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Tag: arabic literary
130 records found
Tales 90–92 from "Nawādir al-Qalyūbī" by Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qalyūbī (d. 1659), in Arabic, with Hebrew translations/summaries in the margins.
From a medical treatise in Arabic, including various recipes for a medicinal powder (safūf). Headers in red ink.
From a medical treatise in Arabic.
Arabic literary fragment.
Recto: The last page of the Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (Saʿīd b. Baṭrīq al-Mutaṭabbib, d. 940), the Melkite Patriarch of Alexandria, discussing events in Jerusalem and Constantinople in the years before his death. See the Beirut 1905 edition: https://books.google.com/books?id=b6MIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PT336&lpg=PT336. Verso: A cross followed by cryptic symbols, and underneath the Arabic alphabet written left-to-right and partially in mirror image.
Leaf from an Arabic literary work on the magical virtues of the Arabic letters, and how to write them in various potent arrays (illustrated). For instance, ʿayn can restore lost objects, and ghayn can quenche thirst.
Four pages of an Arabic medical textbook.
Literary text, an allusion to the Quranic narrative of Prophet Yūsuf in a versified ornate prose (sajʿ) or poetry. [al-Quran, 12:13-18].
Leaf from an Arabic medical treatise, giving prescriptions.
Leaf from an Arabic medical treatise.
Arabic poetry on longing and estrangement from loved ones with the rhyme (ravī) of ʿaīn.
Arabic poetry.
Arabic literary fragment.
Leaf from an Arabic medical treatise, discussing temperaments and anatomy.
Recto: A page from Mūjiz al-Qānūn by Ibn al-Nafīs (d. 1288). Verso: Alphabetical jottings in Hebrew, a doodle, and "Hippocrates: ars longa vita brevis" (ابقراط: العمر قصير والصناعة طويلة).
Leaf from an Arabic literary work, either geometrical or astronomical (mentions celestial bodies, the horizon, and angles).
Bifolium from the section on dissection/anatomy in Avicenna's Canon, including chapter 10 on the the larynx (al-ḥanjara) and chapter 17 on the muscles of the upper arm (ʿaḍl ḥarakat al-sāʿid).
Page from al-Rāzī's al-Ḥāwī fī l-Ṭibb.
8 pages from an Arabic medical treatise.
Page from an Arabic medical treatise, citing Ḥunayn.
