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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23570/4
Title:: Kitāb al-kurah al-mutaḥarrikah
Scope & Content:: Author: Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī, -901 VIAF ID: 55563658 Subject: Mathematics, Arab--Early works to 1800
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1014
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23570/5
Title:: Kitāb Thāwudhūsiyūs fī al-layl wa-al-nahār
Scope & Content:: Author: Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn, 830 or 831-910 or 911 VIAF ID: 81962417 Subject: Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1014
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23570/6
Title:: Kitāb Thāwudhūsiyūs fī al-masākin
Scope & Content:: Author: Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, approximately 820-approximately 912 VIAF ID: 36906875 Subject: Mathematics, Arab--Early works to 1800
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1014
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23570/7
Title:: Fawāʾid jamālī min ashkāl al-taʾsīs
Scope & Content:: Author: Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf, active 13th century VIAF ID: 293214422 Subject: Mathematics, Arab--Early works to 1800
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1014
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23570, ff 2v-3v
Title:: (Fā’idah) min Sharḥ Shamsīyat al-ḥisāb من شرح شمسية الحساب (فائدة) Abū Isḥāq ibn ‘Abd Allāh أبو إسحاق بن عبد الله
Scope & Content:: Extract from a commentary (شرح) by Abū Isḥāq ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو إسحاق بن عبد الله, fl. mid-sixteenth century) on the al-Risāla al-Shamsīyah fī al-ḥisāb (الرسالة الشمسية في علم الحساب), a work on arithmetic by Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Nīsābūrī (نظام الدين الحسن بن محمد النيسابوري; d...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: c 1605
Extent:: Ff. 2v-3v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23570, ff 4v-6r
Title:: Short extracts and notes in Persian and Arabic
Scope & Content:: A collection of short extracts of poetry and prose in Perisan and Arabic on various topics related to the natural sciences. The extracts are attributed to such authorities and works as Sharaf al-Dīn ‘Alī Yazdī (شرف الدين علي يزدي, d. 1454; f. 5r), the Optica (كتاب المناظر) of Euclid of Alexandri...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: c 1605
Extent:: Ff. 4v-6r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23570, ff 7v-12r
Title:: Ṣafīḥat al-imkān fī aṣṭurlāb صفيحة الإمكان في أصطرلاب عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn
Scope & Content:: A short treatise on the construction and use of the astrolabe by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621). The scribe, Ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥīm Abū al-Qāsim Yaḥyá al-Astar’ābādī (ابن عبد الرحيم أبو القاسم يحيى الأسترآبادي), states in the colophon that he cop...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: c 1605
Extent:: Ff. 7v-12r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23570, ff 12v-13r
Title:: Two short extracts on astronomy in Arabic and Persian
Scope & Content:: Folio 12v contains six lines of unpointed Arabic text entitled ' On ascertaining the distance between countries (في معرفة قدر المسافة بين البلدين)', and a diagram showing the orbit of the moon around the earth. Folio 13r contains a short and mostly unpointed Persian text attributed to Naṣīr al-...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: c 1605
Extent:: Ff. 12v-13r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23570, ff 14r-24v
Title:: Mā lā budda lil-faqīh min al-ḥisāb ما لا بد للفقيه من الحساب Isfarā’aynī, Abū al-‘Alā’ Muḥammad al-Bihishtī إسفرايني، أبو العلاء محمد البهشتي
Scope & Content:: A treatise on arithmetic and algebra by Abū al-‘Alā’ Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bihishtī al-Isfarā’aynī (أبو العلاء محمد بن أحمد البهشتي الإسفرايني; d. 749 AH/AD 1348-49), known as Fakhr-i Khurāsān (فخر خراسان). The text is divided into two parts (مقالتان); Part One (ff. 2v, line 8-20r, line 10) conc...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: c 1605
Extent:: Ff. 14r-24v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23570, ff 25v-28r
Title:: Anonymous treatise on geometry
Scope & Content:: A short anonymous treatise on geometry in the form of a commentary on an unknown work. The tables said to follow the text (see f. 28r, line 18, transcribed below) does not appear in this manuscript. Because the text is almost entirely unpointed, the transcriptions below are approximate. Conten...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: c 1605
Extent:: Ff. 25v-28r

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