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Albucasis’s Kitāb al-Tasrif: The European Legacy of a Pioneering Arabic Treatise on Surgery

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...One of the rarest and most valuable pieces in the Arcadian Library’s History of Science and Medicine collection is an early fourteenth-century manuscript of the Liber de Cirurgia—the Latin translation...

Early Printed Translations of Arabic Medical Works: An introduction

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...From the eighth to the thirteenth centuries, scientists from across the Islamic world made great advances in the study of medicine, compiling the knowledge of the ancient Greeks, Romans, Persians and Indians and building upon it themselves,...

An Introduction to the Arcadian Library: Sharing the History of Scientific and Cultural Transfer between East and West

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...The Arcadian Library, from its very inception, has always been more than a private collection. Its acquisition policy has always been secondary to its ethical mission—to facilitate peaceful dialogue between East and West. In a tense age...

Ibn Baklarish’s Book of Simples: Medical Remedies between Three Faiths in Twelfth-Century Spain

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...The Arcadian Library acquired the manuscript of the Kitāb al-Musta‘īnī in 2003. The codex was reportedly purchased in Paris in the 1960s by a Middle Eastern historian of medicine and arrived in the UK by family descent. Its...

‘Turcica’: An Introduction to European writings on the Ottoman Empire

Alistair Hamilton

Alistair Hamilton

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...European writings on the Ottoman Empire fall into two main categories. On the one hand the Turk was seen as the enemy and was feared accordingly, and on the other the Ottoman world inspired immense curiosity. The Arcadian Library is home...

An overview of British provenance of works in the Ottoman collection of the Arcadian Library

Giles Mandelbrote

Giles Mandelbrote

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...Much of the Arcadian Library has been assembled through the acquisition of the libraries of earlier collectors. Without the earlier curation work of individuals such as Şefik E. Atabey, Richard Heber and Peter Hopkirk, the Arcadian Library...

Lady Hester Stanhope

Penelope Turson

Penelope Turson

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...Lady Hester Stanhope, who arrived in Istanbul in 1810, perpetuated the tradition of the well-connected, pre-Victorian, aristocratic traveller, elevating the role to new levels of eccentricity. Stanhope’s unconventional life has been...

A Brief Introduction to the Scientific and Medical Holdings of the Arcadian Library

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...The field in which Arab and Persian contributions to progress was most widely acknowledged in the West was science. In spite of criticisms which started in the Renaissance and increased during the scientific revolution preceding...

Avicenna’s Qānūn fī at-Tibb and Other Works: A Survey of Avicenna Printings in the Arcadian Library

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...Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā (c. 980−1037), commonly known in the West as Avicenna, was a Bukharan polymath and is widely considered to be the most important and influential scientist of the Islamic Golden...

Avicenna’s European Legacy: A Review of the Avicennian Commentaries in the Arcadian Library

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...Avicenna exerted perhaps a more profound influence on both Eastern and Western medical thought than any other Islamic scholar. The Canon of Medicine was considered standard reading in European universities until well into the eighteenth...