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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8229
Title:: Six alchemical texts Ṭughrāʼī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī طغرائي، الحسين بن علي
Scope & Content:: Collection of alchemical texts by the Seljuq chancellor (صاحب ديوان الإنشاء) and vizier, poet and alchemist Muʼayyad al-Dīn Abū Ismāʻīl al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī al-Ṭughrāʼī (مؤيد الدين أبو إسماعيل الحسين بن علي الطغرائي, d. 1121). The copy was produced by Darwīsh ʻAlī ibn Shams al-Dīn al-Kāẓimī (دروي...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1091
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+200+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8229, ff 1v and 5r-12v
Title:: al-Juzʼ al-thānī min Kitāb jāmiʻ al-asrār الجزء الثاني من كتاب جامع الأسرار Ṭughrāʼī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī طغرائي، الحسين بن علي
Scope & Content:: Incomplete copy of Part Two (الجزء الثاني) of a defense of alchemy against an unnamed detractor by the Seljuq chancellor (صاحب ديوان الإنشاء) and vizier, poet and alchemist Muʼayyad al-Dīn Abū Ismāʻīl al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī al-Ṭughrāʼī (مؤيد الدين أبو إسماعيل الحسين بن علي الطغرائي, d. 1121). The c...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1091
Extent:: Ff. 1v and 5r-12v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8229, ff 13r-53v, 2r-4v and 54r-101r
Title:: [al-Juzʼ al-awwal wa-huwa Mafātīḥ al-raḥmah الجزء الأول وهو مفاتيح الرحمة] Ṭughrāʼī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī طغرائي، الحسين بن علي
Scope & Content:: Incomplete copy of a two-part alchemical text by the Seljuq chancellor (صاحب ديوان الإنشاء) and vizier, poet and alchemist Muʼayyad al-Dīn Abū Ismāʻīl al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī al-Ṭughrāʼī (مؤيد الدين أبو إسماعيل الحسين بن علي الطغرائي, d. 1121). The copy is defective at beginning, with folios missing...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 10 Ṣafar 1091
Extent:: Ff. 13r-53v, 2r-4v and 54r-101r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8229, ff 101v-160r
Title:: al-Juzʼ al-thānī wa-huwa Maṣābīḥ al-ḥikmah الجزء الثاني وهو مصابيح الحكمة Ṭughrāʼī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī طغرائي، الحسين بن علي
Scope & Content:: Incomplete copy of an alchemical text by the Seljuq chancellor (صاحب ديوان الإنشاء) and vizier, poet and alchemist Muʼayyad al-Dīn Abū Ismāʻīl al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī al-Ṭughrāʼī (مؤيد الدين أبو إسماعيل الحسين بن علي الطغرائي, d. 1121). This text is part two of the preceding item in the present volum...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 29 Ṣafar 1091
Extent:: Ff. 101v-160r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8229, ff 160v-161r
Title:: [Alchemical dream vision] Ṭughrāʼī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī طغرائي، الحسين بن علي
Scope & Content:: Record of an alchemical dream vision by the Seljuq chancellor (صاحب ديوان الإنشاء) and vizier, poet and alchemist Muʼayyad al-Dīn Abū Ismāʻīl al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī al-Ṭughrāʼī (مؤيد الدين أبو إسماعيل الحسين بن علي الطغرائي, d. 1121). The text is preceded by a brief preface (f. 160v, lines 2-4, tra...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1091
Extent:: Ff. 160v-161r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8229, ff 161v-182r
Title:: Kitāb tarākīb al-anwār كتاب تراكيب الأنوار Ṭughrāʼī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī طغرائي، الحسين بن علي
Scope & Content:: Alchemical text by the Seljuq chancellor (صاحب ديوان الإنشاء) and vizier, poet and alchemist Muʼayyad al-Dīn Abū Ismāʻīl al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī al-Ṭughrāʼī (مؤيد الدين أبو إسماعيل الحسين بن علي الطغرائي, d. 1121). This text is a companion piece to items one and six in the present volume, the Collect...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 6 Rabīʻ I 1091
Extent:: Ff. 161v-182r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8229, ff 182v-196v
Title:: al-Juzʼ al-awwal min Kitāb jāmiʻ al-asrār الجزء الأول من كتاب جامع الأسرار Ṭughrāʼī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī طغرائي، الحسين بن علي
Scope & Content:: Part One (الجزء الأول) of a defense of alchemy against an unnamed detractor by the Seljuq chancellor (صاحب ديوان الإنشاء) and vizier, poet and alchemist Muʼayyad al-Dīn Abū Ismāʻīl al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī al-Ṭughrāʼī (مؤيد الدين أبو إسماعيل الحسين بن علي الطغرائي, d. 1121). An incomplete copy of the...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 9 Rabīʻ I 1091
Extent:: Ff. 182v-196v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8254
Title:: Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ رسائل إخوان الصفاء Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ إخوان الصفاء
Scope & Content:: The second volume (المجلد الثاني, probably of an original three) of the well-known Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ (رسائل إخوان الصفاء, Epistles of the Brethren of Purity), compiled by an anonymous group calling themselves Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ wa Khullān al-Wafāʾ ( إخوان الصفاء وخلان الوفاء, Brethren of Puri...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 644
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+279+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8293
Title:: Aqrābādhīn madīnat al-salam أقراباذين مدينة السلم Ibn al-Tilmīdh, Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣā‘id ابن التلميذ، هبة الله بن صاعد and other pharmaceutical texts
Scope & Content:: The manuscript was completed in 625 AH/AD 1227-28 by ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Alī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥalabī (علي بن أبي طالب بن علي بن علي بن علي بن الحسين الحلبي), probably at Baghdad (see title page f. 2v, lines 6-9, transcribed below). Title page (f. 2v, lines 1-9): إقراباذين...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 625
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+170+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8293, ff 2r-128v
Title:: Aqrābādhīn madīnat al-salam أقراباذين مدينة السلم Ibn al-Tilmīdh, Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣā‘id ابن التلميذ، هبة الله بن صاعد
Scope & Content:: The medical formulary of Amīn al-Dawlah Abū al-Ḥasan Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣā‘id (أمين الدولة أبو الحسن هبة الله بن صاعد) known as Ibn al-Tilmīdh (ابن التلميذ, d. 560 AH/AD 1165), chief physician at the ‘Aḍudī Hospital in Baghdad, and later court physician to the Abbasid Caliph al-Muqtafī (المقتفي, re...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 625
Extent:: ff. 2r-128v

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