Project / Collection: Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme / Name: Fārābī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, philosopher, c 870-950 - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5931, ff 2r-172v
Title:: al-Kāfī fī ṣinā‘at al-ṭibb الكافي في صناعة الطب ‘Aynzarbī, ‘Adnān ibn Naṣr عينزربي، عدنان بن نصر
Scope & Content:: Treatise on medicine by Abū Naṣr ‘Adnān ibn Naṣr al-‘Aynzarbī (أبو نصر عدنان بن نصر العينزربي, d. 1153), personal physician to the Fatimid caliph al-Ẓāfir bi-amr Allāh (الظافر بأمر الله, reg. 1149-54). The treatise is divided into 195 chapters (باب) describing diseases arranged from head to food...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 28 Ramaḍān 1087
Extent:: Ff. 2r-172v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23403, ff 118v-127v
Title:: Risālah fī al-insān mā huwa رسالة في الإنسان ما هو
Scope & Content:: Anonymous metaphysical treatise on the essential nature of humankind, ascribed in the present volume the title [Risālah] fī al-insān mā huwa ([رسالة في الإنسان ما هو]). A deleted note (f. 118v, head margin) identifies the text as Kitāb al-Fuṣūṣ, attributing it to ‘the second master’ (المعلم الثا...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1019
Extent:: Ff. 118v-127v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2361, ff 238v-240r
Title:: Extracts from Kitāb al-madkhal fī al-mūsīqī من كتاب المدخل في الموسيقي Fārābī, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Tarkhān فارابي، أبو نصر محمد بن محمد بن ترخان
Scope & Content:: A compendium of extracts from the preface and introduction to the Kitāb al-Mūsīqī al-Kabīr (كتاب الموسيقي الكبير), a major treatise on music by Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Tarkhān al-Fārābī ( أبو نصر محمد بن محمد بن ترخان الفارابي, c. 870-950). The present text includes discussions of t...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 3 Jumādá I 1073
Extent:: Ff. 238v-240r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7368
Title:: Sharḥ al-Majisṭī شرح المجسطي Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Commentary on Ptolemy's (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168) Almagest (كتاب المجسطي), said to be by Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Tarkhān al-Fārābī (أبو نصر محمد بن محمد بن ترخان الفارابي; ca 870-950), but in fact by Avicenna (أبو علي بن سينا; ca 980-1037). Notes on front paper iii verso and ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Ramaḍān 628
Extent:: Codex; ff. iiii+106+ii

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