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271. Or 12152

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12152
Title:
Kitāb anīs al-jalīs fī kull ḥadīth nafīs كتاب أنيس الجليس في كل حديث نفيس Najjār, Ibrāhīm ibn Khalīl النجار، إبراهيم بن خليل
Scope & Content:
Pharmacological handbook, re-bound out of order and with sections missing. The text is organised into chapters (فصول) on major ingredients and on effective categories of drugs, and records recipes for medications such as pills (حبوب), drops (قطرة), gargles (غرغرة), ointments (مرهم), oral draught...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1845-1864
Extent:

ff. iv+128+iv

272. Or 12802

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12802
Title:
Kitāb al-aḥkām ‘alá al-nisbah al-falakīyah كتاب الأحكام على النسبة الفلكية Sahl ibn Bishr سهل بن بشر
Scope & Content:
A treatise on interrogatory astrology by Abū ‘Uthmān Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isrā’īlī (أبو عثمان سهل بن بشر الإسرائيلي; AD 786-c 845). The copy was produced by an anonymous scribe on the night of 5 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1093 (5 December 1682). Folio 45r contains an astrological table written by a hand that a...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
5 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1093
Extent:

Codex; ff. iii+45+iii

273. Or 12830

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12830
Title:
Ghars al-anshāb fī al-ramy bi-al-nushshāb غرس الأنشاب في الرمي والنشاب Suyūṭī سيوطي
Scope & Content:
A compilation of hadiths, reports, verses and comments on the subject of archery by the prolific Egyptian jurist and historian Jalāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Suyūṭī (جلال الدين عبد الرحمن بن أبي بكر السيوطي, d. 1505). This work (see title on ff. 1r, line 2, and 1v, line 7) c...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
4 Muḥarram 918
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+35+xviii

274. Or 13006

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13006
Title:
Compendium of alchemical treatises in Arabic, Persian and Ottoman
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises two manuscripts. The first (ff. 3-112) was the notebook of Qudrat Allāh al-Marandī al-Ādharī, who copied into it thirteen alchemical texts between 919 AH/AD 1513 and 925 AH/AD 1519, first at Fez and then at Damascus (see colophons on ff. 11r, 14r, 57r and 66r). The second (f...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
919-1177
Extent:
Codex; ff. 159+i

275. Or 13019

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13019
Title:
[Kitāb al-inʿām bi-maʿrifat al-anghām كتاب الإنعام بمعرفة الأنغام] Ṣaydāwī, Shams al-Dīn صيداوي، شمس الدين
Scope & Content:
A musical treatise in verse accompanied by diagrams, tables, and lyrical poems, by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ṣaydāwī al-Dhahabī al-Dimashqī (شمس الدين محمد الصيداوي الذهبي الدمشقي, d. 1506). It was copied by ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Kurdī al-Shāfiʿī (عبد العزيز ابن...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13 Ramaḍān 906
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+19+xxx

276. Or 13060

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13060
Title:
Sharḥ al-tadhkirah شرح التذكرة Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn برجندي، عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين
Scope & Content:
Commentary by ‘Abd al-‘Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Birjandī (عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين البرجندي, d. 923/1525 or 26) on the Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah (كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة; see British Library, MS Or. 11209) a treatise on the astronomical system presented in the Almagest of Ptolemy (Cl...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
30 Sha‘bān 1097
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+394+ii

277. Or 13127

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13127
Title:
Kitāb Mānālāwus fī al-ashkāl al-kurrīyahكتاب مانالاوس في الأشكال الكرية Menelaus of Alexandria مانالاوس
Scope & Content:
An early copy of Aḥmad ibn Abī Sa‘d al-Harawī's (أحمد بن أبي سعد الهروي; d. ca AD 1000) revised edition of the Arabic translation of Menelaus of Alexandria's (fl. ca AD 100) Greek treatise on spherical trigonometry known as Kitāb fī al-ashkāl al-kurrīyah (كتاب في الأشكال الكرية) or simply as Kit...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
4 Rabī‘ II 548
Extent:
Codex; ff. ii+55+ii

278. Or 13383

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13383
Title:
al-Ḥāwī fī ʿilm al-tadāwī الحاوي في علم التداوي Shīrāzi, Najm al-Dīn Mahmud ibn Ilyās شيرازي، نجم الدين محمود بن إلياس
Scope & Content:
Medical encyclopedia by Najm al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Ṣā’in al-Dīn Ilyās al-Shīrāzi (نجم الدين محمود بن صائن الدين إلياس الشيرازي, d. 730/1330; see text in shamsa on f. 2r). This copy was produced for ‘Abd al-Raḥīm ibn Ibrāhīm (عبد الرحيم بن إبراهيم, see text in lower cartouches on ff. 1v-2r) by ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Shawwāl 731
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+457+i

279. Or 14140

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14140
Title:
‘Ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharā’ib al-mawjūdāt عجائب المخلوقات وغرائب الموجودات Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad قزويني، زكريا بن محمد
Scope & Content:
The London Qazwīnī. Encyclopaedic work on cosmology by Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Qazwīnī (زكريا بن محمد بن محمود القزويني, d. 1283). The text is lavishly illustrated with 368 paintings. In the undated colophon (f. 135v, lines 7-8; transcribed below) the anonymous scribe claims to have...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:

Codex; ff. 135

280. Or 14154

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14154
Title:
Two commentaries and a supercommentary on works of Avicenna
Scope & Content:
Contents: (1) Muḥammad ibn Masʿūd al-Kāzarūnī (محمد بن مسعود الكازروني), al-Mughnī fī sharḥ al-mūjiz (المغني في شرح الموجز, ff. 5v-242r); (2) Aḥmad ibn Balkū al-Āwī (أحمد بن بلكو الآوي), [Sharḥ qaṣīdah fī al-nafs] (شرح قصيدة في النفس, ff. 242v-245r); (3) Ibn al-Nafīs (ابن النفيس) Sharḥ tashrīḥ a...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
842-843
Extent:

Codex; ff. 339+i

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