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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5820, ff 178v-208v
Title:: Kitāb fī-dafʿ al-maḍarr al-kullīyah li-l-abdān al-insānīyah كتاب في دفع المضار الكلية للأبدان الإنسانية Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Treatise on hygiene by Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The text is also known as Treatise on the Obviation of the Errors Occuring in Medical Treatment (المقالة في تدارك الخطأ الواقع في التدبير الطبي), h...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1094
Extent:: Ff. 178v-208v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5831
Title:: Jāmiʿ al-mabādiʾ wa-al-ghāyāt fī ʿilm al-mīqāt جامع المبادئ والغايات في علم الميقات Marrākushī, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī مراكشي، الحسن بن علي and Maqālah fī ṣūrat al-kusūf مقالة في صورة الكسوف Alhazen ابن الهيثم
Scope & Content:: Contents: (1) al-Marrākushī (المراكشي), Jāmiʿ al-mabādiʾ wa-al-ghāyāt fī ʿilm al-mīqāt (جامع المبادئ والغايات في علم الميقات; ff. 1r-283r); (2) Ibn al-Haytham (ابن الهيثم), Maqālah fī ṣūrat al-kusūf (مقالة في صورة الكسوف; ff. 283v-285v).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 3 Ṣafar 1074
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+285+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5831, ff 1r-283r
Title:: Jāmiʿ al-mabādiʾ wa-al-ghāyāt fī ʿilm al-mīqāt جامع المبادئ والغايات في علم الميقات Marrākushī, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī مراكشي، الحسن بن علي
Scope & Content:: Encyclopaedia of practical astronomy and astronomical instruments by Sharaf al-Din Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Marrākushī (شرف الدين أبو علي الحسن بن علي بن عمر المراكشي, fl. second half of the 13th century). The treatise was composed in in the years 1276-82 (see Charette, 2007, p. 7...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 3 Ṣafar 1074
Extent:: Ff. 1r-283r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5831, ff 283v-285v
Title:: Maqālah fī ṣūrat al-kusūf مقالة في صورة الكسوف Alhazen ابن الهيثم
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the observation of solar eclipses through a camera obscura by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham (أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم; d. ca 1040). The text is copied in a hand much coarser and less polished than that of the previous text in the manuscript, and was transcrib...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 283v-285v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5839
Title:: Jāmiʿ li-mufradāt al-adwiyah wa-al-aghdhiyah جامع لمفردات الأدوية والأغذية Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ابن البيطار، عبد الله بن أحمد
Scope & Content:: Part (جزء) three of four (containing entries زنجار to قشبة) of one of the most influential and important Arabic handbooks 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-Bayṭa...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 27 Jumādá I 702
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+198+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5856
Title:: Tadhkirat al-kaḥḥālīn تذكرة الكحّالين Kaḥḥāl, ‘Alī ibn ‘Īsá كحّال، علي بن عيسى
Scope & Content:: A treatise on diseases of the eye by ‘Alī ibn ‘Īsá al-Kaḥḥāl (علي بن عيسى الكحّال; fl. first half of 11th century), the leading oculist of his time at the Abbasid capital, Baghdad. The text is divided into three books (مقالات): المقالة الأولى (‘Book 1’; ff. 3v-16r); المقالة الثاني أذكر فيها أ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 690
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+162+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5860
Title:: [Taqwīm al-adwīyah تقويم العدوية] Isfarāyīnī, Muḥammad إسفراييني، محمد and Treatise on drugs Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ṣadr al-Dīn ‘Alī تقي الدين محمد ابن صدر الدين علي
Scope & Content:: Composite volume containing two manuscripts on drugs. Contents: (1) Isfarāyīnī, Muḥammad (إسفراييني، محمد), Taqwīm al-adwīyah (تقويم العدوية; ff. 1r-135v); (2) Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ṣadr al-Dīn ‘Alī (تقي الدين محمد ابن صدر الدين علي), Treatise on drugs (ff. 136r-237v).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1633-19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+237+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5860, ff 1r-135v
Title:: [Taqwīm al-adwīyah تقويم العدوية] Isfarāyīnī, Muḥammad إسفراييني، محمد
Scope & Content:: Treatise on drugs by Muḥammad Ibn ‘Alī al-Isfarā’inī (محمد بن علي الإسفرائني, see f. 3v, line 10), according to the spelling of the nisba given in the manuscript and followed by Brockelmann (GALS II, 592), who gives the author a floruit date of 1543. Kaḥḥālah (III, 552, no. 14963) gives the auth...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18 Rabī‘ II 1043
Extent:: Ff. 1r-135v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5860, ff 136r-237v
Title:: Treatise on drugs Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ṣadr al-Dīn ‘Alī تقي الدين محمد ابن صدر الدين علي
Scope & Content:: Treatise on drugs by Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ṣadr al-Dīn ‘Alī (تقي الدين محمد ابن صدر الدين علي, see f. 136v, line 5, fl. ca 1600). The treatise is followed by three folios (ff. 234r-236v) of Persian verse. 　 Begins (f. 136v, lines 2-5): زيب ديباچه هر رساله تسباليش صانع حكيمى رو است كه قلوب...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 136r-237v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5914
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 manuscript is defective at end, terminating abruptly during Aphorism 55, the pen...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+161+i

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