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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13006, ff 96v-98r
Title:: Excerpts from a commentary on the poem of ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Tammām al-ʿIrāqī (عبد العزيز ابن تمام العراقي) Anonymous
Scope & Content:: An anonymous and untitled commentary on the alchemical didactic poem al-Qaṣīdah al-nūnīyah by Abū al-Iṣbaʿ ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Tammām al-ʿIrāqī (fl. late 4th AH/AD 10th century). Sezgin lists manuscripts of five commentaries on this poem (GAS 4, p. 290; see also Ullmann, 1972, p. 220). Begins (ff...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: c 930
Extent:: ff. 96v-98r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13006, ff 98r-110v
Title:: Excerpts from a commentary on the alchemical poem Shudhūr al-dhahab (شذور الذهب)
Scope & Content:: Excerpts from an anonymous and unattributed commentary on the alchemical poem Shudhūr al-dhahab by Abū Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Mūsá ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad Ibn Khalaf al-Anṣārī al-Jayyānī al-Andalusī, known as Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs (died 593 AH/AD 1197). The title in full is given as follows (f. 98r, 11-15): في...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: c 930
Extent:: ff. 98r-110v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13006, ff 111r-112r
Title:: Excerpts from the Risālah fī al-Ṣināʿah al-falsafīyah (رسالة في الصناعة الفلسفية) al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Bukhārī al-Naqshabandī السيد الشريف البخاري النقشبندي
Scope & Content:: Excerpts from the Risālah fī al-Ṣināʿah al-falsafīyah by al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Bukhārī al-Naqshabandī, a native of Constantinople (see scribal correction above line 2, f. 111r). The compiler explains his method of abridgement and tells us a bit more about this unknown author in a note appended ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: c 930
Extent:: ff. 111r-112r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13006, ff 113r-158r
Title:: Kitāb al-Wāfī fī al-Tadbīr al-kāfīكتاب الوافي في التدبير الكافي Maṣmūdī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad مصمودي، محمد بن أحمد
Scope & Content:: A general treatise on practical chemistry, composed in Tilimsān in 897 AH/AD 1492 (see Ullmann, 1972, p. 245) by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Maṣmūdī (محمد بن أحمد المصمودي). The text was copied on 27 Ramaḍān 1177 AH (30 March AD 1764) at Algiers by Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Mawṣilī (محمد بن سليمان المو...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 27 Ramaḍān 1177
Extent:: ff. 113r-158v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13019
Title:: [Kitāb al-inʿām bi-maʿrifat al-anghām كتاب الإنعام بمعرفة الأنغام] Ṣaydāwī, Shams al-Dīn صيداوي، شمس الدين
Scope & Content:: A musical treatise in verse accompanied by diagrams, tables, and lyrical poems, by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ṣaydāwī al-Dhahabī al-Dimashqī (شمس الدين محمد الصيداوي الذهبي الدمشقي, d. 1506). It was copied by ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Kurdī al-Shāfiʿī (عبد العزيز ابن...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 13 Ramaḍān 906
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+19+xxx

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13060
Title:: Sharḥ al-tadhkirah شرح التذكرة Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn برجندي، عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين
Scope & Content:: Commentary by ‘Abd al-‘Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Birjandī (عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين البرجندي, d. 923/1525 or 26) on the Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah (كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة; see British Library, MS Or. 11209) a treatise on the astronomical system presented in the Almagest of Ptolemy (Cl...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 30 Sha‘bān 1097
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+394+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13127
Title:: Kitāb Mānālāwus fī al-ashkāl al-kurrīyahكتاب مانالاوس في الأشكال الكرية Menelaus of Alexandria مانالاوس
Scope & Content:: An early copy of Aḥmad ibn Abī Sa‘d al-Harawī's (أحمد بن أبي سعد الهروي; d. ca AD 1000) revised edition of the Arabic translation of Menelaus of Alexandria's (fl. ca AD 100) Greek treatise on spherical trigonometry known as Kitāb fī al-ashkāl al-kurrīyah (كتاب في الأشكال الكرية) or simply as Kit...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 4 Rabī‘ II 548
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+55+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13383
Title:: al-Ḥāwī fī ʿilm al-tadāwī الحاوي في علم التداوي Shīrāzi, Najm al-Dīn Mahmud ibn Ilyās شيرازي، نجم الدين محمود بن إلياس
Scope & Content:: Medical encyclopedia by Najm al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Ṣā’in al-Dīn Ilyās al-Shīrāzi (نجم الدين محمود بن صائن الدين إلياس الشيرازي, d. 730/1330; see text in shamsa on f. 2r). This copy was produced for ‘Abd al-Raḥīm ibn Ibrāhīm (عبد الرحيم بن إبراهيم, see text in lower cartouches on ff. 1v-2r) by ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Shawwāl 731
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+457+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14140
Title:: ‘Ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharā’ib al-mawjūdāt عجائب المخلوقات وغرائب الموجودات Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad قزويني، زكريا بن محمد
Scope & Content:: The London Qazwīnī. Encyclopaedic work on cosmology by Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Qazwīnī (زكريا بن محمد بن محمود القزويني, d. 1283). The text is lavishly illustrated with 368 paintings. In the undated colophon (f. 135v, lines 7-8; transcribed below) the anonymous scribe claims to have...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: c 1300
Extent:: Codex; ff. 135

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14154
Title:: Two commentaries and a supercommentary on works of Avicenna
Scope & Content:: Contents: (1) Muḥammad ibn Masʿūd al-Kāzarūnī (محمد بن مسعود الكازروني), al-Mughnī fī sharḥ al-mūjiz (المغني في شرح الموجز, ff. 5v-242r); (2) Aḥmad ibn Balkū al-Āwī (أحمد بن بلكو الآوي), [Sharḥ qaṣīdah fī al-nafs] (شرح قصيدة في النفس, ff. 242v-245r); (3) Ibn al-Nafīs (ابن النفيس) Sharḥ tashrīḥ a...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 842-843
Extent:: Codex; ff. 339+i

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