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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6669
Title:: al-Zīj al-muʿtabir al-Sanjarī الزيج المعتبر السنجري Khāzinī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān خازني، عبد الرحمن
Scope & Content:: Astronomical handbook with tables composed at Merv (مرو) by the astronomer, mathematician and physicist Abū Manṣūr (also known as Abū al-Fatḥ) ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Khāzinī (أبو منصور/أبو الفتح عبد الرحمن الخازني) around 1120 and dedicated to the Seljuk sultan Sanjar ibn Malikshāh (سنجر بن ملكشاه, r...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 20 Jumādá II 620
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+157+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6670
Title:: Three Medical Treatises by Galen (جالينوس)
Scope & Content:: A copy of three medical treatises by the extremely influential Graeco-Roman physician Galen (Claudius Galenus of Pergamon, 129-c 200). The Greek texts were translated by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī, and the texts preserved here are probably his Arabic versions (see colophon of Item 2, f. 142v, li...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 580
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+191+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6690
Title:: Sharḥ masāʾil fī al-ṭibb شرح مسائل في الطب 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 Questions on Medicine for Students (المسائل في الطب للمتعلّمين) by Abū Zayd Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī (أبو زيد حنين بن إسحق العبادي,...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+1+i+265+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6888
Title:: Kitāb fī al-‘ayn mi’atān wa-sab‘ masā’il كتاب في العين مائتان وسبع مسائل Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī حنين بن إسحق العبادي
Scope & Content:: A medical treatise on ophthalmology divided into three chapters (مقالات), written in the form of 207 questions and answers. The title page and opening lines (ff. 1r and 1v, lines 1-2, both transcribed below) state that the author, Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (حنين بن إسحق; d. 873), composed the text for hi...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 2 Sha‘bān 891
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+24+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6905
Title:: Ghāyat al-itqān fī tadbīr badan al-insān غاية الاتقان في تدبير بدن الإنسان and Kitāb al-ṭibb al-jadīd al-kīmāwī كتاب الطب الجديد الكيماوي Ibn Sallūm ابن سلوم
Scope & Content:: (1) Ibn Sallūm (ابن سلوم), Ghāyat al-itqān fī tadbīr badan al-insān غاية الاتقان في تدبير بدن الإنسان, ff. 3v-178r); (2) Ibn Sallūm (ابن سلوم), Kitāb al-ṭibb al-jadīd al-kīmāwī (كتاب الطب الجديد الكيماوي, ff. 179r-212v). Before the main texts are notes on medical topics (ff. 1r-3r), which consi...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1229
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+212+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7368
Title:: Sharḥ al-Majisṭī شرح المجسطي Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Commentary on Ptolemy's (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168) Almagest (كتاب المجسطي), said to be by Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Tarkhān al-Fārābī (أبو نصر محمد بن محمد بن ترخان الفارابي; ca 870-950), but in fact by Avicenna (أبو علي بن سينا; ca 980-1037). Notes on front paper iii verso and ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Ramaḍān 628
Extent:: Codex; ff. iiii+106+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7470
Title:: A literary anthology and a treatise on hippiatry
Scope & Content:: (1) Ibn Ḥijjah al-Ḥamawī, Taqī al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn ʻAlī (ابن حجة الحموي، تقي الدين أبو بكر بن علي), Thimār al-awrāq (ثمار الأوراق, ff. 2r-184v); (2) al-Yaḥyāwīyah fī ḥubb khayr al-barīyah (اليحياوية في حب خير البرية, ff. 185r-207v).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18 Rabīʿ I 893
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+207+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7499
Title:: منهاج البيان فيما يستعمله الإنسان Minhāj al-bayān fīmā yastaʿmiluhū al-insān ابن جزلة، يحيى ابن عيسى Ibn Jazlah, Yaḥyá ibn ʿĪsá
Scope & Content:: Alphabetically arranged handbook on pharmacology by Abū ‘Alī Yahyá ibn ‘Īsá (أبو علي يحيى ابن عيسى), known as Ibn Jazlah (ابن جزلة; d. 493/1100), composed for the Abbasid Caliph al-Muqtadi bi-Amr Allāh (المقتدي بأمر الله; reg. 1075-94). This copy was completed in Rajab 489 (June-July 1096) by Hi...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Rajab 489
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+239+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7712
Title:: Mawāniḥ al-uns bi-riḥlatī li-wādī al-Quds موانح الأنس برحلتي لوادي القدس Luqaymī, Muṣṭafá ibn Aḥmad لقيمي، مصطفى بن أحمد
Scope & Content:: Travel narrative composed in 1164/1751 by the Sufi poet and scholar Muṣṭafá Asʿad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Dimyāṭī al-Luqaymī [or al-Laqīmī] (مصطفى أسعد بن أحمد بن محمد الدمياطي اللقيمي, 1694-1764). The title appears at f. 2r, lines 26-27. The paper used for the copy bears a watermark of a crow...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+117+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7716
Title:: Three treatises on astrology, astronomy and time-keeping
Scope & Content:: An Ottoman collection of texts on astronomy and related subjects. Contents: (1) Abū Ma‘shar (أبو معشر), Kitāb al-milal wa-al-duwwal (كتاب الملل والدوّل; ff. 1r-117r); (2) Muḥammad al-Ṣūfī (محمد الصوفي), al-I‘lām bi-shadd al-minkām (الإعلام بشدّ المنكام; ff. 118v-127r); (3) Najm al-Dīn Muḥamm...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+145+i

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