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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5591, ff 185r-211v
Title:: Thirty-seven tables, diagrams and short texts related to astrology, divination and astral magic
Scope & Content:: Thirty-seven tables, diagrams and short texts related to astrology, divination and astral magic. Most of these are extracted from unknown sources, although the items on ff. 187v-188r and ff. 202v-203r mention Hermes (هرمس) and Dorotheus of Sidon (Δωρόθεος Σιδώνιος, ذوروثيوس, fl. AD 50-100) and t...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 0867
Extent:: Ff. 185r-211v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5591, ff 212r-214v
Title:: Fragment of a Persian text on poetry
Scope & Content:: Fragment, defective at beginning and end, of a Persian text on poetry, possibly a commentary on the work of an early Persian poet. The fragment forms a separate codicoligical unit, coming from another manuscript not related to the rest of the folios in this volume in either format or content. A...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Ff. 212r-214v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5619, ff 2r-36r
Title:: Uṣūl al-tarākīb أصول التراكيب Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī نجيب الدين السمرقندي، محمد بن علي
Scope & Content:: Treatise on pharmacology by Najīb al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Samarqandī (نجيب الدين أبو حامد محمد بن علي بن عمر السمرقندي, d. 1222). The treatise comprises nineteen chapters (أبواب), and a table of contents is found on f. 5r-v. Begins (f. 2v, lines 2-5): الحمد لله رب العا...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Ramaḍān 703
Extent:: Ff. 2r-36r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5619, ff 36v-55v
Title:: Kitāb aghdhiyat al-marḍá كتاب أغذية المرضى Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī نجيب الدين السمرقندي، محمد بن علي
Scope & Content:: Treatise on dietetics for ill patients by Najīb al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Samarqandī (نجيب الدين أبو حامد محمد بن علي بن عمر السمرقندي, d. 1222). Contents: Begins (f. 36v, lines 2-8): الحمد لله الذي خلق الداء وأوجب الدواء وسلام على عياده الذين أصطفي خصوصًا على سيدنا وحب...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Ramaḍān 703
Extent:: Ff. 36v-55v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5619, ff 56r-123r
Title:: Kitāb al-aghdhiyah wa-al-ashribah كتاب الأغذية والأشربة Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī نجيب الدين السمرقندي، محمد بن علي
Scope & Content:: Treatise on dietetics for those in health by Najīb al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Samarqandī (نجيب الدين أبو حامد محمد بن علي بن عمر السمرقندي, d. 1222). The treatise was copied by ‘Umar ibn Muḥammad ibn Sallām ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Irbīlī (عمر بن محمد بن سلام بن عبد الله الإربيلي)...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Ramaḍān 703
Extent:: Ff. 56r-123r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5619, ff 124r-192r
Title:: al-Qarābādhīn ʿalá tartīb al-ʿilal القراباذين على ترتيب العلل Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī نجيب الدين السمرقندي، محمد بن علي
Scope & Content:: Treatise on pharmacopoeia arranged head to toe by ailment by Najīb al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Samarqandī (نجيب الدين أبو حامد محمد بن علي بن عمر السمرقندي, d. 1222). The treatise was copied at Tabriz during the last ten days of Ramaḍān 703/late-April or early-May 1304 by ‘U...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Ramaḍān 703
Extent:: Ff. 124r-192r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5620, ff 1r-59v
Title:: Anonymous treatise on ophthalmology
Scope & Content:: Anonymous treatise on ophthalmology divided into forty-six chapters (باب). A table of contents listing the chapter titles is found on ff. 1r-2v. The manuscript is defective at the beginning and f. 1 is a replacement written in a later hand. The treatise is followed by a poem on sexual hygiene ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 1r-59v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5620, ff 60v-74v
Title:: Kitāb al-raḥmah fī al-ṭibb wa-al-ḥikmah كتاب الرحمة في الطب والحكمة [Ṣubunrī, Mahdī ibn ʻAlī صبنري، محمد بن علي]
Scope & Content:: Treatise on prophetic medicine (الطب النبوي) by Muḥammad al-Mahdawī ibn ‘Alī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṣubunrī (محمد المهدوي بن علي بن إبراهيم الصبنري, d. 1412). The author's name, which does not appear in this manuscript, is disputed and his nisba is also reported as Ṣanawbarī (صنوبري, GAL II, 189; GALS I...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 60v-74v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5620, ff 75v-308r
Title:: Manual of therapeutics
Scope & Content:: Manual of therapeutics based on the Book of Those Who are Not Attended By a Physician (كتاب من لا يحضره الطبيب, ff. 76v-117v) by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرازي; d. ca 925) and a Collection (مجموع, ff. 117v-307v) attributed to ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (ع...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 75v-308r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5786, ff 1v-95v
Title:: Minhāj al-dukkān wa-dustūr al-a‘yān منهاج الدكّان ودستور الأعيان al-Kūhīn al-ʻAṭṭār, Abū al-Munā ibn Abī Nāṣr الكوهين العطار، أبو المنى ابن أبي نصر
Scope & Content:: A comprehensive manual on pharmaceutical practice and ethics composed at Cairo in 658 AH/AD 1260 by the Jewish pharmacist Abū al-Muná Dāwūd ibn Abī Naṣr ibn Ḥifāẓ al-Kūhīn al-'Attar al-Isrā’īlī al-Hārūnī (أبو المنى داوود ابن أبي نصر بن حفاظ الكوهين العطار الإسرائيلي الهاروني, see f. 1v, lines 5-...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 715
Extent:: Ff. 1v-95v

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