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1. Add MS 5934

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Add MS 5934
Title:
Minhāj al-bayān fīmā yastaʿmiluhū al-insān منهاج البيان فيما يستعمله الإنسان Ibn Jazlah, Yaḥyá ibn ʿĪsá ابن جزلة، يحيى بن عيسى
Scope & Content:
Alphabetically arranged handbook on pharmacology by Abū ‘Alī Yahyá ibn ‘Īsá (أبو علي يحيى بن عيسى), known as Ibn Jazlah (ابن جزلة; d. 493/1100), composed for the Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadī bi-Amr Allāh (المقتدي بأمر الله; reg. 1075-94, see f. 1v, line 11). The manuscript was collected by the Sco...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+221+iv

2. Add MS 7556, ff 34v-81r

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Add MS 7556, ff 34v-81r
Title:
Urjūzat al-kubrá fī al-ṭibb أرجوزة الكبرى في الطب Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:
Didactic poem (أرجوزة) on medicine by Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The poem is a versification of the author's own Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطب). 　 Contents: [Part 1 of the poem: On theoretic...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. 34v-81r

3. Add MS 7556, ff 81r-89r

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Add MS 7556, ff 81r-89r
Title:
Urjūzat al-ḥummayāt al-mustadrakah ʻalá al-shaykh al-raʼīs al-shaykh ʻAlī ibn Sīnā أرجوزة الحميات المستدركة على الشيخ الرئيس الشيخ علي ابن سينا
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Anonymous didactic poem (أرجوزة) on different types of fevers. The poem is meant as a supplement to writings on the subject by Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The poem ends with a discussion of swellin...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. 81r-89r

4. Add MS 7556, ff 89r-92v

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Add MS 7556, ff 89r-92v
Title:
al-Urjūzah fī al-mujarrabāt الأرجوزة في المجربات Avicenna ابن سينا
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Didactic poem (أرجوزة) on tested prescriptions (مجربات) by Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). Begins (f. 89r, lines 7-9): بدأت بسم الله في نظم حسن أذكر ما جربته طول الزمن ما هو بالطبع وبالخواص لكل عام ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. 89r-92v

5. Add MS 7556, ff 93r-95v

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Add MS 7556, ff 93r-95v
Title:
Urjūzah fī al-qaḍāyā al-khamsah wa-al-ʻishrīn li-Abuqrāṭ ʻalá dalālat al-mawt أرجوزة في قضايا الخمسة والعشرين لأبقراط على دلالة الموت
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Didactic poem (أرجوزة) on twenty-five signs that foretell a patient's death by Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The poem is a versification of the Book of Pustules Concerning Signs of Death (كتاب البثور ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. 93r-95v

6. Add MS 9599, ff 34r-36r

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Add MS 9599, ff 34r-36r
Title:
Fragment of Kitāb al-raḥmah fī al-ṭibb wa-al-ḥikmah كتاب الرحمة في الطب والحكمة Ṣanawbarī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī صنوبري، محمد بن علي
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Fragment of a treatise on prophetic medicine (الطب النبوي) in five chapters (أبواب) by Muḥammad al-Mahdawī ibn ‘Alī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṣanawbarī (محمد المهدوي بن علي بن إبراهيم الصنوبري, d. 1412). The treatise is often falsely ascribed to Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī (جلال الدين السيوطي, d. 1505). This c...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 34r-36r

7. Add MS 9599, ff 239v-254v

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Add MS 9599, ff 239v-254v
Title:
al-Risālah fī aḥkām al-nujūmīyah min kitāb shaykh Dāwud الرسالة في أحكام النجومية من كتاب شيخ داود Anṭākī, Dāwūd ibn ‘Umar أنطاكي، داوود بن عمر
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Discussion of astrological judgements (أحكام) with reference to medicine extracted from the fourth chapter (الباب الرابع) of the medical encyclopaedia Tadhkirat ūlī al-albāb wa-al-jāmi‘ lil-‘ajab al-‘ujāb (تذكرة أولي الألباب والجامع للعجب العجاب; see Dāwūd ibn ʻUmar al-Anṭākī, Tadhkirat ūlī al-a...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1 Rabīʻ II 1222
Extent:

Ff. 239v-254v

8. Add MS 19619

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Add MS 19619
Title:
A collection of Arabic and Persian texts on medicine and pharmacology
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A collection of Persian and Arabic texts on medicine and pharmacology. The colophon to the first text in the volume (ff. 3r-128r) records that it was transcribed by an un-named scribe on 21 Jumādá II 1103/10 March 1692 (f. 128r, lines 7-15). Contents: (1) Qāz̤ī ibn Muḥammad Yazdī (قاضي بن محمد ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
Jumādá II 1103
Extent:
Codex; ff. ii+310+ii

9. Add MS 23403, ff 54r-60v

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Add MS 23403, ff 54r-60v
Title:
Risālah fī hifẓ al-ṣiḥḥah رسالة في حفظ الصحة Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:
Treatise on hygiene, in thirteen chapters (باب), by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The content is apparently extracted from the author's al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (see Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manu...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1019
Extent:
Ff. 54r-60v

10. Add MS 23403, ff 146r-150v

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Add MS 23403, ff 146r-150v
Title:
Risālah fī tadbīr al-musāfirīn رسالة في تدبير المسافرين Avicenna ابن سينا
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Advice on diet and health for travellers, attributed to Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The text incorporates passages attributed to the physician Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (أبو بكر محمد بن...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1019
Extent:
Ff. 146r-150v