music from the Persian summary of his own philosophical teachings by Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037), written for the Kākūyid amir ʿAlāʾ al-Dawlah Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Rustam Dushmanziyār (...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: Jumādá II 1073
Extent:: Ff. 157r-164r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2361, ff 240v-246r
Title:: Kashf al-awtār كشف الأوتار Bukhārī, Qāsim ibn Dūst ʻAlī بخاري، قاسم ابن دوست علي
Scope & Content:: A Persian treatise on the fretting of musical instruments, by Qāsim ibn Dūst ʿAlī Bukhārī (قاسم ابن دوست علي بخارى). The present copy was completed by the scribe Muḥammad Amīn in Delhi on 19 Rabīʿ II 1075/9 October 1664 ( see colophon, f. 246r, lines 7-9). A diagram in red ink labelled in Per...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 19 Rabīʿ II 1075
Extent:: Ff. 240v-246r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2361, ff 247r-269v
Title:: Risālah-'i kanz al-tuḥaf dar mūsīqī رساله كنز التحف در موسيقي
Scope & Content:: A Persian treatise on music, the composition of which was finished on 22 Jumādá I of either 756/4 June 1355, or 764/9 March 1363 depending on the reading of a chronogram on f. 269v, line 17, one letter of which lacks any diacritical points (see discussion of this chronogram in MS IO Islamic 2067...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 12 Rajab 1075
Extent:: Ff. 247r-269v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 3645
Title:: al-Mughnī fī tadbīr al-amrāḍ wa-maʿrifat al-ʿilal wa-al-aʿrāḍ المغني في تدبير الأمراض ومعرفة العلل والأعراض Saʿīd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn سعيد بن هبة الله بن الحسين
Scope & Content:: Concise handbook of medicine by Abū al-Ḥasan Saʿīd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn (أبو الحسن سعيد بن هبة الله بن الحسين; d. 1101), personal physician to the Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadī (المقتدي, reg. 1075-94) to whom this work is dedicated (f. 4v, line 7). The title of the text is often abbreviated...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+104+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5591
Title:: Collection of Arabic astrological and divinatory texts, and a fragment of a Persian manuscript
Scope & Content:: Collection of astrological and divinatory texts and diagrams drawn from sources both ancient and contemporary with the scribe, ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Ṣāḥib Nūr al-Dīn al-Jazarī al-Masīḥī (عبد الله بن الصاحب نور الدين الجزري المسيحي), who copied it for his own use in 867/1462-3 (see colophon, f. 19r, ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 0867
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+214+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5591, ff 212r-214v
Title:: Fragment of a Persian text on poetry
Scope & Content:: Fragment, defective at beginning and end, of a Persian text on poetry, possibly a commentary on the work of an early Persian poet. The fragment forms a separate codicoligical unit, coming from another manuscript not related to the rest of the folios in this volume in either format or content. A...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Ff. 212r-214v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5820
Title:: Sharḥ Fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ شرح فصول أبقراط Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-Nīsābūrī, Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī ابن أبي صادق النيسابوري، أبو القاسم عبد الرحمن بن علي and Kitāb fī-dafʿ al-maḍarr al-kullīyah li-l-abdān al-insānīyah كتاب في دفع المضار الكلية للأبدان الإنسانية Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Two medical treatises. Contents: (1) Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-Nīsābūrī (ابن أبي صادق النيسابوري), Sharḥ Fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ (شرح فصول أبقراط, ff. 2v-177r); (2) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Kitāb fī-dafʿ al-maḍarr al-kullīyah li-l-abdān al-insānīyah (كتاب في دفع المضار الكلية للأبدان الإنسانية, ff. 178v-208v)....
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1094
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+208+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5820, ff 2v-177r
Title:: Sharḥ Fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ شرح فصول أبقراط Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-Nīsābūrī, Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī ابن أبي صادق النيسابوري، أبو القاسم عبد الرحمن بن علي
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-Nīsābūrī (أبو القاسم عبد الرحمن بن علي ابن أبي صادق النيسابوري, d. ca 1068) on the Aphorisms (كتاب الفصول) of Hippocrates (أبقراط, d. ca 370 BC). The commentary is based on Galen of Pergamon's (جالينوس, d. ca 216) co...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1094
Extent:: Ff. 2v-177r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5860
Title:: [Taqwīm al-adwīyah تقويم العدوية] Isfarāyīnī, Muḥammad إسفراييني، محمد and Treatise on drugs Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ṣadr al-Dīn ‘Alī تقي الدين محمد ابن صدر الدين علي
Scope & Content:: Composite volume containing two manuscripts on drugs. Contents: (1) Isfarāyīnī, Muḥammad (إسفراييني، محمد), Taqwīm al-adwīyah (تقويم العدوية; ff. 1r-135v); (2) Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ṣadr al-Dīn ‘Alī (تقي الدين محمد ابن صدر الدين علي), Treatise on drugs (ff. 136r-237v).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1633-19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+237+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5860, ff 136r-237v
Title:: Treatise on drugs Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ṣadr al-Dīn ‘Alī تقي الدين محمد ابن صدر الدين علي
Scope & Content:: Treatise on drugs by Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ṣadr al-Dīn ‘Alī (تقي الدين محمد ابن صدر الدين علي, see f. 136v, line 5, fl. ca 1600). The treatise is followed by three folios (ff. 234r-236v) of Persian verse. 　 Begins (f. 136v, lines 2-5): زيب ديباچه هر رساله تسباليش صانع حكيمى رو است كه قلوب...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 136r-237v

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