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1 Complete list of 125 Arabic scientific manuscripts digitised during the second phase of the British Library and Qatar Foundation Partnership © Bink Hallum, Arabic Scientific Manuscripts Curator, British Library Qatar Foundation Partnership Add MS 5931: al-ʿAynzarbī, al-Kāfī ṣinā‘at al-ṭibb and al-Qawṣūnī, Zād al-masīr ʿilāj al-bawāsīr. Dated 28 Ramaḍān 1087 (4 December 1676). Add MS 5932: al-Rāzī, al-Taqsīm wa-al-tashjīr and Ibn al-Labbān, Nihayat al-ikhtiṣār ‘ilm al-farā’iḍ. 13 th century. Add MS 6026: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī al-Qurashī, Kitāb al-ḥikmah fī al-ibb. 18 th century. Add MS 7469: Ibn al-Majdī, Ḥāwī al-lubāb wa-shartalkhīṣ aʿmāl al-ḥisāb. Dated 17 Rabīʿ II 840 (29 October 1436). Add MS 7470: al-Kāshī, Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb. Dated 2 Shawwāl 997 (14 August 1589), and copied by the hand of the author’s great-great-grandson. Colophon of a copy of Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd ibn Maḥmūd al-Kāshī’s Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb in which it is claimed that the scribe was the great-great-great-grandson of the author (Add. MS 7470, f. 110r)

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Complete list of 125 Arabic scientific manuscripts digitised during

the second phase of the British Library and Qatar Foundation

Partnership © Bink Hallum, Arabic Scientific Manuscripts Curator, British Library Qatar Foundation Partnership

Add MS 5931: al-ʿAynzarbī, al-Kāfī fī ṣinā‘at al-ṭibb and al-Qawṣūnī, Zād al-masīr fī

ʿilāj al-bawāsīr. Dated 28 Ramaḍān 1087 (4 December 1676).

Add MS 5932: al-Rāzī, al-Taqsīm wa-al-tashjīr and Ibn al-Labbān, Nihayat al-ikhtiṣār

fī ‘ilm al-farā’iḍ. 13th century.

Add MS 6026: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī al-Qurashī, Kitāb al-ḥikmah fī al-ṭibb. 18th century.

Add MS 7469: Ibn al-Majdī, Ḥāwī al-lubāb wa-sharḥ talkhīṣ aʿmāl al-ḥisāb. Dated 17

Rabīʿ II 840 (29 October 1436).

Add MS 7470: al-Kāshī, Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb. Dated 2 Shawwāl 997 (14 August 1589),

and copied by the hand of the author’s great-great-grandson.

Colophon of a copy of Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd ibn Maḥmūd al-Kāshī’s Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb

in which it is claimed that the scribe was the great-great-great-grandson of the

author (Add. MS 7470, f. 110r)

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Add MS 7471: Qāḍīʹzādah, Sharḥ ashkāl al-taʾsīs and an anonymous commentary

on al-Urmawī's treatise on music theory Kitāb al-adwār. Dated 8 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1104

(11 August 1693).

Add MS 7472: al-Nīsābūrī, Tawḍīḥ al-Tadhkirah al-Nāṣirīyah. Dated 20 Jumādá II

1062 (May 29 1652).

Add MS 7477: Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, al-Tuḥfah al-shāhīyah fī al-hayʾah. 13th or 14th

century.

Add MS 7484: al-Maḥbūbī, Kitāb al-taʿdīl fī al-hayʾah. Dated Bukhārā, Rajab 823

(July 1420).

Add MS 7489: ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Muḥammad Sharīf al-Sharīf, Maqṣad al-ṭālib wa-

muntahá al-maṭālib. Dated Baghdad, 1 Rabīʿ I 1165 (18 January 1752).

Add MS 7515: Kitāb fī al-shaṭranj wa-manṣūbātihi wa-mulaḥih, copy of a treatise on

chess by and unknown author that was once in the library of the Ottoman sultan

Bāyezīd II (reg. 1481-1512). Dated 6 Jumādá II 655 (21 June 1257).

