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Type: Literary text
1840 records found
Recto: Bifolio, mainly containing an Arabic literary text, probably a fable, beginning with "yā qawm ismaʿū maqālatī" and continuing with the promised proverbs, followed by pen trials.
Verso: draft of a letter beginning with a basmala and common honorifics surrounded by pen trials of the same line and other words on the entire bifolio.
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.
Recto: Fragment of a literary text in Arabic. Verso: Fragment of a text in Hebrew. Needs further examination.
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.
Leaf from a dictionary, seems to be Persian --> Turkish (in Latin characters) --> French.
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.
From a medical treatise in Arabic.
A leaf from a work on sexual medicine & aphrodisiacs in Arabic.
