Untitled text on smallpox and measles Muḥammad Badīʿ محمد بديع
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Medical text on smallpox and measles (الجدري والحصبة) composed during an outbreak of those two diseases at Mosul in 1223/1808-9, by Muḥammad Badīʿ (محمد بديع, see f. 159v, lines 5-7). Muḥammad Badīʿ was a son of the Ottoman litterateur, poet and physician of Mosul Muḥammad Amīn Bek ibn Ibrāhīm B...
Dastūr lil-iḥtirās min al-wabāʾ wa-al-ṭāʿūn wa-ʿilāj lil-jamrah al-musammāh bi-lughat ahl al-Mawṣil ḍarabah (دستور للاحتراس من الوباء والطاعون وعلاج للجمرة المسماة بلغة أهل الموصل ضربة)
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Medical manual on the maintenance of health during times of pestilence. The mention of Mosul in the title suggests that the author is Muḥammad Badīʿ (محمد بديع), author of the preceding text on an outbreak of smallpox and measles at Mosul in 1223/1808-9 (see f. 159v, lines 5-7). If this identifi...
Extracts from Muḥammad Amīn Bek Yāsīn Afandīzādah (محمد أمين بك ياسين أفنديزاده), Kitāb al-shifāʾ al-ʿājil (كتاب الشفاء العاجل)
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Extracts from the Speedy Cure and Guaranteed Remedy (الشفاء العاجل والدواء الكافل) by the Ottoman litterateur, poet and physician of Mosul Muḥammad Amīn Bek ibn Ibrāhīm Bek ibn Yūnus Afandī ibn Yāsīn Afandī al-Muftī ibn Maḥmūd Afandī (محمد أمين بك بن إبراهيم بك بن يونس أفندي بن ياسين أفندي المفت...
Kitāb al-abrār fī barī al-qalam wa-ʿamal al-aḥbār كتاب الأبرار في بري القلم وعمل الأحبار
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Treatise on pen trimming and ink making in eleven chapters (أبواب). The author is not named. Begins (f. 171v, lines 2-3): اعلم وفقنا الله تعالى وإياك وجعل الجنة منزلك ومأواك يشتمل هذا الكتاب على إحدى عشر بابًا... Ends (f. 180v, lines 6-14): ... صفة حبر يابس تأخذ درهم عفص وصمغ عربي وزاج ...
Three texts on mathematics and astronomy related to Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621), two by al-‘Āmilī, and a commentary by his student Jawād ibn Saʿd ibn Jawād al-Kāẓimī (جواد بن سعد بن جواد الكاظمي, d. ca 1654-5 see al-Amīn, A‘yān al-shi‘ah,...
Sharḥ khulāṣat al-ḥisāb شرح خلاصة الحساب Kāẓimī, Jawād ibn Saʿd كاظمي، جواد بن سعد
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Commentary by Jawād ibn Saʿd ibn Jawād al-Kāẓimī (جواد بن سعد بن جواد الكاظمي, d. ca 1654-5 [see al-Amīn, A‘yān al-shī‘ah, vol. 4, p. 271]) on the Summa of Arithmetic (خلاصة الحساب) by his teacher Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621). The text co...
Tashrīḥ al-aflāk تشريح الأفلاك ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين
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Summary of theoretical astronomy (هيئة) by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621) in which the author argues that the earth rotates around its axis. The copy was completed on 9 Sha‘bān 1114/29 December 1702 by Ibn Muḥammad Riḍá Muḥammad Amīn (ابن م...
Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb خلاصة الحساب ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين
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Very popular Safavid textbook of arithmetic by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621). The treatise consists of an introduction (مقدمة), nine chapters (أبواب), and a conclusion (خاتمة). Each chapter subdivided into sections (فصول), in some cases pr...
Fragments of two medical manuscripts: (1) Fragment of a commentary on Ibn Sīnā's (ابن سينا) Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (القانون في الطب, ff. 1r-26v); (2) Three fragments of a medical manuscript (ff. 27r-147r).
Fragment of a commentary on Ibn Sīnā's (ابن سينا) Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (القانون في الطب)
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Two quires from a fragment of a commentary on Ibn Sīnā's (ابن سينا, d. 1037) Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطب), defective at beginning and end. The present fragment comprises quires three and four of the original volume (ff. 2r-26v; see quire signatures on ff. 2r and 17r, and mid-quire marks o...
