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1. Or 11313

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11313
Title:
Nine treatises on scientific and philosophical subjects
Scope & Content:
Nine treatises on mathematics, astronomy, philosophy and geomantic divination. Contents: (1) Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-ḥisāb (كتاب التذكرة في الحساب, ff. 2r-21r);(2) al-Turkistānī (التركستاني), al-Risālah al-ʻAlāʼīyah fī al-masāʼil al-ḥisābīyah (الرسالة العلائية في المسائل الحسابية, ff. 23r-43v)...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
1348 to 16th century
Extent:
Codex; ff. i+174+i

2. Or 11313, ff 2r-21r

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Or 11313, ff 2r-21r
Title:
Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-ḥisāb كتاب التذكرة في الحساب
Scope & Content:
Treatise on arithmetic in three sections (أقسام), each subdivided into chapters (أبواب) and parts (فصول). In the preface to the work, the author states that he called his work a Memorandum (تذكرة), and that it is a condensed translation of a Persian text called The Introduction (التبصرة), in whi...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
Dhū al-Qaʻdah 748
Extent:
Ff. 2r-21r

3. Or 11313, ff 23r-43v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11313, ff 23r-43v
Title:
al-Risālah al-ʻAlāʼīyah fī al-masāʼil al-ḥisābīyah الرسالة العلائية في المسائل الحسابية Turkistānī, Saʻīd ibn Muḥammad تركستاني، سعيد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Treatise on arithmetic and geometry composed in 711/1312 by Jamāl al-Dīn Saʻīd ibn Muḥammad ibn Muṣaddiq al-Sughdī al-Turkistānī (جمال الدين سعيد بن محمد بن مصدق السغدي التركستاني) for his patron ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Faryūmalī (? علاء الدين محمد بن محمد بن محمود الفري...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
9 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 748
Extent:
Ff. 23r-43v

4. Or 11313, ff 44r-87r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11313, ff 44r-87r
Title:
Jawāmiʻ al-ḥisāb bi-al-takht wa-al-turāb جوامع الحساب بالتخت والتراب Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Treatise on making mathematical calculations by means of a dustboard by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي, d. 1274). The title of the text as stated by its author in the preface (f. 44v, line 5, transcribed below) differs slightly from the variant title g...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
26 Ṣafar 751
Extent:
Ff. 44r-87r

5. Or 11313, ff 88v-96r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11313, ff 88v-96r
Title:
al-Risālah al-ʻIzzīyah الرسالة العزية [Zanjānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ibrāhīm زنجاني، عبد الوهاب بن إبراهيم]
Scope & Content:
Treatise on mental arithmetic by ʻIzz al-Dīn Abū al-Faḍāʼil ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Abū al-Maʻālī al-Khazrajī al-Zanjānī (عز الدين أبو الفضائل عبد الوهاب بن إبراهيم بن عبد الوهاب بن أبو المعالي الخزرجي الزنجاني, fl. mid-13th century). The treatise is sometimes found in ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
9 Jumādá I 751
Extent:
Ff. 88v-96r

6. Or 11313, ff 137r-142v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11313, ff 137r-142v
Title:
al-Muqaddimah fī ʻilm al-hayʼah المقدمة في علم الهيئة Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad سبط المارديني، بدر الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Introduction to astronomy for beginners in the science of time keeping (علم الميقات). The title page (f. 137r) attributes the text to the astronomer and timekeeper (مُوَقِّت) at the al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad (بدر الدين محمد بن محمد, d. after 1497), known as Sibṭ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
Ff. 137r-142v

7. Or 11313, ff 144v-148v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11313, ff 144v-148v
Title:
Risālat al-Zawrāʼ رسالة الزوراء Dawānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad دواني، محمد بن أسعد
Scope & Content:
Philosophical treatise by Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Asʻad al-Dawānī (جلال الدين محمد بن أسعد الدواني, d. 1502) composed at Najaf in 872/1467 (see Newman, 'Davānī, Jalāl-al-Dīn Moḥammad', in Encyclopaedia Iranica Online [accessed 2 June 2023] http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2330-4804_EIRO_COM_8169). B...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
Ff. 144v-148v

8. Or 11313, ff 149v-159r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11313, ff 149v-159r
Title:
Risālat al-Ḥawrāʼ رسالة الحوراء Dawānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad دواني، محمد بن أسعد
Scope & Content:
Commentary by Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Asʻad al-Dawānī (جلال الدين محمد بن أسعد الدواني, d. 1502) on his own philosophical treatise the Risālat al-Zawrāʼ (رسالة الزوراء, item 7 in the present volume). Begins (f. 149v, lines 2-4): أما بعد الحمد لوليه والصلوة على نبيه فإني لما فرغت من تهذيب الر...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
Ff. 149v-159r

9. Or 11313, ff 160v-169v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11313, ff 160v-169v
Title:
[Treatise on geomantic divination (علم الرمل)] Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the 'science of sand' (علم الرمل), or geomantic divination, by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي, d. 1274). The text is perhaps the Sufficient Treatise on the Science of Sand (الرسالة الوافي في علم الرمل) also known as the Sultanic Treatise o...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
Ff. 160v-169v