Manuscript Library
Manuscript Library is a comprehensive meta-catalog bringing together historical manuscripts, periodicals, and archives in Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, and Persian.
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Goodness is sacred His secret to Sheikh Ibn Sina about the meaning of the visit and how it affected Avicenna Ibn Sina
the sufi Abū Saʻīd ibn Abī al-Khayr al-Mayhanī
Arabic
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Emanations of Musk from Beiruti Verse
the prolific Lebanese poet Shaykh Ibrāhīm al-Aḥdab. The author was first and foremost a traditionalist in his literary as well as his legal career. The poems are of various rhyme schemes and meters and display mastery of classical prosody. They are primarily madh
Arabic
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The Pillar Regarding Creation and Critique of Poetry
Muhammad Badr al-Din al-Na’sani al-Halabi. Publication of the work was financed by Muhammad Kamal al-Na’sani and Muhammad ‘Abd al-‘Aziz. It was printed at al-Sa’adah Press in Cairo and distributed from the al-Khanji bookstore. These individuals and organizations were all part of the well-developed printing and publishing trade in early-20th century Cairo. The same editing and publishing team cooperated to bring other classical literary works into print. A biography of Ibn Rashīq
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'A Tour to Sheeraz by the Route of Kazroon amd Feerozabad with various Remarks on the Manners, Customs, Laws, Language and Literature of the Persians to which is added A History of Persia from the Death of Kureem Khan to the Subversion of the Zund Dynasty'
the Route of Kazroon amd Feerozabad with various Remarks on the Manners
English
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Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah The book of the ticket in the body Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Tusi, Nasir al-Din Muhammad bin Muhammad and al-Tabṣirah fī ʿilm al-hayʾah Insight into the knowledge of the body Kharaqī, ʻAbd al-Jabbār ibn ʻAbd al-Jabbār Kharqi, Abdul-Jabbar bin Abdul-Jabbar
Muhammad Ridā ibn ‘Aziz Allah al-Tunī
Arabic
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'Relation of the journeys made by the Arabs and Persians in India and China in the 9th century of the Christian era. : Arabic text printed in 1811 by the late Langlès, pub. with corrections and additions and accompanied by a French translation and clarifications by M Reinaud'
a merchant named Sulaimān
English
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Excerpts from the Kitāb al-madkhal fī ʻilm al-nujūm (Introduction to Astrology) Balkhī, Nūr al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad Balkhī, Nour al-Din Abu al-Qasim Ali bin Ahmad
Nūr al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Balkhī
Arabic
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Maqālah fī al-marāyā al-muḥriqah bil-quṭū‘ An article on mirrors burned with cuts Alhazen Ibn al-Haytham
Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham
Arabic
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www.qdl.qa
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Tafsīr kitāb al-ʿilal Interpretation of the Book of Ilal Sākhīyūs al-Qass Sākhīs the Priest
a certain priest Sākhīyūs resident at Nablus
Arabic
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al-Amān min akhṭār al-asfār wa-al-azmān Safety from the dangers of travel and time Ibn Ṭāwūs, ‘Alī ibn Mūsá Ibn Tawoos, Ali ibn Musa
Raḍī al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim ‘Alī ibn Mūsá ibn ibn Ja‘far ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭāwūs al-‘Alawī al-Fāṭimī
Arabic
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Maqālat Khalq al-Insān Article on the Creation of Man Saʿīd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn Sa`id ibn Hibat Allah ibn al-Husayn
Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn
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The Lesser Compilation of Hadiths of the Consecrated Messenger
the Egyptian polymath Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti
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Aqrābādhīn madīnat al-salam Ibn al-Tilmīdh, Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣā‘id Ibn al-Talib, Hibat Allah ibn Sa’id and other pharmaceutical texts
‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib ibn ‘Alī ibn’ Alī ibn ‘Alī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥalabī
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Āthār al-bilād wa-akhbār al-ʿibād athar al-bilad Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad
واخبار العباد قزوینی, زكریا بن محمد
Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Qazwīnī
Arabic
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Students' Guide
the honorific Shaykh al-Islam. Manhaj al-Ṭullāb
Arabic
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www.qdl.qa
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Kitāb fī ‘ilm al-bayṭarah A book on veterinary science
Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn ibn al-Majlis al-‘Ālī al-Sayfī Burdbak al-Muḥammadī Ra’s Nawbat al-Nuwab al-Ẓāhirī
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Kitāb Jālīnūs fī aṣnāf al-ḥummayyāt Galen’s book on the types of fevers Galen (Jālīnūs) Galen
Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī
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Kitāb al-sīrah al-falsafīyah Book of Philosophical Biography Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā Rāzī, Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya
the physician and philosopher Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī
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Creation and History
the prolific French orientalist Clement Huart
Arabic
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al-Risālah lil-shaykh al-raʼīs fī asrār al-ṣalwah The Message of the Main Sheikh in the Secrets of Prayer Avicenna Ibn Sina
Abū 'Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh
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Kitāb al-uṣūl fī sharḥ al-fuṣūl The book of principles in explaining the chapters Ibn al-Quff, Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq Ibn al-Quff, Abu al-Faraj ibn Ya’qub ibn Ishaq
Amīn al-Daulah Abū al-Faraj ibn Ya‘qūb ibn Isḥāq ibn al-Quff
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al-Tuḥfah al-jāmiʿah li-mufradāt al-ṭibb al-nāfiʿah The comprehensive masterpiece of useful medical vocabulary ‘Āmirī, Yaḥyā ibn Abī Bakr Amiri, Yahya ibn Abi Bakr
Yaḥyā ibn Abī Bakr ibn Yaḥyā al-ʿĀmirī
Arabic
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A treatise on arithmetic and geometry, with its commentary Biqāʿī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar Buqa’i, Ibrahim ibn Umar
a commentary upon it entitled Ibāḥat al-bāḥah
Arabic
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al-Mughnī fī sharḥ al-mūjiz Al-Mughnī fi Sharḥ al-Mujīz Kāzarūnī, Muḥammad ibn Masʿūd Kāzarūnī, Muhammad bin Masoud
Sadīd al-Dīn Muhammad ibn Mas‘ud al-Qazarouni
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al-Irshād li-maṣāliḥ al-anfus wa-al-ajsād Guidance for the interests of souls and bodies Ibn Jumayʿ, Hibat Allāh ibn Zayn Ibn Jumay, Hibat Allah ibn Zayn
al-Muwaffiq Shams al-Riyāsah abū al-‘Ashā’ir Hibat Allāh ibn Zayn
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Aqsarā’ī, Muḥammad ibn ‘Īsá Aqsarā’ī, Muhammad bin Issa
the general
Arabic
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Tarjamat risālat al-maʿād Translation of the Message of the Resurrected Avicenna Avicenna
Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh
Persian
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Firdaws al-ḥikmah The Firdaws of Wisdom Ṭabarī, ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban Tabari, Ali ibn Sahl Rabban
the Persian physician ʿAlī ibn Sahl ibn Rabban al-Ṭabarī
Arabic
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Masā’il su’ilā ‘anhā Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī Issues about which Thabit ibn Qurrah al-Harrani was asked Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī Thabit ibn Qurrah al-Harrani
Abū al-Hasan Thabit ibn Qurrah al-Harrani
Arabic
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Kitāb al-bayzarah Book of Baizarah
an unnamed author. The title appears on the title page
Arabic
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Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah Book of Remembrance in the Authority Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Tusi, Nasir al-Din Muhammad ibn Muhammad
Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī
Arabic
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Irshād al-ṭullāb ilá wasīlat al-ḥisāb Guiding students to the method of calculation Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad The tribe of al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Din Muhammad ibn Muhammad
Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Hāʼim al-Maqdisī al-Faraḍī
Arabic
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al-Qawl fī al-namūdhārāt The saying in the verses Abū Ma‘shar Abu Ma’shar
Abū Ma‘shar Ja‘far ibn Muḥammad al-Balkhī
Arabic
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Two medical treatises
Arabic
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Two treatises on astrolabes
