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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9202, ff 19v-51r
Title:: جوامع كتاب جالينوس في المزاج على رأي الإسكندرانيين Jawāmi‘ kitāb Jālīnūs fī al-mizāj ‘alá ra’y al-Iskandarānīyīn Galen جالينوس
Scope & Content:: Alexandrian Summary (جوامع الإسكندرانيين) of Galen's (جالينوس ; d. ca 216) De temperamentis libri III (Περὶ κράσεων βιβλία γ'; في المزاج) translated from the Greek by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (حنين بن إسحق; d. 873). This copy was collated with a copy owned by Ibn al-Tilmīdh (ابن التلميذ; d. ca 1164), ch...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1050-1152
Extent:: ff. 19v-51r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9202, ff 52r-82r
Title:: جوامع كتاب جالينوس في القوى الطبيعية على رأي الإسكندرانيين Jawāmi‘ kitāb Jālīnūs fī al-quwá al-ṭabī‘īyah ‘alá ra’y al-Iskandarānīyīn Galen جالينوس
Scope & Content:: Alexandrian Summary (جوامع الإسكندرانيين) of Galen's (جالينوس ; d. ca 216) De facultatibus naturalibus libri III (Περὶ δυνάμεων φυσικῶν βιβλία γ'; في القوى الطبيعية)translated from the Greek by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (حنين بن إسحق; d. 873). This copy was collated with a copy owned by Ibn al-Tilmīdh (ا...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1050-1152
Extent:: ff. 52r-82r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9202, ff 82v-131v
Title:: جوامع كتاب جالينوس في التشريح للمتعلمين على رأي الإسكندرانيين Jawāmi‘ kitāb Jālīnūs fī al-tashrīḥ lil-muta‘allimīn ‘alá ra’y al-Iskandarānīyīn Galen جالينوس
Scope & Content:: Alexandrian Summary (جوامع الإسكندرانيين) of Galen's (جالينوس ; d. ca 216) De anatomicis administrationibus (Περὶ ἀνατομικῶν ἐγχειρήσεων τῶν σωζομένων βιβλία ἐννέα) translated from the Greek by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (حنين بن إسحق; d. 873). The Arabic title of this summarised version is Fī al-tashrīḥ ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1050-1152
Extent:: ff. 82v-131v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9265, ff 1r-55r
Title:: Kitāb al-shāmil fī al-ramy كتاب الشامل في الرمي Ṭabarī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad طبري، عبد الرحمن أحمد
Scope & Content:: Unique copy of the oldest surviving comprehensive treatise on military archery by Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad al-Ṭabarī (أبو محمد عبد الرحمن أحمد الطبري, active ca 9th century), missing the first part of the text. This treatise became a major source for subsequent furūsīyah texts. In nume...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Ff. 1r-55r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9265, ff 55r-96v
Title:: Kitāb al-wāḍiḥ fī al-ramy كتاب الواضح في الرمي Ṭabarī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad طبري، عبد الرحمن أحمد
Scope & Content:: A copy of a practical treatise on archery, very popular and widely-used especially in the Mamluk period, by Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad al-Ṭabarī (أبو محمد عبد الرحمن أحمد الطبري, active ca 9th century). The preface names the work (f. 55v, line 10) and mentions its structure in thirty bābs...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Ff. 55r-96v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9265, ff 97r-118v
Title:: Untitled treatise on the arts of the lance and warfare Ṭabarī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad طبري، عبد الرحمن أحمد
Scope & Content:: Incomplete text on horseback manoeuvres with the lance and general warfare (see f. 110v, lines 9-10: وقد ضمنت هذا الكتاب ما يوجب لمتعاطي الحرب...). A note on the volume's second flyleaf (ii-v) attributes this text to Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad al-Ṭabarī (أبو محمد عبد الرحمن أحمد الطبري, a...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Ff. 96v-118v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9452, ff 1v-21r
Title:: فصول أبقراط Fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ
Scope & Content:: Translation of the Aphorisms of Hippocrates translated by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq in the mid to late AD 9th/3rd AH century. The text is divided into 7 maqālahs: Maqālah 1 (begins f. 1r); Maqālah 2 (f. 3v); Maqālah 3 (f. 6v); Maqālah 4 (f. 8v); Maqālah 5 (f. 13r); Maqālah 6 (f. 16v); Maqālah 7 (19r). T...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 3 Ramaḍān 690
Extent:: ff. 1v-21r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9452, ff 21v-62r
Title:: Fuṣūl al-sittah فصول الستة Ibn Jazlah, Yaḥyá ibn ‘Īsá ابن جزلة، يحيى بن عيسى
Scope & Content:: Alphabetical handbook on pharmacology by Abū ‘Alī Yahyá ibn ‘Īsá (أبو علي يحيى ابن عيسى ), known as Ibn Jazlah (ابن جزلة; d. 493/1100). The full title is Minhāj al-bayān fī mā yast‘amaluhu al-insān (منهاج البيان فيما يستعمله الإنسان), but the title page (f. 1r) records the title as Fuṣūl al-sitt...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 3 Ramaḍān 690
Extent:: ff. 21v-62r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9452, ff 62r-64v
Title:: Three short poems and seven medical extracts
Scope & Content:: The three short poems on f. 62r are not about medicine. The seven medical extracts are as follows: 1. Recipe for the medicine bakhtajūsh (بختجوش) made from grape juice (f. 62v) 2. Discussion of two bezoars (بادزهر), the ḥajar al-thīrān (حجر الثيران) and the ḥajar al-tays (حجر التيس) and their...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 3 Ramaḍān 690
Extent:: ff. 62r-64v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9587, ff 1v-29v
Title:: Risālah fī ʿilm al-ẓalālāt رسالة في علم الظلالات Ibn al-Raqqām, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ابن الرقام، محمد بن ابراهيم
Scope & Content:: A comprehensive treatise on the construction and use of several types of sundials, including explanations of the theoretical principles of gnomonics. The treatise is divided into forty-four chapters (فصول), and contains fifty diagrams. Both the content and arrangement of the text preserved here...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1270-1315
Extent:: Ff. 1v-29v

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