Title page of the Kitāb fī al-shaṭranj wa-manṣūbātihi wa-mulaḥih on which the seal

of the Ottoman sultan Bāyezīd II (reg. 1481-1512) can be seen in the lower left

corner (Add. MS 7515, f. 1r)

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Add MS 7527: Three treatises on natural philosophy and medicine: Sākhīyūs al-

Qass, Tafsīr kitāb al-ʿilal (more commonly known as: Sirr al-khalīqah); Qusṭā ibn

Lūqā, Risālah fī tadbīr safar al-ḥajj; and Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, Kitāb fī ʿilal al-shaʿr. Dated

Jumādá I 1097 (March-April 1686)

Add MS 9604: ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Dādasī, Itḥāf dhawī al-albāb fī sharḥ Bidāyat

al-ṭullāb. Dated 16 Ramaḍān 1057 (15 October 1647).

Add MS 14056: Three Mamluk treatises on horsemanship. Dated 2 Dhū al-Qaʿdah

870 (15 June 1466).

Add MS 15480: al-Jurjānī and al-Zamzamī, Two mathematical treatises. Dated 25

Shuwwāl 1177 (27 April 1764).

Add MS 19547: al-Nābulusī, al-Sulḥ bayna al-ikhwān fī ḥukm ibāḥat al-dukhān,

reatise in defence of tobacco smoking on medical and legal grounds. Dated

Muḥarram 1161 (January-February 1748).

Add MS 21102: al-Marwazī, Ṭabāʾiʿ al-ḥayawān, a treatise on zoology in five

chapters. 13th century.

Add MS 21952: Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr kitāb uṣūl al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb, al-

Ṭūsī’s edition of the Arabic version of Euclid’s Elements. Dated Isfahan, Dhū al-

Ḥijjah 1048 (April 1639).

Add MS 22371: Ibn Waḥshiyah, al-Thānī min Kitāb al-Filāḥah, Volume Two of the

Nabataean Agriculture. Dated Ṣafar 389 (January-February 999), but appears to

have been created in the 13th century.

Add MS 23379: Suhrāb, ʿAjāʾib al-aqālīm al-sabʿah, a treatise on mathematical

geography for cartographers. Dated 15 Rabīʿ I 709 (23 August 1309).

Add MS 23392: Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr kitāb al-Majisṭī, al-Ṭūsī’s edition of the

Arabic version of Ptolemy’s Almagest. Dated Qazvin, Muḥarram 955 (February-

March 1548).

Add MS 23394: al-Ṭūsī, Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hayʾah and al-Kharaqī, al-Tabṣirah fī

ʿilm al-hayʾah, two works on mathematical astronomy. Dated 1107/1695-96.

Add MS 23398: al-Jurjānī, Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah and al-Jaghmīnī, al-

Mulakhkhaṣ fī ʿilm al-hayʾah al-basīṭah, two works on mathematical astronomy. 15th

century.

Add MS 23417: al-Asadī, al-Jamharah fī ʿilm al-bayzarah, a manual on hunting with

falcons, dogs and other animals. 17th century.

Add MS 23494: al-Mawṣilī, al-Durr al-naqī fī fann al-mūsīqī, treatise on music theory

relating the musical modes to the Prophets, signs of the zodiac, hours of the day,

etc. 19th century.

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Diagram from al-Mawṣilī’s al-Durr al-naqī fī fann al-mūsīqī showing the interrelations

between the musical modes, the letters of the alphabet, the four elements, the days

of the week, the hours of the day, the celestial spheres and the signs of the zodiac

(Add. MS 23494, f. 6r)

Add MS 23569: Five treatises on astronomy and mathematics in Persian and Arabic.

Dated 29 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1057 (26 December 1647).

Add MS 23604: Ibn Waḥshiyah, Kitāb sumūm wa-tiryāqāt, treatise on poisons,

theriacs and other antidotes. Dated 25 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 919 (21 February 1514) by

Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Shaykh ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad al-Nīmidihī, author of a

Persian Qurʾānic tafsīr (exegesis) called the Risālat al-anvār fī maʿdan al-asrār yā

tafsīr-i āyah-ʾi Nūr.

