Three works on archery, horsemanship and military matters. The first two texts are by Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad al-Ṭabarī (أبو محمد عبد الرحمن أحمد الطبري, active ca 9th century), originator of the 'eclectic' (اختياري) approach to archery training which permitted the archer to recombine ...
Kitāb al-shāmil fī al-ramy كتاب الشامل في الرمي Ṭabarī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad طبري، عبد الرحمن أحمد
Scope & Content:
Unique copy of the oldest surviving comprehensive treatise on military archery by Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad al-Ṭabarī (أبو محمد عبد الرحمن أحمد الطبري, active ca 9th century), missing the first part of the text. This treatise became a major source for subsequent furūsīyah texts. In nume...
Kitāb al-wāḍiḥ fī al-ramy كتاب الواضح في الرمي Ṭabarī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad طبري، عبد الرحمن أحمد
Scope & Content:
A copy of a practical treatise on archery, very popular and widely-used especially in the Mamluk period, by Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad al-Ṭabarī (أبو محمد عبد الرحمن أحمد الطبري, active ca 9th century). The preface names the work (f. 55v, line 10) and mentions its structure in thirty bābs...
Untitled treatise on the arts of the lance and warfare Ṭabarī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad طبري، عبد الرحمن أحمد
Scope & Content:
Incomplete text on horseback manoeuvres with the lance and general warfare (see f. 110v, lines 9-10: وقد ضمنت هذا الكتاب ما يوجب لمتعاطي الحرب...). A note on the volume's second flyleaf (ii-v) attributes this text to Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad al-Ṭabarī (أبو محمد عبد الرحمن أحمد الطبري, a...
Contains two medical treatises and a collection of ten extracts from poets and medical authors. (1) Hippocrates (أبقراط), al-Fuṣūl (الفصول) (ff 1v-32r); (2) Ibn Jazlah (ابن جزلة), Minhāj al-bayān (منهاج البيان) (ff 21v-62r); (3) Ten extracts on medical topics in verse and prose (ff 62r-64v). The...
Translation of the Aphorisms of Hippocrates translated by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq in the mid to late AD 9th/3rd AH century. The text is divided into 7 maqālahs: Maqālah 1 (begins f. 1r); Maqālah 2 (f. 3v); Maqālah 3 (f. 6v); Maqālah 4 (f. 8v); Maqālah 5 (f. 13r); Maqālah 6 (f. 16v); Maqālah 7 (19r). T...
Fuṣūl al-sittah فصول الستة Ibn Jazlah, Yaḥyá ibn ‘Īsá ابن جزلة، يحيى بن عيسى
Scope & Content:
Alphabetical handbook on pharmacology by Abū ‘Alī Yahyá ibn ‘Īsá (أبو علي يحيى ابن عيسى ), known as Ibn Jazlah (ابن جزلة; d. 493/1100). The full title is Minhāj al-bayān fī mā yast‘amaluhu al-insān (منهاج البيان فيما يستعمله الإنسان), but the title page (f. 1r) records the title as Fuṣūl al-sitt...
The three short poems on f. 62r are not about medicine. The seven medical extracts are as follows: 1. Recipe for the medicine bakhtajūsh (بختجوش) made from grape juice (f. 62v) 2. Discussion of two bezoars (بادزهر), the ḥajar al-thīrān (حجر الثيران) and the ḥajar al-tays (حجر التيس) and their...
Kitāb al-waḍīḥ fī maʿrifat ʿilm al-ramy كتاب الوضيح في معرفة علم الرمي [Ṭabarī,ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad طبري، عبد الرحمن أحمد]
Scope & Content:
Luxury copy of a practical treatise on archery, very popular and widely-used especially in the Mamluk period, by Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭabarī (أبو محمد عبد الرحمن بن أحمد الطبري, active ca 9th century). The present copy was completed by an un-named scribe on 9 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 78...
Two treatises on gnomonics Ibn al-Raqqām, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ابن الرقام، محمد بن ابراهيم
Scope & Content:
Two treatises on the construction and use of sundials by the Andalusian scholar Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Mursī al-Andalusī al-Tūnisī al-Awsī ibn al-Raqqām (عبد الله محمد بن إبراهيم بن علي بن أحمد بن يوسف المرسي الأندلسي التونسي الأوسي بن الرقام, d. 1315...
