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كتاب السر الخفي في علم الروحاني لابي عبد الله الريحاني

[Abi 'Abd Allah al-Rayhani]

...Rare Aljamiado manuscript from the 17th-century providing exceptional evidence for the survival of Morisco culture in North Africa, within a generation or two of the final expulsion of the Arabs from Spain on the orders of Philip III...

كتاب الفلاحة لابن العوام

Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-ʻAwwām

...The entire text of this rare and important medieval Arabic text copied by an eighteenth-century Spanish Orientalist. The most important work on Spanish agriculture and horticulture in the Middle Ages, written by an Arab living in Seville...

Essortatione efficacissima alli principi Christiani contra gl’Infedeli, &c.

[Unknown]

...Italian manuscript, with watermark of coat of arms displaying bird, untrimmed, in wrappers. Probably composed during the pontificate of Gregory XIII (1572-1585), who spared no efforts to further an expedition against the Turks, and who sent...

[Liber de cirurgia, illustrated with surgical instruments]

Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn ʻAbbās al-Zahrāwī

...An early and complete manuscript of the most important medieval treatment of practical surgery and the first illustrated treatise on surgical instruments. Albucasis (c. 936 - c. 1013) "was the greatest Muslim surgeon; he exerted a very deep...

Discorso notabile à favore di N.S Pio IIII per la general unione dei Potentati di Christianita per la Sanctiss.ma Cruciata contra il Turco.

[Unknown]

...An exhortation to the Pope Pius IV to enlist the help of various European states for a major aggressive offensive against the Turks. Drawing on the recent victory of the Knights of St John over the Turks' siege of Malta as an example...

[Kitab al-Musta‘ini, or Kitab al-adwiyah al-mufradah, book of simple medicines]

Yūsuf ibn Isḥāq Ibn Baklārish

...Kitab al-Musta‘ini, or Kitab al-adwiyah al-mufradah (Book of Simples), is a treatise on medical remedies and drugs which draws on the learning of earlier Arab scholars such as Ibn Butlan, Al-Kindi and Al-Biruni, as well as classical Greek...

FEATURED CONTENT: [Liber de cirurgia, illustrated with surgical instruments]

Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn ʻAbbās al-Zahrāwī

...Fearured version of ARC_16402. An early and complete manuscript of the most important medieval treatment of practical surgery and the first illustrated treatise on surgical instruments. Albucasis (c. 936 - c. 1013) "was the greatest Muslim...

Discorso del Commendator San Giorgio de' progressi che haverebbono potuto fare e Christiani doppo la Vittoria navale contra Turchi.

San Giorio, Commendator

...An essay discussing the possibilities open to the Christian Powers in the Mediterranean area following their naval victory at Lepanto. The discourse considers the most advantageous paths of procedure for capitalising on their victory...

[The Medjidie Order, the second highest order of the Ottoman Empire issued by Abdülmecit, Sultan of the Turks, to Charles Joseph Tissot as Consul of Adrianopol (Edirne); together with permission from Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, to accept this award].

Abdülmecit, Sultan of the Turks

and

Napoleon III, Emperor of the French

...The second highest order of the Ottoman Empire, the Order of the Medjidie, was established in 1852 by Abdülmecit, Sultan of the Turks. As consul of Adrianopolis (Edirne), Charles Joseph Tissot (1828-1884) received the second highest of five...

Tracé et construction du chemin de fer de Constantinople jusqu’aux limits de la Servie avec embranchement à Salonique.

[Unknown]

...A pair of handwritten contracts, each containing French text followed by an Ottoman Turkish version. The first bears the wax seal of Abdülmecit, Sultan of the Turks (1823-1861). The second is the original contract and plan...