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Tag: arabic literary
130 records found
From a medical treatise in Arabic.
A leaf from a work on sexual medicine & aphrodisiacs in Arabic.
A damaged page from a diwan, probably, of Arabic poetry
A leaf from Avicenna's Qanun, including the chapter on fattening any organ, such as arm, leg, nose, lips, or penis.
Literary work in Arabic script. Perhaps a tafsīr.
Medical treatise. In Arabic script.
Leaf from the beginning of Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī.
Two pages from Kalīla wa-Dimna in Arabic.
Two pages from an Arabic work on prognostications, including whether the days of a month or lucky or unlucky.
Leaf from an Arabic treatise on Islamic law.
Leaf from an Arabic treatise, calligraphic and vocalized. It appears to be a literary anthology, with quotations and verses cited from various Abbasid-era caliphs and poets. The margin on one side contains text from the mishna (Berakhot 4:2). The margin on the other side contains accounts in Arabic-script, naming people such as Abū Saʿd, Abū Isḥāq, Abū l-Faḍl, and Maʿānī.
Bifolium from the beginning of Ibn Buṭlān's Daʿwat al-Aṭṭibā'.
Three bifolia from a compendium of Bedouin proverbs, with commentary.
Bifolium from an Arabic work, mostly consisting of prayers and verses from the Quran and names of God, but also including a line of probably-magical symbols, headed with a six-pointed star.
Arabic work of literary criticism, several pages, probably Khazānat al-Adab wa-Ghāyat al-Arab of Ibn Ḥijja al-Ḥamawī (d. 1433).
Bifolium from an Arabic literary treatise, including the pious opening and, on the other two pages, several (al)chemical recipes.
Historical treatise (many pages), it seems mainly discussing the rulers and wars of Ifrīqiyya (Al-Jazā'ir, Tūnis, Qayrawān, etc.) in the mid-13th-century. Needs further examination.
Arabic booklet on astrological prognostications.
Recipes, probably medical or alchemical, in Arabic script, accompanied with pious invocations and some magical characters.
Bifolium from a commentary on Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī in Arabic script.
