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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5916
Title:: Tadhkirat al-kaḥḥālīn تذكرة الكحّالين Kaḥḥāl, ‘Alī ibn ‘Īsá كحّال، علي بن عيسى
Scope & Content:: 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 copy was completed on Tuesday 3 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 894/29 September 1489 at Sāveh (الساوة, Iran) by Aḥmad ibn Niẓām a...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 3 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 894
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+198+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5923
Title:: Zubdat al-ṭibb زبدة الطب Jurjānī, Ismāʿīl ibn Ḥasan جرجاني، إسماعيل بن حسن
Scope & Content:: Defective copy of a medical compendium tabulated in synoptic charts, by Zayn al-Dīn Abū Ibrāhīm Ismā‘īl ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī (زين الدين أبو إبراهيم إسماعيل بن محمد الحسيني الجرجاني, d. 1136). He is also known as Ismā‘īl ibn al-Ḥasan (إسماعيل بن الحسن) or Ismā‘īl ibn al-Ḥusayn (إسما...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: ca 13th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+86+i+8+i+1+i+1+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5927
Title:: Four treatises on pharmacopoeia, cookery and craft techniques
Scope & Content:: Ṣināʿat al-yad (صناعة اليد, ff. 1r-67v, defective at beginning); Ibn Zuhr (ابن زهر), Kitāb al-aghdhiyyah (كتاب الأغذية, ff 68r-100r, defective at beginning and end); Ibn Razīn al-Tujībī (ابن رزين التجيبي), Fiḍālat al-khiwān fī ṭayyibāt al-ṭaʻām wa-al-alwān (فضالة الخوان في طيبات الطعام والألوان, ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th or 16th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+219+i (plus five unfoliated leaves after ff. 11, 34, 101, 208 and 217)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5927, ff 1r-67v
Title:: Ṣināʿat al-yad صناعة اليد Anonymous
Scope & Content:: Treatise on pharmacopoeia comprising seventeen chapters (باب). The text is defective at beginning and the author's name is not known. Some folios are missing and unfoliated leaves have been inserted after ff. 11 and 34 to mark locations of missing leaves. The text is followed by a short note o...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th or 16th century
Extent:: Ff. 1r-67v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5927, ff 68r-100r
Title:: [Kitāb al-aghdhiyyah] [كتاب الأغذية] [Ibn Zuhr, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ] [ابن زهر، عبد الملك بن أبي العلاء]
Scope & Content:: Treatise on dietetics by the Andalusian physician Abū Marwān ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ Zuhr (أبو مروان عبد الملك بن أبي العلاء زهر, d. 1162), known as Ibn Zuhr (ابن زهر), Latinised as Avenzoar. The copy is defective at beginning and the surviving text mentiones neither the author nor the ti...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th or 16th century
Extent:: Ff. 68r-100r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5927, ff 101r-204v
Title:: [Fiḍālat al-khiwān fī ṭayyibāt al-ṭaʻām wa-al-alwān فضالة الخوان في طيبات الطعام والألوان] [Ibn Razīn al-Tujībī ابن رزين التجيبي]
Scope & Content:: Extensive treatise on cookery by the Andalusian scholar Ibn Razīn al-Tujībī (ابن رزين التجيبي, d. 1293). The copy is defective at end and finishes abruptly with recipes calling for tuna (التنّ). Begins (f. 101r, lines 2-4): الحمد لله فضل نوع الإنسان على جميع الخلق وأختصه بمزية قل مسز (؟) حرم...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th or 16th century
Extent:: Ff. 101r-204v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5927, ff 205r-217v
Title:: Anonymous treatise on craft techniques
Scope & Content:: Treatise includes instructions for the production of soap (f. 207v), glass (f. 209r), and naphtha (f. 210v). The treatise begins with a discussion of fruit waters, the removal of stains from and dyeing of clothes all of which topics are reminiscent of 'Chapter Fifteen: Using fruit waters and a d...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th or 16th century
Extent:: Ff. 205r-217v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5931
Title:: Ḥall al-mūjiz حل الموجز Aqsarā’ī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad أقسرائي، محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Aqsarā’ī (جمال الدين محمد بن محمد الأقسرائي, d. 1378) on the Epitome of the Canon (موجز القانون) by Ibn al-Nafīs (ابن النفيس, d. 1288), an abridgment of Avicenna's (Ibn Sīnā, ابن سينا; d. 1037) Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطب). This copy i...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Rabī‘ II 961
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+271+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5939
Title:: [Sharḥ Fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ] [شرح فصول أبقراط] Kīlānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad كيلاني، أحمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Qāsim al-Mutaṭabib al-Kīlānī (أحمد بن محمد بن قاسم المتطبب الكيلاني, fl. ca 1345, see f. 1v, line 14) on the Aphorisms (كتاب الفصول) of Hippocrates (أبقراط, d. ca 370 BC). The text is dedicated to the Qipchaq Maḥmūd Jalāl al-Dīn Jānī Beg Khān (محمود جلال الد...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+225+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6247
Title:: Rawḍ al-insān fī aḥwāl al-rūḥ wa-al-abdān روض الإنسان في أحوال الروح والأبدان ‘Aṭūfī Marzīfūnī, Khiḍr ibn Maḥmūd عطوفي مرزيفوني، خضر بن محمود
Scope & Content:: Compendium of Prophetic medicine (الطب النبوي) by Khayr al-Dīn Khiḍr ibn Maḥmūd ibnʿUmar al-ʿAṭūfī al-Marzīfūnī (خير الدين خضر بن محمود بن عمر العطوفي المرزيفوني, d. 1541), dedicated to the Ottoman sultan Bāyezīd II (بايزيد ثاني, reg. 1481-1512). Brockelmann (GALS II, 639) gives the title as Raw...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+166+i

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