Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldThe Cyranides is one of the works of the Hermetic corpus, the body of writings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistos. Hermes Trismegistos was a Hellenistic incarnation of the ancient Egyptian Thoth, and the god of all magic, alchemy and astrology. Arabic Hermetic literature continues the Greek tradition; in Islam Hermes is the inventor of all arts and sciences, and master of astronomy, numbers, poisons, chemistry, medicine, &c. This manuscript contains a translation or adaptation from the Greek of part of Book 1 of the Cyranides. The Cyranides is divided into 24 chapters, one for each letter of the Greek alphabet. Under each letter are represented a plant, a bird, a stone and a sea animal, all of whose names begin with that letter. Their individual occult influences combine to produce a new composite effect.Leaf.
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldText pages with coloured drawings of plants: nightshade (right), mandrake (left).Written in Arabic.
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldThe Materia medica consists of five books on medicinal substances. This copy contains only the last three books (maqālahs) of the treatise, of which Books 3 and 4 cover herbs and roots, and Book 5 wines &c. The copy was completed on 25 Dhu al Hijjah 637 AH (17 July 1240 CE) by al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Nashawī at al-Madrasah al-Niẓāmīyah, presumably in Baghdad, though madrasahs of the same name occur in other cities.
The manuscript comprises a Hebrew and Aramaic dictionary, followed by a glossary that presents further etymological parallels with related Oriental languages. Its method of helping students to identify the root letters of Hebrew words, was first developed by German Orientalist, and Professor of Hebrew, at the University of Leipzig, Elias Hutter (ca. 1553-1609).Contents: A manuscript note by Samuel Rolles Driver (i). Title page (ii). Preface (iii-vii). Dictionary (1r-43v). Glossary (44r-50v).Extent: ff 52. 440 x 280 x 20 mm.Hand: 18th century English hand.Binding: 18th century half-calf over paper boards.Additional information: Rahel Fronda, Jewish Books and their Christian Readers: Christ Church Connections (Oxford: Christ Church, 2017), pp. 92-96.
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World"The Filāḥah al-Nabaṭīyah contains agricultural and botanical information and a wealth of facts concerning popular customsreligion and magic. It is the most important of the works ascribed to Ibn Waḥshīyahan 'author' whose very existence has been called into question. Whether real or fictionalIbn Waḥshīyah is famous as a transmitter of supposedly ancient Babylonian writings. In the Filāḥah he claims that he translated the work from the 'language of the Chaldees' (i.e. Syriac) into Arabic in the year 904but that the book was written thousands of years before by a certain Babylonianwho drew on even older works. Opinions differ on whether the Arabic really was translated from the Syriac; some scholars favouring a Pahlavi (Middle Persian)or a Greek original. This book was extremely popular in the Islamic worlddespite its pagan character."'Opening.'
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate Worldal-Farghānī (Alfraganus) lived in the 9th century CE and this short introduction to astronomy is his principal work.Leaf.
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents note: Followed at end by a few notes by H. Sike headed "Miscellanea de Christo undique collecta".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 Injīl al-ṭufūlīyah.
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents: Anonymous, Kitāb Bulūqiyā wa-Jahān Shāh wa-Jāmāsp wa-malikat al-ḥayāt Yamlīkhā (ff. 1a-85a). Anonymous, Qiṣṣat Ibn Salāmah wa-mā jará lahu maʻa Durrat al-Ghawāṣṣ (ff. 85v-119b).Record origin: "Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team."2 works by anonymous authors on the subject of Tales.
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 Kitāb Funūn al-manūn fī al-wabāʼ wa al-ṭaʻūn by Ibn al-Mibrad, Yūsuf ibn Ḥasan, 1436 or 7-1503.
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldSa’īd ibn Hibat Allāh, Abū al-Ḥasan was a Nestorian Christian court physician to the ’Abbāsid caliphs al-Muqtadī (ruled 467-487 AH/1075-1094 CE) and al-Mustaẓhir (ruled 487-512 AH/1094-1118 CE) and physician at the ’Aḍudī hospital in Baghdad. This treatise on the generation and development of human beings from conception to death is in fifty chapters.The colophon states that the copy was made in Baghdad in 562 AH/1166-7 CE by by Tūmā ibn Manṣūr ibn Hibat Allāh, for his own use. It is possible that the scribe was a nephew of the author.