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Duʿā mustakhraj min Kitāb Dāwūd al-nabī دعا مستخرج من كتاب داود النبي
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Prayer based on Psalm 6. This text is on ff. 37v-41r of the Coptic foliation. Contents: Begins (f. 18v, line 13-19r, line 2 [37v-38r Coptic foliation]): يا رب لا بغضبك توبخني ولا جزك (؟) تؤدبني ارحمني يا رب فإن عظامي قد عطفًا علي يا رب نجني نفسي وح [first 6 or 7 letters illegible] خلصني...
Duʿā allafahu ba‘ḍ al-mu’minīn al-muḥiqqīn min al-Naṣārá دعا ألفه بعض المؤمنين المحقين من النصارى
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Christian prayer attributed to 'one of the true believers of the Christians' (baʿḍ al-mu’minīn al-muḥiqqīn min al-Naṣārá). This text is on ff. 41r-47v of the Coptic foliation. Begins (f. 22r, lines 10-13 [41r Coptic foliation]): ... بسم الله الرحمن الر حيم دعا ألفه بعض المؤمنين المحقين من...
Three recipes for incense paste. This text is on ff. 47v-49v of the Coptic foliation. Begins (f. 28v, lines 10-13 [47v Coptic foliation]): بسم الأب والابن وروح القدس إله وا حد هذه صفة بخور معجون طيب تأخذ من العود السن الجيد رطل ونصف رطل صندل وربع رطل سك جيد ووقية (!) ... Ends (30r, l...
Or 8857, ff 30v-33v, 11r-16v, 3r-10v, 17r-17v, 1r and 1v
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Kitāb al-azminah كتاب الأزمنة
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Collection of calendrical, astronomical, meteorological and medical information along with details about Christian feast days and events in the commercial calendar. The material is arranged by month following the order of the Orthodox liturgical calendar, which begins on 1 Aylūl/September. For a...
al-Nuzhah al-mubhijah fī tashḥīdh al-adhhān wa-taʿdīl al-amzijah النزهة المبهجة في تشحيذ الأذهان وتعديل الأمزجة Anṭākī, Dāwūd ibn ‘Umar أنطاكي، داوود بن عمر and Notes on therapeutics Sīwī, Ibrāhīm najl Aḥmad سيوي، إبراهيم نجل أحمد
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Contents: (1) al-Anṭākī, Dāwūd ibn ‘Umar (الأنطاكي، داوود بن عمر), al-Nuzhah al-mubhijah fī tashḥīdh al-adhhān wa-taʿdīl al-amzijah (النزهة المبهجة في تشحيذ الأذهان وتعديل الأمزجة; ff. 1r-217v); (2) al-Sīwī, Ibrāhīm najl Aḥmad (السيوي، إبراهيم نجل أحمد), Notes on therapeutics (ff. 218r-219v).
Anṭākī, Dāwūd ibn ‘Umar أنطاكي، داوود بن عمر al-Nuzhah al-mubhijah fī tashḥīdh al-adhhān wa-taʿdīl al-amzijah النزهة المبهجة في تشحيذ الأذهان وتعديل الأمزجة
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Comprehensive introduction to medicine by Dāwūd ibn ‘Umar al-Qaṣīr al-Anṭākī (داوود بن عمر القصير الأنطاكي, d. 1599). The treatise is composed of an introduction (مقدمة), eight chapters (أبواب) each further subdivided into parts (فصول), studies (بحوث) and sections (أقسام), followed by a conclus...
Notes on therapeutics Sīwī, Ibrāhīm najl Aḥmad سيوي، إبراهيم نجل أحمد
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Short collection of helpful notes (فوائد) on therapeutics by Ibrāhīm najl Aḥmad al-Shāfi‘ī al-Sīwī (إبراهيم نجل أحمد الشافعي السيوي), nicknamed Dhū al-Shawq (ذو الشوق, see f. 218r, line 2, transcribed below). The second half of the treatise contains mnemonic verses (f. 219r-v). F. 220v contain...
Volume one of an anonymous treatise on medicine written after Ibn Sīnā's (ابن سينا, d. 1037) Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطب), which it cites frequently along with writings from the corpus attributed to Hippocrates (أبقراط, d. ca 370 BC), especially the Aphorisms (الفصول). The manuscript is ...
Zubdat al-ṭibb زبدة الطب Jurjānī, Ismāʿīl ibn Ḥasan جرجاني، إسماعيل بن حسن
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Medical compendium by Zayn al-Dīn Abū Ibrāhīm Ismā‘īl ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī (زين الدين أبو إبراهيم إسماعيل بن محمد الحسيني الجرجاني, d. 1136). He is also known as Ismā‘īl ibn al-Ḥasan (إسماعيل بن الحسن) or ibn al-Ḥusayn (بن الحسين). The work is dedicated to the Khwārizm Shāh ‘Alā’ a...
Comprehensive treatise on the science of prognostication through astrological interrogations. The manuscript does not state the text's author and the title has been derived from the preface (f. 3v, line 17). Confusion regarding the identity of the text and its author is expressed by a note dated...
