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221. Or 7978

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7978
Title:
Kawkab al-rawḍah كوكب الروضة Suyūṭī سيوطي
Scope & Content:
A compendium of history and description regarding the island of al-Rawḍah in Cairo, in prose and verse, completed in Jumādá II 895/April-May 1490 (see f. 203v, lines 5-6) by Jalāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Suyūṭī (جلال الدين عبد الرحمن بن أبي بكرالسيوطي, d. 1505). The present copy w...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16 Muḥarram 1009
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+203+i

222. Or 8122

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8122
Title:
Sharḥ kullīyāt al-qānūn شرح كليات القانون Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd قطب الدين الشيرازي، محمود بن مسعود
Scope & Content:
Volume four (المجلد الرابع) of a commentary by Quṭb al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Mas‘ūd al-Shīrāzī (قطب الدين محمود بن مسعود الشيرازي; d. 1310) on the Colliget (كتاب الكلية), the first book of the Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطب) by Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, d. 1037). This commentary is also known as The Sa‘d...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
28 Shawwāl 715
Extent:

Codex; ff. 162

223. Or 8187

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8187
Title:
Kitāb al-bayzarah كتاب البيزرة
Scope & Content:
Treatise on falconry focussing on the health and treatment of birds of prey by an unnamed author. The title appears on the title page (f. 3r) asكتاب البيزرة صنّفه الحكماء المتقدمين للملك الاسكندري (!) الرومي وهو كتاب عجيب مما يصلح بالملوك إذ لا بدّ لكلّ ملك من مسيره إلى الصيد بإحدى هذه الطيور ال...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
12 Jumādá II 1201
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+152+i

224. Or 8254

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8254
Title:
Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ رسائل إخوان الصفاء Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ إخوان الصفاء
Scope & Content:
The second volume (المجلد الثاني, probably of an original three) of the well-known Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ (رسائل إخوان الصفاء, Epistles of the Brethren of Purity), compiled by an anonymous group calling themselves Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ wa Khullān al-Wafāʾ ( إخوان الصفاء وخلان الوفاء, Brethren of Puri...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
644
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+279+i

225. Or 8293

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8293
Title:
Aqrābādhīn madīnat al-salam أقراباذين مدينة السلم Ibn al-Tilmīdh, Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣā‘id ابن التلميذ، هبة الله بن صاعد and other pharmaceutical texts
Scope & Content:
The manuscript was completed in 625 AH/AD 1227-28 by ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Alī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥalabī (علي بن أبي طالب بن علي بن علي بن علي بن الحسين الحلبي), probably at Baghdad (see title page f. 2v, lines 6-9, transcribed below). Title page (f. 2v, lines 1-9): إقراباذين...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
625
Extent:
Codex; ff. i+170+ii

226. Or 8294

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8294
Title:
Quwá al-adwīyah قوى الأدوية Ibn al-Tilmīdh, Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣāʿid ابن التلميذ، هبة الله بن صاعد
Scope & Content:
Handbook on the potencies of materia medica by Amīn al-Dawlah Abū al-Ḥasan Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣā‘id (أمين الدولة أبو الحسن هبة الله بن صاعد) known as Ibn al-Tilmīdh (ابن التلميذ, d. 1165), chief physician at the ‘Aḍudī Hospital in Baghdad, and later court physician to the Abbasid Caliph al-Muqtafī ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
15 Shawwāl 654
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+224+i

227. Or 8296

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8296
Title:
Taḥṣīl al-ṣiḥḥah bi-al-asbāb al-sittah تحصيل الصحة بالأسباب الستة Tiflīsī, Ḥubaysh ibn Ibrāhīm تفليسي، حبيش بن إبراهيم
Scope & Content:
Treatise on hygiene by means of the six non-natural causes of health and disease by Abū al-Faḍl Ḥubaysh ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Tiflīsī (أبو الفضل حبيش بن إبراهيم بن محمد التفليسي, fl. ca 1200). The manuscript is defective at beginning and end. Begins (f. 1r, lines 1-4, defective at beginn...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13th century-14th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+179+i

228. Or 8349

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8349
Title:
Kitāb al-tafhīm li-awā’il ṣinā‘at al-tanjīm كتاب التفهيم لأوائل صناعة التنجيم Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad بيروني، محمد بن أحمد
Scope & Content:
Comprehensive introduction to the principles of astrology by Abū al-Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī (أبو الريحان محمد بن أحمد البيروني, ca 973-1048). The text is written in question and answer format (على طريق المسئلة والجواب, f. 2v, line 8), and it deals with the sciences needed by the astr...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
839
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+159+ii

229. Or 8350

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8350
Title:
Talkhīṣ al-Āthār تلخيص الآثار Bakuwī, ʿAbd al-Rashīd ibn Ṣāliḥ بكوي، عبد الرشيد بن صالح
Scope & Content:
Acephalous copy of an abstract by ʿAbd al-Rashīd ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Bakuwī (عبد الرشيد بن صالح البكوي, active 14th-15th centuries) of Monuments of places and reports of the peoples (آثار البلاد وأخبار العباد) by Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Qazwīnī (زكريا بن محمد بن محمود القزويني, d. 1283). To...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
11 Ramaḍān 803
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+107+ii

230. Or 8415

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8415
Title:
Four treatises on astronomy
Scope & Content:
Collection of four treatises on astronomy copied between 15 (?) Dhū al-Qa‘dah 1226/1 (?) December 1811 and 20 Jumādá I 1227/29 (?) May 1812 by Muḥammad Muḥsin ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Dawrī (محمد محسن بن محمد صالح بن محي الدين الدوري, see ff. 1r, 235r, 245v, and 255v), Qāḍī at Ūrdá...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1226-1227
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+257+ii

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