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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6285, ff 27r-147r
Title:: Three fragments of a medical manuscript
Scope & Content:: Fragments of a medical manuscript, divided into three sections each separated by an unfoliated blank flyleaf. Each section is defective at beginning and all but the last also at the end with no indication of authors or titles. Contents: (1) Anonymous commentary on Ibn Sīnā's (ابن سينا, d. 1037)...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: Ff. 27r-147r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6386
Title:: Sharḥ Fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ شرح فصول أبقراط Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-Nīsābūrī, Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī ابن أبي صادق النيسابوري، أبو القاسم عبد الرحمن بن علي
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-Nīsābūrī (أبو القاسم عبد الرحمن بن علي ابن أبي صادق النيسابوري, d. ca 1068) on the Aphorisms (Kitāb al-fuṣūl) of Hippocrates (أبقراط, d. ca 370 BC). The commentary is based on Galen of Pergamon's (جالينوس, d. ca 216)...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+128+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6419
Title:: Sharḥ fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ شرح فصول أبقراط Ibn al-Nafīs, ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm ابن النفيس، علي بن أبي الحزم
Scope & Content:: Commentary by ‘Alā’ al-Dīn ‘Alī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm al-Qurashī (علاء الدين علي بن أبي الحزم القرشي), known as Ibn al-Nafīs (ابن النفيس, d. 1288) on the Aphorisms (كتاب الفصول) of Hippocrates (أبقراط, d. ca 370 BC). The copy is defective at beginning, and was completed on 26 Ramaḍān 724/16 September...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 26 Ramaḍān 724
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+101+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6429
Title:: al-Jāmiʿ li-quwá al-adwiyah wa-al-aghdhiyah الجامع لقوى الأدوية والأغذية Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ابن البيطار، عبد الله بن أحمد
Scope & Content:: The most influential and important Arabic handbook of materia medica, written by the Andalusian botanist Ḍiyā’ al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad (ضياء الدين أبو محمد عبد الله بن أحمد; d. 1248), known as Ibn al-Bayṭār (ابن البيطار), Chief Herbalist (رئيس العشابين) to the Ayyubid sultan...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Early 15th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+380+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6489
Title:: Kitāb al-mi’ah fī al-ṣinā‘ah al-ṭibbīyah كتاب المائة في الصناعة الطبية Masīḥī, ʻĪsá ibn Yaḥyá مسيحي، عيسى بن يحيى
Scope & Content:: Medical encyclopedia by Abū Sahl ‘Īsá ibn Yaḥyá al-Masīḥī al-Jurjānī (أبو سهل عيسى بن يحيى المسيحي الجرجاني, d. 401/1010), one of the teachers of Avicenna (Abū ‘Alī ibn Sīnā, أبو علي بن سينا, ca 980-1037). The work is divided into 100 books (كتاب), a list of which is found on ff. 4r-6v. The te...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Shawwāl 1105
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+378+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6491
Title:: al-Mughnī fī sharḥ al-mūjiz المغني في شرح الموجز Kāzarūnī, Muḥammad ibn Masʿūd كازروني، محمد بن مسعود
Scope & Content:: Sections (فنون) One and Two from The Sufficient Concerning the Commentary on the Summary (المغني في شرح الموجز) by Sadīd al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Mas‘ūd al-Kāzarūnī (سديد الدين محمد بن مسعود الكازروني; d. 1357), a commentary on Ibn al-Nafīs' (ابن النفيس; d. 1288) Summary of the Canon (موجز القانون), ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 6 Ramaḍān 764
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+133+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6492
Title:: Sharḥ Mūjiz al-Qānūn شرح موجز القانون Kāzarūnī, Muḥammad ibn Masʿūd كازروني، محمد بن مسعود
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Sadīd al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Mas‘ūd al-Kāzarūnī (سديد الدين محمد بن مسعود الكازروني; d. 1357) on Ibn al-Nafīs' (ابن النفيس; d. 1288) Mūjiz al-Qānūn (موجز القانون), an epitome of Avicenna's (Ibn Sīnā, ابن سينا; d. 1037) Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطبّ). The commentary deals with se...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 22 Ramaḍān 770
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+151+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6493
Title:: Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān كتاب حياة الحيوان Damīrī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá دميري، محمد بن موسى
Scope & Content:: A zoological encyclopaedia by Kamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Mūsá al-Damīrī (كمال الدين محمد بن موسى الدميري, d. 1405). The work, completed in draft in 773/1371-2 and arranged in alphabetical order, deals not only with strictly zoological material, but also with legal considerations about animals, th...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Rabīʿ II 841
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+359+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6537
Title:: al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb القانون في الطبّ Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Treatises (فنون) Fourteen to Twenty-two of Book Three (كتاب الثالث) of the Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطبّ) by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, 980-1037). Treatise Eighteen (الفن الثامن عشر) has been erroneous...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 10 Muḥarram 664
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+212+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6591
Title:: Kāmil al-ṣināʿah al-ṭibbīyah كامل الصناعة الطبية Majūsī, ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās مجوسي، علي بن العباس
Scope & Content:: Encyclopaedia of the art of medicine. The text is divided into two books (جزئان), the first dealing with theory and the second with practice. Each book is divided into ten chapters (مقالات), which are further subdivided into parts (أبواب). The manuscript appears to previously have been bound in...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 547-548
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+286+iii

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