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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15480, ff 89v-116v
Title:: al-Murshidah fī ṣināʿat al-ghubār المرشدة في صناعة الغبار Zamzamī, ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad علي بن محمد، زمزمي
Scope & Content:: Treatise on mathematical calculation by means of the dust board (تخت) and dust numerals ( غبار) by the Meccan mathematician and astronomer ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad b. Ismā‘īl al-Zamzamī al-Makkī (علي بن محمد بن إسماعيل الزمزمي المكي, fl. 15th century). The copy was completed on 8 Shawwāl 1148/21 Febru...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 8 Shawwāl 1148
Extent:: Ff. 89v-116v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15481
Title:: A SHORT treatise on Muhammadan Jurisprudence, called------------- by Abú Shijá ; written in the year of the Hijrah 1224. (A.D. 1809.) In Arabic. Small Quarto. [15,481.]
Scope & Content:: Abu Shijá: Treatise on Muhammadan jurisprudence.: Arabic.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1809
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15482
Title:: A COMMENTARY on Arabic Grammar; imperfect. In Arabic. Probably of the end of the xvth or beginning of the xvith century. Quarto. [15,482.]
Scope & Content:: Grammar: Commentary on Arabic grammar.: Arabic. Arabic Mss:.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: Late 15th century-Early 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15522
Title:: THE Yúm, otherwise named the Sher-chin, or ' Transcendental Wisdom,' the second great division of the Tibetan sacred compilation intitled the Kah-Gyur, comprising the speculative philosophy, translated from the Sanscrit. [See Asiat. Res. vol. xx. p. 393.] Written upon leaves of thick coarse paper, 20 1/2 in. long by 8 1/2 in. wide, with rubrics, and a few paintings. xviiith cent. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq.,formerly British Resident in Nepaul. [15,522.]
Scope & Content:: Yúm, The, or Transcendental Wisdom: : Arabic. Arabic Mss:.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16405
Title:: Nicephorus Gregoras, Historiae Romana and Antirrhetica priora
Scope & Content:: Nicephorus Gregoras, Historiae Romana and Antirrhetica priora, including: Epitaphs in memory of Fillipo Strozzi in French. Notes in Greek, Arabic and Latin. Greek proverbs in alphabetical order (from A to Ω), with Latin translation, in two parallel columns.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 12 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16405, ff 293-294
Title:: Epitaphs in memory of Fillipo Strozzi in French. Notes in Greek, Arabic and Latin.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16635
Title:: A LETTER from a Moorish merchant, Muhammad Ibn 'Ali Ibn Talib, to his brother Abu Bakr, dated 19 Ramadhan, 1257=A.D. 1841, and said to have been written at Timbuctoo. Arabic. [16,635.]
Scope & Content:: Muhammad Ibn 'Ali Ibn Talib: Letter to his brother: 1641.: Arab.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1841
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16637-16880
Title:: A collection of Oriental Manuscripts, from No. 16,637 to No. 16,880 inclusive, presented by the sons of Major William Yule, of the Hon. East India Company's Service, in Bengal
Scope & Content:: . A fuller description of them will be found in the General Catalogues of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, English, German, Persian, and Urdu
Date Range:: 15th century-19th century
Extent:: 244 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16646
Title:
Scope & Content:: WAPAYAT AL-A'YAN, the biographical work of Ahmad Ibn Muhammad, commonly called Ibn Khallikán. In Arabic; written in a neat Naskhi band. xviith cent. Small Folio. [I6,646,] Ibn Kallikán: Wayfayat al-A'yan. .: Arab.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16647
Title:
Scope & Content:: LIVES Of the celebrated men of the xth century of the Hijrab, intitled Al-Kawákib al-Sá,irah bi-manákib a'yán al-miyah al-'áshirah, by Najm al-din Muhammad al-Ghazzi al-'Amiri;'Ikd al-Janáhir naldurar fi akhbár al-karn al-hádi 'ashar, or biographical notices of the illustrious men who died in th...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Persian
Date Range:: 1707
Extent:: 1 item

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