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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5786, ff 96r-121v
Title:: Fragments of texts on opthalmology and pharmacology
Scope & Content:: Fragments of texts on opthalmology and pharmacology including: (1) Text on opthalmology with alphabetical list of remedies (ff. 96r-107v); (2) Fragments of texts attributed to Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ‘Alī ibn Qays al-Kasdānī (أبو بكر أحمد بن علي بن قيس الكسداني), known as Ibn Waḥshiyah (ابن وحشية; ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 715
Extent:: Ff. 96r-121v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5786, ff 122v-139v
Title:: Anonymous text on pharmacology
Scope & Content:: Anonymous treatise on pharmacology divided by drug type and degrees of qualities. Contents: Chapter One (ff. 122v-125r); Chapter Two: On Herbs (المقالة الثانية في الحشائش; ff. 125r-129v); Chapter Three: On Principles Hot in the First Degree (المقالة الثالثة في الأصول الحارة في الدرجة الأولى; ff...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 715
Extent:: Ff. 122v-139v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5820, ff 2v-177r
Title:: Sharḥ Fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ شرح فصول أبقراط Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-Nīsābūrī, Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī ابن أبي صادق النيسابوري، أبو القاسم عبد الرحمن بن علي
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-Nīsābūrī (أبو القاسم عبد الرحمن بن علي ابن أبي صادق النيسابوري, d. ca 1068) on the Aphorisms (كتاب الفصول) of Hippocrates (أبقراط, d. ca 370 BC). The commentary is based on Galen of Pergamon's (جالينوس, d. ca 216) co...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1094
Extent:: Ff. 2v-177r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5820, ff 178v-208v
Title:: Kitāb fī-dafʿ al-maḍarr al-kullīyah li-l-abdān al-insānīyah كتاب في دفع المضار الكلية للأبدان الإنسانية Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Treatise on hygiene by Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The text is also known as Treatise on the Obviation of the Errors Occuring in Medical Treatment (المقالة في تدارك الخطأ الواقع في التدبير الطبي), h...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1094
Extent:: Ff. 178v-208v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5831, ff 1r-283r
Title:: Jāmiʿ al-mabādiʾ wa-al-ghāyāt fī ʿilm al-mīqāt جامع المبادئ والغايات في علم الميقات Marrākushī, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī مراكشي، الحسن بن علي
Scope & Content:: Encyclopaedia of practical astronomy and astronomical instruments by Sharaf al-Din Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Marrākushī (شرف الدين أبو علي الحسن بن علي بن عمر المراكشي, fl. second half of the 13th century). The treatise was composed in in the years 1276-82 (see Charette, 2007, p. 7...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 3 Ṣafar 1074
Extent:: Ff. 1r-283r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5831, ff 283v-285v
Title:: Maqālah fī ṣūrat al-kusūf مقالة في صورة الكسوف Alhazen ابن الهيثم
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the observation of solar eclipses through a camera obscura by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham (أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم; d. ca 1040). The text is copied in a hand much coarser and less polished than that of the previous text in the manuscript, and was transcrib...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 283v-285v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5860, ff 1r-135v
Title:: [Taqwīm al-adwīyah تقويم العدوية] Isfarāyīnī, Muḥammad إسفراييني، محمد
Scope & Content:: Treatise on drugs by Muḥammad Ibn ‘Alī al-Isfarā’inī (محمد بن علي الإسفرائني, see f. 3v, line 10), according to the spelling of the nisba given in the manuscript and followed by Brockelmann (GALS II, 592), who gives the author a floruit date of 1543. Kaḥḥālah (III, 552, no. 14963) gives the auth...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18 Rabī‘ II 1043
Extent:: Ff. 1r-135v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5860, ff 136r-237v
Title:: Treatise on drugs Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ṣadr al-Dīn ‘Alī تقي الدين محمد ابن صدر الدين علي
Scope & Content:: Treatise on drugs by Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ṣadr al-Dīn ‘Alī (تقي الدين محمد ابن صدر الدين علي, see f. 136v, line 5, fl. ca 1600). The treatise is followed by three folios (ff. 234r-236v) of Persian verse. 　 Begins (f. 136v, lines 2-5): زيب ديباچه هر رساله تسباليش صانع حكيمى رو است كه قلوب...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 136r-237v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5927, ff 1r-67v
Title:: Ṣināʿat al-yad صناعة اليد Anonymous
Scope & Content:: Treatise on pharmacopoeia comprising seventeen chapters (باب). The text is defective at beginning and the author's name is not known. Some folios are missing and unfoliated leaves have been inserted after ff. 11 and 34 to mark locations of missing leaves. The text is followed by a short note o...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th or 16th century
Extent:: Ff. 1r-67v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5927, ff 68r-100r
Title:: [Kitāb al-aghdhiyyah] [كتاب الأغذية] [Ibn Zuhr, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ] [ابن زهر، عبد الملك بن أبي العلاء]
Scope & Content:: Treatise on dietetics by the Andalusian physician Abū Marwān ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ Zuhr (أبو مروان عبد الملك بن أبي العلاء زهر, d. 1162), known as Ibn Zuhr (ابن زهر), Latinised as Avenzoar. The copy is defective at beginning and the surviving text mentiones neither the author nor the ti...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th or 16th century
Extent:: Ff. 68r-100r

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