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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2411/2
Title:: Quadrant ربع
Scope & Content:: Quadrant (رُبْع), comprising an astrolabe quadrant (ربع المُقَنْطَرَات, Side A), and a sine quadrant (ربع المُجَيَّب, Side B). The quadrant is signed by its maker, Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Sharbatlī (أحمد ابن إبراهيم الشربتلي, Side A), and dated 1256/1840-1 (Side B).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1256
Extent:: Instrument

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2600
Title:: Kitāb al-ghādhī wa-al-mughtadhī كتاب الغاذي والمغتذي Ibn Abī al-Ash‘ath, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ابن أبي الأشعث، أحمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Treatise on dietetics and the nourishment of the parts of the body by Abū Ja‘far Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Ash‘ath (أبو جعفر أحمد بن محمد ابن أبي الأشعث; d. 360/970). The text is in two parts (مقالتان), divided into chapters (جمل), and further subdivided into sections (أبواب). This copy is m...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Dhū al-Qa‘dah 348
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+17+xxxiv

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2601
Title:: Composite manuscript, mostly medical
Scope & Content:: A composite volume, consisting of three manuscripts apparently from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The first two are medical texts, and the last is a tale also found in the Thousand Nights and a Night (ألف ليلة وليلة). Contents: (1) Kitāb fīhī ajzā’ min Minhāj al-ṭibb (كتاب فيه أجزاء ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1200-1399
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+88+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2601, ff 1r-38v
Title:: Kitāb fīhī ajzā’ min Minhāj al-ṭibb كتاب فيه أجزاء من منهاج الطب
Scope & Content:: Extracts concerning pharmacology from the Minhāj al-bayān fīmā yastaʿmiluhū al-insān (منهاج البيان فيما يستعمله الإنسان) by Abū ‘Alī Yahyá ibn ‘Īsá (أبو علي يحيى ابن عيسى), known as Ibn Jazlah (ابن جزلة; d. 493/1100) and from the Pandects or Kunnāsh (كناش), called here the Nushat al-bīmāristān (...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: Ff. 1r-38v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2601, ff 39r-78v
Title:: al-Irshād li-maṣāliḥ al-anfus wa-al-ajsād الإرشاد لمصالح الأنفس والأجساد Ibn Jumayʿ, Hibat Allāh ibn Zayn ابن جميع، هبة الله بن زين
Scope & Content:: Fragment of a general guide to medicine by al-Muwaffiq Shams al-Riyāsah abū al-‘Ashā’ir Hibat Allāh ibn Zayn (الموفق شمس الرياسة أبو العشائر هبة الله بن زين; d. 1198) known as Ibn Jumay‘ (ابن جميع), personal physician to the sultan of Egypt and Syria Saladin (صلاح الدين الأيوبي; d. 1193). The w...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: Ff. 39r-78v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2601, ff 79r-88v
Title:: Ḥikāyat Zayn al-Mawāṣif wa-mā jarā lahā ma‘a Masrūr al-ʿaṭṭār حكاية زين المواصف وما جرا لها مع مسرور العطار
Scope & Content:: Fragment of the 'Tale of Zayn al-Mawāṣif and Masrūr the Druggist'. The tale is found in The 1001 Nights (ألف ليلة وليلة; see Macnaghten edition, also known as Calcutta II, vol. 4, pp. 190-246), but appears here without the frame-narrative. The narrator of the tale is referred to simply as the st...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: Ff. 79r-88v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2784
Title:: Kitāb na‘t al-ḥayawān كتاب نعت الحيوان
Scope & Content:: Bestiary describing the characteristics and medical uses of a large number of animals. The anonymous compiler of the work (see f. 95r) claims it is based on writings by Aristotle (أرسطاطاليس; d. 322 BC) and Abū Sa‘īd ‘Ubayd Allāh ibn Jibrā’īl ibn ‘Ubayd Allāh ibn Bakhtīshū‘ ibn Jibrā’īl ibn Bakh...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+258+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2805
Title:: Two medical treatises
Scope & Content:: Composite manuscript comprising two codicological units. Contents: (1) al-Qalānisī (القلانسي), Qarābādīn (aqrābādhīn) (قرابادين [أقراباذين]; ff. 1v-110v); (2) Ibn Hubal (ابن هبل), al-Mukhtār fī al-ṭibb (المختار في الطب; ff. 111r-282r).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 976-988
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+282+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2805, ff 1v-110v
Title:: Qarābādīn (aqrābādhīn) قرابادين (أقراباذين) Qalānisī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad قلانسي، بدر الدين محمد
Scope & Content:: Formulary or pharmacopoeia by Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Bahrām ibn Muḥammad al-Qalānisī al-Samarqandī (بدر الدين محمد بن بهرام بن محمد القلانسي السمرقندي, fl. 1194) divided into forty-nine chapters (باب). The chapters are listed with their titles in the preface (f. 2r-2v). The copy was completed...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1 Jumādá II 988
Extent:: Ff. 1v-110v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2805, ff 111r-282r
Title:: al-Mukhtār fī al-ṭibb المختار في الطب Ibn Hubal, ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ابن هبل، علي بن أحمحد
Scope & Content:: Volume Two (المجلد الثاني; see colophon, f. 282r, lines 14, transcribed below) of a comprehensive encyclopaedia of medicine in four volumes by Muhadhdhab al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Hubal al-Baghdādī (مهذب الدين أبو الحسن علي بن أحمد بن علي بن هبل البغدادي, d. 1213). The tex...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 8 Ramadan 976
Extent:: Ff. 111v-282r

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