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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8857, ff 30v-33v, 11r-16v, 3r-10v, 17r-17v, 1r and 1v
Title:: Kitāb al-azminah كتاب الأزمنة
Scope & Content:: Collection of calendrical, astronomical, meteorological and medical information along with details about Christian feast days and events in the commercial calendar. The material is arranged by month following the order of the Orthodox liturgical calendar, which begins on 1 Aylūl/September. For a...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: ca 1000
Extent:: Ff. 30v-33v, 11r-16v, 3r-10v, 17r-17v, 1r and 1v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8874
Title:: al-Nuzhah al-mubhijah fī tashḥīdh al-adhhān wa-taʿdīl al-amzijah النزهة المبهجة في تشحيذ الأذهان وتعديل الأمزجة Anṭākī, Dāwūd ibn ‘Umar أنطاكي، داوود بن عمر and Notes on therapeutics Sīwī, Ibrāhīm najl Aḥmad سيوي، إبراهيم نجل أحمد
Scope & Content:: Contents: (1) al-Anṭākī, Dāwūd ibn ‘Umar (الأنطاكي، داوود بن عمر), al-Nuzhah al-mubhijah fī tashḥīdh al-adhhān wa-taʿdīl al-amzijah (النزهة المبهجة في تشحيذ الأذهان وتعديل الأمزجة; ff. 1r-217v); (2) al-Sīwī, Ibrāhīm najl Aḥmad (السيوي، إبراهيم نجل أحمد), Notes on therapeutics (ff. 218r-219v).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+220+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8874, ff 1r-217v
Title:: Anṭākī, Dāwūd ibn ‘Umar أنطاكي، داوود بن عمر al-Nuzhah al-mubhijah fī tashḥīdh al-adhhān wa-taʿdīl al-amzijah النزهة المبهجة في تشحيذ الأذهان وتعديل الأمزجة
Scope & Content:: Comprehensive introduction to medicine by Dāwūd ibn ‘Umar al-Qaṣīr al-Anṭākī (داوود بن عمر القصير الأنطاكي, d. 1599). The treatise is composed of an introduction (مقدمة), eight chapters (أبواب) each further subdivided into parts (فصول), studies (بحوث) and sections (أقسام), followed by a conclus...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 1r-217v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8874, ff 218r-219v
Title:: Notes on therapeutics Sīwī, Ibrāhīm najl Aḥmad سيوي، إبراهيم نجل أحمد
Scope & Content:: Short collection of helpful notes (فوائد) on therapeutics by Ibrāhīm najl Aḥmad al-Shāfi‘ī al-Sīwī (إبراهيم نجل أحمد الشافعي السيوي), nicknamed Dhū al-Shawq (ذو الشوق, see f. 218r, line 2, transcribed below). The second half of the treatise contains mnemonic verses (f. 219r-v). F. 220v contain...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 218r-219v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8878
Title:: al-Bahjah al-unsīyah fī al-firāsah al-insānīyah البهجة الأُنسية في الفراسة الإنسانية Sibṭ al-Marṣafī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad سبط المرصفي، محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: A treatise on physiognomy by the Egyptian jurist and Sufi Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghamrī Sibṭ al-Marṣafī (زين العابدين محمد بن محمد الغمري سبط المرصفي, d 1599). The text comprises an introduction (مقدمة, ff. 1v-6v) on bodily humours, two inventory sections (الكشف الأول, ff. 6v-...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century-18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff i+28+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9007
Title:: Anonymous compendium of medicine
Scope & Content:: Volume one of an anonymous treatise on medicine written after Ibn Sīnā's (ابن سينا, d. 1037) Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطب), which it cites frequently along with writings from the corpus attributed to Hippocrates (أبقراط, d. ca 370 BC), especially the Aphorisms (الفصول). The manuscript is ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 27 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 735
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+134+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9008
Title:: Zubdat al-ṭibb زبدة الطب Jurjānī, Ismāʿīl ibn Ḥasan جرجاني، إسماعيل بن حسن
Scope & Content:: Medical compendium 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 ibn al-Ḥusayn (بن الحسين). The work is dedicated to the Khwārizm Shāh ‘Alā’ a...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+258+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9011
Title:: Kitāb Jāmiʻ li-ʻilm aḥkām al-masāʼil
Scope & Content:: Comprehensive treatise on the science of prognostication through astrological interrogations. The manuscript does not state the text's author and the title has been derived from the preface (f. 3v, line 17). Confusion regarding the identity of the text and its author is expressed by a note dated...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Rajab 1200
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+348+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9015
Title:: Anonymous treatise on horsemanship and the arts of the lance
Scope & Content:: Unique copy, defective at beginning and end, of a treatise on instruction in horsemanship, written by an anonymous master of the royal barracks for his fellow teachers of trainee mamluks, around the late fourteenth century. The text contains numerous sections (bābs) on horse-riding, burjās exer...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century-18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+84+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9016
Title:: al-Tadbīrāt al-sulṭānīyah fī siyāsat al-ṣināʿah al-ḥarbīyah التدبيرات السلطانية في سياسة الصناعة الحربية Ibn Manjlī, Muḥammad ابن منجلي، محمد
Scope & Content:: A treatise on the management of armies and preparation for warfare, by Muḥammad Ibn Manjlī (or Mankalī or Manglī) al-Nāṣirī (محمد ابن منكلي, fl. 1362-76, see ff. 45r, line 6 and 58r, line 1). The author was a high-ranking officer in the guard of Sultan al-Malik al-Ashraf Shaʿbān (reg. 764–78/1...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+78+i

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