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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23403, ff 118v-127v
Title:: Risālah fī al-insān mā huwa رسالة في الإنسان ما هو
Scope & Content:: Anonymous metaphysical treatise on the essential nature of humankind, ascribed in the present volume the title [Risālah] fī al-insān mā huwa ([رسالة في الإنسان ما هو]). A deleted note (f. 118v, head margin) identifies the text as Kitāb al-Fuṣūṣ, attributing it to ‘the second master’ (المعلم الثا...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1019
Extent:: Ff. 118v-127v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23403, ff 128r-133r
Title:: [Risālah fī ʿillat qiyām al-arḍ fī ḥayyizihā رسالة في علة قيام الأرض في حيزها] Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: A treatise in ten chapters (فصول), by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037), discussing the causes of the Earth’s remaining in its position in the middle of the heavens. In the introduction, the author states...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1019
Extent:: Ff. 128r-133r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23403, ff 133v-139r
Title:: Risālah fī al-afʿāl wa-al-infiʿālāt رسالة في الأفعال والانفعالات Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the mutual actions and passions of souls and objects uponeach other, incorporating the subjects of divine inspiration, dreams, and the occult sciences, by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). Th...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1019
Extent:: Ff. 133v-139r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23403, ff 139v-145r
Title:: [Risālah fī ithbāt al-nubuwwah رسالة في إثبات النبوة]
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the elimination of doubts concerning prophecy, in which the divine inspiration of prophets is explained using philosophical arguments. The text, which was composed upon the request of an unknown individual experiencing a crisis of scepticism, is ascribed in the present volume the alt...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1019
Extent:: Ff. 139v-145r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23403, ff 146r-150v
Title:: Risālah fī tadbīr al-musāfirīn رسالة في تدبير المسافرين Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Advice on diet and health for travellers, attributed to Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The text incorporates passages attributed to the physician Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (أبو بكر محمد بن...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1019
Extent:: Ff. 146r-150v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23403, ff 151r-171v
Title:: [Fuṣūl ṭibbīyah mustafādah min majlis al-naẓar li-al-shaykh Abī ʻAlī ibn Sīnā فصول طبية مستفادة من مجلس النظر للشيخ أبي علي بن سينا] Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Aphorisms on various topics pertaining to Galenic physiology and medicine, by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The text is ascribed in the present volume the title Risālah fī al-rūḥ (رسالة في الروح, ff...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1019
Extent:: Ff. 151r-171v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23403, ff 172r-177r
Title:: Risālah fī al-bāh رسالة في الباه Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Treatise on coitus, written at the request of an anonymous nobleman (بعض الأكابر) suffering from impotency, by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1019
Extent:: Ff. 172r-177r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23403, ff 177v-190v
Title:: [Risālah fī ḥujaj al-muthbitīn lil-māḍī mabdāʼan zamānīyan رسالة في حجج المثبتين للماضي مبداءً زمانيًا] Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: A philosophical discussion of the eternity of the world in eleven sections (فصل), ascribed in the present volume the title Risālah fī al-māḍī mabdaʼan zamānīyan (رسالة في الماضي مبداءً زمانيًا, ff. 2r and 177v), by Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1019
Extent:: Ff. 177v-190v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23403, ff 191r-193v
Title:: Risālah fī ithbāt al-Ṣāniʻ رسالة في إثبات الصانع Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Treatise affirming the existence of the Creator, in three chapters (فصول), without introduction, attributed to Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The transcription of the present text together with those p...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Shaʿbān 1019
Extent:: Ff. 191r-193v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23403, ff 194r-199r
Title:: Risālah fī al-ṣalāh رسالة فيالصلاة Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Treatise on prayer in three chapters (فصول), written at the request of a family member, and usually attributed to Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). Doubt is cast on its authenticity by Gutas [Gutas, Dimit...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1019
Extent:: Ff. 194r-199r

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