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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14270, ff 14r-21r
Title:: San‘at al-zāmir صنعة الزامر Apollonius the carpenter and geometer أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the design and construction of an hydraulic flute playing machine. The treatise is attributed to 'Apollonius the carpenter and geometer (أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي)', who some have identified as the geometer Apollonius of Perga (Ἀπολλώνιος; أبلونيوس; fl ca 200 BC). The text in this copy...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 28 Shawwāl 691
Extent:: Ff. 14r-21r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14270, ff 21v-73r
Title:: al-Kāmil fī ṣan‘at al-asṭurlāb al-shimālī wa-al-junūbī wa-‘ilalihuma bi-l-handasah wa-al-ḥisab الكامل في صنعة الأسطرلاب الشمالي والجنوبي وعللهما بالهندسة والحساب Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr فرغاني، أحمد بن محمد بن كثير
Scope & Content:: Earliest known Arabic treatise on the construction of the astrolabe, by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Farghānī (أحمد بن محمد الفرغاني; fl. ca 820-860). The text contains seventy-two diagrams and tables: Geometric diagram (f. 22v); Geometric diagram (f. 24r); Geometric diagram (f. 24v); Geometric diagra...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 28 Shawwāl 691
Extent:: ff. 21v-73r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14271/1
Title:: Risālah fī faḍl al-khayl wa-rukūbihi wa-khawāṣṣih
Scope & Content:: Author: Sūyūtī, 1445-1505 VIAF ID: 90051632 Subject: Hadith--Early works to 1800
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14271/2
Title:: Jarr al-dhayl fī ʿilm al-khayl
Scope & Content:: Author: Sūyūtī, 1445-1505 VIAF ID: 90051632 Subject: Hadith--Early works to 1800
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14272
Title:: al-Nawādir
Scope & Content:: Author: Aṣmaʻī, ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Qurayb, 740-approximately 828 VIAF ID: 90046590 Subject: Arabic literature
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14273
Title:: al-Zīj [al-mufīd] ʿalá uṣūl al-raṣd al-jadīd الزيج [المفيد] على أصول الرصد الجديد Razzāz, Riḍwān ibn ʻAbd Allāh رزاز، رضوان بن عبد الله
Scope & Content:: Astronomical handbook with tables (زيج) by the Ottoman Egyptian astronomer Riḍwān Efendi ibn ʿAbdallāh al-Razzāz al-Falakī (رضوان أفندي بن عبد الله الرزاز الفلكي, d. 1711). The text, also known as the al-Zīj al-Riḍwānī (الزيج الرضواني), is a revision of the Samarqand observatory's Zīj-i Ulugh Be...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1172
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+260+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14274
Title:: [Mecmua-yi fetava] - [مجموعۀ فتاوی]
Scope & Content:: This volume contains a reference collection of fetava. Most of these are grouped in three untitled compilations without the authors' names provided, two of which are systematically arranged. Only the second compilation is dated, but the entirety is likely from the 17th century CE. (I) ff 2r-71...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 5 texts, 141 ff (12 of which are blank)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14276
Title:: Kitab tercümetü'l-Havaşi li mukahhime fi şerh il-Mukaddime - كتاب ترجمة الحواشى لمقحمة في شرح المقدمة
Scope & Content:: This volume contains an Ottoman Turkish translation of a commentary on an Arabic metrical work on tecvit (Qur'an recitation) entitled al-Muqaddimah fī ᶜilm al-tajwīd (المقدمة في علم التجويد) by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Jazarī (751-833 AH/1350-1429 CE). His son, Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad a...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: Late 16th century
Extent:: 1 text, 119 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14277
Title:: al-Fatāwá al-zaynīyah fī fiqh al-ḥanafīyah
Scope & Content:: Author: Ibn Nujaym, Zayn al-Dīn ibn Ibrāhīm, ?-1563 VIAF ID: 40774089 Subject: Hanafites--Early works to 1800; Islamic law--Early works to 1800
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1102
Extent:: 1 item

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