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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Language Arabic Subject Physics--Early works to 1800

1. Add MS 16659, ff 508v-515v

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 16659, ff 508v-515v
Title:
Risālah fī ḥujaj al-muthbitīn lil-māḍī mabdaʼan zamānīyan رسالة في حجج المثبتين للماضي مبداءً زمانيًا Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:
Philosophical discussion of the eternity of the world in eleven sections (فصول) by Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1182
Extent:

Ff. 508v-515v

2. Add MS 16659, ff 575v-582v

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 16659, ff 575v-582v
Title:
Risālah lil-shaykh al-raʼīs Abī ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh ilá Abī Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī fī jawāb masāʼil anfadhahā ilayhī رسالة للشيخ الرئيس أبي علي ابن عبد الله إلى أبي ريحان محمد بن أحمد البيروني في جواب مسائل أنفذها إليه Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:
Answers by Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037) to questions on natural philosophy posed by by Abū al-Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī (أبو الريحان محمد بن أحمد البيروني, d. 1048).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1182
Extent:

Ff. 575v-582v

3. Delhi Arabic 1919, ff 4v-7r

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1919, ff 4v-7r
Title:
Treatise on heat Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Treatise by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين الطوسي, d. 1274) written in answer to a question posed by Najm al-Dīn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Qazwīnī al-Kātibī (نجم الدين علي بن عمر القزويني الكاتبي, d. 1276) about the actions of heat according Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, d. 1037). No title is given. 　 Begins ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

Ff. 4v-7r

4. IO Islamic 824

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 824
Title:
Scientific and Philosophical Compendium of Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān Ghūjārātī (أحمد بن سليمان غوجاراتي)
Scope & Content:
Compendium of short texts, extracts and notes on scientific and philosophical subjects, compiled by Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān Ghūjārātī (أحمد بن سليمان غوجاراتي; d. 1681), and completed in Dhū al-ḥijjah 1134/September-October 1722 (see note on f. 5r). The manuscript was later owned by the compiler''s ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
Dhū al-ḥijjah 1134
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+250+i

5. IO Islamic 923, ff 98v-101r

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 923, ff 98v-101r
Title:
كتاب أقليدس في الثقل والخفة وقياس الأجرام بعضها إلى بعض Kitāb Uqlīdas fī al-thiqal wa-al-khiffah wa-qiyās al-ajrām ba‘ḍihā ilá ba‘ḍ Euclid أقليدس
Scope & Content:
A work on the principles of specific gravity probably falsely attributed to the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (Εὐκλείδης; أقليدس; fl. 300 BC). The translation, presumabely from the Greek now lost, is said to have been corrected by Thābit ibn Qurrah (ثابت ابن قرة; d. 901; f. 98v, line 3, tra...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1198
Extent:

ff. 98v-101r