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1. Add MS 7446

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Add MS 7446
Title:
Kashf al-ẓunūn ʿan asāmī al-kutub wa-al-funūn كشف الظنون عن أسامي الكتب والفنون Kâtip Çelebi كاتب چلبي
Scope & Content:
Bibliographical encyclopaedia by the Ottoman scholar Muṣṭafā ibn ʿAbd Allāh (مصطفى بن عبد الله, d.1067/1657), also known as Kâtip Çelebi (كاتب چلبي) and Ḥājjī Khalīfah (حجي خليفة). The work begins with an introductory section dealing with the classification of the science (ff. 1v-21v), followed ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
4 Rabīʿ II 1170
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+339+ii

2. Add MS 7556, ff 96v-141v

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Add MS 7556, ff 96v-141v
Title:
Rawḍat al-fuhūm fī naẓm nuqāyat al-ʻulūm روضة الفهوم في نظم نقاية العلوم Sunbāṭī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq سنباطي، أحمد بن عبد الحق
Scope & Content:
Didactic poem (أرجوزة) by Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Sunbāṭī (أحمد ابن أحمد ابن عبد الحقّ السنباطي, d. 1582 or 1574), versifying the Selection of Sciences (نقاية العلوم) by Jalāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Suyūṭī (جلال الدين عبد الرحمن بن أبي بكر السيوطي, d. 1505). Al-Suyūṭī...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. 96v-141v

3. Add MS 9589

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Add MS 9589
Title:
Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār, vols. 14 and 15 مسالك الأبصار في ممالك الأمصار، السفر ١٤ والسفر ١٥ Ibn Faḍl Allāh al-ʻUmarī ابن فضل الله العمري
Scope & Content:
A section of Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār (مسالك الأبصار في ممالك الأمصار), a 27-volume geographical, historical and biographical compendium by Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá Ibn Faḍl Allāh al-ʻUmarī (أحمد بن يحي بن فضل الله العمري, d. 1349). The present copy corresponds to volume 14 in which al-ʻ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+250+i

4. Add MS 23492

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Add MS 23492
Title:
Khazīndār, Al-Ḥājj Luṭf Allāh الحاج لطف الله الشهير بالخزيندار [Mukhtaṣar kashf al-ẓunūn مختصر كشف الظنون]
Scope & Content:
A summary by al-Ḥajj Luṭf Allāh, known as al-Khazīndār (الحاج لطف الله الشهير بالخزيندار; see f. 2v, lines 5-6), based on the bibliographical encyclopaedia completed in about 1062/1652 by the Ottoman scholar Muṣṭafá ibn ʿAbd Allāh (مصطفى بن عبد الله, d.1067/1657), also known as Kâtip Çelebi (كات...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1245
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+284+iv

5. Delhi Arabic 994

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 994
Title:
Kashshāf iṣṭilāḥāt al-funūn كشاف اصطلاحات الفنون Tahānawī, Muḥammad Aʿlá ibn ʻAlī تهانوي، محمد أعلى بن علي
Scope & Content:
Encyclopaedia of technical terminology for self-teaching by the Mughal scholar Muḥammad Aʻlá ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Qāḍī Muḥammad Ḥāmid ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣābir al-Fārūqī al-Tahānawī (محمد أعلى بن علي بن القاضي محمد حامد بن محمد بن صابر الفاروقي التهانوي, d. after 1745). After a long introduction (vol. 1...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Two codices; ff. ix+264+iii and xi+304+iii

6. Or 8254

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8254
Title:
Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ رسائل إخوان الصفاء Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ إخوان الصفاء
Scope & Content:
The second volume (المجلد الثاني, probably of an original three) of the well-known Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ (رسائل إخوان الصفاء, Epistles of the Brethren of Purity), compiled by an anonymous group calling themselves Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ wa Khullān al-Wafāʾ ( إخوان الصفاء وخلان الوفاء, Brethren of Puri...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
644
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+279+i

7. Or 9023

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9023
Title:
Kashf al-ẓunūn ʿan asāmī al-kutub wa-al-funūn كشف الظنون عن أسامي الكتب والفنون Kâtip Çelebi كاتب چلبي
Scope & Content:
Bibliographical encyclopaedia by the Ottoman scholar Muṣṭafá ibn ʿAbd Allāh (مصطفى بن عبد الله, d.1067/1657), also known as Kâtip Çelebi (كاتب چلبي) and Ḥājjī Khalīfah (حاجي خليفة). The work begins with an introductory section dealing with the classification of the science (ff. 1v-29v), followed...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
11 Shawwāl 1126
Extent:

Codex; ff.iii+687+ii

8. Or 9868

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9868
Title:
Luʼluʼ al-naẓīm fī rawm al-taʻallum wa-al-taʻlīm لؤلؤ النظيم في روم التعلم والتعليم Anṣārī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad أنصاري، زكريا ابن محمد and Fatḥ al-ḥayy al-qayyūm sharḥ rawḍat al-fuhūm فتح الحيّ القيوم شرح روضة الفهوم Sunbāṭī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq سنباطي، أحمد ابن عبد الحقّ
Scope & Content:
(1) al-Anṣārī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad (الأنصاري، زكريا ابن محمد) , Luʼluʼ al-naẓīm fī rawm al-taʻallum wa-al-taʻlīm (لؤلؤ النظيم في روم التعلم والتعليم; ff. 1v-3r); (2) al-Sunbāṭī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq (السنباطي، أحمد ابن عبد الحقّ), Fatḥ al-ḥayy al-qayyūm sharḥ rawḍat al-fuhūm (فتح الحيّ الق...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1139
Extent:
Codex; ff. i+394+i

9. Or 11875

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11875
Title:
Fātiḥat al-ʿulūm فاتحة العلوم Ghazzālī غزالي
Scope & Content:
A treatise on knowledge, and on the value, classification and study of the sciences and the required qualities of the scholar, in seven sections (باب), by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī al-Ghazzāli (أبو حامد محمد بن محمد الطوسي الغزّالي), also known as al-Ghazālī (الغزالي, latinised as ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
7 Shawwāl 833
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+49+i