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51. Add MS 9639, ff 1r-114r

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Add MS 9639, ff 1r-114r
Title:
[Sharḥ ʿalá urjūzah fī al-farāʾiḍ lil-Burrī شرح على أرجوزة في الفرائض للبري] Maghīlī, ʻAlī ibn Yaḥyá مغيلي، علي بن يحيى
Scope & Content:
Commentary by ʻAlī ibn Yaḥyá al-Maghīlī (علي بن يحيى المغيلي, active 1413), named in the present volume as Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿAṣnūnī al-Maghīlī (أبو الحسن علي بن صالح العصنوني المغيلي, see f. 1v, lines 3-4), on a didactic treatise in verse on the law of inheritance shares (farāʾiḍ)...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
2 Rajab 1064
Extent:
Ff. 1r-114r

52. Add MS 9639, ff 114r-120v

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Add MS 9639, ff 114r-120v
Title:
Kashf al-astār ʿan ʿilm ḥurūf al-ghubār كشف الأستار عن علم حروف الغبار Qalaṣādī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad قلصادي، علي بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Opening of a treatise on making arithmetical calculations by means of a dust board (takht) and the so-called 'dust numbers' (ḥurūf al-ghubār, see f. 114r, line 14). The text is a précis of the author's own Kashf maʿānī al-jilbāb ʿan ʿilm al-ḥisāb, (اقتطفتها من كتابي المسمي بكشف معاني الجلباب عن ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 1654
Extent:

Ff. 114r-120v

53. Add MS 12187, ff 3v-324v

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Add MS 12187, ff 3v-324v
Title:
Tadhkirat ūlī al-albāb wa-al-jāmi‘ lil-‘ajb al-‘ujāb تذكرة أولي الألباب والجامع للعجب للعجاب Anṭākī, Dāwūd ibn ‘Umar أنطاكي، داوود بن عمر
Scope & Content:
A copy of the medical encyclopaedia Tadhkirat ūlī al-albāb wa-al-jāmi‘ lil-‘ajb al-‘ujāb (تذكرة أولي الألباب والجامع للعجب للعجاب) by Dāwūd al-Ḍarīr ibn ‘Umar al-Anṭākī (داوود الضرير بن عمر الأنطاكي; d. 1599). The title page to the text (f. 3r, line 5) calls the author al-Qaṣīr (القصير, 'the sho...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
ff. 3v-324v

54. Add MS 12187, ff 325r-326r

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Add MS 12187, ff 325r-326r
Title:
Anonymous notes on the medical properties of foods
Scope & Content:
Anonymous notes on the medical properties of foods drawn from various medical books (من بعض كتب الطب). The manuscript was copied in 1838, in Cairo, by the scribe Ayyūb of Nazareth (see colophon to item four, f. 330, lines 9-13). Begins (f. 325r, lines 2-5): الحلو حار إلا أنه ليس يقوى الحرارة...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
ff. 325r-326r

55. Add MS 12187, ff 326r-327v

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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

56. Add MS 12187, ff 327v-330r

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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

57. Add MS 14056, ff 1v-10v

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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

58. Add MS 14056, ff 11r-18v

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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

59. Add MS 14056, ff 19r-123v

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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

60. Add MS 14332, ff 2v-22r

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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

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