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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23391, ff 21r-25v
Title:: Ṣan‘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). Begins (f. 21r, lines...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: ff. 21r-25v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23392
Title:: Taḥrīr kitāb al-majisṭī تحرير كتاب المجسطي Ptolemy بطلميوس Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: The Almagest (كتاب المجسطي), an Arabic version of the Μαθηματικῆς σύνταξις of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168), in the annotated edition (تحرير) of Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). This was the most influential and enduring astronomic...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Jumādá II 956
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+160+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23393
Title:: al-Tuḥfah al-shāhīyah fī al-hayʾah التحفة الشاهية في الهيئة Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd قطب الدين الشيرازي، محمود بن مسعود
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Quṭb al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Mas‘ūd al-Shīrāzī (قطب الدين محمود بن مسعود الشيرازي; c 1236-1310) on the Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah (كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة; see British Library, MS Or. 11209) a treatise on the astronomical system presented in the Almagest of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemae...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 22 Ramaḍān 737
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+177+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23394
Title:: Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد and al-Tabṣirah fī ʿilm al-hayʾah التبصرة في علم الهيئة Kharaqī, ʻAbd al-Jabbār ibn ʻAbd al-Jabbār خرقي، عبد الجبار بن عبد الجبار
Scope & Content:: Two treatises on astronomy. Contents: (1) al-Ṭūsī (الطوسي) Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah (كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة; ff. 2r-60v); (2) al-Kharaqī (الخرقي), al-Tabṣirah fī ‘ilm al-hay’ah (التبصرة في علم الهيئة; ff. 61r-110r); The copy was completed in 1107/1695-96 by Muḥammad Riḍā ibn ‘Azīz All...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1107
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+111+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23394/1
Title:: al-Tadhkirah al-nāṣirīyah fī al-hayʾah
Scope & Content:: Author: Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274 VIAF ID: 12392936 Subject: Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1107
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23394/2
Title:: al-Tabṣirah fī ʿilm al-hayʾah
Scope & Content:: Author: Kharaqī, ʻAbd al-Jabbār ibn ʻAbd al-Jabbār, 1084-1158 VIAF ID: 90056192 Subject: Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1107
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23394, ff 2r-60v
Title:: Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: A treatise on astronomy which summarises, rationalises and improves upon the system presented in the Almagest of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168). The text was composed after 1256 by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). The text is divid...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1107
Extent:: Ff. 2r-60v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23394, ff 61r-110r
Title:: al-Tabṣirah fī ʿilm al-hayʾah التبصرة في علم الهيئة Kharaqī, ʻAbd al-Jabbār ibn ʻAbd al-Jabbār خرقي، عبد الجبار بن عبد الجبار
Scope & Content:: Treatise on astronomy by Bahā’ al-Dīn (بهاء الدين) and Shams al-Dīn Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Kharaqī (شمس الدين أبو بكر محمد بن أحمد الخرقي, d. 1138-39), elsewhere called Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Jabbār ibn ‘Abd al-Jabbār ibn Muḥammad (أبو محمد عبد الجبار بن عبد الجبار بن محمد). The author's c...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1107
Extent:: Ff. 61r-110r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23395
Title:: al-Tabṣirah fī ʿilm al-hayʾah
Scope & Content:: Author: Kharaqī, ʻAbd al-Jabbār ibn ʻAbd al-Jabbār, 1084-1158 VIAF ID: 90056192 Subject: Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23396
Title:: Sharḥ al-mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah [lil-jaghmīnī]
Scope & Content:: Author: Qāḍīʹzādah, Mūsá ibn Muḥammad -approximately 1436 VIAF ID: 73701246 Subject: Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

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