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Reference (shelfmark):: 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
Scope & Content:: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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
Scope & Content:: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 438r-438v
Title:: Risālat al-farq bayna al-ḥarārah al-gharīzīyah wa-al-gharībah رسالة في الفرق بين الحرارة الغريزية والغريبة Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Short medical treatise on body heat by Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 438r-438v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19547
Title:: al-Ṣulḥ bayna al-ikhwān fī ḥukm ibāḥat al-dukhān الصلح بين الإخوان في حكم إباحة الدخان Nābulusī, ‘Abd al-Ghanī ibn Ismā‘īl نابلسي، عبد الغني بن إسماعيل
Scope & Content:: Treatise in defence of tobacco smoking (شَرَب التُتُن) on medical and legal grounds, written in 1092/1682 (see Author's Colophon, f. 127v, lines 11-13, transcribed below) by ‘Abd al-Ghanī ibn Ismā‘īl al-Nābulusī (عبد الغني بن إسماعيل النابلسي, b. 1641, d. 1731). The copy was completed at t...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Muḥarram 1161
Extent:: Codex; ff. v+127+vi

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19619
Title:: A collection of Arabic and Persian texts on medicine and pharmacology
Scope & Content:: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23403, ff 146r-150v
Title:: Risālah fī tadbīr al-musāfirīn رسالة في تدبير المسافرين Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23403, ff 151r-171v
Title:: [Fuṣūl ṭibbīyah mustafādah min majlis al-naẓar li-al-shaykh Abī ʻAlī ibn Sīnā فصول طبية مستفادة من مجلس النظر للشيخ أبي علي بن سينا] Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Aphorisms on various topics pertaining to Galenic physiology and medicine, 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 text is ascribed in the present volume the title Risālah fī al-rūḥ (رسالة في الروح, ff...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1019
Extent:: Ff. 151r-171v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23403, ff 172r-177r
Title:: Risālah fī al-bāh رسالة في الباه Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Treatise on coitus, written at the request of an anonymous nobleman (بعض الأكابر) suffering from impotency, 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).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1019
Extent:: Ff. 172r-177r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23410
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 composed by ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Majūsī al-Arrajānī (علي بن العباس المجوسي الأرجاني) for the Būyid king (ملك) ʿAḍud al-Dawlah (عضد الدولة, reg. 949-83), which explains the works other title: The Royal Book (الكتاب الملكي). The text is divided into two books ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 978-984
Extent:: ff. ii+441+iii

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