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1. Or 9452

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9452
Title:
Medical compendium
Scope & Content:
Contains two medical treatises and a collection of ten extracts from poets and medical authors. (1) Hippocrates (أبقراط), al-Fuṣūl (الفصول) (ff 1v-32r); (2) Ibn Jazlah (ابن جزلة), Minhāj al-bayān (منهاج البيان) (ff 21v-62r); (3) Ten extracts on medical topics in verse and prose (ff 62r-64v). The...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
3 Ramaḍān 690
Extent:
Codex; ff v+64+ii

2. Or 9452, ff 62r-64v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9452, ff 62r-64v
Title:
Three short poems and seven medical extracts
Scope & Content:
The three short poems on f. 62r are not about medicine. The seven medical extracts are as follows: 1. Recipe for the medicine bakhtajūsh (بختجوش) made from grape juice (f. 62v) 2. Discussion of two bezoars (بادزهر), the ḥajar al-thīrān (حجر الثيران) and the ḥajar al-tays (حجر التيس) and their...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
3 Ramaḍān 690
Extent:
ff. 62r-64v

3. Or 9452, ff 1v-21r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9452, ff 1v-21r
Title:
فصول أبقراط Fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ
Scope & Content:
Translation of the Aphorisms of Hippocrates translated by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq in the mid to late AD 9th/3rd AH century. The text is divided into 7 maqālahs: Maqālah 1 (begins f. 1r); Maqālah 2 (f. 3v); Maqālah 3 (f. 6v); Maqālah 4 (f. 8v); Maqālah 5 (f. 13r); Maqālah 6 (f. 16v); Maqālah 7 (19r). T...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
3 Ramaḍān 690
Extent:
ff. 1v-21r

4. Or 9452, ff 21v-62r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9452, ff 21v-62r
Title:
Fuṣūl al-sittah فصول الستة Ibn Jazlah, Yaḥyá ibn ‘Īsá ابن جزلة، يحيى بن عيسى
Scope & Content:
Alphabetical handbook on pharmacology by Abū ‘Alī Yahyá ibn ‘Īsá (أبو علي يحيى ابن عيسى ), known as Ibn Jazlah (ابن جزلة; d. 493/1100). The full title is Minhāj al-bayān fī mā yast‘amaluhu al-insān (منهاج البيان فيما يستعمله الإنسان), but the title page (f. 1r) records the title as Fuṣūl al-sitt...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
3 Ramaḍān 690
Extent:
ff. 21v-62r