Add MS 25087: Ibn Jumayʿ, al-Irshād li-maṣāliḥ al-anfus wa-al-ajsād, a

comprehensive treatise on medicine by Saladin’s personal physician. Dated 8 Rajab

951 (25 September 1544).

Arundel Or 14: Part Eight, Nine and Ten of Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī, al-Ḥāwī

fī al-ṭibb. Two manuscripts bound in one volume: late 13th-early 14th century and 15th

century.

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Delhi Arabic 110: Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, Nukhbat al-fikr fī muṣṭalaḥ ahl al-athar and

anonymouns, Dīwān al-ʿadad al-wafq. Two manuscripts bound in one volume: 18th

century and 15th-16th century.

Magic square (wafq) of 28 x 28 cells from the Dīwān al-ʿadad al-wafq (Delhi Arabic

110, ff. 108v-109r)

Delhi Arabic 1713: ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Hubal, al-Mukhtār fī al-ṭibb. Dated Tabriz Dhū

al-Ḥijja 683 (February 1285).

Delhi Arabic 1896: Jawād ibn Saʿd al-Kāẓimī, Sharḥ Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb, a

commentary on the Summa of Arithmetic (Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb) by al-Kāẓimī’s teacher

Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-ʿĀmilī. 18th century.

Delhi Arabic 1897: Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Khuzāʿī, Two treatises on algebra and

inheritance calculations and an excerpt on magic squares. Dated 30 Rabīʿ II 1036

(18 January 1627).

Delhi Arabic 1898: Anonymous, Sharḥ al-Mūjaz al-musammá ḥisāban yasīran,

commentary on a treatise on arithmetic by Aḥmad ibn Masʿūd al-Ḥusaynī al-

Hargāmī. 18th century.

Delhi Arabic 1901: Ibn al-Hāʾim, al-Durr al-thamīn fī sharḥ urjūzat Ibn al-Yāsamīn,

commentary on Ibn al-Yāsamīn’s didactic poem on algebra. Dated 5 Shaʿbān 887

(19 September 1482).

Delhi Arabic 1902: Composite volume containing four treatises on mathematics:

Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Nīsābūrī, al-Risālah al-Shamsīyah fī al-

uṣūl al-ḥisābīyah (x2); anonymous, Tadhnīb; and anonymous, Risālah muntakhabah

min al-risālah al-mawsūmah bi-al-bahāʾīyah fī ‘ilm al-ḥisāb. 17th-18th centuries.

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Delhi Arabic 1909: Five geometrical texts related to Euclid's Elements: Naṣīr al-Dīn

al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr uṣūl al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb; three short texts; al-Jawharī, Ziyādāt fī

al-maqālah al-khāmisah min kitāb Uqlīdis. Dated 5 Jumādá II 1214 (4 November

1799).

Delhi Arabic 1916: al-Qaṣrānī, Kitāb al-masāʾil. Two codices, volumes one and two

from two separate Mamluk copies of this work on astrological interrogations. Volume

one dated Shawwāl 768 (May- June 1367), Volume two dated Rajab 640 (January

1243)

Title page of al-Qaṣrānī’s Kitāb al-masāʾil dated 768/1367, with patron statement of

the Mamluk amir Sayf al-Dīn Asandamur al-Nāṣirī (d. 769/1368) (Delhi Arabic 1916,

vol. 1, f. 1r)

Delhi Arabic 1919: Folios from four manuscripts on scientific subjects: Abū al-

Barakāt al-Baghdādī, Risālah fī sabab ẓuhūr al-kawākib laylan wa-khafāʾihā

nahāran; al-Ṭūsī, Treatise on heat; and al-‘Āmilī, Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb. 17th-19th

centuries.

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Delhi Arabic 1925: Composite manuscript containing two treatises on the sizes and

distances of the celestial bodies: al-Kāshī, Sullam al-samāʾ, dated Delhi 19

Muḥarram 1130 (December 23 1717); and al-Dashtakī, Safīr al-ghabrāʾ wa-al-

khaḍrā, 17th century.

