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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6280, ff 2r-131v
Title:: Sharḥ khulāṣat al-ḥisāb شرح خلاصة الحساب Kāẓimī, Jawād ibn Saʿd كاظمي، جواد بن سعد
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Jawād ibn Saʿd ibn Jawād al-Kāẓimī (جواد بن سعد بن جواد الكاظمي, d. ca 1654-5 [see al-Amīn, A‘yān al-shī‘ah, vol. 4, p. 271]) on the Summa of Arithmetic (خلاصة الحساب) by his teacher Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621). The text co...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1114
Extent:: Ff. 2r-131v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6280, ff 132r-142r
Title:: Tashrīḥ al-aflāk تشريح الأفلاك ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين
Scope & Content:: Summary of theoretical astronomy (هيئة) by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621) in which the author argues that the earth rotates around its axis. The copy was completed on 9 Sha‘bān 1114/29 December 1702 by Ibn Muḥammad Riḍá Muḥammad Amīn (ابن م...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 9 Sha‘bān 1114
Extent:: Ff. 132r-142r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6280, ff 142v-158v
Title:: Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb خلاصة الحساب ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين
Scope & Content:: Very popular Safavid textbook of arithmetic by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621). The treatise consists of an introduction (مقدمة), nine chapters (أبواب), and a conclusion (خاتمة). Each chapter subdivided into sections (فصول), in some cases pr...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1114
Extent:: Ff. 142v-158v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6285
Title:: Fragments of two medical manuscripts
Scope & Content:: Fragments of two medical manuscripts: (1) Fragment of a commentary on Ibn Sīnā's (ابن سينا) Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (القانون في الطب, ff. 1r-26v); (2) Three fragments of a medical manuscript (ff. 27r-147r).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 13th-14th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+26+i+76+i+14+i+31+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6285, ff 1r-26v
Title:: Fragment of a commentary on Ibn Sīnā's (ابن سينا) Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (القانون في الطب)
Scope & Content:: Two quires from a fragment of a commentary on Ibn Sīnā's (ابن سينا, d. 1037) Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطب), defective at beginning and end. The present fragment comprises quires three and four of the original volume (ff. 2r-26v; see quire signatures on ff. 2r and 17r, and mid-quire marks o...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: Ff. 1r-26v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6285, ff 27r-147r
Title:: Three fragments of a medical manuscript
Scope & Content:: Fragments of a medical manuscript, divided into three sections each separated by an unfoliated blank flyleaf. Each section is defective at beginning and all but the last also at the end with no indication of authors or titles. Contents: (1) Anonymous commentary on Ibn Sīnā's (ابن سينا, d. 1037)...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: Ff. 27r-147r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6386
Title:: Sharḥ Fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ شرح فصول أبقراط Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-Nīsābūrī, Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī ابن أبي صادق النيسابوري، أبو القاسم عبد الرحمن بن علي
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-Nīsābūrī (أبو القاسم عبد الرحمن بن علي ابن أبي صادق النيسابوري, d. ca 1068) on the Aphorisms (Kitāb al-fuṣūl) of Hippocrates (أبقراط, d. ca 370 BC). The commentary is based on Galen of Pergamon's (جالينوس, d. ca 216)...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+128+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6419
Title:: Sharḥ fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ شرح فصول أبقراط 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), known as Ibn al-Nafīs (ابن النفيس, d. 1288) on the Aphorisms (كتاب الفصول) of Hippocrates (أبقراط, d. ca 370 BC). The copy is defective at beginning, and was completed on 26 Ramaḍān 724/16 September...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 26 Ramaḍān 724
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+101+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6429
Title:: al-Jāmiʿ li-quwá al-adwiyah wa-al-aghdhiyah الجامع لقوى الأدوية والأغذية Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ابن البيطار، عبد الله بن أحمد
Scope & Content:: The most influential and important Arabic handbook of materia medica, written by the Andalusian botanist Ḍiyā’ al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad (ضياء الدين أبو محمد عبد الله بن أحمد; d. 1248), known as Ibn al-Bayṭār (ابن البيطار), Chief Herbalist (رئيس العشابين) to the Ayyubid sultan...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Early 15th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+380+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6489
Title:: Kitāb al-mi’ah fī al-ṣinā‘ah al-ṭibbīyah كتاب المائة في الصناعة الطبية Masīḥī, ʻĪsá ibn Yaḥyá مسيحي، عيسى بن يحيى
Scope & Content:: Medical encyclopedia by Abū Sahl ‘Īsá ibn Yaḥyá al-Masīḥī al-Jurjānī (أبو سهل عيسى بن يحيى المسيحي الجرجاني, d. 401/1010), one of the teachers of Avicenna (Abū ‘Alī ibn Sīnā, أبو علي بن سينا, ca 980-1037). The work is divided into 100 books (كتاب), a list of which is found on ff. 4r-6v. The te...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Shawwāl 1105
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+378+i

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