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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7473, ff 164v-172v
Title:: Min kitāb Abūlūnīyūs fī al-ashkāl al-sanaubarīyah من كتاب أبولونيوس في الأشكال الصنوبرية Apollonius of Perga أبولونيوس
Scope & Content:: The title states that this text is an excerpt from an Arabic version of the Conics (Κωνικά; في الأشكال الصنوبية) by Apollonius of Perga (Ἀπολλώνιος; أبولونيوس; fl ca 200 BC). The colophon, however, gives the title of the work as the Book of Burning-Mirrors and Compendium of Conics (كتاب المرايا ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Dhū al-Qa‘dah 639
Extent:: Ff. 164v-172v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7473, ff 173r-175v
Title:: al-Qawl fī al-namūdhārāt القول في نموذارات Abū Ma‘shar أبو معشر
Scope & Content:: A short astrological treatise on nativities (مواليد) by Abū Ma‘shar Ja‘far ibn Muḥammad al-Balkhī (أبو معشر جعفر بن محمد البلخي; d. 886). Contents: Begins (f. 173r, lines 2-4): قال أبو معشر حعفر بن محمد وجدنا من قول الأوائل في مسقط النطفة ومن قول يعقوب بن طارق اختلافًا وذلك أن الذي حدّ الأوا...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 639
Extent:: Ff. 173r-175v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7473, ff 175v-178v
Title:: Risālah fī mulk al-‘arab wa-kammīyatihi رسالة في ملك العرب وكميته Kindī كندي
Scope & Content:: Astrological treatise on Arab hegemony and its duration by the philosopher Ya‘qūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī (يعقوب بن إسحق الكندي; d. ca 873). The colophon (f. 178r, lines 3-4, transcribed below) states that the text was copied from an exemplar dated mid-Rabī‘ I 531/December 1136. Appended to the tex...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 639
Extent:: Ff. 175v-178v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7473, ff 179r-188r
Title:: Maqālah fī al-ḍarb wa-l-qismah bil-hindī min ghayr maḥw wa-la naql مقالة في الضرب والقسمة بالهندي من غير محو ولا نقل Abū al-Majd ibn ‘Aṭīyah ibn Abī al-Majd al-Kātib أبو المجد بن عطية بن أبي المجد الكاتب
Scope & Content:: Treatise on arithmetic and the multiplication and division using Arabic (hindī) numerals. The full title given in the text is (f. 179r, lines 2-5): مقال ألفه الشيخ الفاضل أبو المجد بن عطية بن أبي المجد الكاتب في الضرب والقسمة بالهندي من غير محو ولا نقل اخترعًا منه Begins (f. 179r, lines 6-...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 639
Extent:: Ff. 179r-188r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7473, ff 188v-198v
Title:: Maqālah fī al-nafs مقالة في النفس Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Philosophical treatise on the soul (known in Latin as the De anima) by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. ca 1037), extracted from his philosophical encyclopaedia the Kitāb al-shifā’ (كتاب الشفاء). The treatise ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 639
Extent:: Ff. 188v-198v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7479/1
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:: 1055
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7479/2
Title:: Kitāb al-ḥukm ʿalá qirānāt al-kawākib fī al-burūj al-ithnā ʿashara
Scope & Content:: Author: Ibn Abī al-Shukr, Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad Subject: Islam and science
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1055
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7486/1
Title:: Sharḥ al-mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah [lil-jaghmīnī]
Scope & Content:: Author: Qāḍīʹzādah, Mūsá ibn Muḥammad -approximately 1436 VIAF ID: 73701246 Subject: Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7490/1
Title:: Kitāb al-mudkhal fī ṣināʿat aḥkām al-nujūm (mudkhal al-uṣūl)
Scope & Content:: Author: Kūshyār, -approximately 961 VIAF ID: 293113154 Subject: Islam and science
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1058
Extent:: 1 item

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