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1 Yale - SOAS Islamic Manuscript Gallery Project A transatlantic program funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Peter Colvin, SOAS Elizabeth Beaudin, Yale

2 An opportunity to collaborate and to bring beautiful resources to scholars worldwide

3 The Historical Library at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library of 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.

4 From this remarkable collection, ten manuscripts in Arabic and Persian were selected for their intellectual value, for example: Galen. [S.l. : s.n.], 939 [1532 or 1533] Kitāb Jālīnūs fī ʻamal al-tashrīh / tarjamat Hụnayn ibn Ish āq. 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. Avicenna, [S.l. : s.n.], 1006 [1597] Kitāb al-qānūn fī al-tịbb / taʾlīf Abī ʻAlī al-hụsayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh al- Hạsan 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. Yazdī, al-mut ahhar ibn Muh ammad, fl [S.l : s.n., 16--?] Farah nāmah / Abū Bakr al-mutạhhar ibn Abī al-qāsim ibn Abī Saʻīd al- Jamālī maʻrūf bihyazdī. 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.

5 Kitāb al-qānūn fī al-tịbb / taʾlīf AbīʻAlī al- Hụsayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-hạsan ibn ʻAlī ibn Sīnā.

6 And from Sterling Memorial Library and the Beinecke Rare Book Library

7 Fundamental materials to support manuscript research, for example: 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, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur Pars secunda. Codices Arabicos amplectens. Cureton, W., and C. Rieu. London Catalogus Codicum Orientalium Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae. Landberg, C. Leiden: E.J. Brill Khaza ʾin al-kutub fi Dimashq wa-dạwa hị ha : fi arbaʻat ajza ʾ : Dimashq wa-sạydnaȳa wa-maʻlu la wa- Yabru d / bi-qalam Hạbi b al-zayya t. Zayya t, Hạbi b, Misṛ : Matḅaʻat al-maʻa rif, [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, Lexicon arabico-latinum / Halis Saxonum. Freytag, G. W. apud C.A. Schwetschke et filium, Al-Qamus al-muhit al-firuzabadi ( ). Bulaq, 1883

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

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

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

15 Lane s lexicon. An Arabic English Lexicon. London. Lane, Edward. London, Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate,

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17 Thank you. Yale University Library School of Oriental and African Studies

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