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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 18866
Title:: نهاية السؤل والامنية في تعلم أعمال الفروسية Nihāyat al-su’l wa-al-umnīyah fī ta‘allum a‘māl al-furūsīyah أقسرائي، محمد بن عيسى Aqsarā’ī, Muḥammad ibn ‘Īsá ibn Ismā‘īl al-Ḥanafī
Scope & Content:: A Mamluk manual on horsemanship, military arts and technology by Muḥammad ibn ‘Īsá ibn Ismā‘īl al-Aqsarā’ī (محمد بن عيسى بن إسماعيل الأقسرائي ; d. 1348, Damascus). The manuscript was completed on 10 Muḥarram 773 (25 July 1371) by the scribe Aḥmad ibn ‘Umar ibn Aḥmad al-Miṣrī (see colophon on f. ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 10 Muḥarram 773
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+292+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19547
Title:: al-Ṣulḥ bayna al-ikhwān fī ḥukm ibāḥat al-dukhān الصلح بين الإخوان في حكم إباحة الدخان Nābulusī, ‘Abd al-Ghanī ibn Ismā‘īl نابلسي، عبد الغني بن إسماعيل
Scope & Content:: Treatise in defence of tobacco smoking (شَرَب التُتُن) on medical and legal grounds, written in 1092/1682 (see Author's Colophon, f. 127v, lines 11-13, transcribed below) by ‘Abd al-Ghanī ibn Ismā‘īl al-Nābulusī (عبد الغني بن إسماعيل النابلسي, b. 1641, d. 1731). The copy was completed at t...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Muḥarram 1161
Extent:: Codex; ff. v+127+vi

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19619
Title:: A collection of Arabic and Persian texts on medicine and pharmacology
Scope & Content:: A collection of Persian and Arabic texts on medicine and pharmacology. The colophon to the first text in the volume (ff. 3r-128r) records that it was transcribed by an un-named scribe on 21 Jumādá II 1103/10 March 1692 (f. 128r, lines 7-15). Contents: (1) Qāz̤ī ibn Muḥammad Yazdī (قاضي بن محمد ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: Jumādá II 1103
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+310+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19619, ff 3r-128r
Title:: Jām-i jahān'numā-yi ʿAbbāsī جام جهان نماى عباسى Yazdī, Qāz̤ī ibn Muḥammad يزدي، قاضي بن محمد
Scope & Content:: A treatise in Persian on wine, its beneficial properties, and legitimate use, by Mīrzā Qāz̤ī ibn Kāshif al-Dīn Muḥammad Yazdī (ميرزا قاضي بن كاشف الدين محمد يزدي, died 1664-65). The work, comprising an introduction (مقدمة), thirty chapters (باب), and a conclusion (خاتمة), was written upon the o...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 21 Jumādá II 1103
Extent:: Ff. 3r-128r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19619, ff 157r-242v
Title:: Risālah-i afyūn رساله افيون 'Imād al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd عماد الدين شيرازي، محمود بن مسعود
Scope & Content:: A treatise in Persian on the beneficial and harmful properties of opium, by the physician Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd ʿImād al-Dīn Shīrāzī (محمود بن مسعود عماد الدين شيرازى, fl. 16th century).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 21 Jumādá II 1103
Extent:: Ff. 157r-242v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19619, ff 243v-246r
Title:: Risālah fī aʿmār al-ʿaqāqīr al-mufradah wa-al-murakkabah رسالة في أعمار العقاقير المفردة والمركبة Zahrāwī, Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn ʿAbbās زهراوي، أبو القاسم خلف بن عباس
Scope & Content:: A fragmentary copy of part 4, of treatise 29, from the 30-volume medical encyclopaedia Kitāb al-Taṣrīf li-man ʿajiza ʿan al-taʿlīf (كتاب التصريف لمن عجز عن التأليف), by Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn ʿAbbās al-Zahrāwī al-Andalusī (أبو القاسم خلف بن عباس الزهراوي الأندلسي, latinised as Albucasis, d. ca ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Jumādá II 1103
Extent:: Ff. 243v-246r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19619, ff 246r-247v
Title:: Jawāb ilá al-Ḥillī fī al-dhawq جواب إلى الحلي في الذوق Ṭūsī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Response to a question put by the jurist Najm al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim Jaʿfar ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥillī (نجم الدين أبو القاسم جعفر بن الحسن الحلي, d. 1277), known as al-Muḥaqqiq al-Ḥillī (المحقق الحلي), on the sense of taste, by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي, d. ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Jumādá II 1103
Extent:: Ff. 246r-247v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19619, ff 247v-262v
Title:: Risālah-i chūb-i Chīnī رساله چوب چينى 'Imād al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd عماد الدين شيرازي، محمود بن مسعود
Scope & Content:: A treatise in Persian on China root (چوب چينى or چينى بيخ), by the physician Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd ʿImād al-Dīn Shīrāzī (محمود بن مسعود عماد الدين شيرازى, fl. 16th century).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 21 Jumādá II 1103
Extent:: Ff. 247v-262v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19619, ff 263r-265v
Title:: Risālah-i chūb-i Chīnī رساله چوب چينى Nūr Allāh, known as ʿAlāʾ نور الله مشهور بعلاء
Scope & Content:: A treatise on China root (چوب چينى or چينى بيخ), by Nūr Allāh, known as ʿAlāʾ (نور الله مشهور بعلاء). The author, writing in 944/1537-8, says that he had spent twenty years in India, and had obtained his information on China root from a European physician.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 21 Jumādá II 1103
Extent:: Ff. 263r-265v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19619, ff 265v-270r
Title:: Risālah-i pāzahr رساله پازهر 'Imād al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd عماد الدين شيرازي، محمود بن مسعود
Scope & Content:: A treatise on the pāzahr (bezoar stone), by the physician Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd ʿImād al-Dīn Shīrāzī (محمود بن مسعود عماد الدين شيرازى, fl. 16th century).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 21 Jumādá II 1103
Extent:: Ff. 265v-270r

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