an endowment inscription stating that the manuscript 'has been made the inalienable property of those who are capable [of learning]
Arabic
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Book of pimples in signs of death Kitāb al-buthūr fī ‘alāmāt al-mawt Hippocrates
the scribe Ayyūb of Nazareth
Arabic
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Kitāb al-mu‘tamad fī al-adwīyah al-mufradah The authoritative book on individual medicines ‘Umar ibn Yūsuf Omar ibn Yusuf
a later hand. The copy is defective at end
Arabic
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Kitāb al-makhrūṭāt The Book of Conics Apollonius of Perga Apollonius
Apollonius of Perga
Arabic
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[Taʿlīqāt ʿalá sharḥ al-mulakhkhaṣ Comments on the explanation of the summary] Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Birjandī, Abdul Ali bin Muhammad bin Hussein
‘Abd al-‘Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Birjandī
Arabic
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Lanterns Burning for Students Discerning
Jirmānūs Farḥāt
Arabic
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Sawāniḥ al-qarīḥah fī sharḥ al-ṣafīḥah fī ‘ilm al-asṭurlāb Sawāniḥ al-Qarīha in explaining the plate in the science of the astrolabe Fakhrī’zādah al-Mawṣilī, ‘Abd Allāh Fakhrizadeh al-Mawsili, Abdullah
Sayyid Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd Allāh ibn Fakhr al-Dīn al-Ḥusaynī al-A‘raj
Arabic
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Treatise on the use of the astrolabe Ibn al-Naṭṭāḥ, Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn Yaḥyá Ibn al-Natah, Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Yahya
Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn Yaḥyá ibn al-Naṭṭāḥ
Arabic
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The Book of Astronomical Phenomena by Euclid
the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria
Arabic
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A summary of the workmanship and operation of some observational instruments
‘Abd al-‘Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Bīrjandī
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al-Mukhtār min kutub al-ikhtiyārāt al-falakīyah Selected from the books of astrological selections Takrītī, Yaḥyá ibn Jarīr Takrīti, Yahya bin Jarir
the scribe Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-ʿIzz al-ʿAskarī
Arabic
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Qawl fī qismat al-khaṭṭ alladhī ista‘maluhu Arshimīdas fī al-Kurah wa-al-usṭūwānah A saying about dividing the line that Archimedes used in the sphere and cylinder Alhazen Ibn al-Haytham
Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham
Arabic
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Sharḥ al-tadhkirah Explanation of the ticket Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Burjandi, Abdul Ali bin Muhammad bin Hussein
‘Abd al-‘Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Birjandī
Arabic
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Maqālah fī ṣūrat al-kusūf An article on the image of the eclipse Alhazen Ibn al-Haytham
Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham
Arabic
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Kitāb fī-dafʿ al-maḍarr al-kullīyah li-l-abdān al-insānīyah A book on repelling the total harms to human bodies Avicenna Ibn Sina
Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh
Arabic
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Anonymous treatise on ophthalmology
a poem on sexual hygiene
Arabic
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Elements of Geometry
Rifā‘ah Rāfi‘ al-Ṭahṭāwī
Arabic
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www.qdl.qa
Undetermined
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Treatment for the Spirit, Refinement of Manners, and Renunciation of Vice
the famous Muslim thinker Ibn Hazm of Andalusia
Arabic
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Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb summary of the calculation 'Āmilī, Bahā' al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Amili, Bahā al-Dīn Muhammad ibn Husayn
Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī
Arabic
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Maqālah fī al-nafs An essay on the soul Ibn Abī Thaur al-Mawṣilī, Abū Manṣūr Bakr ibn al-Qāsim Ibn Abi Thaur al-Mawsili, Abu Mansur Bakr ibn al-Qasim
Abū Manṣūr Bakr ibn al-Qāsim ibn Abī Thawr al-Mawṣilī
Arabic
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Collection of Arabic astrological and divinatory texts, and a fragment of a Persian manuscript
