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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23419, ff 90v-233v
Title:: Kitāb al-khawāṣṣ al-kabīr كتاب الخواص الكبير Jābir ibn Ḥayyān جابر بن حيان
Scope & Content:: Complete copy of a treatise attributed to the alchemist Abū Mūsá Jābir ibn Ḥayyān (أبو موسى جابر بن حيان), concerning the occult properties (خواصّ) of animals, plants and stones, chemistry and other related subjects. The copy was completed on 1 Shaʻbān 1215/18 December 1800 by an un-named scribe...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1 Shaʻbān 1215
Extent:: Ff. 90v-233v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23419, ff 234r-280r
Title:: Extracts from al-Wuṣlah ilá al-ḥabīb fī waṣf al-tayyibāt wa-al-ṭīb ملتقط من الوصلة إلى الحبيب في وصف الطيبات والطيب Ibn al-ʻAdīm, Kamāl al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad ابن العديم، كمال الدين عمر بن أحمد
Scope & Content:: Excerpts (ملتقط) from chapters 2-10 of an important culinary treatise entitled Letter to the beloved on the description of delicacies and perfumes (الوصلة إلى الحبيب في وصف الطيبات والطيب). The copy was completed in Shawwāl 1215 (see colophon, f. 280r, transcribed below) by an un-named scribe. ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Shawwāl 1215
Extent:: Ff. 234r-280r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23560, ff 98v-214v
Title:: al-Murakkabāt al-Shāhīyah المركبات الشاهية 'Imad al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd عماد الدين شيرازي، محمود بن مسعود
Scope & Content:: An Arabic-language treatise on compound medicaments also entitled Qarābādhīn (قراباذين), by Maḥmud ibn Masʿūd ʽImad al-Din Shīrāzī (محمود بن مسعود عماد الدين شيرازى, fl. 16th century). The copy was completed on 23 Ramaḍān 1099/22 July 1688 (see colophon, f. 214v, transcribed below). The twenty-f...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 23 Ramaḍān 1099
Extent:: Ff. 98v-214v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23569, ff 46v-56v
Title:: Tashrīḥ al-aflāk تشريح الأفلاك ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين
Scope & Content:: Summary of theoretical astronomy (علم الهيئة) by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621) in which he argues that the earth rotates around its axis. Contents: Begins (f. 46v, lines 2-5): ربّنا ما خلقت هذا باطلًا سبحانك فقنا عذاب النار واجعلني من ا...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1646-47
Extent:: Ff. 46v-56v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23569, ff 103v-135v
Title:: Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb خلاصة الحساب ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين
Scope & Content:: Very popular textbook of arithmetic by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621). The treatise contains numerous diagrams and tables (ff. 104v, 105r, 105v, 106r, 109r, 109v, 110v, 112r, 118v, 119r, 122r, 122v and 124v). The text is defective at the en...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1646-1647
Extent:: Ff. 103v-135v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23570, ff 2v-3v
Title:: (Fā’idah) min Sharḥ Shamsīyat al-ḥisāb من شرح شمسية الحساب (فائدة) Abū Isḥāq ibn ‘Abd Allāh أبو إسحاق بن عبد الله
Scope & Content:: Extract from a commentary (شرح) by Abū Isḥāq ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو إسحاق بن عبد الله, fl. mid-sixteenth century) on the al-Risāla al-Shamsīyah fī al-ḥisāb (الرسالة الشمسية في علم الحساب), a work on arithmetic by Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Nīsābūrī (نظام الدين الحسن بن محمد النيسابوري; d...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: c 1605
Extent:: Ff. 2v-3v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23570, ff 4v-6r
Title:: Short extracts and notes in Persian and Arabic
Scope & Content:: A collection of short extracts of poetry and prose in Perisan and Arabic on various topics related to the natural sciences. The extracts are attributed to such authorities and works as Sharaf al-Dīn ‘Alī Yazdī (شرف الدين علي يزدي, d. 1454; f. 5r), the Optica (كتاب المناظر) of Euclid of Alexandri...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: c 1605
Extent:: Ff. 4v-6r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23570, ff 7v-12r
Title:: Ṣafīḥat al-imkān fī aṣṭurlāb صفيحة الإمكان في أصطرلاب عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn
Scope & Content:: A short treatise on the construction and use of the astrolabe by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621). The scribe, Ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥīm Abū al-Qāsim Yaḥyá al-Astar’ābādī (ابن عبد الرحيم أبو القاسم يحيى الأسترآبادي), states in the colophon that he cop...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: c 1605
Extent:: Ff. 7v-12r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23570, ff 12v-13r
Title:: Two short extracts on astronomy in Arabic and Persian
Scope & Content:: Folio 12v contains six lines of unpointed Arabic text entitled ' On ascertaining the distance between countries (في معرفة قدر المسافة بين البلدين)', and a diagram showing the orbit of the moon around the earth. Folio 13r contains a short and mostly unpointed Persian text attributed to Naṣīr al-...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: c 1605
Extent:: Ff. 12v-13r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23570, ff 14r-24v
Title:: Mā lā budda lil-faqīh min al-ḥisāb ما لا بد للفقيه من الحساب Isfarā’aynī, Abū al-‘Alā’ Muḥammad al-Bihishtī إسفرايني، أبو العلاء محمد البهشتي
Scope & Content:: A treatise on arithmetic and algebra by Abū al-‘Alā’ Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bihishtī al-Isfarā’aynī (أبو العلاء محمد بن أحمد البهشتي الإسفرايني; d. 749 AH/AD 1348-49), known as Fakhr-i Khurāsān (فخر خراسان). The text is divided into two parts (مقالتان); Part One (ff. 2v, line 8-20r, line 10) conc...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: c 1605
Extent:: Ff. 14r-24v

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