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2. Add MS 7492
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 7492
- Title:
- Four treatises on astronomy and calendrics
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: (1) Sharḥ mukhtaṣar fī maʿrifat al-taqāwīm (شرح مختصر في معرفة التقاويم, ff. 1r-48r); (2) Dar yāftan-i avval-i sāl-i suryāni (در يافتن أول سال سرياني, f. 48v); (3) Anonymous treatise on the calculation of days and months (ff. 49v-52r); (4) al-Abharī (الأبهري), al-Zīj al-shāmil (الزيج ا...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic, Farsi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
- Date Range:
- 25 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 912
- Extent:
-
Codex; ii+1+i+47+iii+20+iii
3. Add MS 7492, f 48v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 7492, f 48v
- Title:
- Dar yāftan-i avval-i sāl-i suryāni در يافتن أول سال سرياني
- Scope & Content:
- Anonymous short text in Ottoman Turkish on calculating the first day of each month in the Byzantine (rūmī), here called Syriac (suryānī), calendar year, accompanied by a summarising table. The only section in the present volume not written in Arabic, the text nevertheless covers similar conten...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Farsi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
- Date Range:
- 16th century
- Extent:
-
F. 48v
4. Add MS 20736
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 20736
- Title:
- Two treatises on horsemanship
- Scope & Content:
- Originally copied as an Arabic treatise on horsemanship, arms and military skills. The treatise is generously illustrated as far as f. 36v, after which only sporadic illustrations were added to the many remaining spaces. Most of the remaining blank spaces were subsequently utilised for the tran...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
- Date Range:
- ca 16th century
- Extent:
-
Codex; ff. iii+97+iv
5. Or 9454
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 9454
- Title:
- Kitāb al-waḍīḥ fī maʿrifat ʿilm al-ramy كتاب الوضيح في معرفة علم الرمي [Ṭabarī,ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad طبري، عبد الرحمن أحمد]
- Scope & Content:
- Luxury copy of a practical treatise on archery, very popular and widely-used especially in the Mamluk period, by Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭabarī (أبو محمد عبد الرحمن بن أحمد الطبري, active ca 9th century). The present copy was completed by an un-named scribe on 9 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 78...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
- Date Range:
- 9 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 780
- Extent:
-
Codex; ff. i+88+iii; Detached binding: +ii
6. Or 11247
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 11247
- Title:
- Risālat al-shifāʾ li-adwāʾ al-wabāʾ رسالة الشفاء لأدواء الوباء Ṭāshkubrīʹzādah, Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafá طاشكبريزاده، أحمد بن مصطفى
- Scope & Content:
- Treatise on the prevention and cure of plague by the Ottoman polymath ʿIṣām al-Dīn Abū al-Khayr Aḥmad ibn Muṣliḥ al-Dīn Muṣṭafá Ṭāshkubrīʹzādah (عصام الدين أبو الخير أحمد بن مصلح الدين مصطفى طاشكبريزاده, Taşköprīzāde, d. 1561). The text is divided into the following sections, of which all but t...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Extent:
-
Codex; ff. i+74+i
7. Or 13006
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 13006
- Title:
- Compendium of alchemical treatises in Arabic, Persian and Ottoman
- Scope & Content:
- The volume comprises two manuscripts. The first (ff. 3-112) was the notebook of Qudrat Allāh al-Marandī al-Ādharī, who copied into it thirteen alchemical texts between 919 AH/AD 1513 and 925 AH/AD 1519, first at Fez and then at Damascus (see colophons on ff. 11r, 14r, 57r and 66r). The second (f...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic, Farsi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
- Date Range:
- 919-1177
- Extent:
- Codex; ff. 159+i
8. Or 13006, f 112v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 13006, f 112v
- Title:
- Cancelled page of Ottoman alchemical poetry Anonymous
- Scope & Content:
- A page of anonymous alchemical poetry in Ottoman Turkish, which has been struck through and cancelled. Its catchword does not match the first word of the following folio. Begins (f. 112v, lines 2-3): گل ای نجم سعادت آفتابی ° اِشِت گل كيبی بو نازک جوابی ندندر سيم وزريا علم كميا ° قوپر هر قطردن...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Turkish, Ottoman
- Date Range:
- c 930
- Extent:
-
f. 112v




