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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13006, ff 77r-91v
Title:: Selections from al-Rāzī’s al-Kutub al-Ithná ‘asharah (الكتب الإثنى عشرة) Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā رازي، أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا
Scope & Content:: A summary of Books Two, Three, Six, Seven, and Nine of the Twelve Books (الكتب الإثنى عشرة) of the physician and philosopher Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرأزي; d. ca 925), his most complete exposition of the art of chemistry. In this copy, the summary of Book S...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: c 930
Extent:: ff. 77r-91v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13006, ff 91v-96v
Title:: Extracts from Kitāb fī Maʿrifat al-ḥajar (كتاب في معرفة الحجر) Ibn Waḥshīyah, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn أحمد بن الحسين، ابن وحشية
Scope & Content:: Extracts from Kitāb fī Maʿrifat al-ḥajar (كتاب في معرفة الحجر) 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; fl. first half of the 10th century). The passages extracted relate the opinions on alchemical matters...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: c 930
Extent:: ff. 91v-96v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13006, ff 96v-98r
Title:: Excerpts from a commentary on the poem of ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Tammām al-ʿIrāqī (عبد العزيز ابن تمام العراقي) Anonymous
Scope & Content:: An anonymous and untitled commentary on the alchemical didactic poem al-Qaṣīdah al-nūnīyah by Abū al-Iṣbaʿ ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Tammām al-ʿIrāqī (fl. late 4th AH/AD 10th century). Sezgin lists manuscripts of five commentaries on this poem (GAS 4, p. 290; see also Ullmann, 1972, p. 220). Begins (ff...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: c 930
Extent:: ff. 96v-98r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13006, ff 98r-110v
Title:: Excerpts from a commentary on the alchemical poem Shudhūr al-dhahab (شذور الذهب)
Scope & Content:: Excerpts from an anonymous and unattributed commentary on the alchemical poem Shudhūr al-dhahab by Abū Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Mūsá ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad Ibn Khalaf al-Anṣārī al-Jayyānī al-Andalusī, known as Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs (died 593 AH/AD 1197). The title in full is given as follows (f. 98r, 11-15): في...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: c 930
Extent:: ff. 98r-110v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13006, ff 111r-112r
Title:: Excerpts from the Risālah fī al-Ṣināʿah al-falsafīyah (رسالة في الصناعة الفلسفية) al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Bukhārī al-Naqshabandī السيد الشريف البخاري النقشبندي
Scope & Content:: Excerpts from the Risālah fī al-Ṣināʿah al-falsafīyah by al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Bukhārī al-Naqshabandī, a native of Constantinople (see scribal correction above line 2, f. 111r). The compiler explains his method of abridgement and tells us a bit more about this unknown author in a note appended ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: c 930
Extent:: ff. 111r-112r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13006, ff 113r-158r
Title:: Kitāb al-Wāfī fī al-Tadbīr al-kāfīكتاب الوافي في التدبير الكافي Maṣmūdī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad مصمودي، محمد بن أحمد
Scope & Content:: A general treatise on practical chemistry, composed in Tilimsān in 897 AH/AD 1492 (see Ullmann, 1972, p. 245) by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Maṣmūdī (محمد بن أحمد المصمودي). The text was copied on 27 Ramaḍān 1177 AH (30 March AD 1764) at Algiers by Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Mawṣilī (محمد بن سليمان المو...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 27 Ramaḍān 1177
Extent:: ff. 113r-158v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14154, ff 5v-242r
Title:: al-Mughnī fī sharḥ al-mūjiz المغني في شرح الموجز Kāzarūnī, Muḥammad ibn Masʿūd كازروني، محمد بن مسعود
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Sadīd al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Mas‘ūd al-Kāzarūnī (سديد الدين محمد بن مسعود الكازروني; d. 1357) on Ibn al-Nafīs' (ابن النفيس; d. 1288) Mūjiz al-Qānūn (موجز القانون), an epitome of Avicenna's (Ibn Sīnā, ابن سينا; d. 1037) Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطبّ). For the title see f. 6r, li...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1 Jumādá II 843
Extent:: Ff. 5v-242r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14154, ff 242v-245r
Title:: [Sharḥ qaṣīdah fī al-nafs شرح قصيدة في النفس] Āwī, Aḥmad ibn Balkū آوي، أحمد بن بلكو
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Futūḥ Aḥmad ibn Abī ‘Abd Allāh Balkū ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Āwī (جمال الدين أبو الفتوح أحمد بن أبي عبد الله بلكو بن أبي طالب الآوي, fl. 1320) on the Qaṣīdah on the Soul (قصيدة في النفس), also known as the Qasīḍah Rhyming in ‘Ayn (القصيدة العينية), by Avicenna (Ibn Sīn...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 14 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 843
Extent:: Ff. 242v-245r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14154, ff 247v-334v
Title:: Sharḥ tashrīḥ al-qānūn شرح تشريح القانون Ibn al-Nafīs, ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm ابن النفيس، علي بن أبي الحزم
Scope & Content:: Commentary by ‘Alā’ al-Dīn ‘Alī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm al-Qurashī (علاء الدين علي بن أبي الحزم القرشي, d. 1288), known as Ibn al-Nafīs (ابن النفيس), on the anatomical material in Avicenna's (Ibn Sīnā, ابن سينا, d. 1037) Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطب). The copy was completed on 15 Sha‘bān 842/31 ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15 Sha‘bān 842
Extent:: Ff. 247v-334v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14155, ff 1r-37v
Title:: Ḥaqāʾiq asrār al-ṭibb حقائق أسرار الطب Sijzī, Masʿūd ibn Muḥammad سجزي، مسعود بن محمد
Scope & Content:: An introduction to medicine and compendium of medical terminology in three chapters (funūn), each subdivided into sections (aqsām) and headings (fusūl), by Masʿūd ibn Muḥammad al-Sijzī (مسعود بن محمد السجزي, fl. before 1334). The treatise, the title of which is given in the preface (f. 1v, line...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: ca 1576
Extent:: Ff. 1r-37v

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