MS. Huntington 456 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts Huntington Collection
Contents
In 22 chapters
ff. 77r-79r contain a work entitled Kitāb al-Ittisāʻ or Kitāb al-ghālib wa-al-maghlūb, attributed to Aristotle
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On geomancy
ff. 77r-79r Kitāb al-Ittisāʻ ascribed to Aristotle
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Meteorological predictions according to which day the year starts with, the visibility of the moon etc.
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f. 100r a symetrical table of numbers - ?purpose
f. 100v a piece of 9 lines entitled Masʼalah ʻan madhhab al-Ḥanbalī, followed by a short piece, medical, on the eye.
f. 101r an extract ascribed to Dāʼūd al-Ṭāʼī the physician on cures for diseases of the eye
f. 101v 6 lines attributed to Ibn Sīnā on medical matters
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?= Kitāb Mawālīd al-rijāl wa-al-nisā of Abū Maʻshar, d. 886
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A compendium of, and commentary upon, al-Shāmil fī uṣūl al-dīn of Imām al-Ḥaramayn al-Juwaynī, ʻAbd al-Malik ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1028-1085
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Physical Description
History
Provenance and Acquisition
The collections of Robert Huntington, d. 1701.
Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1693.
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