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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23570, ff 29v-30r
Title:: Treatise on ascertaining the levelness of surfaces
Scope & Content:: A short anonymous treatise on the construction and use of an instrument called the 'pipe (الأنبوبة; see f. 29v, line 7)', which functions similarly to a spirit level to ascertain the levelness of a surface. There is a diagram of the instrument on f. 30v. The 'tube (الأنبوبة)' is suspended from ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: c 1605
Extent:: Ff. 29v-30r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23570, ff 30r-62r
Title:: Kitāb al-ukar كتاب الأكر Theodosius ثاوذوسيوس
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of the De sphaericis (كتاب الأكر) by Theodosius of Bithynia (ثاودوسيوس; Θεοδοìσιος; c 160-c 100 BC). The preface (f. 1v, lines 3-5, transcribed below) states that it was translated from Greek into Arabic by Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا; ca 820-912), up to Chapter 3, figure 5, at t...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Jumādá II 1014
Extent:: Ff. 30r-62r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23570, ff 62r-69v
Title:: Kitāb al-kurrah al-mutaḥarrika كتاب الكرة المتحركة Autolycus أوطولوقس
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of the De sphaera quae movertur (Περὶ κινουμένης σφαίρας; كتاب الكرة المتحركة) by the astronomer, mathematician and geographer Autolycus of Pitane (Αὐτόλυκος ὁ Πιταναῖος; أوطولوقس; fl. 300 BC), translation from the Greek revised by Thābit ibn Qurrah (ثابت بن قرة; d. 901). Although...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Jumādá II 1014
Extent:: Ff. 62r-69v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23570, ff 70r-75r
Title:: Kitāb Thāwudhūsīyus fī al-layl wa-al-nahār كتاب ثاوذوسيوس في الليل والنهار Theodosius ثاودوسيوس
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of the De diebus et noctibus (Περὶ ἡμερῶν καὶ νυκτῶν; كتاب في الليل والنهار) a work on astronomy by Theodosius of Bithynia (ثاوذوسيوس; Θεοδόσιος; c 160-c 100 BC). The translator is said to be Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn (إسحق بن حنين, d. c 910; see f. 70v, line 2, transcribed below), the son...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1605-1610
Extent:: Ff. 70r-75r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23570, ff 76r-82r
Title:: Kitāb Thāwudhūsīyus fī al-masākin كتاب ثاوذوسيوس في المساكن Theodosius ثاودوسيوس
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of the De habitationibus (Περὶ οἰκήσεων; كتاب المساكن), a work on astronomy by Theodosius of Bithynia (ثاودوسيوس; Θεοδοìσιος; c 160-c 100 BC), translated from the Greek by Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا; c 820-912). The text contains twelve diagrams. The copy was completed at Yazd ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Rajab 1014
Extent:: Ff. 76r-82r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23570, ff 83v-85r
Title:: Two short texts on astronomy
Scope & Content:: Two excerpts from texts on astronomy with comments. The first (ff. 83v-84v) is from a commentary on Ptolemy's (بطلميوس, Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168) Almagest (كتاب المجسطي), and relates to the question of the use of the term 'widest (أوسع)' in relation to figures of circles; it contains one ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1605-1610
Extent:: Ff. 83v-85r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23570, ff 86v-117r
Title:: Short mathematical texts, notes and diagrams in Arabic and Persian
Scope & Content:: Notable contents include: Commentary on Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274) edition of Euclid's (Εὐκλείδης; أقليدس; fl. 300 BC) Elements (الأصول) (ff. 86v-88r); Text by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1605-1610
Extent:: Ff. 86v-117r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23570, ff 117v-133v
Title:: Fawā’id al-Jamālī fī uṣūl al-handasah فوائد الجمالي في أصول الهندسة Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf سمرقندي، محمد بن أشرف
Scope & Content:: Persian translation of a treatise on geometry, the Ashkāl al-ta’sīs (أشكال التأسيس) by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ashraf al-Ḥusaynī al-Samarqandī (شمس الدين محمد بن أشرف الحسيني السمرقندي, d. 1302; see f. 118v, line 7). The translation was made by Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Qiwām al-Qāḍ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1605-1610
Extent:: Ff. 117v-133v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23571
Title:: Kanz al-lughah (includes text in persian)
Scope & Content:: Author: Ibn Maʻrūf, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Khāliq, active 15th century VIAF ID: 52106944 Subject: Arabic philology
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Persian
Date Range:: 1059
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23572
Title:: Kanz al-lughah (includes text in persian)
Scope & Content:: Author: Ibn Maʻrūf, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Khāliq, active 15th century VIAF ID: 52106944 Subject: Arabic philology
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Persian
Date Range:: 1111
Extent:: 1 item

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