Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldJābir (Geber) is usually considered the father of Arabic alchemy, though mystery surrounds his identity and the origin of the vast corpus of writings to which his name was already attached by the second half of the 10th century CE. The Riyāḍis a technical work dealing with chemical processes.Leaf.
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldBook 2 of the Shifā. Book 2 and 4 is devoted to physics (al-ṭabi’īyāt), i.e. natural philosophy, and Section 6 (Kitāb al-nafs) deals with the soul.
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldRecord origin: "Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team."1 copy of al-Tabṣirah fī al-hurūb by Ṭarsūsī, Marḍī ibn ʻAlī, d. 1193.
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldRecord origin: "Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team."1 copy of al-Tabṣirah fī ʻilm al-nujūm by ʻUmar ibn Yūsuf, Sultan of Yemen, d. 1296.
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents note: Lacking beginning.Record origin: "Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team."1 copy of al-Tajrīd by Khwārazmī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd Allāh, al-Uṣūlī.
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldThe Elements (Arabic title al-uṣūl) was the Greek mathematical work most widely studied in the Islamic world. It was several times translated into Arabic, and frequently commented on. This manuscript contains the version of Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn (died 910 or 911 CE), revised by Thābit ibn Qurrah (died 901 CE).
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldRecord origin: "Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team."1 copy of Acaib ül-mahlūkat by Surūrī, Muṣliḥ al-Dīn, 1492-1562. Being a Turkish abridgement and paraphrase of ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt of Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, ca. 1203-1283.
Dimensions: 250 × 170 mm (size of leaf).Record origin: Emile Savage-Smith, A Descriptive Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts at St John’s College Oxford (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).MS 103 is the earliest recorded copy of al-A‘raj al Nīsābūrī’s commentary on Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī’s al-Tadhkirah fī ‘ilm al-hay’ah (‘Memoir on the Science of Astronomy’). The item also includes some incidental Arabic poetry.
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents note: Folio 1a contains the second leaf of a dedication which reads . . . "بن محمد بن يعقوب مسكويه آداب الفرس والعجم والعرب والروم لخزانة مولانا الإمام السيد المظفر المنصور أبي نصر محمد بن أحمد أطال الله بقاءه وأدام سلطانه وكبت أعداءه".Record origin: "Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team."1 copy of Jāwīdān khirad by Ibn Miskawayh, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, d. 1030.
Binding: European binding (repaired) of pasteboards covered with mottled brown leather. The covers have a central frame of four fillets with scallops interspersed with palmettes; at each corner of the central frame are large blind-stamped flower-heads. The covers also have narrow outer frames of two fillets. The spine (five cords) is undecorated. The pastedowns and endpapers (fols. ii–ii, iii–iv) are modern. The numeral 91 has been inked on the fore-edge of the manuscript.Contents note: Ff. 10a-12a are incomplete; f. 12b is blank; some of the tables ff. 48a-49a are incomplete; f.50a has been added by a later hand. Ff. 4b-5a, 12b and 93b-94a contain pencilled notes in several languages by John Greaves (1602-1652), Savilian Professor of Astronomy (1643-8).Dimensions: 26.4 × 18.0 (17.2 × 11.0) cm; the pages have been trimmed.Hand: Main text in Arabic naskh; notes in several other Arabic and Persian hands in addition to three European hands: Greaves, Bernard and unidentified.Layout: 21 lines per page, blank ink with red rubrics; from f. 50a, the text is enclosed in red-inked frames. Tables are laid out in grids using red and black ink.Record origin: "Description abbreviated from Emilie Savage-SmithRecord origin: A descriptive Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts at St John's CollegeRecord origin: Oxford (Oxford: Oxford University PressRecord origin: 2005)Record origin: Entry No. 6Record origin: pp. 26-30."An Arabic translation of Ulugh Beg’s astronomical and chronological tables (zīj) in the second, or revised, version. The copy is imperfect.
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldRecord origin: "Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team."17 Kufic fragments.
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldRecord origin: "Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team."Fragments of sūrahs 12 and 13 in Kufic writing on vellum.