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Name Aristotle, philosopher, 384 BC-322 BC

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 1376
Title:: Kitab-i İskendername - كتاب اسكندرنامه
Scope & Content:: This volume contains a copy of Ahmedi's İskendername or Alexandreide. Ahmedi, whose full name was, according to one of the copies in the British Library's holdings, Tacuddin Ahmet İbn-i İbrahim el-Ahmedi, is mentioned in the Şakaik (f 18r) and in the Tac'ut-tevarih (f 111r) as one of the Ulema o...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1252
Extent:: 1 text, 276 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2784
Title:: Kitāb na‘t al-ḥayawān كتاب نعت الحيوان
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+258+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5591, ff 3r-18r
Title:: al-Kitāb fīhi manāzil al-qamar wa-mā fīhā min al-ikhtīyārāt wa-al-aʻmāl wa-dhālika min qawl Hirmis al-ḥakīm wa-ghayrih الكتاب فيه منازل القمر وما فيها من الاختيارات والأعمال وذلك من قول هرمس الحكيم وغيره Aristotle أرسطاطاليس
Scope & Content:: Treatise on astral elections, or choosing propitious times to begin various actions, judging by the stations of the Moon. The treatise belongs to the genre of Islamicate occult scientific literature known as the pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica, which takes its name from the fact that it is made u...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 0867
Extent:: Ff. 3r-18r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5591, ff 68v-89r
Title:: Kitāb al-ḥukm ʻinda ṭulūʻ al-shiʻrá كتاب الحكم عند طلوع الشعرى Hermes هرمس
Scope & Content:: Handbook on making astrological judgments based on the rising of Sirius (الشعرى). As with the first item (ff. 3r-18r) in the present manuscript, this text belongs to the genre of Islamicate occult scientific literature known as the pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica, which takes its name from the f...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 0867
Extent:: Ff. 68v-89r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 12733
Title:: [Mecmua]
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the following texts : (I) ff 2v-3r : ᶜilm maᶜrifat khawāṣṣ al-Qur’ān (علم معرفة خواص القرآن), a tract in Arabic ; (II) ff 3v-5r : Risale-yi Şeyh Şihabeddin Suhreverdi ; (III) ff 5v-6r : Sultan Abdülkadir Gilani ... tilavet buyurduları salavat ; (IV) ff 6v-8r : Mürşid...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: Late 18th century
Extent:: 13 texts, 112 ff

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