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Volume one of an anonymous treatise on medicine written after Ibn Sīnā's (ابن سينا, d. 1037) Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطب), which it cites frequently along with writings from the corpus attributed to Hippocrates (أبقراط, d. ca 370 BC), especially the Aphorisms (الفصول). The manuscript is ...
Zubdat al-ṭibb زبدة الطب Jurjānī, Ismāʿīl ibn Ḥasan جرجاني، إسماعيل بن حسن
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Medical compendium by Zayn al-Dīn Abū Ibrāhīm Ismā‘īl ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī (زين الدين أبو إبراهيم إسماعيل بن محمد الحسيني الجرجاني, d. 1136). He is also known as Ismā‘īl ibn al-Ḥasan (إسماعيل بن الحسن) or ibn al-Ḥusayn (بن الحسين). The work is dedicated to the Khwārizm Shāh ‘Alā’ a...
Comprehensive treatise on the science of prognostication through astrological interrogations. The manuscript does not state the text's author and the title has been derived from the preface (f. 3v, line 17). Confusion regarding the identity of the text and its author is expressed by a note dated...
Anonymous treatise on horsemanship and the arts of the lance
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Unique copy, defective at beginning and end, of a treatise on instruction in horsemanship, written by an anonymous master of the royal barracks for his fellow teachers of trainee mamluks, around the late fourteenth century. The text contains numerous sections (bābs) on horse-riding, burjās exer...
al-Tadbīrāt al-sulṭānīyah fī siyāsat al-ṣināʿah al-ḥarbīyah التدبيرات السلطانية في سياسة الصناعة الحربية Ibn Manjlī, Muḥammad ابن منجلي، محمد
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A treatise on the management of armies and preparation for warfare, by Muḥammad Ibn Manjlī (or Mankalī or Manglī) al-Nāṣirī (محمد ابن منكلي, fl. 1362-76, see ff. 45r, line 6 and 58r, line 1). The author was a high-ranking officer in the guard of Sultan al-Malik al-Ashraf Shaʿbān (reg. 764–78/1...
Kashf al-ẓunūn ʿan asāmī al-kutub wa-al-funūn كشف الظنون عن أسامي الكتب والفنون Kâtip Çelebi كاتب چلبي
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Bibliographical encyclopaedia by the Ottoman scholar Muṣṭafá ibn ʿAbd Allāh (مصطفى بن عبد الله, d.1067/1657), also known as Kâtip Çelebi (كاتب چلبي) and Ḥājjī Khalīfah (حاجي خليفة). The work begins with an introductory section dealing with the classification of the science (ff. 1v-29v), followed...
al-Badr al-munīr fī ʿilm al-taʿbīr wa sharḥuh البدر المنير في علم التعبير وشرحه Ibn Niʿmah, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ابن نعمة، أحمد بن عبد الرحمن
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A manual on dream interpretation and a commentary on it added to the margin, both by Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Maqdisī (شهاب الدين أبو العباس أحمد بن عبد الرحمن المقدسي, d. 1297 or 1298 [697 AH]), also known as Ibn Surūr (ابن سرور) and Ibn Niʿmah (ابن نعمة). The p...
Taysīr al-maṭālib fī tasyīr al-kawākib تيسير المطالب في تسيير الكواكب Kawāshī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr كواشي، محمد بن أبي بكر
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Astronomical handbook (زيج) by the Yemenī astronomer Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Kawāshī (محمد بن أبي بكر الكواشي, fl. 13th century, see King, Mathematical Astronomy in Medieval Yemen [1982], p. 27). The text is dedicated to the Rasūlid ruler of Yemen al-Malik al-Muẓaffar Yūsuf (I) ibn ‘Umar (الملك...
Kitāb al-taysīr fī al-mudāwāt wa-al-tadbīr كتاب التيسير في المداواة والتدبير Ibn Zuhr, ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Abī al-ʻAlāʼ ابن زهر، عبد الملك بن أبي العلاء
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Medical compendium on drug therapy, dietetics and pharmacopoeia by the Andalusian physician Abū Marwān ‘Abd al-Malik ibn Abī al-‘Alā’ Zuhr (أبو مروان عبد الملك بن أبي العلاء زهر, d. 1162), known as Ibn Zuhr (ابن زهر), Latinised as Avenzoar. The text is divided into three sections (أجزاء) or bo...
Alexandrian Summaries of three medical treatises by Galen
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The second volume of a set of the treatises of the Greco-Roman physician Galen of Pergamon (جالينوس ; d. ca 216) as summaries for the late-Antique medical schools of Alexandria, the so-called Alexandrian Summaries (جوامع الإسكندرانيين). These summaries were translated by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (حنين ب...
