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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7490/12
Title:: Kitāb ikhtiyārāt al-sāʿāt
Scope & Content:: Author: Abū Maʿshar, ?-886 VIAF ID: 17355947 Subject: Islam and science
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1058
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7492, ff 1r-48r
Title:: Sharḥ mukhtaṣar fī maʿrifat al-taqāwīm شرح مختصر في معرفة التقاويم
Scope & Content:: An anonymous commentary on an astronomical treatise in thirty sections called al-Mukhtaṣar fī maʿrifat al-taqāwīm (المختصر في معرفة التقاويم), also known as Sī faṣl dar maʿrifat-i taqwīm (سي فصل در معرفة تقويم) by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين الطوسي, d. 1274). The copy was completed at noon ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 25 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 912
Extent:: Ff. 2v-48r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7492, ff 49v-52r
Title:: Anonymous treatise on the calculation of days and months
Scope & Content:: Brief anonymous treatise on the calculation of days and months. An instruction for calculating hijrī years indicates the date of the text's composition as 849/1445-46, during the second reign of the Ottoman sultan Murād II (مراد الثاني, reg. 1446-51, see f. 50v, lines 6-9). Instructions for fi...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Ff. 48v-52r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7492, ff 52v-66v
Title:: al-Zīj al-Shāmil الزيج الشامل [Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī, al-Mufaḍḍal ibn ʿUmar أثير الدين الأبهري، المفضّل بن عمر]
Scope & Content:: Astronomical handbook in ten bābs (أبواب), each subdivided into fuṣūl (فصول) in the tradition of Abū al-Wafāʾ al-Būzjānī and his colleagues at the Bāb al-Tibn Observatory in Baghdad (أبو الوفاء البوزجاني, d. 998, see f. 52v, line 3). The incipit also mentions the earlier work carried out under c...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Ff. 52v-67v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7493/1
Title:: Shams al-maʿārif wa-laṭāʾif al-ʿawārif
Scope & Content:: Author: Būnī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī, ?-1225 VIAF ID: 27877669 Subject: Islam and science
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7508/1
Title:: al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb
Scope & Content:: Author: Avicenna, 980-1037 VIAF ID: 89770781 Subject: Medicine, Arab; Medicine, Medieval
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1080
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7508/2
Title:: Sharḥ al-qānūn
Scope & Content:: Author: Āmulī, Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd, -1352 or 1353 VIAF ID: 289849308 Subject: Medicine, Arab; Medicine, Medieval
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1080
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7509/1
Title:: al-Īḍāḥ fī asrār (ʿilm) al-nikāḥ
Scope & Content:: Author: Shayzarī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Naṣr, active 12th century VIAF ID: 17479309 Subject: Erotic literature, Arabic
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

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