the hand of the scribe is found on f. 2v. Ff. 212-214 are a fragment of an Persian manuscript unrelated to the other folios in this volume
ara,fas
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al-Mu‘ālajah al-buqrāṭīyah Haucratic treatment Ṭabarī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Tabari, Ahmad ibn Muhammad
Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭabarī al-Turunjī
Arabic
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Secret of Success
ara,eng
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al-Jāmiʿ li-quwá al-adwiyah wa-al-aghdhiyah Al-Jāmiʿ Al-Jāmiʿ li-quwá al-adwiyah wa-al-aghdhiyah Al-Jāmiʿ al-Jāmiʿ li-quwá al-adwiyah wa-al-aghdhiyah Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad Ibn al-Bitar, Abdullah ibn Ahmad
the Andalusian botanist Ḍiyā’ al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad
Arabic
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Kawkab al-rawḍah Kawkab al-Rawdah Suyūṭī Al-Suyuti
Jalāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Suyūṭī
Arabic
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Two treatises on inheritance shares (farāʾiḍ) and mathematics
a page of prayers seeking protection especially against plague
Arabic
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Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-aṣṭurlāb A treatise on working with the astrolabe Abū al-Ṣalt, Umayyah ibn ‘Abd al-Azīz Abu Salt, Umayyah ibn Abd al-Azīz
the Andalusian polymath Abū al-Ṣalt Umayyah ibn ‘Abd al-‘Azīz ibn Abī al-Ṣalt al-Dānī al-Andalusī
Arabic
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Sharḥ al-asbāb wa-al-ʿalāmāt Explanation of the causes and signs Nafīs ibn ʿIwaḍ Nafis bin Awad
Nafīs ibn ʿIwaḍ al-Kirmānī
Arabic
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Itḥāf dhawī al-albāb fī sharḥ Bidāyat al-ṭullāb Ithaf Dhawī al-Albāb in explaining the beginning of students Dādasī, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad Dādasī, Ali bin Muhammad
'Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Qāsim ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dādasī
Arabic
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Ibn al-Shatir, Ali Ibn Ibrahim, Ibn al-Shāṭir, Ibn al-Shater, Ali Ibn Ibrahim
ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Shāṭir
Arabic
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al-Kāmil fī ṣan‘at al-asṭurlāb al-shimālī wa-al-junūbī wa-‘ilalihumā bi-l-handasah wa-al-ḥisab The complete workmanship of the northern and southern astrolabe and their reasons for geometry and arithmetic Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr Ferghani, Ahmed bin Muhammad bin Kathir
Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Farghānī
Arabic
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The History of Modern France
the title
Arabic
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Isagoge Book of Isagoge Galen Galen
Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī
Arabic
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Literature and Religion of the Ancient Egyptians
the Lebanese-born Naǧīb Mitrī and that remains a prominent publisher to this day. The book includes a glossary of pharaonic terms
Arabic
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Kitāb al-mi’ah fī al-ṣinā‘ah al-ṭibbīyah The Book of the Hundred in the Medical Industry Masīḥī, ʻĪsá ibn Yaḥyá Christian, Isa bin Yahya
Abū Sahl ‘Īsá ibn Yaḥyá al-Masīḥī al-Jurjānī
Arabic
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Archimedes' article on breaking the circle
the mathematician
Arabic
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Alphabetical list of substitute drugs
an unnamed author. Begins
Arabic
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Illumination of the Virtues of the Family of the Most Favored Prophet
biographies of Ahl al-Bayt
Arabic
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An Introduction to the Study of the Eloquent Speech of the Arabs
some to be among the finest Arabic poetry of all time. Ḍayf also includes a survey of literary criticism in France from Pierre de Ronsard
Arabic
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The Last Word on the Foundations of the Language of the Arabs
Nasif al-Yaziji
Arabic
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Explanation of roles Sharḥ al-adwār
a later hand at the head of f. 41v identifies the text incorrectly as Notes on the Ashkāl al-taʾsīs
Arabic
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Ikhlāṣ al-naṣāʾiḥ fī takhṭīṭ al-ṣafāʾiḥ Sincerity of advice in planning plates Tūzarī, ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Tūzarī, Omar ibn Abd al-Rahman
Abū Jaʿfar ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Qurayshī al-Makhrūmī al-Tūnisī al-Tūzarī
Arabic