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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7499
Title:: منهاج البيان فيما يستعمله الإنسان Minhāj al-bayān fīmā yastaʿmiluhū al-insān ابن جزلة، يحيى ابن عيسى Ibn Jazlah, Yaḥyá ibn ʿĪsá
Scope & Content:: Alphabetically arranged handbook on pharmacology by Abū ‘Alī Yahyá ibn ‘Īsá (أبو علي يحيى ابن عيسى), known as Ibn Jazlah (ابن جزلة; d. 493/1100), composed for the Abbasid Caliph al-Muqtadi bi-Amr Allāh (المقتدي بأمر الله; reg. 1075-94). This copy was completed in Rajab 489 (June-July 1096) by Hi...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Rajab 489
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+239+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7712
Title:: Mawāniḥ al-uns bi-riḥlatī li-wādī al-Quds موانح الأنس برحلتي لوادي القدس Luqaymī, Muṣṭafá ibn Aḥmad لقيمي، مصطفى بن أحمد
Scope & Content:: Travel narrative composed in 1164/1751 by the Sufi poet and scholar Muṣṭafá Asʿad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Dimyāṭī al-Luqaymī [or al-Laqīmī] (مصطفى أسعد بن أحمد بن محمد الدمياطي اللقيمي, 1694-1764). The title appears at f. 2r, lines 26-27. The paper used for the copy bears a watermark of a crow...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+117+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7716
Title:: Three treatises on astrology, astronomy and time-keeping
Scope & Content:: An Ottoman collection of texts on astronomy and related subjects. Contents: (1) Abū Ma‘shar (أبو معشر), Kitāb al-milal wa-al-duwwal (كتاب الملل والدوّل; ff. 1r-117r); (2) Muḥammad al-Ṣūfī (محمد الصوفي), al-I‘lām bi-shadd al-minkām (الإعلام بشدّ المنكام; ff. 118v-127r); (3) Najm al-Dīn Muḥamm...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+145+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7716, ff 1r-117r
Title:: Kitāb al-milal wa-al-duwwal كتاب الملل والدوّل Abū Ma‘shar أبو معشر
Scope & Content:: Major treatise on historical astrology by Abū Ma‘shar Ja‘far ibn Muḥammad ibn ‘Umar al-Balkhi (أبو معشر جعفر بن محمد عمر البلخي; d. ca 886). The text is divided into eight parts (مقالات) in sixty-three chapters (فصول), not ninety-three chapters as erroneously stated in this manuscript (f. 1v, l...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: Ff. 1r-117r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7716, ff 118v-127r
Title:: al-I‘lām bi-shadd al-minkām الإعلام بشدّ المنكام Muḥammad al-Ṣūfī محمد الصوفي
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the use of sand-clocks (منكام, pl. مناكيم) by the Egyptian mathematician and astronomer Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Fatḥ ibn ‘Īsá ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣūfī al-Miṣrī (شمس الدين محمد بن أبي الفتح بن عيسى بن الصوفي المصري, fl. late 15th-early 16th century; see. f. 125v, lines 2-3). The tex...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: Ff. 118v-127r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7716, ff 128r-144v
Title:: Mir’āt al-ayyām wa-al-daraj مرآة الأيام والدرج Najm al-Dīn Muḥammad Ma‘rūf نجم الدين محمد معروف
Scope & Content:: Treatise by Najm al-Dīn Muḥammad Ma‘rūf (نجم الدين محمد معروف; fl. ca 1001/1592) describing and explaining the use of an instrument for making calendrical conversions, and calculating the beginnings of the months in the Islamic (عربي), Syro-Macedonian (رومي), Persian and Coptic calendars, includ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: Ff. 128r-144v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7733
Title:: al-Badr al-munīr fī ʿilm al-taʿbīr البدر المنير في علم التعبير Ibn Jaydān, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī ابن جيدان، عبد الله بن علي
Scope & Content:: Autograph copy of a manual on dream interpretation by Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Baṣrī al-Maṣrī (أبو محمد عبد الله بن علي بن عمر بن محمد بن علي البصري المصري), known as Ibn Jaydān (ابن جيدان, see colophon, ff. 260r, lines 7-9 and 260v, lines 5-6, transcri...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 2 Rabīʻ II 727
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+261+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7793
Title:: Nuzhat al-nāẓirīn fī al-akhbār wa-al-āthār al-marwīyah ʻan al-anbiyāʼ wa-al-ṣāliḥīn نزهة الناظرين في الأخبار والآثار المروية عن الأنبياء والصالحين Ibn al-Muná al-Bābī, ʻAbd al-Malik ibn ʻAlī ابن المنى البابي، عبد الملك بن علي
Scope & Content:: Encyclopaedia on ethics based on traditions of the pre-Islamic prophets by Taqī al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Abī al-Muná al-Bābī al-Ḥalabī al-Ḍarīr (تقي الدين عبد الملك بن أبي المنى البابي الحلبي الضرير, d. 1435), known as ʻUbayd (عبيد), imām, preacher (خطيب) and teacher at the Ummayad Mosque in A...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+266+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7978
Title:: Kawkab al-rawḍah كوكب الروضة Suyūṭī سيوطي
Scope & Content:: A compendium of history and description regarding the island of al-Rawḍah in Cairo, in prose and verse, completed in Jumādá II 895/April-May 1490 (see f. 203v, lines 5-6) by Jalāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Suyūṭī (جلال الدين عبد الرحمن بن أبي بكرالسيوطي, d. 1505). The present copy w...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 16 Muḥarram 1009
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+203+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8086
Title:: Three nautical handbooks
Scope & Content:: Three handbooks containing a mixture of tables, geographical coordinates, and short texts on astronomy, calculations, wayfinding, and instruments useful for navigation in the Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, and Red Sea, bound into one volume. The colophon to the second text provides th...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 2 Jumādá II 1287
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+104+iii+2+ii

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