MS. Bodl. Or. 68 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Summary of Contents: 9 works by 6 authors on the subjects of Medicine, Soap, Islamic magic, Cosmography, and Astrology
1. ff. 1v-54v
Author: * Anonymous.
Title: Kitāb al-Saʻādah wa-al-iqbāl

[on medicine, in 4 aqwāl; Karshuni]

* Payne-Smith follows Pusey, p. 563 [corrig. to Uri Syr. 111 (i)] in ascribing the work to " Zayn al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥalabi d. 1143 " and describing it as an abridgment of the Minhāj al-dukkān of ʻAṭṭār al-Hārūnī, Dāwud ibn Abī Naṣr, 13th cent. [despite the anachronism], but the passage of H. Khalf. relied on by Pusey in MS. Caps. Or. C. 26, f. 524 does not appear in the printed editions. See SALJ, §176 and Steinschn. ZDMG 56 (1902), pp. 77-85. Brockelmannʼs first edn. (I. 492) followed P. Sm., but the reference ??(?) is deleted from Suppl. and G. second edn.

Language(s): Arabic [Karshuni]

References

Appendix Medicine
[Payne-Smith 179 (1)]
2. ff. 55-57
Author: Zarq Allāh
Title: Waṣīyah Zarq Allāh al-ḥakīm li-ibnihi
Language(s): Arabic [Karshuni]

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Appendix Medicine
[Payne-Smith 179 (2)]
3. ff. 57v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Ṣifah ʻamal ṣābūn

[on the manufacture of soap]

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Miscellaneous
[Payne-Smith 179 (3)]
4. ff. 58-72
Author: Ibn al-ʻIrāqī, Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad
Title: Faṣl fī tarkīb al-insān wa-mā yakhtaṣṣ bihi ʻalá mamarr al-zamān

With many quotations from Galen

SAUG §9m, p. 129 (311) and Add. p. 369 (245) suggests = Hippocrates Ṭabīʻat al-insān

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Medicine
[Payne-Smith 179 (4)]
5. ff. 73v-109r
Author: Ḥarrānī, Zayn al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn ʻUmar, Dimashqī
Title: Kashf asrār* al-mukhtālīn wa-nawāmīs al-khayyālīn

[against divination; Karshuni]

* MS. al-asrār [sic]

Language(s): Arabic [Karshuni]

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Appendix Magic
[Payne-Smith 179 (5)]
6. ff. 109v-144v
Author: ʻArabānī, ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Husām al-Dīn, d. 1450
Title: Gharāʼib al-funūn wa-mulaḥ al-ʻuyūn
Language(s): Arabic [Karshuni]

References

GAL II 129
[Uri Syr. 111 (4), with corrig. Nicoll p. 564, superseded by Payne-Smith 179 (6)]
7. ff. 147v-157r
Author: Anonymous
Title: A work on divination by names, Adam, Abel, Noah, etc.,
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Magic
[Payne-Smith 179 (7)]
8. ff. 158r-175v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Ṭāliʻ al-mawlūd

[a description of the twelve signs of the Zodiac, for casting horoscopes] [Karshuni.]

Language(s): Arabic [Karshuni]

References

Appendix Astrology
[Payne-Smith 179 (8)]
9. ff. 176v-186v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Amulets, a description of the properties of the sun and moon, etc.
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Magic
[Payne-Smith 179 (9)]

Physical Description

Form: codex
54 ff. 3 ff. 1 f. 15 ff. 37 ff. 36 ff. 11 ff. [Karshuni]. 18 ff. 11 ff. [Karshuni].

History

Origin: 16th cent.? CE 16th cent.? CE 16th cent.? CE 1570 CE 1569 CE 1571 CE 1571 CE 1571 CE 16th cent.? CE

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

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