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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12187, ff 326r-327v
Title:: Kitāb al-buthūr fī ‘alāmāt al-mawt كتاب البثور في علامات الموت Hippocrates بقراط
Scope & Content:: The Kitāb al-buthūr fī ‘alāmāt al-mawt (كتاب البثور في علامات الموت) is the Arabic version of a pseudo-Hippocratic text known as the Ἱπποκράτους νοήματά τε καὶ σημειώσεις περὶ ζωῆς καὶ θανάτου. A Latin version made from the Arabic exists, and is known variously as the Secreta Hippocratis due to ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1838
Extent:: ff. 326r-327v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12187, ff 327v-330r
Title:: Extracts from the Canon [of Medicine] نقل من القانون Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: A collection of extracts from Avicenna's (ابن سينا, Ibn Sīnā; 980-1037) Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطب). The manuscript was copied in 1838, in Cairo, by the scribe Ayyūb of Nazareth (see colophon, f. 330, lines 9-13, transcribed below). Begins (f. 327v, lines 2-5): مرهم نافع للخنازير جيد ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1838
Extent:: ff. 327v-330r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14056, ff 1v-10v
Title:: Anonymous collection of lance drills
Scope & Content:: Collection of instructions for military drills for lancers. Each set of instructions for a drill is called a band (بند, pl. بنود). The fragment contains 26 bunūd most of which are attributed to companions of the Prophet. Although no title or author of the fragment is specified, it is probable th...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 870
Extent:: Ff. 1v-10v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14056, ff 11r-18v
Title:: Fragment of an anonymous treatise on the arts of the lance
Scope & Content:: Fragment of an anonymous treatise on the arts of the lance. The text is defective at beginning and end, starting abruptly in Chapter 1 (باب الأول) and ending just after the chapter heading for Chapter 7 (الباب السابع). Contents: Chapter 1 (ff 11r-13v, defective at beginning); Chapter 2: Strateg...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 870
Extent:: Ff. 11r-18v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14056, ff 19r-123v
Title:: Kitāb fī ‘ilm al-bayṭarah كتاب في علم البيطرة
Scope & Content:: Treatise on horses compiled from the works of the Mamluk Amīr al-Sayfī Yashbak al-Faqīh al-Malikī al-Ashrafī (السيفي يشبك الفقيه الملكي الأشرفي, fl. ca 1450) and Abū Bakr al-Bayṭār (أبو بكر البيطار, for both of these names see title page, f. 19v, transcribed below). The second named authority is...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 2 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 870
Extent:: Ff. 19r-123v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14332, ff 2v-22r
Title:: al-Shakl al-thāmin min al-maqālah al-ūlá min kitāb al-maqāyīs الشكل الثامن من المقالة الأولى من كتاب المقاييس And four excerpts from Euclidis elementorum libri VI Christophorus Clavius كلاويوس الفرنجي
Scope & Content:: Proposition 8 from Book 1 of Gnomonices libri octo (Rome: Apud F. Zanettum, 1581, pp. 26-37) by Christophorus Clavius (Christoph Klau, كلاويوس, d. 1537 or 38; see fol. 3r, line 9), translated into Arabic by Mu‘tamad Khān (معتمد خان) Rustam Beg al-Ḥārithī al-Badakhshī ibn Qubād Beg, titled Dīyāna...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 26 Dec 1834
Extent:: Ff. 2v-22r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14332, ff 22v-32v
Title:: Qawl lil-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan al-Haytham fī shakl Banī Mūsá قول للحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم في شكل بني موسى Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham, al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan) ابن الهيثم ,الحسن بن الحسن
Scope & Content:: Treatise by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham (أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم; d. ca 1040) on a proposition from the prolegomena of the Banū Mūsá (بنو موسى, fl. 9th century) to the Conics (Κωνικά; كتاب المخروطات) by Apollonius of Perga (Ἀπολλώνιος; أبلونيوس; fl ca 200 BC)....
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 26 Dec 1834
Extent:: Ff. 22v-32v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14332, ff 32v-37v
Title:: Maqālah fī rasm al-qutū‘ al-thalāthah مقالة في رسم القطوع الثلثة Ibn Sinān, Ibrāhīm ابن سنان ,إبراهيم
Scope & Content:: Treatise by Ibrāhīm ibn Sinān ibn Thābit ibn Qurrah (إبراهيم بن سنان بن ثابت بن قرّة, d. 946) on the three types of conic section: the hyperbola, parabola and ellipse. The diagrams are missing in the text and may be found on ff. 194v-201v. Begins (fol. 32v, lines 5-8): قال إبراهيم بن سنان هذه...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 26 Dec 1834
Extent:: Ff. 32v-37v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14332, ff 38r-193v
Title:: Kitāb al-makhrūṭāt كتاب المخروطات Apollonius of Perga أبلونيوس
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of the Conics (Κωνικά; كتاب المخروطات) by Apollonius of Perga (Ἀπολλώνιος; أبلونيوس; fl ca 200 BC). Originally in eight books, only Books 1 to 4 survive in the original Greek; Books 1 to 7 are preserved in Arabic, and are presented here in the edition/translation by Muḥyī al-Dīn Y...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 26 Dec 1834
Extent:: Ff. 38r-193v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15480, ff 2v-88v
Title:: al-Sharīfīyah fī sharḥ al-farāʾiḍ al-sirājīyah الشريفية في شرح الفرائض السراجية Jurjānī, ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad جرجاني، علي بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Commentary by ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAli al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī ( علي بن محمد بن علي الحسيني الجرجاني; d. 1413), known as al-Sayyid al-Sharīf (السيد الشريف), on the al-Farā’id al-Sirājīyah (الفرائض السراجية), a treatise on Ḥanafī inheritance calculation by Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad a...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 25 Shuwwāl 1177
Extent:: Ff. 2v-88v

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