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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14055
Title:: Kitāb al-ḥiyal fī al-ḥurūb wa-fatḥ al-madāʾin wa-ḥifẓ al-durūb كتاب الحيل في الحروب وفتح المدائن وحفظ الدروب Ibn Mankalī, Muḥammad ابن منكلي، محمد
Scope & Content:: A manual on the military arts supposed to have been discovered in the tomb of Alexander the Great at Alexandria and translated from Greek into Arabic (see ff. 2v, line 7-3r, line 2). In fact, the author is thought to be the mamluk general and tactician Muḥammad Ibn Mankalī or Ibn Manjlī (محمد ب...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 16th century-17th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. vi+224+v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14056
Title:: Three Mamluk treatises on horsemanship
Scope & Content:: (1) Anonymous collection of lance drills (ff. 1v-10v); (2) Fragment of anonymous treatise on the arts of the lance (ff. 11r-18v); (3) Kitāb fī ‘ilm al-bayṭarah (كتاب في علم البيطرة; ff. 19r-123v).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 870
Extent:: Codex; ff. vi+124+vi

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14056/2
Title:: Kashf al-wayl fī maʿrifat amrāḍ al-khayl (kitāb al-bayṭarah / kāmil al-ṣināʿatayn)
Scope & Content:: Author: Bayṭār, Abū Bakr ibn Mundhir, 1309 or 1310-1340 or 1341 VIAF ID: 51782782 Subject: Agriculture--Early works to 1800
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 0870
Extent:: 1 item

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
Title:: Four treatises on conic sections
Scope & Content:: A collection of four mathematical treatises on conic sections. The mansucript was completed on 26 December 1834 (see colophon to Item 4, fol. 193v, line 13).The final eight folios (ff. 194v-201v) contain diagrams omitted in their proper places in the texts. Contents: (1) Clavius, Christophorus ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 26 Dec 1834
Extent:: Codex; ff. v+201+v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14332/1
Title:: Kitāb al-maqāyīs [li-Kalāwiyūs]
Scope & Content:: Author: Badakhshī, Rustum ibn Qubād Subject: Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1834
Extent:: 1 item

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