Delhi Arabic 1927: Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Khayr Allāh Riyāḍī Muhandis, Sullam al-idrāk

fī hayʾat al-aflāk. Dated 25 Jumādá I 1185 (5 September 1771).

Delhi Arabic 1928: ʿIṣmat Allāh ibn Aʿẓam al-Sahāranfūrī, Sharḥ tashrīḥ al-aflāk and

Ḥusayn al-Landanī, al-Ijābah ʿalá taʿlīq al-Jawnbūrī. Dated Dhū al-Qa‘dah 1245

(April 1830).

Beginning of a treatise on European astronomical and scientific theories by Mīr

Muḥammad Ḥusayn (d. 1790), known as Landanī (‘the Londoner’) owing to his travel

to England and Europe during 1774-7 (Delhi Arabic 1928, f. 130v)

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Delhi Arabic 1930: Muḥammad Rashīd al-Dīn, Sharḥ tashrīḥ al-aflāk. 18th or 19th

century.

Delhi Arabic 1934: al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Nīsābūrī, Tawḍīḥ al-Tadhkirah al-

Nāṣirīyah. Dated Rabīʿ II 827 (March-April 1424).

Delhi Arabic 1937B: Four texts on astronomy: Imām al-Dīn ibn Luṭf Allāh al-

Muhandis al-Lahūrī, al-Taṣrīḥ fī sharḥ al-tashrīḥ; Ḥusayn al-Landanī, al-Ijābah ʿalá ta

ʿ līq al-Jawnbūrī; anonymous, Tarjamah-ʾi Sabʿ shidād; Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Risālah

fī kayfīyat al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb. 19th century.

Delhi Arabic 1949: al-Marwazī, Ṭabāʾiʿ al-ḥayawān. 12th century.

Beginning of ‘Maqālah two: On Domesticated, Wild and Predatory Quadrupeds’ from

a copy of al-Marwazī, Ṭabāʾiʿ al-ḥayawān produced in the 12th century (Delhi Arabic

1949, f. 66v)

IO Bijapur 442: Yaḥyā ibn Abī Bakr ibn Yaḥyá al-ʿĀmirī, al-Tuḥfah al-jāmiʿah li-

mufradāt al-ṭibb al-nāfiʿah. Dated 21 Shawwāl 1058 (8 November 1648).

IO Islamic 461: Seven treatises on mathematics, astronomy and statics. Dated 14

Shawwāl 1198 (31 August 1784).

IO Islamic 681: al-Birjandī, Sharḥ al-majisṭī. 17th century.

IO Islamic 854: Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, al-Tuḥfah al-saʿdīyah. 17th or 18th century.

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IO Islamic 1039: Anonymous treatise on mathematics and al-Kāshī, Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb.

Dated Ajmer, 10 Rabīʿ I 1041 (7 October 1631).

IO Islamic 1142: Ibn al-Bayṭār, Jāmiʿ li-mufradāt al-adwiyah wa-al-aghdiyah. Dated

29 Shaʿbān 925/26 August 1519.

IO Islamic 1210: al-Kāshī, Talkhīṣ al-miftāḥ. 17th or 18th century.

IO Islamic 1296: Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭabarī, al-Muʿālajah al-Buqrāṭīyah. Dated

Delhi, 3 Shaʿbān 1117 (20 November 1705).

IO Islamic 1308: al-Badakhshī, Kitāb al-maqāyīs. Dated Shawwāl 1109 (April-May

1698).

Bio-bibliographical note in the rough draft of an Arabic translation of Gnomonices libri

octo by Christophorus Clavius (d. 1537 or 38). The translation is by Rustam Beg al-

Ḥārithī al-Badakhshī ibn Qubād Beg (d. 1705) and the note is by his son, Mīrzā

Muḥammad (IO Islamic 1308, f. 1v)

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IO Islamic 1362: Three treatises on mathematics: Anonymous treatise on

multiplication; al-‘Āmilī, Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb; Luṭf Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Muhandis al-

Lahūrī, Sharḥ Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb. 18th century.

