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A transatlantic program funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)

Yale - SOAS Islamic Manuscript Gallery Project

Peter Colvin, SOAS

Elizabeth Beaudin, Yale

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An opportunity to collaborateand to bring beautiful resources to scholars worldwide

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The Historical Library at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Libraryof Yale holds important collections, especially those from Harvey Cushing.

Special strengths are the works of Hippocrates, Galen, Vesalius, Boyle, Harvey, and S. Weir Mitchell, and works on anesthesia, and smallpox inoculation and vaccination. The Library owns over 300 medical incunabula.

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From this remarkable collection, ten manuscripts in Arabic and Persian were selected for their intellectual value, for example:

Yazdī, al-Mut ahhar ibn Muh ammad, fl. 1184. [S.l : s.n., 16--?]

Farah nāmah / Abū Bakr al-Mutahhar ibn Abī al-Qāsim ibn Abī Saʻīd al-Jamālī maʻrūf bih Yazdī.

Copied in 11th/17th cent., in large taʻlīq; written surface measures 14x24 cm., 14 lines per page. Illuminated with detailed multicolored illustrations of animals, birds, plants, stones and humans.

Avicenna, 980-1037. [S.l. : s.n.], 1006 [1597]

Kitāb al-Qānūn fī al-tibb / taʾlīf Abī ʻAlī al-H usayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-H asan ibn ʻAlī ibn Sīnā.

Copied in medium sized naskhi script, 21.5 x 31 cm. Writing surface 14.7 x 22.5 cm. Text is gilt ruled 39 lines to page. Catchwords and headings in red, blue and gold. The leather binding is gilt stamped.

Galen. [S.l. : s.n.], 939 [1532 or 1533]

Kitāb Jālīnūs fī ʻamal al-tashrīh / tarjamat Hunayn ibn Ishāq.

Date of copying 939 H/1532 or 1533 M (but more likely 12/18 cent.) In neat, medium size naskh; 10.5x18.5 cm.; the written sufrace measures 6.5x13 cm., 17 lines per page.

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Kitāb al-Qānūn fī al-tibb / taʾlīf Abī ʻAlī al-Husayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Hasan ibn ʻAlī ibnSīnā.

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And from

Sterling Memorial Library and

the Beinecke Rare Book Library

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Arabic manuscripts in the Yale University Library. Nemoy, L. New Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts and .Sciences, 1956

Bibliothecae Bodleianae codicum manuscriptorum orientalium videlicet hebraicorum, chaldaicorum, syriacorum, aethiopicorum. Arabicorum, persicorum, urcicorum, Nicoll, A. Oxford 1787

Catalogus Codicum Arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae. de Goeje, M.J., et al. Leiden: EJ. Brill, 1888-1907.

Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur Pars secunda. Codices Arabicos amplectens. Cureton, W., and C. Rieu. London 1846-71

Catalogus Codicum Orientalium Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae. Landberg, C. Leiden: E.J. Brill 1883.

Khazaʾin al-kutub fi Dimashq wa-dawahiha : fi arbaʻat ajzaʾ : Dimashq wa-Saydnaya wa-Maʻlula wa-Yabru d / bi-qalam Habib al-Zayyat. Zayya t, H abib, 1871-1954. Mis r : Matbaʻat al-Maʻarif, [1902]

A list of Arabic manuscripts in Princeton University Library. Littmann, E. Princeton: University Library, 1904

Supplement to the catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the British museum. Rieu, C. London, 1894

Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften der KöniglichenUniversitätsbibliothek Seybold, Chr. Tübingen; Universität Tübingen, 1907

Lane’s lexicon. An Arabic English Lexicon. London . Lane, Edward. London, Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1863-1893

Lexicon arabico-latinum / Halis Saxonum. Freytag, G. W. apud C.A. Schwetschke et filium, 1837.

Al-Qamus al-Muhit al-Firuzabadi (1329-1414). Bulaq, 1883

Fundamental materials to support manuscript research, for example:

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Building on development at Yale for Project AMEEL

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A challenge to solve technical problems along the way

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Catalogus Codicum Orientalium Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae. Landberg, C. Leiden: E.J. Brill 1883.

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Lexicon arabico-latinum / Halis Saxonum. Freytag, G. W. apud C.A. Schwetschke et filium, 1837.

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Bibliothecae Bodleianae codicum manuscriptorum orientalium videlicet hebraicorum, chaldaicorum, syriacorum, aethiopicorum. Arabicorum, persicorum, urcicorum, Nicoll, A. Oxford 1787

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Lane’s lexicon. An Arabic English Lexicon. London . Lane, Edward. London, Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1863-1893

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http://gsdl.med.yale.edu/dcdot/

Enhancing metadata

Full text repository

http://ameeldev.library.yale.edu:8080/fedoragsearch/ameeltreeresult

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