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1. Add MS 5934

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Minhāj al-bayān fīmā yastaʿmiluhū al-insān منهاج البيان فيما يستعمله الإنسان Ibn Jazlah, Yaḥyá ibn ʿĪsá ابن جزلة، يحيى بن عيسى
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Alphabetically arranged handbook on pharmacology by Abū ‘Alī Yahyá ibn ‘Īsá (أبو علي يحيى بن عيسى), known as Ibn Jazlah (ابن جزلة; d. 493/1100), composed for the Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadī bi-Amr Allāh (المقتدي بأمر الله; reg. 1075-94, see f. 1v, line 11). The manuscript was collected by the Sco...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+221+iv

2. Add MS 7496

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IkhtiṣārKitāb al-buldān اختصار كتاب البلدان Ibnal-Faqīh al-Hamadhanī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ابن الفقيهالهمذاني، أحمد بن محمد
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Abridgement made around 413/1022 by ʿAlī ibn Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad al-Shayzarī (علي بن جعفر بن أحمد الشيزري) of a treatise on literary geography composed by the traditionist and jurist Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Hamadhānī (أبو بكر أحمد بن محمد الهمذاني, fl. circa 290/903), known as Ibn al-Faqīh (...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13th century-14th century
Extent:
Codex; ff. i+91+i

3. Add MS 7498

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Taqwīm al-buldān تقويم البلدان Abū al-Fidāʼ, Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAlī أبو الفداء، إسماعيل بن علي
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Geographical compendium by the Ayyubid prince and scholar Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAlī ibn Maḥmūd al-Malik al-Muʼayyad ʻImād al-Dīn Abū al-Fidāʼ (إسماعيل بن علي بن محمود الملك المؤيد عماد الدين أبو الفداء, d. 1331). Its composition was completed in Shaʻbān 721/August-September 1321 (see authorial colophon, ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17 Ṣafar 743
Extent:
Codex; ff. ii+119+ii

4. Add MS 7499

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Taqwīm al-buldān تقويم البلدان Abū al-Fidāʼ, Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAlī أبو الفداء، إسماعيل بن علي
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A copy, without colophon, of a geographical compendium by the Ayyubid prince and scholar Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAlī ibn Maḥmūd al-Malik al-Muʼayyad ʻImād al-Dīn Abū al-Fidāʼ (إسماعيل بن علي بن محمود الملك المؤيد عماد الدين أبو الفداء, d. 1331). Its composition was completed in Shaʻbān 721/August-September...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 17th century
Extent:
Codex; ff. ii+113+ii

5. Add MS 7502

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Nukhbat al-dahr fī ʻajāʼib al-barr wa-al-baḥr نخبة الدهر في عجائب البر والبحر Dimashqī, Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Abī Ṭālib دمشقي، شمس الدين محمد بن أبي طالب
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Illustrated cosmological compendium in nine chapters (أبواب), subdivided into many sections (فصول), by the theologian and polymath Shams al-Dīn Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Ansārī al-Dimashqī (شمس الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن أبي طالب الأنصاري الدمشقي, d. 1327). The copy was completed...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16 Shaʻbān 1130
Extent:
Codex; ff. ii+118+i

6. Add MS 7556

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Twelve didactic poems on various sciences
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Collection of twelve didactic poems in the rajaz metre (أراجيز) on jurisprudence (فقه), the calculation of inheritance shares (فرائض), and medicine (طب), grammar (نحو), and other sciences. A descriptive volume title has been written in black ink along the head edge of the folios: 'Poems on scie...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+391+i

7. Add MS 9599

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Collection of Arabic texts on astronomy, astrology and related subjects
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A collection of texts, fragments and notes on astronomy, astrology andrelated subjects, mostly by Maghribī authors. The manuscript was probablyassembled in Algeria or Tunisia (see note mentioning the Sūq al-Balāṭ [سوقالبلاط] in Tunis on f. 1r and astronomical texts calculated for Tunis andAlgier...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
Codex; ff. ii+374+vi

8. Add MS 19619

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A collection of Arabic and Persian texts on medicine and pharmacology
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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

9. Add MS 22672

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Title:
[Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb wa-dhikr ālātihi wa-ajzāʾih كتاب العمل بالأسطرلاب وذكر آلآته و أجزائه] Ibn al-Ṣaffār, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ابن الصفار، أحمد بن عبد الله
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A treatise in 42 short sections (باب) on the construction and use of the astrolabe, by Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Ṣaffār al-Ghāfiqī al-Andalusī (أبو القاسم أحمد بن عبد الله بن عمر بن الصفار الغافقي الأندلسي, d. 426/1035). The author’s name is given in the present copy as ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
Codex; ff. 27+ii

10. Add MS 23403

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Title:
23 treatises on philosophy and science, most by Ibn Sīnā
Scope & Content:
Acollection of twenty-three works on various philosophical, metaphysical, andmedical topics, mostly 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). Accordingto a colophon at the end of the fifteenth text in the vol...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Shaʻbān 1019
Extent:
Codex; ff. ii+247+iii

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