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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19362
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. I. A.H. 1173 (A.D. 1760). Muhammad, the Prophet: Life.: Arab. and Turk.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Turkish
Date Range:: 1760
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19363
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. II. A.H. 1173 (A.D. 1760). Muhammad, the Prophet: Life.: Arab. and Turk.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Turkish
Date Range:: 1760
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19619, ff 243v-246r
Title:: Risālah fī aʿmār al-ʿaqāqīr al-mufradah wa-al-murakkabah رسالة في أعمار العقاقير المفردة والمركبة Zahrāwī, Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn ʿAbbās زهراوي، أبو القاسم خلف بن عباس
Scope & Content:: A fragmentary copy of part 4, of treatise 29, from the 30-volume medical encyclopaedia Kitāb al-Taṣrīf li-man ʿajiza ʿan al-taʿlīf (كتاب التصريف لمن عجز عن التأليف), by Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn ʿAbbās al-Zahrāwī al-Andalusī (أبو القاسم خلف بن عباس الزهراوي الأندلسي, latinised as Albucasis, d. ca ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Jumādá II 1103
Extent:: Ff. 243v-246r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19619, ff 246r-247v
Title:: Jawāb ilá al-Ḥillī fī al-dhawq جواب إلى الحلي في الذوق Ṭūsī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Response to a question put by the jurist Najm al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim Jaʿfar ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥillī (نجم الدين أبو القاسم جعفر بن الحسن الحلي, d. 1277), known as al-Muḥaqqiq al-Ḥillī (المحقق الحلي), on the sense of taste, by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي, d. ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Jumādá II 1103
Extent:: Ff. 246r-247v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 20736, ff 2v-96r
Title:: Treatise on horsemanship, arms and military skills
Scope & Content:: A general treatise on horsemanship, arms and military skills in the tradition of the so-called 'Treatise B' of the ʿAbbasid furūsīyah master Ibn Akhī Ḥizām (ابن أخي حزام, d. ca 864, see citation and note about the incipit of the latter, with identical wording to the present text, in Al-Sarraf, S...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Ff. 2v-96r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23390, ff 3r-50r
Title:: Fī raf‘ al-ashyā’ al-thaqīlah في رفع الأشياء الثقيلة Hero of Alexandria إيرن الإسكندراني
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of the Mechanica (Μηχανικά) by the mathematician and engineer Hero of Alexandria (Ἥρων ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς; إيرن; fl. 1st century). Only fragments of the original Greek text survive. The beginnings of Chapters Two and Three (ff. 18r, line 2 and 39v, line 2) give the title of the Arabic ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: ff. 3r-50r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23390, ff 50v-87v
Title:: ‘Uyūn al-ḥaqā’iq wa-īḍāḥ al-ṭarā’iq عيون الحقائق وإيضاح الطرائق ‘Irāqī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad عراقي، محمد ابن أحمد
Scope & Content:: An exhaustive treatise on the magical arts based upon writings attributed to Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Galen as well as more recent authorities. The author's name is given in full as Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, known as al-‘Irāqī in Khusrawshāh (أبو القاسم أحمد ابن محمد المعروف بال...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: ff. 50v-87v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23391, ff 2r-21r
Title:: Kitāb Arshimīdas fī al-binkāmāt كتاب أرشميدس في البنكامات Archimedes أرشميدس
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the hydraulic and pneumatic machinery of water-clocks with thirteen diagrams, attributed to Archimedes (Ἀρχιμήδης; أرشميدس; fl. 3rd century BC). The title is given wrongly as كتاب أرشميدش في عمل السكامات (Kitāb Arshimīdash fī ‘amal al-sakāmāt; f. 2v, line 1); the final word should re...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Ff. 2r-21r

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