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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5591, ff 185r-211v
Title:: Thirty-seven tables, diagrams and short texts related to astrology, divination and astral magic
Scope & Content:: Thirty-seven tables, diagrams and short texts related to astrology, divination and astral magic. Most of these are extracted from unknown sources, although the items on ff. 187v-188r and ff. 202v-203r mention Hermes (هرمس) and Dorotheus of Sidon (Δωρόθεος Σιδώνιος, ذوروثيوس, fl. AD 50-100) and t...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 0867
Extent:: Ff. 185r-211v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5591, ff 212r-214v
Title:: Fragment of a Persian text on poetry
Scope & Content:: Fragment, defective at beginning and end, of a Persian text on poetry, possibly a commentary on the work of an early Persian poet. The fragment forms a separate codicoligical unit, coming from another manuscript not related to the rest of the folios in this volume in either format or content. A...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Ff. 212r-214v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5593
Title:: Kitāb istī‘āb al-wujūh al-mumkinah fī ṣan‘at al-asṭurlāb كتاب استيعاب الوجوه الممكنة في صنعة الأسطرلاب Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad بيروني، محمد بن أحمد
Scope & Content:: One of only three recorded copies of an influential treatise on the construction and use of astrolabes by Abū al-Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī (أبو الريحان محمد بن أحمد البيروني, ca 973-1048) containing 122 diagrams, 7 tables and 1 space for a diagram or table left blank and marked بياض صح...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 700-800
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+89+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5596
Title:: Sharḥ Kitāb al-Qānūn lil-Qurashī شرح كتاب القانون للقرشي 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, known as Ibn al-Nafīs (1210 or 1211-1288), on Avicenna's (Ibn Sīnā's) Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb). The volume contains the last page of Ibn al-Nafīs' commentary on Book 2 (on materia medica) and the commentary on Book 3 (on ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 902
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+92+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5618
Title:: Kitāb mā lā yasaʿ al-ṭabīb jahluhu كتاب ما لا يسع الطبيب جهله Kutubī, Yūsuf ibn Ismāʿīl كتبي، يوسف بن إسماعيل
Scope & Content:: Treatise on materia medica arranged in alphabetical order by Yūsuf ibn Ismā‘īl ibn Ilyās al-Khūwaīyī al-Baghdādī al-Kutubī (يوسف بن إسماعيل بن إلياس الخويي البغدادي الكتبي, d. 1353), and based on the Comprehensive Book on Simple Drugs and Foods (جامع لمفردات الأدوية والأغذية) by Ibn al-Bayṭār ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+336+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5619
Title:: Four medical works Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī نجيب الدين السمرقندي، محمد بن علي
Scope & Content:: Four treatises on pharmacy and dietetics by Najīb al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Samarqandī (نجيب الدين أبو حامد محمد بن علي بن عمر السمرقندي, d. 1222). Contents: (1) Uṣūl al-tarākīb (أصول التراكيب, ff. 2r-36r); (2) Kitāb aghdhiyat al-marḍá (كتاب أغذية المرضى, ff. 36v-55v); (3)...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Ramaḍān 703
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+192+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5619, ff 2r-36r
Title:: Uṣūl al-tarākīb أصول التراكيب Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī نجيب الدين السمرقندي، محمد بن علي
Scope & Content:: Treatise on pharmacology by Najīb al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Samarqandī (نجيب الدين أبو حامد محمد بن علي بن عمر السمرقندي, d. 1222). The treatise comprises nineteen chapters (أبواب), and a table of contents is found on f. 5r-v. Begins (f. 2v, lines 2-5): الحمد لله رب العا...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Ramaḍān 703
Extent:: Ff. 2r-36r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5619, ff 36v-55v
Title:: Kitāb aghdhiyat al-marḍá كتاب أغذية المرضى Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī نجيب الدين السمرقندي، محمد بن علي
Scope & Content:: Treatise on dietetics for ill patients by Najīb al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Samarqandī (نجيب الدين أبو حامد محمد بن علي بن عمر السمرقندي, d. 1222). Contents: Begins (f. 36v, lines 2-8): الحمد لله الذي خلق الداء وأوجب الدواء وسلام على عياده الذين أصطفي خصوصًا على سيدنا وحب...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Ramaḍān 703
Extent:: Ff. 36v-55v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5619, ff 56r-123r
Title:: Kitāb al-aghdhiyah wa-al-ashribah كتاب الأغذية والأشربة Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī نجيب الدين السمرقندي، محمد بن علي
Scope & Content:: Treatise on dietetics for those in health by Najīb al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Samarqandī (نجيب الدين أبو حامد محمد بن علي بن عمر السمرقندي, d. 1222). The treatise was copied by ‘Umar ibn Muḥammad ibn Sallām ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Irbīlī (عمر بن محمد بن سلام بن عبد الله الإربيلي)...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Ramaḍān 703
Extent:: Ff. 56r-123r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5619, ff 124r-192r
Title:: al-Qarābādhīn ʿalá tartīb al-ʿilal القراباذين على ترتيب العلل Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī نجيب الدين السمرقندي، محمد بن علي
Scope & Content:: Treatise on pharmacopoeia arranged head to toe by ailment by Najīb al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Samarqandī (نجيب الدين أبو حامد محمد بن علي بن عمر السمرقندي, d. 1222). The treatise was copied at Tabriz during the last ten days of Ramaḍān 703/late-April or early-May 1304 by ‘U...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Ramaḍān 703
Extent:: Ff. 124r-192r

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