MS. Huntington 456 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Contents

Summary of Contents: 7 works by 2 authors on the subjects of Geomancy, Physiognomy, Meteorology, Magic, Astrology, Shafiites, and Islam
1. ff. 1r-76v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Kitāb al-Malḥamah

In 22 chapters

ff. 77r-79r contain a work entitled Kitāb al-Ittisāʻ or Kitāb al-ghālib wa-al-maghlūb, attributed to Aristotle

Language(s): Arabic

References

Graf I, p. 216
[UAM. 1005 (1), with corrig. Nicoll p. 605]
2. ff. 79v-84r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Kitāb Muntakhab fī ʻilm al-raml

On geomancy

ff. 77r-79r Kitāb al-Ittisāʻ ascribed to Aristotle

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Magic
[UAM. 1005 (2)]
3. ff. 84v-88r
Author: Anonymous
Title: 8 tables entitled al-Firāsah ʻalá aʻḍāʼ al-insān ʻan al-ḥukamā, i. e. on inferring peoplesʼ characters from their physical appearance
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Magic
[not mentioned by Uri]
4. ff. 88v-95v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Bāb fī madkhal al-sanah al-ʻarabīyah

Meteorological predictions according to which day the year starts with, the visibility of the moon etc.

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Meteorology
[not mentioned by Uri]
5. ff. 95v-99v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Various magical cures and spells

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

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Magic
[not mentioned by Uri]
6. ff. 102v-135v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Kitāb majmūʻ yashtamil ʻalá mawālīd al-nisā wa-al-rijāl

?= Kitāb Mawālīd al-rijāl wa-al-nisā of Abū Maʻshar, d. 886

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 221
[UAM. 1005 (3)]
7. ff. 137v-156v
Author: Bisāṭī, Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad
Title: al-Nukat ʻalá mushkil al-mukhtaṣar al-kāmil li-masāʼil al-Shāmil

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

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 389
[UAM. 1005 (4) with corr. Nic. p. 605]

Physical Description

Form: codex
76 ff. 6 ff. 5 ff. 8 ff. 5 ff. 34 ff. 20 ff.

History

Origin: n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d.

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Robert Huntington, d. 1701.

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1693.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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