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3 works by 2 authors on the subjects of World history, Materia Medica, and Medicine

1. ff. 1-21v
Author: Anonymous
Title: al-Silk al-nāẓim fī ʻilm al-awwal wal-ākhir
Title: Malḥamah ʻaẓīmah gharībah ʻan sayyidinā Ādam
Title: السلك الناظم في علم الأول والآخر
Title: ملحمة عظيمة غريبة عن سيدنا آدم
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Theology
K 354 (1)
2. ff. 29-78
Author: Ṣubunrī, Mahdī ibn ʻAlī, d. ca. 1412 or 13 al-Ṣanawbarī, Muḥammad al-Mahdawī ibn ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Yamanī al-Mahjamī بن علي مهدي الصبنري
Title: Kitāb al-Raḥmah fī al-ṭibb wal-ḥikmah
Title: كتاب الرحمة في الطب والحكمة
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 189
K 354 (2)
3. ff. 78v-82v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Risālah fī ʻilm al-sadhāb
Title: رسالة في علم السذاب

On the medicinal virtues of rue

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Medicine
K 354 (3)

Physical Description

Form: codex
21 ff. 50 ff. 5 ff.

History

Origin: 1771 CE 1770 CE 1771 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of James Bruce of Kinnaird, d. 1794.

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1843.

Record Sources

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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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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