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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7494
Title:: Shams al-āfāq fī ʿilm al-ḥurūf wa-al-awfāq
Scope & Content:: Author: Bisṭāmī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1380-1454 VIAF ID: 90054160 Subject: Islam and science
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1127
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7496
Title:: IkhtiṣārKitāb al-buldān اختصار كتاب البلدان Ibnal-Faqīh al-Hamadhanī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ابن الفقيهالهمذاني، أحمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Abridgement made around 413/1022 by ʿAlī ibn Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad al-Shayzarī (علي بن جعفر بن أحمد الشيزري) of a treatise on literary geography composed by the traditionist and jurist Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Hamadhānī (أبو بكر أحمد بن محمد الهمذاني, fl. circa 290/903), known as Ibn al-Faqīh (...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 13th century-14th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+91+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7497
Title:: Tuḥfat al-ʿajāʾib wa-ṭurfat al-gharāʾib (al-durrah al-muḍīʿah ilkh)
Scope & Content:: Author: Ibn al-Athīr, Majd al-Dīn al-Mubārak ibn Muḥammad, 1149-1209 VIAF ID: 76605177 Subject: Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 0939
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7498
Title:: Taqwīm al-buldān تقويم البلدان Abū al-Fidāʼ, Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAlī أبو الفداء، إسماعيل بن علي
Scope & Content:: Geographical compendium by the Ayyubid prince and scholar Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAlī ibn Maḥmūd al-Malik al-Muʼayyad ʻImād al-Dīn Abū al-Fidāʼ (إسماعيل بن علي بن محمود الملك المؤيد عماد الدين أبو الفداء, d. 1331). Its composition was completed in Shaʻbān 721/August-September 1321 (see authorial colophon, ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17 Ṣafar 743
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+119+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7499
Title:: Taqwīm al-buldān تقويم البلدان Abū al-Fidāʼ, Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAlī أبو الفداء، إسماعيل بن علي
Scope & Content:: A copy, without colophon, of a geographical compendium by the Ayyubid prince and scholar Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAlī ibn Maḥmūd al-Malik al-Muʼayyad ʻImād al-Dīn Abū al-Fidāʼ (إسماعيل بن علي بن محمود الملك المؤيد عماد الدين أبو الفداء, d. 1331). Its composition was completed in Shaʻbān 721/August-September...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: ca 17th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+113+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7500
Title:: Taqwīm al-buldān
Scope & Content:: Author: Abū al-Fidāʾ, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAlī, 1273-1331 VIAF ID: 49358074 Subject: Geography, Arab
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1088
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7502
Title:: Nukhbat al-dahr fī ʻajāʼib al-barr wa-al-baḥr نخبة الدهر في عجائب البر والبحر Dimashqī, Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Abī Ṭālib دمشقي، شمس الدين محمد بن أبي طالب
Scope & Content:: Illustrated cosmological compendium in nine chapters (أبواب), subdivided into many sections (فصول), by the theologian and polymath Shams al-Dīn Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Ansārī al-Dimashqī (شمس الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن أبي طالب الأنصاري الدمشقي, d. 1327). The copy was completed...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 16 Shaʻbān 1130
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+118+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7503
Title:: Ibn Iyās ابن إياس Nashq al-azhār fī ʻajāʼib al-aqṭār نشق الأزهار في عجائب الأقطار
Scope & Content:: A geographical compendium with a particular emphasis on Egypt (see f. 1v, lines 9-13), by Abū al-Barakāt Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Ibn Iyās (أبو البركات محمد ابن أحمد ابن إياس; died c. 1524). The text was completed on 14 Shaʻbān 922/11 September 1516 (see f. 293v, lines 17-20 transcribed below), and t...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 20 Ramaḍān 1065
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+294+ii

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