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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Pococke 47
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library
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    • Kitāb al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (The Canon of Medicine)According to the colophon pictured, the copy was
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Marsh 137
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library
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    • The Bodleian copy of this general treatise on therapeutics is the only recorded copy.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Marsh 667
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    • The Conica of Apollonius of Perga ‘the great geometer’ (c. 262-190 BCE) were translated into Arabic in
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Or. 210
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library
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    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. Pococke 369
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library
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    • The greatest influence on the development of Arabic astronomy was the Almagest of Ptolemy (2nd century
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Huntington 596
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library
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    Arabic
    • Written diagonally alongside the colophon, in red ink, is a statement providing the information that
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Greaves 5
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library
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    Arabic
    • The Zij (Astronomical and chronological tables) of Ulugh Beg is a monument to the last great flowering
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Marsh 233
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library
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    • This extensive and popular commentary on the Mūjiz composed by Ibn al-Nafīs (d. 1288 CE) was given the
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Or. 49
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library
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    • This extensive and popular commentary on the Mūjiz composed by by Ibn al-Nafīs (d. 1288 CE) was given
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Digby Or. 17
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    Arabic
    • This is a large medical compendium written in 782 AH/1380 CE in Ephesus for ’Īsá ibn Muḥammad, the Sultan
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Huntington 263
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library
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    • This is a copy of Nuzḥat al-hukamā’ al-rawḍat al-aṭibbā’ (The Delight of the Wise and the Garden of the
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Pococke 66
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    • Sa’īd ibn Hibat Allāh, Abū al-Ḥasan was a Nestorian Christian court physician to the ’Abbāsid caliphs
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Huntington 326
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    • It is the most important of the works ascribed to Ibn Waḥshīyah, an 'author' whose very existence has
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Pococke 131
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library
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    Arabic
    • The Qānūn of Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) represents the high point in the codification of Arabic medicine.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Huntington donat. 31
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library
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    Arabic
    • It comprises two books: the first (juz’) is on medical theory in ten sections (maqālahs) and the second
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Huntington 427 (item 4)
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    • On the Regimen of Health (Fī tadbīr al-ṣiḥḥah) was written in 1198 CE for Nūr al-Dīn ’Alī, the eldest
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Pococke 248
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    Arabic
    • This is a comprehensive general medical encyclopaedia writen by the Damascene physician Ibn al-Nafīs
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Greaves 25
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    • This manuscript was made in the city of Ankara and completed near the end of Mauahham in 694 AH (10-20
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. Or. 584
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    • Oculists) by ’Alī ibn ’Īsá al-Kaḥḥāl (d. 400 AH/1010 CE), a widely read opthalmological manual composed in
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Arab. d.138
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    • The Materia medica consists of five books on medicinal substances.