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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

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11249
Title:: Dīvān-i Fānī / ديوان فانى
Scope & Content:: A collection of poetical works, including those of ‘Alī Shīr Navā’ī ; also know as the Dīvān-i Navā’ī.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 916
Extent:: Codex ; 210 ff.

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11967
Title:: Dasātīr-i āsmānī by Azar Kayvan and other Azar Kayvani treatises
Scope & Content:: Contents: (1) Dasātīr-i āsmānī (دساتیر آسمانی), by the philosopher priest Aẕar Kayvān (1533-1618), 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:: Avestan and Persian
Date Range:: Late 17th or early 18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+72+ii

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11967, ff 52r-58v
Title:: A collection of hymns
Scope & Content:: A collection of hymns to the sun, Gushtasp and other works in Persian, Avestan, and a mixture of other languages
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Avestan and Persian
Date Range:: Late 17th or early 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 52r-58v

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