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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7716, ff 118v-127r
Title:: al-I‘lām bi-shadd al-minkām الإعلام بشدّ المنكام Muḥammad al-Ṣūfī محمد الصوفي
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the use of sand-clocks (منكام, pl. مناكيم) by the Egyptian mathematician and astronomer Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Fatḥ ibn ‘Īsá ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣūfī al-Miṣrī (شمس الدين محمد بن أبي الفتح بن عيسى بن الصوفي المصري, fl. late 15th-early 16th century; see. f. 125v, lines 2-3). The tex...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: Ff. 118v-127r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7716, ff 128r-144v
Title:: Mir’āt al-ayyām wa-al-daraj مرآة الأيام والدرج Najm al-Dīn Muḥammad Ma‘rūf نجم الدين محمد معروف
Scope & Content:: Treatise by Najm al-Dīn Muḥammad Ma‘rūf (نجم الدين محمد معروف; fl. ca 1001/1592) describing and explaining the use of an instrument for making calendrical conversions, and calculating the beginnings of the months in the Islamic (عربي), Syro-Macedonian (رومي), Persian and Coptic calendars, includ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: Ff. 128r-144v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7733
Title:: al-Badr al-munīr fī ʿilm al-taʿbīr البدر المنير في علم التعبير Ibn Jaydān, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī ابن جيدان، عبد الله بن علي
Scope & Content:: Autograph copy of a manual on dream interpretation by Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Baṣrī al-Maṣrī (أبو محمد عبد الله بن علي بن عمر بن محمد بن علي البصري المصري), known as Ibn Jaydān (ابن جيدان, see colophon, ff. 260r, lines 7-9 and 260v, lines 5-6, transcri...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 2 Rabīʻ II 727
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+261+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7793
Title:: Nuzhat al-nāẓirīn fī al-akhbār wa-al-āthār al-marwīyah ʻan al-anbiyāʼ wa-al-ṣāliḥīn نزهة الناظرين في الأخبار والآثار المروية عن الأنبياء والصالحين Ibn al-Muná al-Bābī, ʻAbd al-Malik ibn ʻAlī ابن المنى البابي، عبد الملك بن علي
Scope & Content:: Encyclopaedia on ethics based on traditions of the pre-Islamic prophets by Taqī al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Abī al-Muná al-Bābī al-Ḥalabī al-Ḍarīr (تقي الدين عبد الملك بن أبي المنى البابي الحلبي الضرير, d. 1435), known as ʻUbayd (عبيد), imām, preacher (خطيب) and teacher at the Ummayad Mosque in A...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+266+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7978
Title:: Kawkab al-rawḍah كوكب الروضة Suyūṭī سيوطي
Scope & Content:: A compendium of history and description regarding the island of al-Rawḍah in Cairo, in prose and verse, completed in Jumādá II 895/April-May 1490 (see f. 203v, lines 5-6) by Jalāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Suyūṭī (جلال الدين عبد الرحمن بن أبي بكرالسيوطي, d. 1505). The present copy w...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 16 Muḥarram 1009
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+203+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8122
Title:: Sharḥ kullīyāt al-qānūn شرح كليات القانون Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd قطب الدين الشيرازي، محمود بن مسعود
Scope & Content:: Volume four (المجلد الرابع) of a commentary by Quṭb al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Mas‘ūd al-Shīrāzī (قطب الدين محمود بن مسعود الشيرازي; d. 1310) on the Colliget (كتاب الكلية), the first book of the Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطب) by Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, d. 1037). This commentary is also known as The Sa‘d...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 28 Shawwāl 715
Extent:: Codex; ff. 162

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8187
Title:: Kitāb al-bayzarah كتاب البيزرة
Scope & Content:: Treatise on falconry focussing on the health and treatment of birds of prey by an unnamed author. The title appears on the title page (f. 3r) asكتاب البيزرة صنّفه الحكماء المتقدمين للملك الاسكندري (!) الرومي وهو كتاب عجيب مما يصلح بالملوك إذ لا بدّ لكلّ ملك من مسيره إلى الصيد بإحدى هذه الطيور ال...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 12 Jumādá II 1201
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+152+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8254
Title:: Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ رسائل إخوان الصفاء Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ إخوان الصفاء
Scope & Content:: The second volume (المجلد الثاني, probably of an original three) of the well-known Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ (رسائل إخوان الصفاء, Epistles of the Brethren of Purity), compiled by an anonymous group calling themselves Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ wa Khullān al-Wafāʾ ( إخوان الصفاء وخلان الوفاء, Brethren of Puri...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 644
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+279+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8293
Title:: Aqrābādhīn madīnat al-salam أقراباذين مدينة السلم Ibn al-Tilmīdh, Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣā‘id ابن التلميذ، هبة الله بن صاعد and other pharmaceutical texts
Scope & Content:: The manuscript was completed in 625 AH/AD 1227-28 by ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Alī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥalabī (علي بن أبي طالب بن علي بن علي بن علي بن الحسين الحلبي), probably at Baghdad (see title page f. 2v, lines 6-9, transcribed below). Title page (f. 2v, lines 1-9): إقراباذين...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 625
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+170+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8293, f 170v
Title:: Three medical prescriptions
Scope & Content:: On f. 170v a hand other than that of the main scribe, ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Ḥalabī, probably that of one of the manuscript’s owners, has copied out three prescriptions: (1) a tested remedy for haemorrhoids taken from Ibn al-Ḥadhdhā; (2) ‘hospital dried fruit (al-nuqū‘ al-māristānī)’; and (3) an ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 625
Extent:: f. 170v

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