al-Ghiná wa-al-muná الغنى والمنى Qumrī, Abū Manṣūr al-Ḥasan ibn Nūḥ قمري، أبو منصور الحسن بن نوح
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Medical compendium by Abū Manṣūr al-Ḥasan ibn Nūḥ al-Qumrī (أبو منصور الحصن بن نوح القمري, fl. 10th century). The text is divided into three treatises (مقالات), each subdivided into chapters (أبواب). A table of contents listing the three treatises and all of their chapters is found on ff. 2r-4r...
al-Zīj al-muʿtabir al-Sanjarī الزيج المعتبر السنجري Khāzinī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān خازني، عبد الرحمن
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Astronomical handbook with tables composed at Merv (مرو) by the astronomer, mathematician and physicist Abū Manṣūr (also known as Abū al-Fatḥ) ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Khāzinī (أبو منصور/أبو الفتح عبد الرحمن الخازني) around 1120 and dedicated to the Seljuk sultan Sanjar ibn Malikshāh (سنجر بن ملكشاه, r...
A copy of three medical treatises by the extremely influential Graeco-Roman physician Galen (Claudius Galenus of Pergamon, 129-c 200). The Greek texts were translated by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī, and the texts preserved here are probably his Arabic versions (see colophon of Item 2, f. 142v, li...
Kitāb Jālīnūs fī al-Buḥrānكتاب جالينوس في البحران Galen (Jālīnūs) جالينوس
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Arabic translation, probably by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī (c 809-873; see colophon of Item 2, f. 142v, line 8), of Galen’s (Claudius Galenus of Pergamum, 129- c 200) treatise on crises, De crisibus libri III. The manuscript was completed in Damascus 580 AH/AD 1184 by Ibrāhīm ibn Naṣr ibn Ibrā...
Kitāb Jālīnūs fī ayyām al-Buḥrānكتاب جالينوس في أيام البحران Galen (Jālīnūs) جالينوس
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Arabic translation, probably by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī (c 809-873; see colophon, f. 142v, line 8, transcribed below), of Galen’s (Claudius Galenus of Pergamum, 129- c 200) treatise on critical days, De diebus decretoriis libri III (Περὶ κρισίμων ἡμερῶν βιβλία γ΄; أيام البحران). The manuscrip...
Kitāb Jālīnūs fī aṣnāf al-ḥummayyāt كتاب جالينوس في أصناف الحميّات Galen (Jālīnūs) جالينوس
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Arabic translation, probably by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī (c 809-873; see colophon of Item 2, f. 142v, line 8), of Galen’s (Claudius Galenus of Pergamum, 129- c 200) treatise on the differences between fevers, De differentiis febrium libri II. The manuscript was completed in Damascus, 580 AH/AD...
Sharḥ masāʾil fī al-ṭibb شرح مسائل في الطب Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-Nīsābūrī, Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī ابن أبي صادق النيسابوري، أبو القاسم عبد الرحمن بن علي
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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 Questions on Medicine for Students (المسائل في الطب للمتعلّمين) by Abū Zayd Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī (أبو زيد حنين بن إسحق العبادي,...
Kitāb fī al-‘ayn mi’atān wa-sab‘ masā’il كتاب في العين مائتان وسبع مسائل Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī حنين بن إسحق العبادي
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A medical treatise on ophthalmology divided into three chapters (مقالات), written in the form of 207 questions and answers. The title page and opening lines (ff. 1r and 1v, lines 1-2, both transcribed below) state that the author, Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (حنين بن إسحق; d. 873), composed the text for hi...
Ghāyat al-itqān fī tadbīr badan al-insān غاية الاتقان في تدبير بدن الإنسان and Kitāb al-ṭibb al-jadīd al-kīmāwī كتاب الطب الجديد الكيماوي Ibn Sallūm ابن سلوم
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(1) Ibn Sallūm (ابن سلوم), Ghāyat al-itqān fī tadbīr badan al-insān غاية الاتقان في تدبير بدن الإنسان, ff. 3v-178r); (2) Ibn Sallūm (ابن سلوم), Kitāb al-ṭibb al-jadīd al-kīmāwī (كتاب الطب الجديد الكيماوي, ff. 179r-212v). Before the main texts are notes on medical topics (ff. 1r-3r), which consi...
Ghāyat al-itqān fī tadbīr badan al-insān غاية الاتقان في تدبير بدن الإنسان Ḥalabī, Ṣāliḥ Naṣr Allāh ibn Sallūm حلبي، صالح نصر الله بن سلوم
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Medical compendium on pharmacognosy by Ṣāliḥ ibn Naṣr Allāh ibn Sallūm al-Ḥalabī (صالح بن نصر الله بن سلوم الحلبي, d. 1669), personal physician to the Ottoman sultan Mehmet IV (محمد رابع, reg. 1648-87). The text begins with an extensive table of contents (ff. 3v-10r). The copy was comple...
