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Reference (shelfmark):: RSPA 280/2
Title:: Qaṭr al-nadá wa-ball al-ṣadá
Scope & Content:: Author: Ibn Hishām, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf, 1309-1360 VIAF ID: 19911704 Subject: Arabic language--Grammar--Early works to 1800
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 1-4100
Title:: Sloane Manuscripts
Scope & Content:: Manuscripts collected by Sir Hans Sloane (d 1753). c 1100-c 1750. 4100 manuscripts
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Breton, Catalan, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Modern, Greenlandic, Hebrew, Irish, Italian, Latin, Low German, Malayalam, Official Aramaic, Polish, Portuguese, Romance languages, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Venetian
Date Range:: c 1000-c 1750
Extent:: 4153 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 1775
Title:
Scope & Content:: Sloane 1775 Chartaceus, in Quarto, ff. 254, sec. XVII. 1. Catalogus morborum, cum remediis eorumdem. f. 1-22. 2. 'The manner of the Duke of Buckingham's Election for the Chancellour of the University of Cambridge, with certaine observations on the same. Junii 1o. 1626.' ff. 23-30. Annexed ar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 2645
Title:: Mukhtasar Ba Fadl or Muqaddimat al-Hadrami, here going under the title Masa'il al-ta'lim
Scope & Content:: Dated Hadha ashkala (i.e. sengkala) al-jawi min faraghihi 1545 (AD 1623/4). Arabic text with interlinear translation in Javanese in Arabic (pegon) script.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Javanese
Date Range:: 1623
Extent:: 120 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 2696
Title:: Miscellany of texts on gemstones, Ottoman sultans, and herbs
Scope & Content:: An anonymous notebook containing texts on gemstones, Ottoman sultans, and herbs, interspersed with notes and a prayer. Divisions of the text: (1) Lughat al-jawhar wa-asmāʾ al-jawāhir wa-manāfiʿhā (كتاب لغة الجوهر واسماء الجواهر ومنافعها, ff.1v-20v); A text enumerating different types of gemsto...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1595-1603
Extent:: Vertical format codex; ff. ii+25+xxi+2+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 3032
Title:: المقالة الثالثة من كتاب جالينوس في حيلة البروء al-Maqālah al-thālithah min Kitāb Jālīnūs fī ḥīlat al-burū’ Jālīnūs جالينوس
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of Book Three of Galen's (جالينوس) De methodo medendi (Θεραπευτικὴ μέθοδος; حيلة البروء). The Arabic translation from the Greek was made by Ḥubaysh ibn al-Ḥasan (حبيش بن الحسن known as Ḥubaysh al-A‘sam [حبيش الأعسم]; AD 9th century), and partially revised by his uncle, Ḥunayn ibn ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+64+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 3034
Title:: Maqālah fī istikhrāj irtifā‘ al-quṭb ‘alá ghāyat al-taḥqīq مقالة في استخراج ارتفاع القطب على غاية التحقيق Alhazen ابن الهيثم، الحسن بن الحسن
Scope & Content:: A short treatise describing a geometrical method for precisely determining latitude by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan known as Ibn al-Haytham (أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن known as ابن الهيثم, d c 1039). The Arabic text is accompanied by a Latin translation produced by Jacobus Golius (1596-1667) in 16...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Latin
Date Range:: 2 Feb 1646
Extent:: Codex; ff. xxvii+12+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 3056
Title:: Psalms and Odes
Scope & Content:: This volume contains 150 psalms in Arabic according to Ibn al-Fadl’s revision, followed by Psalm 151 (marked as outside of the canonical books) and the ten biblical Odes. Contents: Psalms 1–150, fols. 1v–114v Psalm 151, fol. 114v–115r The First Song of Moses 1, fols. 115v–116v The Second S...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: Codex, 128 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 3113
Title:: Cevahirü'l-kelimat - جواهر الكلمات
Scope & Content:: This volume contains a versified Arabic-Ottoman Turkish vocabulary by Şemsi. In a prologue in mesnevi (ff 1-15), the author relates how he was induced by friends to write this vocabulary in imitation of those first composed by Ferişteoğlu for Arabic, and then by Şahidi for Persian. His object wa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1105
Extent:: 1 text, 97 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 3299
Title:
Scope & Content:: Major Richard Salwey, Prisoner in the Tower: Allowance of materials to, for petitioning Charles II.: 1661. Philip V of Spain: Account of Spanish ships taken and burnt in Rodondello Harbour by the English and Dutch,: 1702. includes: f. 1 Elizabeth I of England: Letter to, from the Consuls and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1661-1702
Extent:: 1 item

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