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2741. Or 9649

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9649
Title:
Three treatises on musical organs by Mūrisṭus مورسطس
Scope & Content:
Three technical treatises (رسالات) on the construction of musical organs attributed to Mūrisṭus (مورسطس), variously and tentatively identified as Ariston (the dedicatee of the Pneumatica of Philo of Byzantium, d. c 220 BC), Ameristos (an early Greek mathematician mentioned in Proclus' [d. 485] c...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
Codex; ff. iii+13+xxii

2742. Or 9649, ff 1v-5r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9649, ff 1v-5r
Title:
Ṣan‘at al-arghīn al-būqī صنعة الأرغين البوقي Mūrisṭus مورسطس
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the construction of a hydaulic pipe organ (الأرغين البوقي; lit. 'trumpet organ'). The instrument is said to have been carried into battle and used as a siren capable of emitting a blast the could be heard for sixty miles. The author states that he made such an organ for the 'king of ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 1v-5r

2743. Or 9649, ff 6v-10v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9649, ff 6v-10v
Title:
Ṣan‘at al-arghīn al-zamarī صنعة الأرغين الزمري Mūrisṭus مورسطس
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the construction of a pneumatic pipe organ (الأرغين الزمري; lit. 'reed-pipe organ'). The instrument is said to produce all manner of wonderous sounds, which cause their listeners by turns to weep, fall asleep at once, rejoice and dance, and lose their senses (f. 6v, lines 3-6, transc...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 6v-10v

2744. Or 9649, ff 11v-13r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9649, ff 11v-13r
Title:
Ṣan‘at al-juljul صنعة الجلجل Mūrisṭus مورسطس
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the construction of a rattling instrument called the juljul (الجلجل), which produces distressing (شجيّة) sounds. The instrument, which is oval in shape and made of copper and glass, is said to have been made in ancient Egypt by a certain Sā‘āṭis (ساعاطس القديم في بلاد مصر العتيقة; f....
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 11v-13r

2745. 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

2746. Or 9868, ff 1v-3r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9868, ff 1v-3r
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
Scope & Content:
A short inventory of sciences by Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad al-Anṣārī (زكريا ابن محمد الأنصاري c. 1423-c. 1520) encompassing subjects found in the second and main text of the present manuscript, Fatḥ al-ḥayy al-qayyūm sharḥ rawḍat al-fuhūm (فتح الحيّ القيوم شرح روضة الفهوم; Or 9868 ff. 3v-393v), as w...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:

Ff. 1v-3r

2747. Or 9868, ff 3v-393v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9868, ff 3v-393v
Title:
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:
A commentary by Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Sunbāṭī (أحمد ابن أحمد ابن عبد الحقّ السنباطي, d. 1582 [or 1574]) on his own Garden of Understanding (روضة الفهوم), a versified rendering of Selection of the sciences (نقاية العلوم) by Suyūṭī (سيوطي, d. 911/1505). The text was written in 982/15...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1139
Extent:
Ff. 3v-393v

2748. Or 10881

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 10881
Title:
Talkhīṣ tafsīr Jālīnūs li-fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ تلخيص تفسير جالينوس لفصول أبقراط Nīlī, Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz نيلي، سعيد بن عبد العزيز
Scope & Content:
Arabic summary of Galen of Pergamon's (جالينوس, d. ca 216) commentary on the Aphorisms (كتاب الفصول) of Hippocrates (أبقراط, d. ca 370 BC) by Abū Sahl Sa‘īd ibn ‘Abd al-‘Azīz al-Nīlī (أبو سهل سعيد بن عبد العزيز النيلي, d. 1029). The summary is based on an earlier commentary by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+91+ii

2749. Or 10885

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 10885
Title:
Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-wusṭá كتاب حياة الحيوان الوسطى Damīrī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá دميري، محمد بن موسى
Scope & Content:
Intermediate recension (وسطى) of a zoological encyclopedia by Kamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Mūsá al-Damīrī (كمال الدين محمد بن موسى الدميري, d. 1405). The work, arranged in alphabetical order, deals not only with strictly zoological material, but also with lexical and legal considerations of animals...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
10 Shawwāl 821
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+225+i

2750. Or 10975

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 10975
Title:
‘Ajā’ib al-aqālīm al-sab‘ah عجائب الأقاليم السبعة Suhrāb سهراب
Scope & Content:
Treatise on mathematical geography for cartographers by Suhrāb (سهراب; see f. 3, line 1) composed between between 902 and 945 (see LeStrange, 'Description of Mesopotamia and Baghdād', Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society [1895], p. 2). According to the colophon (f. 63r, lines 4-15, transcribed ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
23 Ramaḍān 711
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+63+i

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