IO Islamic 1490: Anonymous, Sharḥ ʿalá al-urjūzah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī ʿilm al-jabr.

Dated 21 Muḥarram 1081 (12 June 1670).

IO Islamic 1715: al-Khafrī, al-Takmilah fī sharḥ al-Tadhkirah. 18th century.

IO Islamic 3810: Saʿīd ibn Hibat Allāh, al-Mughnī fī tadbīr al-amrāḍ wa-maʿrifat al-ʿilal

wa-al-aʿrāḍ. Dated Baghdad 19 Jumādá II 567 (16 February 1172).

Colophon of a copy of Saʿīd ibn Hibat Allāh’s al-Mughnī fī tadbīr al-amrāḍ wa-maʿrifat

al-ʿilal wa-al-aʿrāḍ produced at Baghdad 1172 (IO Islamic 3810, f. 105r)

IO Islamic 4608: Anonymous, Kitāb al-ʿamalīyāt al-jarrāḥīyah. 19th century.

Or 10881: al-Nīlī, Talkhīṣ tafsīr Jālīnūs fī fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ. 14th century.

Or 10885: al-Damīrī, Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-wusṭá. Dated 10 Shawwāl 821 (10

November 1418).

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Or 10975: Suhrāb, ʿAjāʾib al-aqālīm al-sabʿah. Dated Baghdad 23 Ramaḍān 711 (2

February 1312).

Or 11211: Ibn Sallūm, Ghāyat al-itqān fī tadbīr badan al-insān. 18th century.

Or 11314: Ibn al-Ṭāwūs, al-Amān min akhṭār al-asfār wa-al-azmān. Dated 28 Dhū al-

Ḥijjah 1092 (9 January 1682).

Or 11613: Ibn Abī Ṣādiq, Sharḥ masāʾil fī al-ṭibb. 14th century.

Or 11614: Ibn Samajūn, al-Jāmiʿ fī al-adwiyah al-mufradah. 13th century.

Or 11615: Ibn Abī al-Ashʿath, Quwá al-adwiyah al-mufradah. 13th century.

Or 11857: al-Tankābunī, Qānūn al-idrāk fī tashrīḥ al-aflāk. Dated 8 Rajab 1033/26

April 1624.

Or 12151: Shāhīn ibn Jirjis, Kitāb al-Mufradāt. 18th century.

Or 13060: al-Birjandī, Sharḥ al-Tadhkirah. Dated Qom, 30 Shaʿbān 1097 (22 July

1686).

Or 13383: Najm al-Dīn Maḥmūd al-Shīrāzi, al-Ḥāwī fī ʿilm al-tadāwī. Dated Shawwāl

731 (July 1331).

Illuminated opening in a copy of Najm al-Dīn al-Shīrāzi’s al-Ḥāwī fī ʿilm al-tadāwī

produced in 731/1331, one year after the death of the author (Or. 13383, f, 2v-3r)

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Or 1348: Ibn al-Quff, Kitāb al-uṣūl fī sharḥ al-Fuṣūl. Dated 6 Shawwāl 787 (10

November 1385).

Or 14154: Two commentaries and a supercommentary on works of Avicenna: al-

Kāzarūnī, al-Mughnī fī sharḥ al-mūjiz; Aḥmad ibn Balkū al-Āwī, Sharḥ qaṣīdah fī al-

nafs; Ibn al-Nafīs, Sharḥ tashrīḥ al-qānūn. Dated Herat, 15 Shaʿbān 842 (31 January

1439).

Or 14273: Riḍwān Efendi al-Razzāz, al-Zīj [al-mufīd] ʿalá uṣūl al-raṣd al-jadīd. Dated

Egypt (Cairo?), 1172 (1758-9).

Or 1514: al-Kūbanānī, Ilḥāq Abī Isḥāq. Dated 887 (1482).

Or 15639: al-Waṭwāṭ, al-Qānūn al-wāḍiḥ fī ʿilm al-bayzarah. 19th century.

