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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Container Reference (shelfmark) IO Islamic 2171

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 2171, ff 1r-365v
Title:: Baḥr al-jawāhirبحر الجواهر al-Harawī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf الهروي، محمد بن يوسف
Scope & Content:: An alphabetically-arranged medical dictionary in Arabic and Persian. The work was compiled from multiple source texts enumerated on f. 2r, lines 1-4 and including the Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطبّ) by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سي...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1096
Extent:: Ff. 1r-365v

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 2171, ff 366r-368v
Title:: Two lists of weights and measures
Scope & Content:: Names and definitions of various weights and measures, following Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, 980-1037; ff. 366r-366v, line 1). This is followed by a similar list, alphabetically arranged and taken from a text...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: Ff. 366r-368v

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