Quadrant (رُبْع), comprising an astrolabe quadrant (ربع المُقَنْطَرَات, Side A), and a sine quadrant (ربع المُجَيَّب, Side B). The quadrant is signed by its maker, Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Sharbatlī (أحمد ابن إبراهيم الشربتلي, Side A), and dated 1256/1840-1 (Side B).
Kitāb al-ghādhī wa-al-mughtadhī كتاب الغاذي والمغتذي Ibn Abī al-Ash‘ath, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ابن أبي الأشعث، أحمد بن محمد
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Treatise on dietetics and the nourishment of the parts of the body by Abū Ja‘far Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Ash‘ath (أبو جعفر أحمد بن محمد ابن أبي الأشعث; d. 360/970). The text is in two parts (مقالتان), divided into chapters (جمل), and further subdivided into sections (أبواب). This copy is m...
A composite volume, consisting of three manuscripts apparently from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The first two are medical texts, and the last is a tale also found in the Thousand Nights and a Night (ألف ليلة وليلة). Contents: (1) Kitāb fīhī ajzā’ min Minhāj al-ṭibb (كتاب فيه أجزاء ...
Kitāb fīhī ajzā’ min Minhāj al-ṭibb كتاب فيه أجزاء من منهاج الطب
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Extracts concerning pharmacology from the Minhāj al-bayān fīmā yastaʿmiluhū al-insān (منهاج البيان فيما يستعمله الإنسان) by Abū ‘Alī Yahyá ibn ‘Īsá (أبو علي يحيى ابن عيسى), known as Ibn Jazlah (ابن جزلة; d. 493/1100) and from the Pandects or Kunnāsh (كناش), called here the Nushat al-bīmāristān (...
al-Irshād li-maṣāliḥ al-anfus wa-al-ajsād الإرشاد لمصالح الأنفس والأجساد Ibn Jumayʿ, Hibat Allāh ibn Zayn ابن جميع، هبة الله بن زين
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Fragment of a general guide to medicine by al-Muwaffiq Shams al-Riyāsah abū al-‘Ashā’ir Hibat Allāh ibn Zayn (الموفق شمس الرياسة أبو العشائر هبة الله بن زين; d. 1198) known as Ibn Jumay‘ (ابن جميع), personal physician to the sultan of Egypt and Syria Saladin (صلاح الدين الأيوبي; d. 1193). The w...
Ḥikāyat Zayn al-Mawāṣif wa-mā jarā lahā ma‘a Masrūr al-ʿaṭṭār حكاية زين المواصف وما جرا لها مع مسرور العطار
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Fragment of the 'Tale of Zayn al-Mawāṣif and Masrūr the Druggist'. The tale is found in The 1001 Nights (ألف ليلة وليلة; see Macnaghten edition, also known as Calcutta II, vol. 4, pp. 190-246), but appears here without the frame-narrative. The narrator of the tale is referred to simply as the st...
Bestiary describing the characteristics and medical uses of a large number of animals. The anonymous compiler of the work (see f. 95r) claims it is based on writings by Aristotle (أرسطاطاليس; d. 322 BC) and Abū Sa‘īd ‘Ubayd Allāh ibn Jibrā’īl ibn ‘Ubayd Allāh ibn Bakhtīshū‘ ibn Jibrā’īl ibn Bakh...
Qarābādīn (aqrābādhīn) قرابادين (أقراباذين) Qalānisī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad قلانسي، بدر الدين محمد
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Formulary or pharmacopoeia by Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Bahrām ibn Muḥammad al-Qalānisī al-Samarqandī (بدر الدين محمد بن بهرام بن محمد القلانسي السمرقندي, fl. 1194) divided into forty-nine chapters (باب). The chapters are listed with their titles in the preface (f. 2r-2v). The copy was completed...
al-Mukhtār fī al-ṭibb المختار في الطب Ibn Hubal, ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ابن هبل، علي بن أحمحد
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Volume Two (المجلد الثاني; see colophon, f. 282r, lines 14, transcribed below) of a comprehensive encyclopaedia of medicine in four volumes by Muhadhdhab al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Hubal al-Baghdādī (مهذب الدين أبو الحسن علي بن أحمد بن علي بن هبل البغدادي, d. 1213). The tex...
