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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 3135
Title:: Treatise on archery Jūkhī al-Mawṣilī, Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad جوخي الموصلي، يوسف بن محمد
Scope & Content:: A short untitled treatise on archery by Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad al-Jūkhī al-Mawṣilī (يوسف بن محمد الجوخي الموصلي, dates unknown) in the tradition of al-Kitāb al-wāḍiḥ fī al-ramy wa-al-nushshāb (كتاب الواضح في الرمي والنشاب) by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭabarī (عبد الرحمن بن أحمد طبري, active ca 9th...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+23+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 3343
Title:: al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb القانون في الطبّ Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Fanns (فنون) Sixteen to Twenty-two of Book (كتاب) Three of the Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطبّ) by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, 980-1037). Contents: الفن السادس عشر ... في أحوال الأمعاء والمقعدة (Fann Six...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 25 Jumādá II 525
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+242+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 3366
Title:: Kitāb Dīsqūrīdis fī mawādd al-‘ilāj كتاب ديسقوريدس في موادّ العلاج Dīsqūrīdis (Dioscorides) ديسقوريدس
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of De materia medica (Περὶ ὕλης ἰατρικῆς; Kitāb mawādd al-‘ilāj), by Pedanius Dioscorides (Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης, ديسقوريدس; ca AD 40- ca 90) of Anazarbus (modern Anavarza in south-central Turkey). This copy was completed at Baghdad on 10 Rabī‘ I 735/8 November 1334 (see colophon...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 735
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+182+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 3392
Title:: Kitāb al-ṣafwah fī waṣf al-mamlakah al-Miṣrīyah كتاب الصفوة في وصف المملكة المصرية Muḥammad al-Ṣūfī محمد الصوفي
Scope & Content:: An abridgement in twelve bābs by the Egyptian mathematician and astronomer Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Fatḥ ibn ‘Īsá ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣūfī al-Miṣrī (شمس الدين محمد بن أبي الفتح بن عيسى بن الصوفي المصري, fl. late 15th-early 16th century) of the description of Egypt entitled The Cream of Unveilin...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid-Jumādá II 904
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+68+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 3623
Title:: Āthār al-bilād wa-akhbār al-ʿibād آثار البلاد وأخبار العباد Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad قزويني، زكريا بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Gazetteer of world geography by Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Qazwīnī (زكريا بن محمد بن محمود القزويني, d. 1283). The copy was completed late in the day on Friday 27 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 729/22 September 1329 by Muḥammad ibn Mas‘ūd ibn Muḥammad al-Hamadhānī (محمد بن مسعود بن محمد الهمذاني), who ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 27 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 729
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+174+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 3624
Title:: al-Zīj al-mukhtār min al-azyāj الزيج المختار من الأزياج Abū al-ʿUqūl, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad أبو العقول، محمد بن أحمد
Scope & Content:: Astronomical handbook (زيج) by Abū al-‘Uqūl Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭabarī (أبو العقول محمد بن أحمد الطبري, fl. ca 1300), teacher of astronomy at the Mu’ayyadīyah Madrasa (المدرسة المؤيدية), in Ta‘izz (تعز), Yemen, under the Rasulid Sultan al-Malik al-Mu’ayyad Dāwūd ibn Yūsuf I (الملك المؤيد داوود...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 13 Shawwāl 1007
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+1+i+200+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 3631
Title:: Three treatises on military science
Scope & Content:: (1) al-Aqsarā’ī (الأقسرائي), Nihāyat al-suʾl wa-al-umnīyah fī taʿlīm al-furūsīyah (نهاية السؤل والأمنية في تعليم أعمال الفروسية; ff. 4v-260v); (2) al-Ẓāhirī (الظاهري), [ʻIlm al-furūsīyah wa-siyāsat al-khayl] ([علم الفروسية وسياسة الخيل]; ff. ff 261v-279r; (3) al-Khwārizmī (الخوارزمي), [Risālah fī...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+293+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 3645
Title:: al-Mughnī fī tadbīr al-amrāḍ wa-maʿrifat al-ʿilal wa-al-aʿrāḍ المغني في تدبير الأمراض ومعرفة العلل والأعراض Saʿīd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn سعيد بن هبة الله بن الحسين
Scope & Content:: Concise handbook of medicine by Abū al-Ḥasan Saʿīd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn (أبو الحسن سعيد بن هبة الله بن الحسين; d. 1101), personal physician to the Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadī (المقتدي, reg. 1075-94) to whom this work is dedicated (f. 4v, line 7). The title of the text is often abbreviated...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+104+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 3654
Title:: Sharḥ kullīyāt al-qānūn شرح كليات القانون Āmulī, Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd آملي، محمد بن محمود
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Āmulī (شمس الدين محمد بن محمود الآملي, d. 1352) on the Colliget (كتاب الكلية), the first book of the Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطب) by Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, d. 1037). The composition of the text was completed on Saturday 15 Muḥarram 753/3 Marc...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19 Ṣafar 754
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+287+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 3690
Title:: Jāmiʿ al-gharaḍ fī ḥifẓ al-ṣiḥḥah wa-dafʿ al-maraḍ جامع الغرض في حفظ الصحة ودفع المرض Ibn al-Quff, Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq ابن القف ,أبو الفرج بن يعقوب بن إسحاق
Scope & Content:: Medical treatise 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, d. 1286). The treatise is dedicated to Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-Wazīr Bahā’ al-Dīn ‘Alī (فخر الدين محمد بن الوزير بهاء الدين علي, f. 6r, ll. 1-3), vizier to the ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 13th or 14th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+180+ii

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