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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16414
Title:: Pseudo-Castor of Apt, Epistula ad Cassianum; John Cassian, De Institutis Coenobiorum; John Cassian, Collationes; John Cassian, De Incarnatione Domini Contra Nestorium
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-v: Pseudo-Castor of Apt, Epistula ad Cassianum (Epistle to Cassian). ff. 2r-47r: John Cassian, De Institutis Coenobiorum (Institues of the Monasteries), preceded by the prologue (ff. 2r-v). ff. 48r-193v: John Cassian, Collationes (Collations), preceded by a list of the colla...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16606
Title:: Gregorius the Great, Dialogi; Ephraim the Syrian, Sermons
Scope & Content:: This manuscript from the Benedictine abbey of Stavelot was written during the abbacy of Erlebald (1158-1192) or Gerard (1191-1210). The manuscript originally contained Gregory the Great’s Dialogi (Dialogues), a collection of sermons by Ephraim the Syrian (b. c. 306, d. 373), but a number of shor...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century - 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16624
Title:: Bhagavata Purana
Scope & Content:: Bhagavata Purana in Sanskrit copied on a roll (65 ft x 3 in) of burnished paper. The text in minute Devanagari writing is illustrated by miniatures depicting Hindu deities and scenes from the life of Krishna. This manuscript was probably made in Rajasthan in the 18th century.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16626
Title:: Vishnusahasranama
Scope & Content:: The Vishnusahasranama, the Thousand Names of Vishnu in Sanskrit, an extract from the Mahabharata. Copied in large Devanagari writing by a Kashmirian scribe, Pandit Motirama. The text, enclosed in frames painted in colour and gold, is accompanied by several elaborate miniatures depicting Hindu...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1812
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659
Title:: Compendium of philosophical and scientific texts by and about Avicenna (ابن سينا)
Scope & Content:: Collection of fifty-three short works on various philosophical and scientific topics by and about Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The colophon to text 6 states that the copy was completed in 1182/1768-...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+1+vii+584+vii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, f 560v
Title:: Sharḥ kalimāt al-shaykh al-raʼīs raḥimahu Allāh شرح كلمات الشيخ الرئيس رحمه الله Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Answers attributed to Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037) to questions on Islamic belief and unbelief posed by the sufi Abū Saʻīd ibn Abī al-Khayr al-Mayhanī (أبو سعيد بن أبي الخير الميهني, d. 1049).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: F. 560v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 4v-5r
Title:: Fihrist kutub al-shaykh al-raʾīs فهرست كتب الشيخ الرئيس Jūzjānī, ʻAbd al-Wāḥid جوزجاني، عبد الواحد
Scope & Content:: Bibliography of the works of Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037) by his student Abū ʻUbayd ʻAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Jūzjānī (أبو عبيد عبد الواحد بن محمد الجوزجاني) and completed by an unknown compiler.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 4v-5r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 5v-7v
Title:: al-Risālah fī aḥwālih الرسالة في أحواله Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Autobiography of Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037) completed after his death by his student Abū ʻUbayd ʻAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Jūzjānī (أبو عبيد عبد الواحد بن محمد الجوزجاني).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 5v-7v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 8v-13r
Title:: al-Risālah fī al-ʻishq الرسالة في العشق Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Treatise on love by Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 8v-13r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 13v-15v
Title:: Risālat Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān رسالة حي بن يقظان Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Philosophical allegory by Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 13v-15v

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