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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5033
Title:: al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb القانون في الطبّ Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: The Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطبّ) by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, Latinised as Avicenna, 980-1037). This complete copy of one of the most influential Arabic medical texts is richly illuminated, decorated and bound in Safavid ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 4 Shawwāl 1069
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+645+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5099
Title:: Kitāb al-ṭabīkh كتاب الطبيخ Ibn al-Karīm, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ابن الكريم، محمد بن الحسن
Scope & Content:: A manual on cookery in ten chapters (أبواب), composed by Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Karīm, known as al-Kātib al-Baghdādī (محمد بن الحسن بن الكريم الكاتب البغدادي, d. 1239/40) in 623/1226. The present copy lacks a colophon, however an inscription in gold ink outlined in black records that the ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1451-81
Extent:: Codex; ff. 1+i+97+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5305
Title:: [Kitāb al-masālik wa-al-mamālik كتاب مسالك الممالك] [Iṣṭakhrī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad إصطخري، إبراهيم بن محمد]
Scope & Content:: A descriptive geography of the Islamic world by Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Fārisī al-Karkhī al-Iṣṭakhrī (أبو إسحاق إبراهيم بن محمد الفارسي الكرخي الإصطخري, d. 957/98). The present volume's colophon attributes it to the scribe Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad Faq[ī]h al-Sīnābī (إبراهيم بن أحمد فقه السي...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+79+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5316
Title:: al-Kitāb al-Manṣūrī الكتاب المنصوري Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā رازي، أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا
Scope & Content:: Influential compendium of medicine written in 903 by the physician and philosopher Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرأزي; d. ca 925) and dedicated to the Governor of Rayy, Abū Ṣāliḥ Manṣūr ibn Isḥāq (أبو صالح منصور بن إسحق; see fol. 1v, line 3, transcribed below). ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1000
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+191+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5323
Title:: Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thābitah كتاب صور الكواكب الثابتة Ṣūfī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar صوفى، عبد الرحمن ابن عمر
Scope & Content:: An illustrated description by ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣūfī (عبد الرحمن الصوفي; d. 986) of the 48 classical constellations discussed by Ptolemy in his Almagest. The text contains labelled illustrations of the 48 constellations as viewed on a celestial globe and as viewed in the sky, along with supporti...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1260-1280
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+86+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5408
Title:: Six treatises on arithmetic and use of the quadrant
Scope & Content:: A collection of three texts on algebra and arithmetic, and three on the use of the quadrant. The texts in the volume were copied between Rabīʿ II-Jumādá II 1070/December 1659- February 1660 by ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-ʿĀmilī (علي بن محمد بن الحسن بن زين الدين العاملي, wh...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1070
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+165+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5408, ff 1r-93v
Title:: Irshād al-ṭullāb ilá wasīlat al-ḥisāb إرشاد الطلاب إلى وسيلة الحساب Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad سبط المارديني، بدر الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: A commentary on Wasīlat al-ḥisāb (وسيلة الحساب), by Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Hāʼim al-Maqdisī al-Faraḍī (شهاب الدين أبو العباس أحمد بن محمد بن الهائم المقدسي الفرضي, d. 1412), known as Ibn al-Hā’im (ابن الهائم), which is itself an abstract from its author's own al-Ma...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1 Rabīʿ II 1070
Extent:: Ff. 1r-93v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5408, ff 94r-115r
Title:: Sharḥ al-Urjūzah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī ʿilm al-jabr شرح الأرجوزة الياسمينية في علم الجبر
Scope & Content:: Anonymous commentary on the didactic poem (أرجوزة) on algebra al-Manẓūmah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah (المنظومة الياسمينية في الجبر والمقابلة) by Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥajjāj ibn al-Yāsamīn al-Adrinī al-Ishbīlī (أبو محمد عبد الله بن محمد بن حجاج بن الياسمين الأدر...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: mid-Jumādá I 1070
Extent:: Ff. 94r-115r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5408, ff 115v-133r
Title:: Nuzhat al-ḥussāb fī ‘ilm al-ḥisāb نزهة الحُسّاب في علم الحِساب Ibn al-Hāʾim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ابن الهائم، أحمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Abridgement of a treatise also by the author, Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ha’im al-Maqdisī al-Faraḍī (شهاب الدين أبو العباس أحمد بن محمد بن الهائم المقدسي الفرضي, d. 1412), entitled al-Murshidah fī ṣinā‘at al-ghubār (المرشدة في صناعة الغبار) on arithmetic and ḥisāb al-g...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1070
Extent:: Ff. 115v-133r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5408, ff 133v-137v
Title:: Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-marsūm bi-al-qanṭarāt رسالة في العمل بالربع المرسوم بالقنطرات
Scope & Content:: Anonymous treatise on the use of the astrolabe quadrant. This short manual was written for beginners and consists of an introduction and ten chapters (faṣl). The copy was completed on 22 Jumādá I 1070/4 February 1660 by the scribe ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-ʿĀmilī (علي بن...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 22 Jumādá I 1070
Extent:: Ff. 133v-137v

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