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Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph von · 1820

76. Lumaat-i Nuraniyya Luminous Flashes by al-Buni, a kabbalistic work in Arabic, together with Mawlud Tali Nativity Rising, an astrological treatise in Turkish by Khayreddin.
77. Kitab-i Raml Book of the art of divination called Raml [geomancy], together with the delineation of figures, in Turkish, 4to.
78. Risala-i Ilm-i Hisab Treatise on Arithmetic by Mustafa f. Ebri.
79. This codex contains various treatises, namely:
I. Risala-i Raml li-Shams al-Din Treatise on geomancy (Raml) in verse by Shams al-Din.
II. A calendar and various superstitious warnings.
III. A method of divining who will be the victor or the vanquished.
IV. A commentary on the names of God.
V. Tables of the art of divination by the contortions of limbs.
VI. A treatise on the stations of the moon.
VII. A few Suras of the Quran.
80. Qiyafat-nama Book of Physiognomy, in Turkish, by Hamdollah f. Ak-Shams al-Din, died A.H. 909, and Omer Chalveti. Both wrote a book with this title; which of the two is the author of this present codex is not evident from the book itself.
81. An astrological and geomantic book in Turkish, 4to.
82. The third book of Avicenna on the diseases of the head and brain up to the anatomy of the eye; a very ancient codex with dark, worn paper. Previously, the Imperial Library contained the book of Canons of Avicenna and the simple remedies of Ibn al-Baitar. Although the Imperial Library in Paris possesses multiple copies of these (see the Catalog of Manuscripts of the Royal Library, Vol. 1, pp. 206-207, under numbers 999, 991-994), and they should have been rightfully returned, the famous Langlés refused to return them.
83. Kitab al-Abniya an Haqa'iq al-Adwiya Book of the Foundations of the Truths of Medicines, by the physician Abu Mansur Muwaffaq f. Ali of Herat for Prince Mansuri; a very ancient and precious Persian codex, not only in its antiquity but also in the form of its script and the name of the scribe by whom it was written. It was written, as the last lines show, by Ali son of Ahmed Esedi of Tus, the famous Persian poet, in the year 447 H. (1055 A.D.), so that it has reached its eighth century.