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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7527, ff 2v-170r
Title:: Tafsīr kitāb al-ʿilal تفسير كتاب العلل Sākhīyūs al-Qass ساخيوس القس
Scope & Content:: Compendium of natural philosophy attributed to the Greek Pythagorean sage Apollonius of Tyana (Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Τυανεύς, here transliterated بلينوس, fl. 1st century). The text is presented as a translation and commentary by a certain priest Sākhīyūs resident at Nablus (ساخيوس القس الذي منزل بنابلس; ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Rabī‘ II 1097
Extent:: Ff. 2v-170r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7527, ff 171v-185v
Title:: Risālah fī tadbīr safar al-ḥajj رسالة في تدبير سفر الحج Qusṭā ibn Lūqā قسطا بن لوقا
Scope & Content:: Treatise on hygiene and diet for pilgrims by Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا; ca 820-912) written for the vizier Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Makhlad ibn al-Jarrāḥ (أبو محمد الحسن بن مخلد بن الجراح, d. 882). The treatise is also known by the title Treatise on the Regimen of Bodies During Travel for Sa...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Jumādá I 1097
Extent:: Ff. 171v-185v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7527, ff 186v-194r
Title:: Kitāb fī ʿilal al-shaʿr كتاب في علل الشعر Qusṭā ibn Lūqā قسطا بن لوقا
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the causes of the growth, lack and diseases of hair by Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا; ca 820-912) written for the vizier Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Makhlad ibn al-Jarrāḥ (أبو محمد الحسن بن مخلد بن الجراح, d. 882). The treatise is divided into twelve chapters (باب), which are listed on...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1097
Extent:: Ff. 186v-194r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7914
Title:: Majmu'a / مجموعه
Scope & Content:: 1 (1v-22v): Baḥr al-hudā A didactic qaṣīda. By Shaybānī, i.e. Abū l-Fatḥ Muḥammad Shaybānī Khān. 2 (23v-49v): Tuḥfat al-salāṭīn Selected verses of Navā’ī. Compiled by ‘Abd al-Jamīl Kātib. 3 (50v-114r): Gul va Navrūz The romance of Princess Gul and Prince Navrūz, in verse. By Luṭfī. 4 (115v...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chagatai
Date Range:: 914
Extent:: Codex; 12 texts; 337 ff.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7966 B
Title:: Roll of expenses in wax and spices by the royal households
Scope & Content:: This roll contains a summary of the expenses in wax and spices incurred by the households of King Edward I of England (r. 1272-1307); Queen Margaret of France (b. c. 1279, d. 1318), his second wife; the Prince of Wales, the future Edward II (r. 1307-1327); and Thomas of Brotherton (b. 1300, d. 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 20 Nov 1300-19 Nov 1301
Extent:: 1 roll

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 8091
Title:: Gospel of St John with glosses
Scope & Content:: This early 12th-century manuscript contains the Gospel of John with marginal and interlinear Glossa ordinaria. The Gloss is a commentary on the Bible that was compiled under the auspices of the French theologian Anselm of Laon (d. 1117) in the late 11th or early 12th century. Since the size of t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 8873
Title:: Collectio Britannica
Scope & Content:: The only witness of a canonical collection commonly called the Collectio Britannica (The British Collection). This collection originated in France (perhaps in Chartres), and was a reworking of a previous collection. Historical excerpts contained in this manuscript suggest that the manuscript i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 8877
Title:: Household roll of Eleanor de Montfort, Countess of Leicester and Pembroke
Scope & Content:: The household roll of Eleanor de Montfort (b. 1215, d. 1275), Countess of Leicester and Pembroke, containing a set of financial accounts produced in her household for the year 1265. Eleanor de Montfort was the wife of Simon de Montfort (b. c. 1208, d. 1265), Earl of Leicester, and the sister of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1265
Extent:: 1 roll

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9046
Title:: Psalter in Tironian notes
Scope & Content:: This 9th-century manuscript is one of a few early medieval manuscripts that contain a Psalter written entirely in Tironian notes. This is a shorthand that was attributed to Tiro (b. 94, d. 4 BC), a slave of Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC), that consisted of 4000 signs in its medieval variant. The manu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9589
Title:: Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār, vols. 14 and 15 مسالك الأبصار في ممالك الأمصار، السفر ١٤ والسفر ١٥ Ibn Faḍl Allāh al-ʻUmarī ابن فضل الله العمري
Scope & Content:: A section of Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār (مسالك الأبصار في ممالك الأمصار), a 27-volume geographical, historical and biographical compendium by Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá Ibn Faḍl Allāh al-ʻUmarī (أحمد بن يحي بن فضل الله العمري, d. 1349). The present copy corresponds to volume 14 in which al-ʻ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+250+i

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