Catalogue of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Manuscripts of the Imperial Library of Vienna

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Philosophers, Physicists, Mathematicians, Physicians.

69. Kitab fi al-Isaguji Aristotle's Isagoge translated into Arabic, 8vo.

70. This codex contains various logical treatises, namely: 1) A treatise on logic by Athir al-Din al-Abhari. 2) A commentary on this Athir treatise on logic. 3) A treatise on logic by Sururi f. Shaaban. 4) A commentary on the Isagoge by Hassan f. Ibrahim.

71. Sharh Risala Athir Commentary on the treatise of Athir al-Din, mentioned above.

72. Tavali al-Anwar min Matali al-Afkar The Rising of Lights from the Dawn of Ideas. A metaphysical compendium by Abdollah f. Omer Beidhavi, a treatise explained by several commentaries, which you may see under this title in Hajji Khalifa.

73. Kitab al-Izz wa al-Manafi lil-Mujahidin fi Sabil Allah bil-Mudafa Book of Honor and Utility for the Faithful Militants in the Way of God with Artillery. By the author Ibrahim al-Movadschem f. Ahmed Ghanim f. Mahmud f. Zacharias, an Andalusian from the city of Granada. The author stayed there until the total expulsion of the Moors from this province; then, having changed his attire, he undertook more than one sea voyage on ships called Gallions d'argent original: silver galleons, finally migrating to Tunis, where he devoted himself especially to the art of ballistics, the rudiments of which he expounds in fifty chapters. The book is in folio, written in Mauritanian script and provided with necessary figures; it is to be noted more for its curiosity than for its novelty.

74. Hayat al-Hayawan The Life of Animals, by Kemaleddin Mohammed f. Issa al-Damiri, died A.H. 808. A most famous zoological dictionary from which Bochart in his Hierozoicon original: a work on the animals of the Bible derived much.

The author followed an alphabetical order and collected everything pertaining to the description of nature and the habits of animals from 560 books and 199 collections of poems. Several writers of epitomes reduced it to a compendium; Mohammed Shah of Qazvin translated it into Persian and presented it to Sultan Bayezid I in large folio.

75. In this codex are:

I. Durr al-Anwar fi Asrar al-Ahjar Pearls of Lights on the Secrets of Stones. An alchemical compendium by a more recent writer, as Hajji Khalifa says; it consists of a preface and nine chapters. 1) On the essence of the Philosophers' Stone. 2) On its particles. 3) On the secret operation. 4) On the method of this operation. 5) On weights. 6) Things abolished by the ancient philosophers. 7) On inner secrets.