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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7514
Title:: Treatise on swordmanship, archery and other military skills [Dhikr al-ʿamal bi-al-sayf] [ذكر العمل بالسيف]
Scope & Content:: Anonymous compendium on military technologies and skills. The manuscript is defective at the beginning and the author's name is unknown. The assumed title 'On Using the Sword' (ذكر العمل بالسف) is taken from a heading on f. 1r. The copy was completed on 9 Rabī' I 739/24 September 1338 by an ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 9 Rabī' al-Awwal 739
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+65+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7515
Title:: Kitāb fī al-shaṭranj wa-manṣūbātihi wa-mulaḥih كتاب في الشطرنج ومنصوباته وملحه
Scope & Content:: Anonymous handbook on chess, dealing with its legality, origins, symbolism, classes of players, poetry in praise of chess, poetry to be recited at various stages of play, and chess techniques. The sections on techniques cover chess problems (منصوبات), openings (تعبيات) and puzzles (مخارق). For a...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 6 Jumādá II 655
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+132+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7527
Title:: Three treatises on natural philosophy and medicine
Scope & Content:: (1) Sākhīyūs al-Qass (ساخيوس القس), Tafsīr kitāb al-ʿilal (تفسير كتاب العلل; ff. 2v-170r); (2) Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا), Risālah fī tadbīr safar al-ḥajj (رسالة في تدبير سفر الحج; ff. 171v-185v); (3) Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا), Kitāb fī ʿilal al-shaʿr (كتاب في علل الشعر; ff. 186v-194r)....
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1097
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+194+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7527, ff 2v-170r
Title:: Tafsīr kitāb al-ʿilal تفسير كتاب العلل Sākhīyūs al-Qass ساخيوس القس
Scope & Content:: Compendium of natural philosophy attributed to the Greek Pythagorean sage Apollonius of Tyana (Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Τυανεύς, here transliterated بلينوس, fl. 1st century). The text is presented as a translation and commentary by a certain priest Sākhīyūs resident at Nablus (ساخيوس القس الذي منزل بنابلس; ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Rabī‘ II 1097
Extent:: Ff. 2v-170r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7527, ff 171v-185v
Title:: Risālah fī tadbīr safar al-ḥajj رسالة في تدبير سفر الحج Qusṭā ibn Lūqā قسطا بن لوقا
Scope & Content:: Treatise on hygiene and diet for pilgrims by Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا; ca 820-912) written for the vizier Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Makhlad ibn al-Jarrāḥ (أبو محمد الحسن بن مخلد بن الجراح, d. 882). The treatise is also known by the title Treatise on the Regimen of Bodies During Travel for Sa...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Jumādá I 1097
Extent:: Ff. 171v-185v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7527, ff 186v-194r
Title:: Kitāb fī ʿilal al-shaʿr كتاب في علل الشعر Qusṭā ibn Lūqā قسطا بن لوقا
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the causes of the growth, lack and diseases of hair by Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا; ca 820-912) written for the vizier Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Makhlad ibn al-Jarrāḥ (أبو محمد الحسن بن مخلد بن الجراح, d. 882). The treatise is divided into twelve chapters (باب), which are listed on...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1097
Extent:: Ff. 186v-194r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7914
Title:: Majmu'a / مجموعه
Scope & Content:: 1 (1v-22v): Baḥr al-hudā A didactic qaṣīda. By Shaybānī, i.e. Abū l-Fatḥ Muḥammad Shaybānī Khān. 2 (23v-49v): Tuḥfat al-salāṭīn Selected verses of Navā’ī. Compiled by ‘Abd al-Jamīl Kātib. 3 (50v-114r): Gul va Navrūz The romance of Princess Gul and Prince Navrūz, in verse. By Luṭfī. 4 (115v...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chagatai
Date Range:: 914
Extent:: Codex; 12 texts; 337 ff.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7966 B
Title:: Roll of expenses in wax and spices by the royal households
Scope & Content:: This roll contains a summary of the expenses in wax and spices incurred by the households of King Edward I of England (r. 1272-1307); Queen Margaret of France (b. c. 1279, d. 1318), his second wife; the Prince of Wales, the future Edward II (r. 1307-1327); and Thomas of Brotherton (b. 1300, d. 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 20 Nov 1300-19 Nov 1301
Extent:: 1 roll

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 8091
Title:: Gospel of St John with glosses
Scope & Content:: This early 12th-century manuscript contains the Gospel of John with marginal and interlinear Glossa ordinaria. The Gloss is a commentary on the Bible that was compiled under the auspices of the French theologian Anselm of Laon (d. 1117) in the late 11th or early 12th century. Since the size of t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 8873
Title:: Collectio Britannica
Scope & Content:: The only witness of a canonical collection commonly called the Collectio Britannica (The British Collection). This collection originated in France (perhaps in Chartres), and was a reworking of a previous collection. Historical excerpts contained in this manuscript suggest that the manuscript i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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