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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 201r-228v
Title:: [al-Mubāḥathāt المباحثات] Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Questions on metaphysical topics posed by Abū al-Ḥasan Bahmanyār ibn al-Marzubān (أبو الحسن بهمنيار بن المرزبان, d. 1066) and answered by his teacher Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The manuscript gives...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 201r-228v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 228v-235v
Title:: Risālat ḥikmat al-mawt رسالة حكمة الموت Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Ethical treatise on eschatology attributed to Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 228v-235v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 235v-258r
Title:: Risālat Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān رسالة حي بن يقظان Ibn Ṭufayl, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ابن طفيل، محمد بن عبد الملك
Scope & Content:: Philosophical novel by the Andalusian physician, astronomer and philosopher Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭufayl al-Qaysī (أبو بكر محمد بن عبد الملك بن محمد بن طفيل القيسي, d. 1185).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 235v-258r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 258v-310r
Title:: Ḥikmat-i ʿAlāʾī حكمة علائي Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Persian summary of his own philosophical teachings 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), written for the Kākūyid amir ʿAlāʾ al-Dawlah Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Rustam Dushmanziyār (علاء الدولة أبو جعفر محمد ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 258v-310r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 310v-342v
Title:: Risālah dar ʿilm-i rīyāz̤īyāt (رساله در علم رياضيات) Jūzjānī, ʻAbd al-Wāḥid جوزجاني، عبد الواحد
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the mathematical sciences (geometry, astronomy, arithmetic and music) excerpted from the works of Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037), edited and translated into Persian by his student Abū ʿUbayd...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 310v-342v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 342v-345r
Title:: Risālat taqsīm al-ʿulūm رسالة تقسيم العلوم Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the classification of sciences 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). Compare text 52, below (ff. 572r-574v).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 342v-345r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 346r-368v
Title:: Ṭarīqat Ibn Sīnā min Kitāb al-milal wa-al-niḥal طريقة ابن سينا من كتاب الملل والنحل Shahrastānī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm شهرستاني، محمد بن عبد الكريم
Scope & Content:: Outline of the doctrines of Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037) extracted from the Book of the Religions and Sects (كتاب الملل والنحل) by Tāj al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Aḥmad al-Shahra...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 346r-368v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 368v-369v
Title:: Risālah fī dhikr asbāb al-raʿd wa-al-barq رسالة في ذكر أسباب الرعد والبرق Theophrastus ثيوفراسط
Scope & Content:: Extract on the causes of thunder and lightning from the work on meteorology by Theophrastus (Θεόφραστος, ثيوفراسط, d. ca 287 BC) commonly, as here, misattributed to Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037, see Gu...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 368v-369v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 369v-370r
Title:: [Answer to a question on a Sufi saying] Anonymous
Scope & Content:: Answer to a question posed by an anonymous individual 'on the meaning of the Sufi saying "he who knows the secret of predestination has become an apostate"' (عن معنى قول الصوفية من عرف سر القدر ألحد, f. 369v, lines 14-15) falsely attributed to Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 369v-370r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 370v-373r
Title:: al-Risālah al-musammāh bi-al-fayḍ al-ilāhī الرسالة المسماة بالفيض الإلهي Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the classification of phenomena including miracles, inspiration, various forms of magic, talismans and occult sciences arranged according mutual interactions between bodies and souls by Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latin...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 370v-373r

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