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191. Or 5316

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5316
Title:
al-Kitāb al-Manṣūrī الكتاب المنصوري Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā رازي، أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا
Scope & Content:
Influential compendium of medicine written in 903 by the physician and philosopher Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرأزي; d. ca 925) and dedicated to the Governor of Rayy, Abū Ṣāliḥ Manṣūr ibn Isḥāq (أبو صالح منصور بن إسحق; see fol. 1v, line 3, transcribed below). ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1000
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+191+ii

192. Or 5323

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5323
Title:
Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thābitah كتاب صور الكواكب الثابتة Ṣūfī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar صوفى، عبد الرحمن ابن عمر
Scope & Content:
An illustrated description by ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣūfī (عبد الرحمن الصوفي; d. 986) of the 48 classical constellations discussed by Ptolemy in his Almagest. The text contains labelled illustrations of the 48 constellations as viewed on a celestial globe and as viewed in the sky, along with supporti...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1260-1280
Extent:
Codex; ff. iii+86+ii

193. Or 5408

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5408
Title:
Six treatises on arithmetic and use of the quadrant
Scope & Content:
A collection of three texts on algebra and arithmetic, and three on the use of the quadrant. The texts in the volume were copied between Rabīʿ II-Jumādá II 1070/December 1659- February 1660 by ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-ʿĀmilī (علي بن محمد بن الحسن بن زين الدين العاملي, wh...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1070
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+165+i

194. Or 5479

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5479
Title:
Four treatises on astrolabes and a bibliography of the works of Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرازي)
Scope & Content:
Collection of four early treatises on astrolabes and associated astronomical instruments, bound together with a bibliography of the works of Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرازي). A table of contents appears on f. 1v. The scribe (of at least Item 5 [see colopho...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+113+ii

195. Or 5591

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

196. Or 5593

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5593
Title:
Kitāb istī‘āb al-wujūh al-mumkinah fī ṣan‘at al-asṭurlāb كتاب استيعاب الوجوه الممكنة في صنعة الأسطرلاب Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad بيروني، محمد بن أحمد
Scope & Content:
One of only three recorded copies of an influential treatise on the construction and use of astrolabes by Abū al-Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī (أبو الريحان محمد بن أحمد البيروني, ca 973-1048) containing 122 diagrams, 7 tables and 1 space for a diagram or table left blank and marked بياض صح...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
700-800
Extent:
Codex; ff. ii+89+iii

197. Or 5596

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5596
Title:
Sharḥ Kitāb al-Qānūn lil-Qurashī شرح كتاب القانون للقرشي Ibn al-Nafīs, ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm ابن النفيس، علي بن أبي الحزم
Scope & Content:
Commentary by ‘Alā’ al-Dīn ‘Alī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm al-Qurashī, known as Ibn al-Nafīs (1210 or 1211-1288), on Avicenna's (Ibn Sīnā's) Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb). The volume contains the last page of Ibn al-Nafīs' commentary on Book 2 (on materia medica) and the commentary on Book 3 (on ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
902
Extent:
Codex; ff. i+92+i

198. Or 5618

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5618
Title:
Kitāb mā lā yasaʿ al-ṭabīb jahluhu كتاب ما لا يسع الطبيب جهله Kutubī, Yūsuf ibn Ismāʿīl كتبي، يوسف بن إسماعيل
Scope & Content:
Treatise on materia medica arranged in alphabetical order by Yūsuf ibn Ismā‘īl ibn Ilyās al-Khūwaīyī al-Baghdādī al-Kutubī (يوسف بن إسماعيل بن إلياس الخويي البغدادي الكتبي, d. 1353), and based on the Comprehensive Book on Simple Drugs and Foods (جامع لمفردات الأدوية والأغذية) by Ibn al-Bayṭār ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+336+ii

199. Or 5619

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5619
Title:
Four medical works Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī نجيب الدين السمرقندي، محمد بن علي
Scope & Content:
Four treatises on pharmacy and dietetics by Najīb al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Samarqandī (نجيب الدين أبو حامد محمد بن علي بن عمر السمرقندي, d. 1222). Contents: (1) Uṣūl al-tarākīb (أصول التراكيب, ff. 2r-36r); (2) Kitāb aghdhiyat al-marḍá (كتاب أغذية المرضى, ff. 36v-55v); (3)...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Ramaḍān 703
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+192+i

200. Or 5620

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5620
Title:
Three treatises on medicine
Scope & Content:
Contents: (1) Anonymous treatise on ophthalmology (ff. 1r-59v); (2) Ṣubunrī (صبنري), Kitāb al-raḥmah fī al-ṭibb wa-al-ḥikmah (كتاب الرحمة في الطب والحكمة, ff. 60v-74v); (3) Manual of therapeutics (ff. 75v-308r). The colophon at the end of the third text, claims that the manuscript from which the...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+308+i

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