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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Huntington 264
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 1137-1193
    • 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. Huntington 263
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • 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. Arab. d.138
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos
    • The Materia medica consists of five books on medicinal substances.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Marsh 667
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • Apollonius of Perga
    • 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. 139
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • Galen of Pergamon, c 129-c 216
    • This is the Commentary of Galen on the Book of Hippocrates On Prognostics (Tafsīr Jālīnūs li-kitāb Buqrāṭ
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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
    • This Persian-Arabic manuscript, written in Herat by ʿAbdallāh al-Harawī and completed Middle of Šaʿbān
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Pococke 131
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    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. Arab. d.221
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    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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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Marsh 156
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā Abū Bakr al-Rāzī (b. 854, d. 925), physician, alchemist and philosopher
    • notebook or commonplace book into which al-Rāzī placed extracts from earlier authors regarding diseases and
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    Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum, Cod. 2 (Codex Pandeli)
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum
    Date
    18th century, 1723
    Language
    Arabic
    • According to the colophon at the end of the Gospel of John, this copy was completed by Ibrāhīm ibn Būluṣ
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, A III 19
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    13th century, Ramaḍān 639 h. [= March-April 1242]
    Language
    Arabic
    • In addition to the canonical text, the manuscript also contains the variants of the seven readers of
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Greaves 5
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    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. Digby Or. 17
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    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • The author was a Turkish physician who spent most of his working life in Cairo where he became ra’is
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Marsh 215
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • This is a summary by Thābit ibn Qurrah (d. 288 AH/901 CE) of Galen’s treatise On withering (Jawāmiʿ
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. Or. 584
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • one end labelled: 'this is four-sided'; and the other: 'this is rounded'.
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. arab. 464
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    678 oder 778 [h.q.] [1279-1377]
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/ara
    • Marvels of things created and miraculous aspects of things existing), probably was written in the sixth
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. arab. 616
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    Um 1310
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/ara
    • , and numerous translations into European and Oriental languages dating from the 10th to the 14th centuries
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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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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. arab. 615
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    16./17. Jh. [?]
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/ara
    • In the course of time, this well-known collection of fables developed into a kind of popular literature
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Arch. Selden. A. 72 (3)
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    16th century, first half
    Language
    Arabic
    • The interpretation of the scenes is based on that made by Burland, C.