Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldKitāb al-Taṣrīf li-man ’ajiza ’an al-ta’līf (The Arrangement of Medical Knowledge for One Who is not able to Compile a Book for Himself)
Binding: "17th century calf over pasteboards; pairs of blind fillets towards outer edges of boards; pairs of blind fillets forming inner rectangle design; blind stamped corner pieces (fleurons) to inner rectangle; sewn on five supports; raised bands and blind tooling on spine; blind roll tooled decoration around board edges; evidence of chaining (staple holes towards edge of lower fore-edge); text block edges sprinkled red; spine labelled '16'."Full catalogue description in SOLOContents: MER.119.f.17(1): ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ibrāhīm Zanjānī, Kitāb al-tasrīf taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-Imāmi, (pp. i-120). MER.119.f.17(2): Isaac ben Joseph Karo, Zeh sefer Toldot Yitsḥaḳ : perush ʻal ha-Torah (ff. 1a-99b). MER.119.f.17(3): Midrash ha-neʿelam on Genesis (ff. 1a-58b). Responsa concerning tsitsit and Shabbat (ff. 59a-60a). Zohar on certain parashiyot, mostly from the book of Leviticus (ff. 60b-111b). Colophon (f. 111b). Zohar on parashat Pekude; Heikhalot (ff. 112a-124b).Dimensions: 266 x 200 x 59 mm (size of binding); ca. 260 x 198 mm (size of leaf).Record origin: Description provided by Rahel Fronda.The volume that now has the shelfmark Merton 119.f.17 contains three separate items: 1) Kitāb al-tasrīf taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-Imāmi, a printed treatise on the inflexion of the verb in Arabic; 2) Zeh sefer Toldot Yitsḥaḳ : perush ʻal ha-Tora, a printed commentary on the Pentateuch; and 3) an early sixteenth-century manuscript of the Zohar. These items were almost certainly bound together in the late seventeenth century when items 2 and 3 were donated to Merton College by Robert Huntington. Perhaps the Arabic grammatical work was included because it also relates to subject matter designated at the time as ‘Oriental’ (dealing with the languages and culture of the Eastern Mediterranean).
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldDecoration: Illustrations in text."Al-Sufi's Book of the Fixed Starsa revision of Ptolemy's Almagest with Arabic star names and drawings of the constellations. Dated 1009-10 (A.H. 400); colophonp. 419."
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World"This is an important bio-bibliographical account of ancient Greek as well as of Islamic physicians and scholarscontinuing up to Ibn Abī Uṣaybi’ah's own day. It encompasses 380 biographies in fifteen chapters."
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldText pages with pen drawings. Bird with scorpio. Bird with snake. Figure holding a bird.Collection of alchemical treatises.
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents note: A collection of 24 small treatises.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 Majmūʻah min kalām Ibn Bājjah by Avempace, d. 1138 or 9.
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents note: The 149th chapter (ff. 78v-83v) comprises an anonymous ?independent work entitled Fī tadbīr al-buzāt wa-al-kilāb al-ḍāriyah wa-ʻilāj ʻilalihā wa-awjāʻihā.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 Manāfiʻ al-ṭayr wa-ʻilājāt dāʼihim ʻalá al-tamām wa-al-kamāl by Ḥajjāj ibn Khaythamah.
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World"al’-Farabi's importance is chiefly due to his scholarly commentaries on Aristotle. They covered the whole of the Organonthe Physicsthe De caelo&c. His intense study of the Aristotelian philosophy is indicated by the report that he lectured on the Physics 40 times and the Rhetoric 200 times. In the Islamic world he was known by the title “the second teacher”the firstby implicationbeing Aristotle. Besides the commentariesal’-Farabi also wrote monographs on logicphysicsmetaphysicsethics and politics."'Leaf.'
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents note: With occasional glosses (anon.).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 Maqāmāt by Ḥarīrī, 1054-1122.
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 Notes and correspondence in English on the Alf laylah wa-laylah by Scott, Jonathan.