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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5927, ff 205r-217v
Title:: Anonymous treatise on craft techniques
Scope & Content:: Treatise includes instructions for the production of soap (f. 207v), glass (f. 209r), and naphtha (f. 210v). The treatise begins with a discussion of fruit waters, the removal of stains from and dyeing of clothes all of which topics are reminiscent of 'Chapter Fifteen: Using fruit waters and a d...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th or 16th century
Extent:: Ff. 205r-217v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5931
Title:: Ḥall al-mūjiz حل الموجز Aqsarā’ī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad أقسرائي، محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Aqsarā’ī (جمال الدين محمد بن محمد الأقسرائي, d. 1378) on the Epitome of the Canon (موجز القانون) by Ibn al-Nafīs (ابن النفيس, d. 1288), an abridgment of Avicenna's (Ibn Sīnā, ابن سينا; d. 1037) Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطب). This copy i...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Rabī‘ II 961
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+271+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5939
Title:: [Sharḥ Fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ] [شرح فصول أبقراط] Kīlānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad كيلاني، أحمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Qāsim al-Mutaṭabib al-Kīlānī (أحمد بن محمد بن قاسم المتطبب الكيلاني, fl. ca 1345, see f. 1v, line 14) on the Aphorisms (كتاب الفصول) of Hippocrates (أبقراط, d. ca 370 BC). The text is dedicated to the Qipchaq Maḥmūd Jalāl al-Dīn Jānī Beg Khān (محمود جلال الد...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+225+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6247
Title:: Rawḍ al-insān fī aḥwāl al-rūḥ wa-al-abdān روض الإنسان في أحوال الروح والأبدان ‘Aṭūfī Marzīfūnī, Khiḍr ibn Maḥmūd عطوفي مرزيفوني، خضر بن محمود
Scope & Content:: Compendium of Prophetic medicine (الطب النبوي) by Khayr al-Dīn Khiḍr ibn Maḥmūd ibnʿUmar al-ʿAṭūfī al-Marzīfūnī (خير الدين خضر بن محمود بن عمر العطوفي المرزيفوني, d. 1541), dedicated to the Ottoman sultan Bāyezīd II (بايزيد ثاني, reg. 1481-1512). Brockelmann (GALS II, 639) gives the title as Raw...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+166+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6273
Title:: A collection of works and extracts mostly on medicine
Scope & Content:: Collection of treatises, extracts and notes on medicine followed by a treatise on pen cutting and ink-making. The manuscript appears to have been in the possession of the Āl al-Muftī (آل المفتي), a family of physicians in Ottoman Mosul. Extracts of a work by the litterateur, poet and physician ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+180+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6273, f 116r
Title:: Excerpt on dysmenorrhoea from Kitāb al-dhakhīrah (كتاب الذخيرة)
Scope & Content:: Excerpt on the treatment of dysmenorrhoea said to be from the Book of the Treasure (كتاب الذخيرة) attributed to Thābit ibn Qurrah (ثابت ابن قرة, d. 901; see line 18). Although material on this topic features in the edited text of the Book of the Treasure (see ed. Sobhy, chapter 18, pp. 117-18), ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: F. 116r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6273, ff 1v-2r
Title:: Two extracts on tuberculosis
Scope & Content:: Two short extracts on tuberculosis. The first extract (ff. 1v, line 1-2r, line 9) is said to be from the Hippocratic Treatments (المعالجات البقراطية), a medical compendium by Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭabarī al-Turunjī (أبو الحسن أحمد بن محمد الطبري الترنجي), personal physician to the B...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 1v-2r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6273, ff 2v-90v
Title:: Kitāb Qarābādhīn كتاب قراباذين Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī نجيب الدين السمرقندي، محمد بن علي
Scope & Content:: Pharmacopeia by Najīb al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Samarqandī (نجيب الدين أبو حامد محمد بن علي بن عمر السمرقندي, d. 1222). The main text is preceded by a table of contents (ff. 2v-3r). 　 Begins (f. 3v, lines 11-16): هذا كتاب قراباذين نجيب الدين السمرقندي مؤلف كتاب الأسباب ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 2v-90v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6273, ff 90v-113r
Title:: Collection of prescriptions and short chapters on medical topics
Scope & Content:: Contents: 1) Recipes and prescriptions for the preparation and use of various medicines (ff. 90v-93v); 2) Chapter explaining the definition of the pillars on which the animal body stands, which are the four elements (فصل في بيان تعريف الأركان التي عليها قوام البدن الحيواني وهي العناصر الأربعة, f...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 90v-113r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6273, ff 113v-115v
Title:: Risālah fī al-adwiyah al-musahhilah رسالة في الأدوية المسهلة Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī نجيب الدين السمرقندي، محمد بن علي
Scope & Content:: A list of laxative drugs by Najīb al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Samarqandī (نجيب الدين أبو حامد محمد بن علي بن عمر السمرقندي, d. 1222). Begins (f. 113v, lines 1-2): هذه رسالة لنجيب الدين محمد ابن علي ابن عمر السمرقندي في الأدوية المسهلة افسنتين حار في أول الثانية يابس في الأ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 113v-115v

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