Or 1621: Tarjumah-ʾi ʿAjā’ib al-makhlūqāt (Persian translation of al-Qazwīnī, ʿAjāʾib

al-makhlūqāt). Dated 954 (1547).

Depiction of the waqwāq tree from a Persian translation of al-Qazwīnī’s ʿAjāʾib al-

makhlūqāt produced for Ibrāhīm ʻĀdil Shāh, ruler of Bijapur, in 954/1547, and

containing 461 mid-seventeenth-century Deccani paintings and diagrams (Or. 1621,

f. 131v)

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Or 2408: Ibn al-Bayṭār, Kitāb al-mughnī fī al-adwiyah al-mufradah (volume 1).

Previous owned by the Ottoman sultan Bāyezīd II (reg. 1481-1512). Dated Jumādá I

851 (July 1447).

Or 2411: Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Ḥāwī al-mukhtaṣarāt fī al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-muqanṭarāt. 17th

century. And a quadrant (astrolabe quadrant and sine quadrant). Signed by its maker

and dated 1256/1840-1.

Astrolabe quadrant produced in 1256/1840-1 and signed by its maker, Aḥmad ibn

Ibrāhīm al-Sharbatlī (Or. 2411/2, Side A)

Or 2805: al-Qalānisī, Qarābādhīn (also known as Aqrābādhīn) and Ibn Hubal, al-

Mukhtār fī al-ṭibb. Two manuscripts bound in one volume: dated Jumādá II 988/July

1580 and Ardabīl, Ramadan 976/February 1569.

Or 3343: Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna), Qānūn fī al-ṭibb, kitāb III, fanns 16-22. Dated Jumādá

II 525/May 1131.

Or 3624: Abū al-ʿUqūl, al-Zīj al-mukhtār min al-azyāj. Dated Shawwāl 1007/May

1599.

Or 3654: al-Āmulī, Sharḥ kullīyāt al-qānūn. Dated Ṣafar 754/March 1353.

Or 3690: Ibn al-Quff, Jāmiʿ al-gharaḍ fī ḥifẓ al-ṣiḥḥah wa-dafʿ al-maraḍ. 13th or 14th

century.

Or 3738: al-Malik al-Ashraf ʿUmar (II), Kitāb al-muʿtamad fī al-adwiyah al-mufradah.

15th century.

Or 4041: Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, Kitāb al-khawāṣṣ al-kabīr. 14th century.

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Or 4946: Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna), al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. 13th century.

Or 5479: Four treatises on astrolabes and a bibliography of the works of Abū Bakr

Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī. 13th century.

Or 5618: al-Kutubī, Kitāb mā lā yasaʿ al-ṭabīb jahluhu. 15th century.

Or 5619: Four medical works by Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī. Dated Tabrīz,

703/1304.

Or 5620: Three treatises on medicine. 17th century.

Or 5687: Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, al-Asbāb wa-al-ʿalāmāt. Dated Cairo, Rajab

668/February-March 1270.

Or 5820: Ibn Abī Ṣādiq, Sharḥ Fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ and Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna), al-Kitāb fī

dafʿ al-maḍarr al-kullīyah li-l-abdān al-insānīyah. Dated Burhanpur, Ramaḍān

1094/August 1683.

Or 5831: al-Marrākushī, Jāmiʿ al-mabādiʾ wa-al-ghāyāt fī ʿilm al-mīqāt and Ibn al-

Haytham (Alhazen), Maqālah fī ṣūrat al-kusūf. Dated Ṣafar 1074/September 1663.

Or 5839: Ibn al-Bayṭār, Jāmiʿ li-mufradāt al-adwiyah wa-al-aghdiyah, part 3 (of 4).

Dated Jumādá I 702/January 1303.

Or 5860: al-Isfarāyīnī, Taqwīm al-adwīyah and a treatise on drugs by Taqī al-Dīn

Muḥammad ibn Ṣadr al-Dīn ʿAlī. Two manuscripts bound in one volume: first

manuscript dated Rabīʿ II 1043/October 1633 and second 19th century.

