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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 524v-552r
Title:: Risālah al-manāmīyah رسالة المنامية Masīḥī, ʻĪsá ibn Yaḥyá مسيحي، عيسى بن يحيى
Scope & Content:: Treatise on dream interpretation here falsely attributed to Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The text is in fact by one of Ibn Sīnā's teachers, the physician ʻĪsá ibn Yaḥyá Abū Sahl al-Masīḥī al-Jurjānī ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 524v-552r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 556v-559v
Title:: Kitāb ḥudūth al-ḥarf كتاب حدوث الحرف Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Treatise on Arabic phonetics in six parts (فصول) 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. 556v-559v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 559v-560v
Title:: Khuṭbat al-shaykh al-raʼīs hujjat al-ḥaqq Abī ʻAlī ibn Sīnā qaddasa Allāhu rūḥahu wa-qad awrada fīhā maʻná al-ilāhīyāt wa-al-riyāḍīyāt wa-al-ṭabīʻīyāt ʻalá aḥsan ʻibāratin wa-aṣaḥḥahā خطبة الشيخ الرئيس حجة الحق أبي علي بن سينا قدس الله روحه وقد أورد فيها معنى الإلهيات والرياضيات والطبيعيات على أحسن عبارة وأصحها Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Sermon on the oneness (توحيد) of God in rhyming prose (سجع) 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. 559v-560v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 565v-568r
Title:: Kitāb al-urjūzah fī al-manṭiq كتاب الأرجوزة في المنطق Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Didactic poem on logic 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. 565v-568r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 569v-572r
Title:: Risālah tashtamilu ʻalá īḍāḥ barāhīn mustanbaṭah min masāʼil ʻawīṣah رسالة تشتمل على إيضاح براهين مستنبطة من مسائل عويصة Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Notes on metaphysics attributed to 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. 569v-572r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 572r-574v
Title:: [Aqsām al-ʻulūm al-ʻaqlīyah أقسام العلوم العقلية] Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the classification of the sciences 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). Compare text 15, above (ff. 342v-345r).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 572r-574v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 575v-582v
Title:: Risālah lil-shaykh al-raʼīs Abī ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh ilá Abī Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī fī jawāb masāʼil anfadhahā ilayhī رسالة للشيخ الرئيس أبي علي ابن عبد الله إلى أبي ريحان محمد بن أحمد البيروني في جواب مسائل أنفذها إليه Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Answers 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) to questions on natural philosophy posed by by Abū al-Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī (أبو الريحان محمد بن أحمد البيروني, d. 1048).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 575v-582v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 18866
Title:: نهاية السؤل والامنية في تعلم أعمال الفروسية Nihāyat al-su’l wa-al-umnīyah fī ta‘allum a‘māl al-furūsīyah أقسرائي، محمد بن عيسى Aqsarā’ī, Muḥammad ibn ‘Īsá ibn Ismā‘īl al-Ḥanafī
Scope & Content:: A Mamluk manual on horsemanship, military arts and technology by Muḥammad ibn ‘Īsá ibn Ismā‘īl al-Aqsarā’ī (محمد بن عيسى بن إسماعيل الأقسرائي ; d. 1348, Damascus). The manuscript was completed on 10 Muḥarram 773 (25 July 1371) by the scribe Aḥmad ibn ‘Umar ibn Aḥmad al-Miṣrī (see colophon on f. ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 10 Muḥarram 773
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+292+ii

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 20736
Title:: Two treatises on horsemanship
Scope & Content:: Originally copied as an Arabic treatise on horsemanship, arms and military skills. The treatise is generously illustrated as far as f. 36v, after which only sporadic illustrations were added to the many remaining spaces. Most of the remaining blank spaces were subsequently utilised for the tran...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: ca 16th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+97+iv

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