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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12368
Title:: Bugis medical tracts
Scope & Content:: Texts in Bugis language and script. A: ff. 2r.-27r., 27v.-30r. Tracts on medical treatment of various diseases. B: ff. 30r.-31r. Amulet with the names of the Seven Sleepers and their dog (Buginese Kahapĕ’e, Arabic Aṣhāb al-kahf). C: ff. 31, 32v. Formulae against evil spirits, wild animals, and ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Buginese
Date Range:: Late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:: 32 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12374
Title:: Verses from the Quran in Arabic, with Bugis translation
Scope & Content:: Verses from the Qur’an in Arabic, with Buginese translation (ff. 2r.-53r., 58v.-59v., 61v.-68r., 69v.-70r), without translation (ff. 53v.-58r), and with partial Buginese translation (ff. 1r.-2r). 72 written ff. (thereafter further unnumbered ff). Quran, in Arabic and Bugis script. (This descr...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Buginese
Date Range:: Late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:: 73 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12375
Title:
Scope & Content:: Minhāj at-Tālibīn by Abú Zakariya Yahya an-Nawawi in Arabic; a treatise on Islamic law. Many marginal annotations and paratexts in a much smaller hand. The colophon on f. 196r is dated Jumadilawal 1161 (April 1748), and the scribe named as Ahmad ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Boni al-Malari (of Bone and...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 209 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14056, ff 1v-10v
Title:: Anonymous collection of lance drills
Scope & Content:: Collection of instructions for military drills for lancers. Each set of instructions for a drill is called a band (بند, pl. بنود). The fragment contains 26 bunūd most of which are attributed to companions of the Prophet. Although no title or author of the fragment is specified, it is probable th...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 870
Extent:: Ff. 1v-10v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14056, ff 11r-18v
Title:: Fragment of an anonymous treatise on the arts of the lance
Scope & Content:: Fragment of an anonymous treatise on the arts of the lance. The text is defective at beginning and end, starting abruptly in Chapter 1 (باب الأول) and ending just after the chapter heading for Chapter 7 (الباب السابع). Contents: Chapter 1 (ff 11r-13v, defective at beginning); Chapter 2: Strateg...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 870
Extent:: Ff. 11r-18v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14056, ff 19r-123v
Title:: Kitāb fī ‘ilm al-bayṭarah كتاب في علم البيطرة
Scope & Content:: Treatise on horses compiled from the works of the Mamluk Amīr al-Sayfī Yashbak al-Faqīh al-Malikī al-Ashrafī (السيفي يشبك الفقيه الملكي الأشرفي, fl. ca 1450) and Abū Bakr al-Bayṭār (أبو بكر البيطار, for both of these names see title page, f. 19v, transcribed below). The second named authority is...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 2 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 870
Extent:: Ff. 19r-123v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14332, ff 2v-22r
Title:: al-Shakl al-thāmin min al-maqālah al-ūlá min kitāb al-maqāyīs الشكل الثامن من المقالة الأولى من كتاب المقاييس And four excerpts from Euclidis elementorum libri VI Christophorus Clavius كلاويوس الفرنجي
Scope & Content:: Proposition 8 from Book 1 of Gnomonices libri octo (Rome: Apud F. Zanettum, 1581, pp. 26-37) by Christophorus Clavius (Christoph Klau, كلاويوس, d. 1537 or 38; see fol. 3r, line 9), translated into Arabic by Mu‘tamad Khān (معتمد خان) Rustam Beg al-Ḥārithī al-Badakhshī ibn Qubād Beg, titled Dīyāna...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 26 Dec 1834
Extent:: Ff. 2v-22r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14332, ff 22v-32v
Title:: Qawl lil-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan al-Haytham fī shakl Banī Mūsá قول للحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم في شكل بني موسى Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham, al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan) ابن الهيثم ,الحسن بن الحسن
Scope & Content:: Treatise by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham (أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم; d. ca 1040) on a proposition from the prolegomena of the Banū Mūsá (بنو موسى, fl. 9th century) to the Conics (Κωνικά; كتاب المخروطات) by Apollonius of Perga (Ἀπολλώνιος; أبلونيوس; fl ca 200 BC)....
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 26 Dec 1834
Extent:: Ff. 22v-32v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14332, ff 32v-37v
Title:: Maqālah fī rasm al-qutū‘ al-thalāthah مقالة في رسم القطوع الثلثة Ibn Sinān, Ibrāhīm ابن سنان ,إبراهيم
Scope & Content:: Treatise by Ibrāhīm ibn Sinān ibn Thābit ibn Qurrah (إبراهيم بن سنان بن ثابت بن قرّة, d. 946) on the three types of conic section: the hyperbola, parabola and ellipse. The diagrams are missing in the text and may be found on ff. 194v-201v. Begins (fol. 32v, lines 5-8): قال إبراهيم بن سنان هذه...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 26 Dec 1834
Extent:: Ff. 32v-37v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14332, ff 38r-193v
Title:: Kitāb al-makhrūṭāt كتاب المخروطات Apollonius of Perga أبلونيوس
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of the Conics (Κωνικά; كتاب المخروطات) by Apollonius of Perga (Ἀπολλώνιος; أبلونيوس; fl ca 200 BC). Originally in eight books, only Books 1 to 4 survive in the original Greek; Books 1 to 7 are preserved in Arabic, and are presented here in the edition/translation by Muḥyī al-Dīn Y...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 26 Dec 1834
Extent:: Ff. 38r-193v

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