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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6285, ff 27r-147r
Title:: Three fragments of a medical manuscript
Scope & Content:: Fragments of a medical manuscript, divided into three sections each separated by an unfoliated blank flyleaf. Each section is defective at beginning and all but the last also at the end with no indication of authors or titles. Contents: (1) Anonymous commentary on Ibn Sīnā's (ابن سينا, d. 1037)...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: Ff. 27r-147r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6670, ff 2v-82r
Title:: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī al-Buḥrānكتاب جالينوس في البحران Galen (Jālīnūs) جالينوس
Scope & Content:: Arabic translation, probably by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī (c 809-873; see colophon of Item 2, f. 142v, line 8), of Galen’s (Claudius Galenus of Pergamum, 129- c 200) treatise on crises, De crisibus libri III. The manuscript was completed in Damascus 580 AH/AD 1184 by Ibrāhīm ibn Naṣr ibn Ibrā...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 580
Extent:: ff. 2v-82r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6670, ff 82v-142v
Title:: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī ayyām al-Buḥrānكتاب جالينوس في أيام البحران Galen (Jālīnūs) جالينوس
Scope & Content:: Arabic translation, probably by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī (c 809-873; see colophon, f. 142v, line 8, transcribed below), of Galen’s (Claudius Galenus of Pergamum, 129- c 200) treatise on critical days, De diebus decretoriis libri III (Περὶ κρισίμων ἡμερῶν βιβλία γ΄; أيام البحران). The manuscrip...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 580
Extent:: ff. 82v-142v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6670, ff 143v-191v
Title:: Kitāb Jālīnūs fī aṣnāf al-ḥummayyāt كتاب جالينوس في أصناف الحميّات Galen (Jālīnūs) جالينوس
Scope & Content:: Arabic translation, probably by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī (c 809-873; see colophon of Item 2, f. 142v, line 8), of Galen’s (Claudius Galenus of Pergamum, 129- c 200) treatise on the differences between fevers, De differentiis febrium libri II. The manuscript was completed in Damascus, 580 AH/AD...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 580
Extent:: ff. 143v-191v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6905, ff 3v-178r
Title:: Ghāyat al-itqān fī tadbīr badan al-insān غاية الاتقان في تدبير بدن الإنسان Ḥalabī, Ṣāliḥ Naṣr Allāh ibn Sallūm حلبي، صالح نصر الله بن سلوم
Scope & Content:: Medical compendium on pharmacognosy by Ṣāliḥ ibn Naṣr Allāh ibn Sallūm al-Ḥalabī (صالح بن نصر الله بن سلوم الحلبي, d. 1669), personal physician to the Ottoman sultan Mehmet IV (محمد رابع, reg. 1648-87). The text begins with an extensive table of contents (ff. 3v-10r). The copy was comple...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 22 Ayyār (May) 1814
Extent:: Ff. 3v-178r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6905, ff 179r-212v
Title:: Kitāb al-ṭibb al-jadīd al-kīmāwī ta’līf Barākalsūs al-jarmānī wa-Kitāb Karūlīyūs ayḍan كتاب الطب الجديد الكيماوي تأليف براكلسوس الجرماني وكتاب كروليوس أيضًا Ḥalabī, Ṣāliḥ Naṣr Allāh ibn Sallūm حلبي، صالح نصر الله بن سلوم
Scope & Content:: Treatise on Paracelsian iatrochemistry by Ṣāliḥ ibn Naṣr Allāh ibn Sallūm al-Ḥalabī (صالح بن نصر الله بن سلوم الحلبي, d. 1669), personal physician to the Ottoman sultan Mehmet IV (محمد رابع, reg. 1648-87), based on the writings of Paracelsus (براكلسوس الجرماني, Philippus Aureolus Theophras...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 14 Āb (August) 1814
Extent:: Ff. 179r-212v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7470, ff 2r-184v
Title:: Ibn Ḥijjah al-Ḥamawī, Taqī al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn ʿAlī ابن حجة الحموي، تقي الدين أبو بكر بن علي Thimār al-awrāq ثمار الأوراق
Scope & Content:: A compilation of historical anecdotes and poetic quotations from many sources. Begins (f. 2v, lines 2-5): قال الشيخ الإمام علامة الأعلام حجة العرب وترجمان الأدب قاضي الأدب وفاضله تقي الدين رحلة الطالبين مسلك المتأدبين أبو بكر بن حجة الحنفي منشئ دواوين الإنشاء الشريف بالممالك الإسلام تغمده ال...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: Ff. 2r-184v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7470, ff 185r-207v
Title:: al-Yaḥyāwīyah fī ḥubb khayr al-barīyah اليحياوية في حب خير البرية
Scope & Content:: Anonymous treatise on hippiatry entitled Treatise for Yaḥyá, on Love for the Best of Creation (اليحياوية في حب خير البرية, f. 185v, line 13). The copy was completed on 18 Rabīʿ I 893/ 2 March 1488 by the scribe ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥāḍir ibn al-Ḥaydar (علي بن محمد بن الحاضر بن الحيضر, see coloph...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18 Rabīʿ I 893
Extent:: Ff. 185r-207v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7716, ff 1r-117r
Title:: Kitāb al-milal wa-al-duwwal كتاب الملل والدوّل Abū Ma‘shar أبو معشر
Scope & Content:: Major treatise on historical astrology by Abū Ma‘shar Ja‘far ibn Muḥammad ibn ‘Umar al-Balkhi (أبو معشر جعفر بن محمد عمر البلخي; d. ca 886). The text is divided into eight parts (مقالات) in sixty-three chapters (فصول), not ninety-three chapters as erroneously stated in this manuscript (f. 1v, l...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: Ff. 1r-117r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7716, ff 118v-127r
Title:: al-I‘lām bi-shadd al-minkām الإعلام بشدّ المنكام Muḥammad al-Ṣūfī محمد الصوفي
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the use of sand-clocks (منكام, pl. مناكيم) by the Egyptian mathematician and astronomer Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Fatḥ ibn ‘Īsá ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣūfī al-Miṣrī (شمس الدين محمد بن أبي الفتح بن عيسى بن الصوفي المصري, fl. late 15th-early 16th century; see. f. 125v, lines 2-3). The tex...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: Ff. 118v-127r

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