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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Pococke 66
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • Sa’īd ibn Hibat Allāh, Abū al-Ḥasan was a Nestorian Christian court physician to the ’Abbāsid caliphs
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    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Arabe 251
    Collection
    Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
    Library
    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits
    Date
    1353
    Language
    arabe
    • Justinian I, Emperor of the East, 483?-565
    • Basil the Great
    • Athanasius the Great, Saint,‏ ‎d. 373
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    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Arabe 6857
    Collection
    Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
    Library
    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits
    Date
    1293
    Language
    arabe
    • Basil the Great
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, M V 5
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, middle of Šaʿbān 871 h. [= end of March 1467]
    Language
    Arabic, Persian
    • , as well as about people important to the subsequent history of the eastern part of the Islamic world
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. Or. 584
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • A later hand has labelled the top instrument: 'this is the form of the rounded cataract needle', with
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Pococke 369
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • The greatest influence on the development of Arabic astronomy was the Almagest of Ptolemy (2nd century
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Marsh 215
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    14th century (?)
    Language
    Arabic
    • Compendium by Thabit ibn Qurra of the De marcore.
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, M VI 48
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    18th century, 1st half of the 18th century (at the latest 1746)
    Language
    Arabic
    • Collection of prayers in the form of litanies (awrād), attributed to a Šayḫ Wafāʾ.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Marsh 215
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • The copy is undated and unsigned, but the general appearance of the paper (which has been severely
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    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Arabe 134
    Collection
    Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
    Library
    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits
    Date
    XVe siècle
    Language
    arabe
    • Basil the Great
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Huntington 326
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • The Filāḥah al-Nabaṭīyah contains agricultural and botanical information and a wealth of facts concerning
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Pococke 375
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • The 'book of pleasant journeys into faraway lands', or 'Book of Roger', Tabula Rogeriana. 16th-century
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Marsh 156
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • Following al-Rāzī's death, Ibn al-'Amid, a statesman and scholar appointed vizir to the Persian ruler
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    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Arabe 154
    Collection
    Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
    Library
    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits
    Date
    1604, 1607
    Language
    arabe
    • Basil the Great
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Arab. d.221
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • The Cyranides is one of the works of the Hermetic corpus, the body of writings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistos
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, M III 5
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    17th century, 17th century (before 1682)
    Language
    Arabic
    • Didactic poem in Arabic by Avicenna (d. 1037) about the art of healing.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Or. 210
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • Known in Europe as the Secreta secretorum, this book contains the supposed advice of Aristotle to Alexander
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Greaves 42
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • The 'book of pleasant journeys into faraway lands', or 'Book of Roger', Tabula Rogeriana.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Huntington 264
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • The Treatise on Armoury was written for Saladin (1169-1193 CE), the celebrated founder of the Ayyubid
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Marsh 70
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • Jābir (Geber) is usually considered the father of Arabic alchemy, though mystery surrounds his identity