Illuminated opening of the Taqwīm al-adwīyah by Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī al-Isfarāyīnī,

copied in Rabīʿ II 1043/October 1633 (Or. 5860, f. 3v-4r)

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Or 5914: Ibn al-Nafīs, Sharḥ al-fuṣūl li-Buqrāṭ. 14th century.

Or 5916: al-Kaḥḥāl, Tadhkirat al-kaḥḥālīn. Dated Sāveh (Iran), Dhū al-Qaʿdah

894/September 1489.

Or 5927: Four treatises on pharmacopoeia, cookery and craft techniques. 15th or 16th

century.

Or 5931: al-Aqsarāʾī, Ḥall al-mūjiz. Dated Rabīʿ II 961/March-April 1554.

Or 5939: al-Kīlānī, Sharḥ Fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ. 15th century.

Or 6247: al-ʿAṭūfī al-Marzīfūnī, Rawḍ al-insān fī aḥwāl al-rūḥ wa-al-abdān. 17th

century.

Or 6280: Three texts on mathematics and astronomy. Dated 1114/1702-3.

Or 6386: Ibn Abī Ṣādiq, Sharḥ Fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ. 14th century.

Or 6419: Ibn al-Nafīs, Sharḥ Fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ. Dated Ramaḍān 724/16 September

1324.

Or 6489: al-Masīḥī, Kitāb al-miʾah fī al-ṣināʿah al-ṭibbīyah. Late 17th century.

Or 6491: al-Kāzarūnī, al-Mughnī fī sharḥ al-Mūjiz, fanns 1-2. Dated Ramaḍān

764/June 1363.

Or 6537: Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna), al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb, fans 14-22. Dated Muḥarram

664/October 1265.

Or 6623: al-Qumrī, al-Ghiná wa-al-muná. Dated Jazīrat Dār al-Fatḥ, Rabī‘ II

678/August 1279.

Or 6669: al-Khāzinī, al-Zīj al-muʿtabir al-sanjarī. Dated Jumādá II 620/July 1223.

Table showing the names, titles and chronologies of Saljuq sultans from al-Khāzinī’s

al-Zīj al-muʿtabir al-Sanjarī (Or. 6669, f. 77v)

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Or 6690: Ibn Abī Ṣādiq, Sharḥ Masāʾil fī al-ṭibb. 13th century.

Or 6905: Ibn Sallūm, Ghāyat al-itqān fī tadbīr badan al-insān and Kitāb al-ṭibb al-

jadīd al-kīmāwī. Dated Dayr al-Qamar (Lebanon), 1229/1814.

Or 7716: Three treatises on astrology, astronomy and time-keeping. 17th century.

Or 8122: Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, Sharḥ kullīyāt al-Qānūn. Dated Shawwāl 715/25

January 1316.

Or 8187: Kitāb al-bayzarah. Dated Jumādá II 1201/April 1787.

Or 8294: Ibn al-Tilmīdh, Quwá al-adwiyah. Dated Baghdad, Shawwāl 654/

November 1256.

Or 8296: al-Tiflīsī, Taḥṣīl al-ṣiḥḥah bi-al-asbāb al-sittah. 13th or 14th century.

Or 8415: Four treatises on astronomy. Dated Dhū al-Qa‘dah 1226/December 1811

and Jumādá I 1227/May 1812.

Or 8416: Three treatises on arithmetic. Dated Rabīʿ I 1023/April 1614.

Or 8874: Dāwūd al-Anṭākī, al-Nuzhah al-mubhijah fī tashḥīdh al-adhhān wa-taʿdīl al-

amzijah and notes on therapeutics by al-Sīwī. 19th century.

Or 9008: al-Jurjānī, Zubdat al-ṭibb. 14th century.

Or 9116: al-Kawāshī, Taysīr al-maṭālib fī tasyīr al-kawākib. 14th century.

Or 9128: Ibn Zuhr, Kitāb al-taysīr fī al-mudāwāt wa-al-tadbīr. 14th century.

Or 9227: al-Sakhāwī, ʿUmdat al-muḥtajj fī ḥukm al-shaṭranj. 15th century.

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