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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 411v-413v
Title:: Risālat al-mabdaʼ wa-al-maʻād رسالة المبدأ والمعاد Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Persian condensed translation of a work on metaphysics by Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The Arabic version of this text is item 35 (ff. 466v-497r) in the present manuscript.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 411v-413v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 424v-435r
Title:: Sharḥ risālah al-marmūzah al-musammāh bi-risālat al-ṭayr lil-shaykh al-raʼīs شرح رسالة المرموزة المسماة برسالة الطير للشيخ الرئيس Ibn Sahlān al-Sāwī, ʻUmar ابن سهلان الساوي، عمر
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn Sahlān al-Sāwajī (عمر بن سهلان الساوجي, also al-Sāwī [الساوي], fl. early 12th century) on the allegorical Epistle of the Bird (رسالة الطير) by Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 424v-435r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19619
Title:: A collection of Arabic and Persian texts on medicine and pharmacology
Scope & Content:: A collection of Persian and Arabic texts on medicine and pharmacology. The colophon to the first text in the volume (ff. 3r-128r) records that it was transcribed by an un-named scribe on 21 Jumādá II 1103/10 March 1692 (f. 128r, lines 7-15). Contents: (1) Qāz̤ī ibn Muḥammad Yazdī (قاضي بن محمد ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: Jumādá II 1103
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+310+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19619, ff 3r-128r
Title:: Jām-i jahān'numā-yi ʿAbbāsī جام جهان نماى عباسى Yazdī, Qāz̤ī ibn Muḥammad يزدي، قاضي بن محمد
Scope & Content:: A treatise in Persian on wine, its beneficial properties, and legitimate use, by Mīrzā Qāz̤ī ibn Kāshif al-Dīn Muḥammad Yazdī (ميرزا قاضي بن كاشف الدين محمد يزدي, died 1664-65). The work, comprising an introduction (مقدمة), thirty chapters (باب), and a conclusion (خاتمة), was written upon the o...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 21 Jumādá II 1103
Extent:: Ff. 3r-128r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19619, ff 157r-242v
Title:: Risālah-i afyūn رساله افيون 'Imād al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd عماد الدين شيرازي، محمود بن مسعود
Scope & Content:: A treatise in Persian on the beneficial and harmful properties of opium, by the physician Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd ʿImād al-Dīn Shīrāzī (محمود بن مسعود عماد الدين شيرازى, fl. 16th century).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 21 Jumādá II 1103
Extent:: Ff. 157r-242v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19619, ff 247v-262v
Title:: Risālah-i chūb-i Chīnī رساله چوب چينى 'Imād al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd عماد الدين شيرازي، محمود بن مسعود
Scope & Content:: A treatise in Persian on China root (چوب چينى or چينى بيخ), by the physician Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd ʿImād al-Dīn Shīrāzī (محمود بن مسعود عماد الدين شيرازى, fl. 16th century).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 21 Jumādá II 1103
Extent:: Ff. 247v-262v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19619, ff 263r-265v
Title:: Risālah-i chūb-i Chīnī رساله چوب چينى Nūr Allāh, known as ʿAlāʾ نور الله مشهور بعلاء
Scope & Content:: A treatise on China root (چوب چينى or چينى بيخ), by Nūr Allāh, known as ʿAlāʾ (نور الله مشهور بعلاء). The author, writing in 944/1537-8, says that he had spent twenty years in India, and had obtained his information on China root from a European physician.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 21 Jumādá II 1103
Extent:: Ff. 263r-265v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19619, ff 265v-270r
Title:: Risālah-i pāzahr رساله پازهر 'Imād al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd عماد الدين شيرازي، محمود بن مسعود
Scope & Content:: A treatise on the pāzahr (bezoar stone), by the physician Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd ʿImād al-Dīn Shīrāzī (محمود بن مسعود عماد الدين شيرازى, fl. 16th century).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 21 Jumādá II 1103
Extent:: Ff. 265v-270r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19619, ff 270r-285r
Title:: Miscellaneous extracts on the bezoar stone, pharmaceutical substances, and weights and measures
Scope & Content:: Extracts from the Indo-Persian perfumery treatise Nawrās-i Shāhī (نوراس شاهى), written for sultan Adil Shāh II, Sultan of Bijapur (1580-1627), on the description and properties of the bezoar stone, and animal, vegetable and mineral substances including mummy (ff. 270v-281v); a list of weights an...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 21 Jumādá II 1103
Extent:: Ff. 270r-285r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19619, ff 285v-308v
Title:: Risālah-i ātashak رساله آتشك 'Imād al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd عماد الدين شيرازي، محمود بن مسعود
Scope & Content:: A treatise on syphilis (آتشك) by the physician Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd ʿImād al-Dīn Shīrāzī (محمود بن مسعود عماد الدين شيرازى, fl. 16th century).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 21 Jumādá II 1103
Extent:: Ff. 285v-308v

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