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Title:: Kitāb al-Majisṭī كتاب المجسطي Ptolemy بطلميوس
Scope & Content:: Books One to Six of the Almagest (كتاب المجسطي), an Arabic version of the Μαθηματικῆς σύνταξις of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168), thought to have been translated by al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar (786-830). This was the most influential and enduring astronomical text to have survived f...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 686
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+183+ii

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Title:: Kitāb Baṭlamyūs fī al-ta‘līm al-ma‘rūf bi-l-Majisṭī naqala Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn كتاب بطلميوس في التعليم المعروف بالمجسطي نقل إسحق بن حنين Ptolemy بطلميوس
Scope & Content:: Books Seven to Thirteen of the Almagest (كتاب المجسطي), an Arabic version of the Μαθηματικῆς σύνταξις of of Ptolemy (بطلميوس, Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168). The book title on f. 199v names the translator as Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn (d. c 910), the son of Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (d. 873). This manuscript cal...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 615
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+239+iii

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Title:: Sharḥ sharḥ al-Majisṭī شرح شرح المجسطي Nīsāpūrī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad نيسابوري، الحسن بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Supercommentary by al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn Niẓām al-Dīn al-Aʿraj al-Nīsābūrī (الحسن بن محمد بن الحسين نظام الدين الأعرج النيسابوري; d. 1328 or 9) on Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274) Taḥrīr kitāb al-Majisṭī (تحرير كتاب المجسطي), an...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 16th century-17th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+343+ii

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Title:: al-Tuḥfah al-shāhīyah fī al-hayʾah التحفة الشاهية في الهيئة Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd قطب الدين الشيرازي، محمود بن مسعود
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Quṭb al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Mas‘ūd al-Shīrāzī (قطب الدين محمود بن مسعود الشيرازي; c 1236-1310) on the Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah (كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة; see British Library, MS Or. 11209) a treatise on the astronomical system presented in the Almagest of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemae...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 13th or 14th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+172+iii

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Title:: Kitāb al-nujūm (risālah fī kayfīyat al-ḥukm ... ilkh)
Scope & Content:: Author: Ibn Abī al-Shukr, Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad Subject: Islam and science
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

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Title:: Sharḥ Mukhtaṣar fī maʿrifat al-taqāwīm شرح مختصر في معرفة التقاويم Anonymous
Scope & Content:: Anonymous commentary on the Mukhtaṣar fī ma‘rifat al-taqwīm, the Arabic version of the Persian Sī faṣl dar ma‘rifat-i taqvīm (completed 658/1260, see Amīn, Mustadrakāt A‘yān al-Shī‘ah, p. 233) by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين الطوسي, d. 1274). The text, which is divided into thirty chapters (...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 29 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 1174
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+49+i

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Title:: Fa‘altu fa-lā talum فعلت فلا تلم Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd قطب الدين الشيرازي، محمود بن مسعود
Scope & Content:: Supercommentary by Quṭb al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Mas‘ūd al-Shīrāzī (قطب الدين محمود بن مسعود الشيرازي; c 1236-1310) on the Tibyān maqāṣid al-Tadhkirah (تبيان مقاصد التذكرة) by Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn Ḥusayn al-Ḥimādhī (محمد بن علي بن حسين الحماذي), which is in turn a commentary on the Kitāb al-tadhkirah ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 14 Jumādá I 826
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+213+ii

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Title:: Nihāyat al-idrāk fī dirāyat al-aflāk نهاية الإدراك في دراية الأفلاك Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Mas‘ūdقطب الدين الشيرازي، محمود بن مسعود
Scope & Content:: A text on astronomy and the orbits of the heavenly bodies, by Quṭb al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Mas‘ūd al-Shīrāzī (قطب الدين محمود بن مسعود الشيرازي; c 1236-1310), comprising a commentary on the Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah (كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة) by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الد...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17 Rabī‘ II 872
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+148+iii

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Title:: Kitāb manāhij al-fikar wa-mabāḥith al-ʿibar (kitāb al-mabāḥith al-fikar/mabāhij al-fikar)
Scope & Content:: Author: Waṭwāṭ, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyá, 1235-1318 VIAF ID: 3831923 Subject: Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 0988
Extent:: 1 item

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