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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, 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6810, ff 3v-29r
Title:: Makhzan al-asrār
Scope & Content:: Illustrations: (5v) The Prophet mounted on Burāq and escorted by angels passing over the Kaʻbah. (16r) Sulṭān Sanjar and the old woman. Ascribed to Mīrak(27v) Hārūn al-Rashīd and the barber. Ascribed to Mīrak and Bihzād
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1490-1499
Extent:: 1 text

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6810, ff 30v-97v
Title:: Khusraw u Shīrīn
Scope & Content:: Illustrations: (37v) The elders pleading before Hurmuzd on behalf of the young Khusraw. Ascribed to Bihzād.(39v) Shīrīn being shown the portrait of Khusraw by one of her handmaidens. Ascribed to Mīrak.(62v) Farhād arriving at Shīrīn’s palace. Inscription: ‘Written for the library of the great Amī...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1490-1499
Extent:: 1 text

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6810, ff 98v-146v
Title:: Laylā u Majnūn
Scope & Content:: Illustrations:(106v) Laylā and Majnūn at school. Ascribed to Mīrak and Bihzād, but to Qāsim ʻAlī in the text panel. Inscription over doorway containing Qur’anic texts.(128v) Majnūn visited by Salīm in the desert. Ascribed to Bihzād.(135v) Mourning the death of Laylā’s husband, Ibn Salām. Ascribed...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1490-1499
Extent:: 1 text

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6810, ff 147v-198v
Title:: Haft paykar
Scope & Content:: Illustrations:(154v) The building of the palace of Khavarnaq for Nuʻmān who was the guarian of the young Bahrām Gūr. Ascribed to Bihzād.(157r) Bahram Gūr kills the dragon. Ascribed to Bihzād. An artist’s name has been erased from the text panel(175r) Bishr feeling for the body of his drowned com...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1490-1499
Extent:: 1 text

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6810, ff 199v-303r
Title:: Iskandarnāmah. Beginning in this copy with the Khiradnāmah (ff 199v-234v)
Scope & Content:: Illustrations:(214r) Iskandar, in the likeness of Ḥusayn Bāyqarā, with the seven sages. Inscription: Year AH 900 (1494/95).(225v) Iskandar on the island near the ‘Lion’s Mouth’ whirlpool beating the wolfskin drum of the bronze talisman in order to still the waters. One of the figures in the boat ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1490-1499
Extent:: 1 text

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11313, ff 2r-21r
Title:: Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-ḥisāb كتاب التذكرة في الحساب
Scope & Content:: Treatise on arithmetic in three sections (أقسام), each subdivided into chapters (أبواب) and parts (فصول). In the preface to the work, the author states that he called his work a Memorandum (تذكرة), and that it is a condensed translation of a Persian text called The Introduction (التبصرة), in whi...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: Dhū al-Qaʻdah 748
Extent:: Ff. 2r-21r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11313, ff 97r-136r
Title:: Zubdat al-hayʼah زبدة الهيئة [Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد]
Scope & Content:: Treatise on astronomy usually attributed to Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي, d. 1274; see Storey [ed.], ‘3 Astronomy and Astrology’, § 91, item 15, Storey Online, Brill Reference Online https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/storey-online/3-astr...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 3 Muḥarram 751
Extent:: Ff. 97r-136r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11967, ff 1v-51v
Title:: Dasātīr-i āsmānī دساتیر آسمانی
Scope & Content:: A collection of invocations to 16 pre-Islamic prophets, including Zoroaster, which were composed in a unique celestial language (overlined in red) accompanied by a Persian translation and comments
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: Late 17th or early 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 1v-51v

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