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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5620, ff 1r-59v
Title:: Anonymous treatise on ophthalmology
Scope & Content:: Anonymous treatise on ophthalmology divided into forty-six chapters (باب). A table of contents listing the chapter titles is found on ff. 1r-2v. The manuscript is defective at the beginning and f. 1 is a replacement written in a later hand. The treatise is followed by a poem on sexual hygiene ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 1r-59v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5620, ff 60v-74v
Title:: Kitāb al-raḥmah fī al-ṭibb wa-al-ḥikmah كتاب الرحمة في الطب والحكمة [Ṣubunrī, Mahdī ibn ʻAlī صبنري، محمد بن علي]
Scope & Content:: Treatise on prophetic medicine (الطب النبوي) by Muḥammad al-Mahdawī ibn ‘Alī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṣubunrī (محمد المهدوي بن علي بن إبراهيم الصبنري, d. 1412). The author's name, which does not appear in this manuscript, is disputed and his nisba is also reported as Ṣanawbarī (صنوبري, GAL II, 189; GALS I...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 60v-74v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5620, ff 75v-308r
Title:: Manual of therapeutics
Scope & Content:: Manual of therapeutics based on the Book of Those Who are Not Attended By a Physician (كتاب من لا يحضره الطبيب, ff. 76v-117v) by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرازي; d. ca 925) and a Collection (مجموع, ff. 117v-307v) attributed to ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (ع...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 75v-308r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5659
Title:: al-Mūjiz fī ʿilm al-ṭibb الموجز في علم الطب Ibn al-Nafīs, ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm ابن النفيس، علي بن أبي الحزم
Scope & Content:: Epitome by ‘Alā’ al-Dīn ‘Alī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm al-Qurashī, known as Ibn al-Nafīs (علاء الدين علي بن أبي الحزم القرشي المشهور بابن النفيس; 1210 or 1211-1288) of Avicenna's (Ibn Sīnā, ابن سينا; d. 1037) Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطب). This epitome is often known simply as the Mūjiz al-Qānūn (مو...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 6 Rabī‘a I 786
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+179+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5687
Title:: al-Asbāb wa-al-ʿalāmāt الأسباب والعلامات Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī نجيب الدين السمرقندي، محمد بن علي
Scope & Content:: Medical handbook on the causes (أسباب), symptoms (علامات) and treatment (علاج) of diseases by Najīb al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Samarqandī (نجيب الدين أبو حامد محمد بن علي بن عمر السمرقندي, d. 1222). The copy was completed in Rajab 668/February-March 1270 at the Madrasa Mubā...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Rajab 668
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+226+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5709
Title:: al-Mukhtār min kutub al-ikhtiyārāt al-falakīyah المختار من كتب الاختيارات الفلكية Takrītī, Yaḥyá ibn Jarīr تكريتي، يحيى بن جرير
Scope & Content:: A treatise on the selection of propitious astrological moments (astrological elections), copied 28 Ramaḍān 646/14 January 1249 by the scribe Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-ʿIzz al-ʿAskarī (أحمد بن محمد بن أبي العز العسكري, see colophon, f. 158r, line 16). It was written by Abū Naṣr Yaḥyá ibn Ja...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 28 Ramaḍān 646
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+159+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5725
Title:: al-Masā’il fī al-ṭibb lil-muta‘allimīn المسائل في الطب للمتعلّمين Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī حنين بن إسحق العبادي
Scope & Content:: An introduction to medicine for students in the form of questions and answers divided into ten chapters (فصول) by the famous physician and translator Abū Zayd Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī (أبو زيد حنين بن إسحق العبادي, d. 873). The work is based on the Ars medica (Τέχνη ἰατρική) by Galen of Pergam...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 656
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+100+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5786
Title:: Minhāj al-dukkān wa-dustūr al-a‘yān منهاج الدكّان ودستور الأعيان al-Kūhīn al-ʻAṭṭār, Abū al-Munā ibn Abī Nāṣr الكوهين العطار، أبو المنى ابن أبي نصر and other anonymous treatises on pharmacology and ophthalmology
Scope & Content:: A collection of texts on pharmacology and ophthalmology transcribed in 715 AH/AD 1315-16 (see colophon of third item, f. 139v, lines 11). Contents: (1) al-Kūhīn al-ʻAṭṭār (الكوهين العطار), Minhāj al-dukkān wa-dustūr al-a‘yān (منهاج الدكّان ودستور الأعيان) (ff. 1v-95v); (2) Fragments of texts...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 715
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+139+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5786, ff 1v-95v
Title:: Minhāj al-dukkān wa-dustūr al-a‘yān منهاج الدكّان ودستور الأعيان al-Kūhīn al-ʻAṭṭār, Abū al-Munā ibn Abī Nāṣr الكوهين العطار، أبو المنى ابن أبي نصر
Scope & Content:: A comprehensive manual on pharmaceutical practice and ethics composed at Cairo in 658 AH/AD 1260 by the Jewish pharmacist Abū al-Muná Dāwūd ibn Abī Naṣr ibn Ḥifāẓ al-Kūhīn al-'Attar al-Isrā’īlī al-Hārūnī (أبو المنى داوود ابن أبي نصر بن حفاظ الكوهين العطار الإسرائيلي الهاروني, see f. 1v, lines 5-...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 715
Extent:: Ff. 1v-95v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5786, ff 96r-121v
Title:: Fragments of texts on opthalmology and pharmacology
Scope & Content:: Fragments of texts on opthalmology and pharmacology including: (1) Text on opthalmology with alphabetical list of remedies (ff. 96r-107v); (2) Fragments of texts attributed to Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ‘Alī ibn Qays al-Kasdānī (أبو بكر أحمد بن علي بن قيس الكسداني), known as Ibn Waḥshiyah (ابن وحشية; ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 715
Extent:: Ff. 96r-121v

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