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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11967, ff 1v-51v
Title:: Dasātīr-i āsmānī دساتیر آسمانی
Scope & Content:: A collection of invocations to 16 pre-Islamic prophets, including Zoroaster, which were composed in a unique celestial language (overlined in red) accompanied by a Persian translation and comments
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: Late 17th or early 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 1v-51v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11967, ff 52r-58v
Title:: A collection of hymns
Scope & Content:: A collection of hymns to the sun, Gushtasp and other works in Persian, Avestan, and a mixture of other languages
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Avestan and Persian
Date Range:: Late 17th or early 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 52r-58v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11967, ff 59v-72v
Title:: Mukāshafāt-i Āzar Kayvān مکاشفات آذر کیوان
Scope & Content:: Revelations ascribed to Aẕar Kayvān in Persian in mixed prose and verse (ff. 59v-71r); followed (ff. 71v-72v) by an unfinished treatise: Zawrah-i bāstānī-i vakhshūr shit Zardusht (زورهٔ باستانی وخشور شت زردشت)
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: Late 17th or early 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 59v-72v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 12019
Title:: Yongle dadian 永樂大典, chapters 8022-8024
Scope & Content:: Chapters 8022, 8023 and 8024 of the Chinese encyclopaedia “Yongle dadian”, unique, and notable for preserving texts not extant elsewhere.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1562-1572
Extent:: 53 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 12020
Title:: Yongle dadian 永樂大典, chapters 13340-13341
Scope & Content:: Chapters 13340 and 13341 of the Chinese encyclopaedia “Yongle dadian”, unique, and notable for preserving texts not extant elsewhere.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1562-1572
Extent:: 31 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 12021
Title:: Yongle dadian 永樂大典, chapters 19740-19741
Scope & Content:: Chapters 19740 and 19741 of the Chinese encyclopaedia “Yongle dadian”, unique, and notable for preserving texts not extant elsewhere.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1562-1572
Extent:: 36 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 12150, ff 2v-57v
Title:: Kitāb al-iqtiḍāb al-majmūʿ ʿalā ṭarīq al-masʾalah wa-l-jawāb كتاب الاقتضاب المجموع على طريق المسألة والجواب Ibn al-Masīḥī, Saʻīd ibn Abī al-Khayr ابن المسيحي، سعيد بن أبي الخير
Scope & Content:: A compendium of medicine composed in a question and answer format, by Saʻīd ibn Abī al-Khayr ibn ʿIsá al-Ṭabīb al-Masīḥī (سعيد بن أبي الخير بن عيسى الطبيب المسيحي, b. 1177, d. 1259 or 1260). Ibn al-Masīḥī was famous for healing the caliph al-Nāṣir (الناصر, reg. 1180–1225) from a serious illnes...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 2v-57v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 12150, ff 58r-139v
Title:: Muhadhdhab al-Dīn al-Dakhwār, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn ʻAlī مهذب الدين الدخوار، عبد الرحيم بن علي Sharḥ Kitāb Taqdimat al-maʿrifah li-Abuqrāṭ شرح كتاب تقدمة المعرفة لأبقراط
Scope & Content:: A commentary on the Kitāb taqdimat al-maʿrifah li-Abuqrāṭ (كتاب تقدمة المعرفة لأبقراط), a translation of the Prognosticon of Hippocrates (أبقراط, d. ca 370 BC), probably by the physician and translator Abū Zayd Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī (أبو زيد حنين بن إسحق العبادي, d. 873). The text of the ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 58r-139v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 12674
Title:: Yongle dadian 永樂大典, chapters 6933-6934
Scope & Content:: Chapters 6933 and 6934 of the Chinese encyclopaedia “Yongle dadian”, unique, and notable for preserving texts not extant elsewhere.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1562-1572
Extent:: 33 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13006, f 14r
Title:: Extract from Kitāb al-Ghayth al-musjam fī sharḥ Lāmīyat al-ʿAjam (كتاب الغيث المسجم في شرح لامية العجم) Ṣafadī, Khalīl ibn Aybak صفدي، خليل بن أيبك
Scope & Content:: An extract concerning the life and alchemical writings of Muʾayyad al-Dīn abū Ismāʿīl al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Ṭughrāʾī (d. 515 AH/AD 1121) from Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Khalīl ibn Aybak al-Ṣafadī’s (ca 1297-1363) Kitāb al-Ghayth al-musjam fī sharḥ Lāmīyat al-ʿAjam. This text has ben copied in a much smaller...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: ca 920
Extent:: f. 14r

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