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Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel Or 14, ff 275r-415v
Title:: al-Juz’ al-‘āshir min kitāb al-ḥāwī fī al-ṭibb الجزء العاشر من كتاب الحاوي في الطب Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā رازي، أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا
Scope & Content:: Part Ten (الجزء العاشر) of the Kitāb al-Ḥāwī (كتاب الحاوي, Liber continens), an encyclopaedic medical compendium by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرأزي; d. ca 925). Begins (f. 275, lines 2-6): فيما يسهل الولاد ويطرح الجنين والمشيمة ويمنع من الحبل وتدبير النفسا...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Ff. 275r-415v

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel Or 17
Title:: كتاب اختصار الستة عشر لجالينوس تلخيص يحيى النحوي Kitāb ikhtiṣār al-sittat ‘ashr li-Jālīnūs talkhīṣYahyá al-Naḥwī
Scope & Content:: Epitome of the Sixteen Books of Galen, treatises by Galen for beginners selected to form the primary medical curriculum in late-antique Alexandria. The title page (f. 2) reads: كتاب اختصار الست عشر لجالينوس تلخيص يحيى النحوي ('Epitome of the Sixteen Books by Galen summarised by Yaḥyá the grammar...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 615
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii.141.iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel Or 35
Title:: Sharḥ al-asbāb wa-al-ʿalāmāt شرح الأسباب والعلامات Nafīs ibn ʿIwaḍ نفيس بن عوض
Scope & Content:: A copy, incomplete at the beginning, of a commentary by Nafīs ibn ʿIwaḍ al-Kirmānī (نفيس بن عوض الكرماني; d. approximately 1449) on Causes and Indications (الأسباب والعلامات; see Or. 5687), a medical reference work on the causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of diseases compiled by Najīb al...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Shawwāl 981
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+346+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel Or 41
Title:: Firdaws al-ḥikmah فردوس الحكمة Ṭabarī, ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban طبري، علي بن سهل ربن
Scope & Content:: Encyclopedia of medicine by the Persian physician ʿAlī ibn Sahl ibn Rabban al-Ṭabarī (810- c 855). This undated copy was produced by a maghribī scribe, probably in the late 13th century as suggested by Hebrew and Arabic ownership inscriptions (f. 2r) dateable to early fourteenth-century Georgia ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+276+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel Or 52
Title:: Ars medica (Ars parva) الصناعة الصغيرة Galen جالينوس With commentary by Abū al-Faraj ‘Abd Allāh Ibn al-Ṭayyib (أبو الفرج عبد الله بن الطيب)
Scope & Content:: A copy of Galen''s Τέχνη ἰατρική (Ars medica) in the Arabic version thought to be by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī. In Arabic, the text is called الصناعة الصغيرة (Ars parva). The text is accompanied by a commentary by Abū al-Faraj ‘Abd Allāh Ibn al-Ṭayyib (أبو الفرج عبد الله بن الطيب). The copy is ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 448
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+114+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Bijapur 442
Title:: al-Tuḥfah al-jāmiʿah li-mufradāt al-ṭibb al-nāfiʿah التحفة الجاميعة لمفردات الطب النافعة ‘Āmirī, Yaḥyā ibn Abī Bakr عامري، يحيى ابن أبي بكر
Scope & Content:: Treatise on medicine by Yaḥyā ibn Abī Bakr ibn Yaḥyá al-ʿĀmirī (يحيى ابن أبي بكر بن يحيى العامري, d. 893/1488). Contrary to what is suggested by the title, the treatise deals not only with materia medica (covered in the introduction), but also with diagnosis and therapy. On the title page (f. 1...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 21 Shawwāl 1058
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+47+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: DEL IOR/L/PS/10/812/1, f 35
Title:: Map of Railways and Main Roads in Persia and Mesopotamia
Scope & Content:: A Stanford Geographical Establishment map of existing railways, projected railways, and main roads in Persia and Mesopotamia, with additional roads connecting Kasr-i Shirin [Qasr-i Shirin] to Senna [Sahneh], Tabriz, Resht [Rasht], and Meshed [Mashhad] marked in blue pencil
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1919-1920
Extent:: I item(1 folio)

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 110
Title:: Composite volume containing the Nukhbat al-fikr fī muṣṭalaḥ ahl al-athar (نخبة الفكر في مصطلح أهل الأثر) by Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī (ابن حجر العسقلاني), and the Dīwān al-‘adad al-wafq (ديوان العدد الوفق)
Scope & Content:: Composite volume comprising two unrelated manuscripts (codicological units) bound together. Contents: (1) Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī (ابن حجر العسقلاني), Nukhbat al-fikr fī muṣṭalaḥ ahl al-athar (نخبة الفكر في مصطلح أهل الأثر; ff. 2v-27r); (2) Anonymous, Dīwān al-‘adad al-wafq (ديوان العدد الوفق...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th to 18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+119+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 110, ff 2v-27r
Title:: Nuzhat al-naẓar fī tawḍīḥ Nukhbat al-fikar نزهة النظر في توضيح نخبة الفكر Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī ابن حجر العسقلاني، أحمد بن علي
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-ʻAsqalānī (أحمد بن علي العسقلاني , d. 1449) known as Ibn Ḥajar (ابن حجر) on his own Nukhbat al-fikar fī muṣṭalaḥ ahl al-athar (نخبة الفكر في مصطلح أهل الأثر; A Selection of Thoughts Concerning the Terminology of the Traditionists), a treatise on the science o...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 2v-27r

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 110, ff 28a-r-119v
Title:: Dīwān al-‘adad al-wafq ديوان العدد الوفق Anonymous
Scope & Content:: Mathematical treatise on the construction of magic squares and triangles (العدد الوفق). The text is defective at the beginning and end so the author's name is unknown, but in what remains of the preface the author records the title of the work and says that his intention is to compile all that h...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th or 16th century
Extent:: Ff. 28a-r-119v

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