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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23494
Title:: al-Durr al-naqī fī fann al-mūsīqī الدرّ النقيّ في الفنّ الموسيقي Mawṣilī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥman موصلي، أحمد بن عبد الرحمن
Scope & Content:: Treatise on music theory relating the musical modes, or maqams (مقامات), to the Prophets, signs of the zodiac, hours of the day, etc. by Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Sayyid Aḥmad al-Rifā‘ī ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, given the laqab al-Musallam al-Mawṣilī (أبو صالح السيّد الرفاعي الملقّب بالمسلم الموصلي ابن عبد الرحمن,...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. v+1+iii+9+xiii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23560
Title:: A compendium of medical texts in Arabic and Persian
Scope & Content:: Four texts in Arabic and one in Persian on medicine and pharmacology. Colophons to the first three texts in the volume bear dates between Ramaḍān and Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1099/July-October 1688. Contents: (1) ʽImād al-Dīn Shīrāzī (عماد الدين شيرازي), Risālah-i yanbūʿ (رساله ينبوع, ff. 2v-98r); (2) ʽImā...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1099
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+311+iii

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
Title:: Five treatises on astronomy and mathematics in Persian and Arabic
Scope & Content:: A collection of five astronomical and mathematical treatises in Persian and Arabic. Folios 77v and 78r have been left blank. Contents: (1) al-Qūshjī (القوشجي), Risālah dar ‘ilm-i hay’ah (رسالة در علم هيئة; ff. 1v-46r) (2) al-‘Āmilī (العاملي), Tashrīḥ al-aflāk (تشريح الأفلاك; ff. 46v-56v); (3) a...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Persian
Date Range:: 1055-1057
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+135+v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23569/1
Title:: Tashrīḥ al-aflāk
Scope & Content:: Author: ʿĀmilī, Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621 VIAF ID: 27052262 Subject: Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1056
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23569/2
Title:: Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb (al-bahāʾīyah)
Scope & Content:: Author: ʿĀmilī, Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621 VIAF ID: 27052262 Subject: Mathematics, Arab--Early works to 1800
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1057
Extent:: 1 item

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
Title:: Mathematical compendium
Scope & Content:: Compendium containing treatises on astronomy, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and shorter extracts and notes on related topics. The title page (f. 7r), which is written by a later hand than that of the main scribe, calls the volume 'a compendium of seven treatises accompanied by various studies (...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1014-1018
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+136+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23570/1
Title:: al-Ṣaḥīfah
Scope & Content:: Author: ʿĀmilī, Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621 VIAF ID: 27052262 Subject: Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1014
Extent:: 1 item

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