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11. Add MS 23403, ff 61r-106r

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 23403, ff 61r-106r
Title:
Risālah fī al-ʻilm wa-al-nuṭq رسالة في العلم والنطق
Scope & Content:
Philosophical treatise in two parts (قسم), discussing the human faculties of understanding (علم) and articulation (نطق). The first page of the present copy (f. 61r) is heavily annotated. Begins (f. 61r, lines 3-6): ...وبعد فإن عزيمتنا في هذه الرسالة مقصورة على ذكر حال الحالتين الخاصتين بنوع ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1019
Extent:
Ff. 61r-106r

12. Add MS 23403, ff 177v-190v

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

13. Add MS 23403, ff 199v-201r

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 23403, ff 199v-201r
Title:
Risālat al-ʻarūs رسالة العروس Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:
Metaphysical notes on the nature of God as the creator of the universe and of finite things, 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 work is sometimes transmitted as part of a group of texts extant in va...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1019
Extent:
Ff. 199v-201r

14. IO Islamic 1270, ff 25v-27v

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 1270, ff 25v-27v
Title:
Qawl fī al-makān قول في المكان Alhazen ابن الهيثم
Scope & Content:
Treatise on place by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham (أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم; d. ca 1040). Begins (f. 25v, line 3): قد اختلف أهل انظر المتحققون بالبحث عن حقائق الأمور الموجودة في مايية (!) المكان
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Ff. 25v-27v

15. Or 11313, ff 144v-148v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11313, ff 144v-148v
Title:
Risālat al-Zawrāʼ رسالة الزوراء Dawānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad دواني، محمد بن أسعد
Scope & Content:
Philosophical treatise by Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Asʻad al-Dawānī (جلال الدين محمد بن أسعد الدواني, d. 1502) composed at Najaf in 872/1467 (see Newman, 'Davānī, Jalāl-al-Dīn Moḥammad', in Encyclopaedia Iranica Online [accessed 2 June 2023] http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2330-4804_EIRO_COM_8169). B...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
Ff. 144v-148v

16. Or 11313, ff 149v-159r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11313, ff 149v-159r
Title:
Risālat al-Ḥawrāʼ رسالة الحوراء Dawānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad دواني، محمد بن أسعد
Scope & Content:
Commentary by Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Asʻad al-Dawānī (جلال الدين محمد بن أسعد الدواني, d. 1502) on his own philosophical treatise the Risālat al-Zawrāʼ (رسالة الزوراء, item 7 in the present volume). Begins (f. 149v, lines 2-4): أما بعد الحمد لوليه والصلوة على نبيه فإني لما فرغت من تهذيب الر...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
Ff. 149v-159r