Zubdat al-ṭibb زبدة الطب Jurjānī, Ismāʿīl ibn Ḥasan جرجاني، إسماعيل بن حسن
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Defective copy of a medical compendium tabulated in synoptic charts, 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 Ismā‘īl ibn al-Ḥusayn (إسما...
Treatise on pharmacopoeia comprising seventeen chapters (باب). The text is defective at beginning and the author's name is not known. Some folios are missing and unfoliated leaves have been inserted after ff. 11 and 34 to mark locations of missing leaves. The text is followed by a short note o...
[Kitāb al-aghdhiyyah] [كتاب الأغذية] [Ibn Zuhr, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ] [ابن زهر، عبد الملك بن أبي العلاء]
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Treatise on dietetics by the Andalusian physician Abū Marwān ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ Zuhr (أبو مروان عبد الملك بن أبي العلاء زهر, d. 1162), known as Ibn Zuhr (ابن زهر), Latinised as Avenzoar. The copy is defective at beginning and the surviving text mentiones neither the author nor the ti...
[Fiḍālat al-khiwān fī ṭayyibāt al-ṭaʻām wa-al-alwān فضالة الخوان في طيبات الطعام والألوان] [Ibn Razīn al-Tujībī ابن رزين التجيبي]
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Extensive treatise on cookery by the Andalusian scholar Ibn Razīn al-Tujībī (ابن رزين التجيبي, d. 1293). The copy is defective at end and finishes abruptly with recipes calling for tuna (التنّ). Begins (f. 101r, lines 2-4): الحمد لله فضل نوع الإنسان على جميع الخلق وأختصه بمزية قل مسز (؟) حرم...
Treatise includes instructions for the production of soap (f. 207v), glass (f. 209r), and naphtha (f. 210v). The treatise begins with a discussion of fruit waters, the removal of stains from and dyeing of clothes all of which topics are reminiscent of 'Chapter Fifteen: Using fruit waters and a d...
Ḥall al-mūjiz حل الموجز Aqsarā’ī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad أقسرائي، محمد بن محمد
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Commentary by Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Aqsarā’ī (جمال الدين محمد بن محمد الأقسرائي, d. 1378) on the Epitome of the Canon (موجز القانون) by Ibn al-Nafīs (ابن النفيس, d. 1288), an abridgment of Avicenna's (Ibn Sīnā, ابن سينا; d. 1037) Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطب). This copy i...
[Sharḥ Fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ] [شرح فصول أبقراط] Kīlānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad كيلاني، أحمد بن محمد
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Commentary by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Qāsim al-Mutaṭabib al-Kīlānī (أحمد بن محمد بن قاسم المتطبب الكيلاني, fl. ca 1345, see f. 1v, line 14) on the Aphorisms (كتاب الفصول) of Hippocrates (أبقراط, d. ca 370 BC). The text is dedicated to the Qipchaq Maḥmūd Jalāl al-Dīn Jānī Beg Khān (محمود جلال الد...
Rawḍ al-insān fī aḥwāl al-rūḥ wa-al-abdān روض الإنسان في أحوال الروح والأبدان ‘Aṭūfī Marzīfūnī, Khiḍr ibn Maḥmūd عطوفي مرزيفوني، خضر بن محمود
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Compendium of Prophetic medicine (الطب النبوي) by Khayr al-Dīn Khiḍr ibn Maḥmūd ibnʿUmar al-ʿAṭūfī al-Marzīfūnī (خير الدين خضر بن محمود بن عمر العطوفي المرزيفوني, d. 1541), dedicated to the Ottoman sultan Bāyezīd II (بايزيد ثاني, reg. 1481-1512). Brockelmann (GALS II, 639) gives the title as Raw...
A collection of works and extracts mostly on medicine
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Collection of treatises, extracts and notes on medicine followed by a treatise on pen cutting and ink-making. The manuscript appears to have been in the possession of the Āl al-Muftī (آل المفتي), a family of physicians in Ottoman Mosul. Extracts of a work by the litterateur, poet and physician ...