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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6591
Title:: Kāmil al-ṣināʿah al-ṭibbīyah كامل الصناعة الطبية Majūsī, ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās مجوسي، علي بن العباس
Scope & Content:: Encyclopaedia of the art of medicine. The text is divided into two books (جزئان), the first dealing with theory and the second with practice. Each book is divided into ten chapters (مقالات), which are further subdivided into parts (أبواب). The manuscript appears to previously have been bound in...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 547-548
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+286+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6670
Title:: Three Medical Treatises by Galen (جالينوس)
Scope & Content:: A copy of three medical treatises by the extremely influential Graeco-Roman physician Galen (Claudius Galenus of Pergamon, 129-c 200). The Greek texts were translated by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī, and the texts preserved here are probably his Arabic versions (see colophon of Item 2, f. 142v, li...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 580
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+191+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7499
Title:: منهاج البيان فيما يستعمله الإنسان Minhāj al-bayān fīmā yastaʿmiluhū al-insān ابن جزلة، يحيى ابن عيسى Ibn Jazlah, Yaḥyá ibn ʿĪsá
Scope & Content:: Alphabetically arranged handbook on pharmacology by Abū ‘Alī Yahyá ibn ‘Īsá (أبو علي يحيى ابن عيسى), known as Ibn Jazlah (ابن جزلة; d. 493/1100), composed for the Abbasid Caliph al-Muqtadi bi-Amr Allāh (المقتدي بأمر الله; reg. 1075-94). This copy was completed in Rajab 489 (June-July 1096) by Hi...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Rajab 489
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+239+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 9452
Title:: Medical compendium
Scope & Content:: Contains two medical treatises and a collection of ten extracts from poets and medical authors. (1) Hippocrates (أبقراط), al-Fuṣūl (الفصول) (ff 1v-32r); (2) Ibn Jazlah (ابن جزلة), Minhāj al-bayān (منهاج البيان) (ff 21v-62r); (3) Ten extracts on medical topics in verse and prose (ff 62r-64v). The...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 3 Ramaḍān 690
Extent:: Codex; ff v+64+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9452, ff 62r-64v
Title:: Three short poems and seven medical extracts
Scope & Content:: The three short poems on f. 62r are not about medicine. The seven medical extracts are as follows: 1. Recipe for the medicine bakhtajūsh (بختجوش) made from grape juice (f. 62v) 2. Discussion of two bezoars (بادزهر), the ḥajar al-thīrān (حجر الثيران) and the ḥajar al-tays (حجر التيس) and their...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 3 Ramaḍān 690
Extent:: ff. 62r-64v

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 3032
Title:: المقالة الثالثة من كتاب جالينوس في حيلة البروء al-Maqālah al-thālithah min Kitāb Jālīnūs fī ḥīlat al-burū’ Jālīnūs جالينوس
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of Book Three of Galen's (جالينوس) De methodo medendi (Θεραπευτικὴ μέθοδος; حيلة البروء). The Arabic translation from the Greek was made by Ḥubaysh ibn al-Ḥasan (حبيش بن الحسن known as Ḥubaysh al-A‘sam [حبيش الأعسم]; AD 9th century), and partially revised by his uncle, Ḥunayn ibn ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+64+ii

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