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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23394
Title:: Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد and al-Tabṣirah fī ʿilm al-hayʾah التبصرة في علم الهيئة Kharaqī, ʻAbd al-Jabbār ibn ʻAbd al-Jabbār خرقي، عبد الجبار بن عبد الجبار
Scope & Content:: Two treatises on astronomy. Contents: (1) al-Ṭūsī (الطوسي) Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah (كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة; ff. 2r-60v); (2) al-Kharaqī (الخرقي), al-Tabṣirah fī ‘ilm al-hay’ah (التبصرة في علم الهيئة; ff. 61r-110r); The copy was completed in 1107/1695-96 by Muḥammad Riḍā ibn ‘Azīz All...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1107
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+111+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23397
Title:: Three astronomical commentaries
Scope & Content:: Collection of three astronomical commentaries from the 14th and 15th centuries. A bibliographical note in English appears on f. 1r, and ff. 2r-3r contain astronomical notes and diagrams. A number of related notes on scraps of paper have been bound into the volume. Contents: (1) al-Jurjānī, ʿ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 822-828
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+364+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23398
Title:: Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hay’ah شرح الملخص في الهيئة Jurjānī, ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad جرجاني، علي بن محمد and al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī ‘ilm al-hay’ah al-basīṭah الملخص في علم الهيئة البسيطة Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Jaghmīnī محمود بن محمد الجغميني
Scope & Content:: Contents: (1) al-Jurjānī, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad (الجرجاني، علي بن محمد), Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah (شرح الملخص في الهيئة; ff 2r-65v); (2) al-Jaghmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad (الجغميني، محمود بن محمد), al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī ‘ilm al-hay’ah al-basīṭah (الملخص في علم الهيئة البسيطة; ff 66v-86r).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+1+i+85+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23406
Title:: Kitab Jālīnūs fī ‘amal al-tashrīḥ كتاب جالينوس في عمل التشريح
Scope & Content:: Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq''s (حنين بن إسحق) Arabic version of Galen''s major work on anatomy the De anatomicis administrationibus (Περὶ ἀνατομικῶν ἐγχειρήσεων τῶν σωζομένων βιβλία ἐννέα; كتاب عمل التشريح). The manuscript was copied in the year 887 AH/1482 AD (see colophons of the first two chapters on f...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 887
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+258+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23407
Title:: Alexandrian Summaries of eight medical treatises by Galen
Scope & Content:: Eight treatises by the Greco-Roman physician Galen of Pergamon (جالينوس ; d. ca 216) in the summarised forms produced for the late-Antique medical schools of Alexandria, the so-called Alexandrian Summaries (جوامع الإسكندرانيين). The Summaries were translated by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (حنين بن إسحق; d....
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+291+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23409
Title:: Kitāb al-‘umdah fī ṣinā‘at al-jirāḥah كتاب العمدة في صناعة الجراحة Ibn al-Quff, Abū al-Faraj ibn Ya‘qūb ibn Isḥāq ابن القف ,أبو الفرج بن يعقوب بن إسحاق
Scope & Content:: A general introduction to the the art of surgery by Amīn al-Daulah Abū al-Faraj ibn Ya‘qūb ibn Isḥāq ibn al-Quff (أمين الدولة أبو الفرج بن يعقوب بن إسحاق بن القف; 630/1233-685/1286). The treatise it thought to be the earliest Arabic text devoted to surgery. It comprises twenty chapters (مقالات,...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1052
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+131+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23410
Title:: Kāmil al-ṣināʿah al-ṭibbīyah كامل الصناعة الطبية Majūsī, ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās مجوسي، علي بن العباس
Scope & Content:: Encyclopaedia of the art of medicine composed by ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Majūsī al-Arrajānī (علي بن العباس المجوسي الأرجاني) for the Būyid king (ملك) ʿAḍud al-Dawlah (عضد الدولة, reg. 949-83), which explains the works other title: The Royal Book (الكتاب الملكي). The text is divided into two books ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 978-984
Extent:: ff. ii+441+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23416
Title:: Kitāb al-furūsīyah wa-shiyāt al-khayl كتاب الفروسية وشيات الخيل Ibn Akhī Ḥizām, Muḥammad ibn Yaʻqūb ابن أخي حزام، محمد بن يعقوب
Scope & Content:: One of the earliest Arabic texts on veterinary medicine, the treatise on hippiatrics, was written by Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb Ibn Akhī Ḥizām (أبو يوسف بن يعقوب بن أخي حزام, see title page, f. 2r), horse trainer of the Abbasid caliph al-Mu‘taḍid (المعتضد, reg. 892-902). The treatise is more commonly know...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+173+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23417
Title:: al-Jamharah fī ‘ilm al-bayzarah الجمهرة في علم البيزرة Asadī, ‘Īsá ibn ‘Alī أسدي، عيسى بن علي
Scope & Content:: General manual on hunting with falcons, dogs and other animals by Abū al-Rūḥ ʿIsá ibn ‘Alī al-Asadī al-Baghdādī (أبو الروح عيسى بن علي الأسدي البغدادي, fl. 1150-70). The work was divided into two parts (جزءان), the first on the methods and techniques of hunting, and the second on the care and tr...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+184+v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23487
Title:: Kitāb al-sūl wa-al-umnīyah fī taʿallum aʻmāl al-furūsīyah كتاب السول والأمنية في تعلم أعمال الفروسية [Aqsarā’ī, Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsá أقسرائي، محمد بن عيسى]
Scope & Content:: A Mamluk manual on horsemanship, military arts and technology, also known as Nihāyat al-sūl wa-al-umnīyah fī taʿlīm ʿamal al-furūsiyya (نهاية السول والأمنية في تعليم عمل الفروسية), attributed to Muḥammad ibn ‘Īsá ibn Ismā‘īl al-Ḥanafī al-Aqsarā’ī (أقسرائي، محمد بن عيسى بن اسماعيل) (died c.1349)....
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 20 Shaʿbān 785
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+166+iv; f. 1 missing.

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