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Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1930
Title:: Sharḥ mūjaz li-Kitāb tashrīḥ al-aflāk شرح موجز لكتاب تشريح الأفلاك Dihlawī, Muḥammad Rashīd al-Dīn Khān دهلوي، محمد رشيد الدين خان
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Muḥammad Rashīd al-Dīn (محمد رشيد الدين) on the Tashrīḥ al-aflāk (تشريح الأفلاك, Anatomy of the Spheres), a summary of theoretical astronomy (علم الهيئة) by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي, d. 1621) in which it is argued that the earth ro...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: late 18th century-early 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+51

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1934
Title:: Tawḍīḥ al-Tadhkirah al-Nāṣirīyah توضيح التذكرة الناصرية Nīsābūrī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad نيسابوري، الحسن بن محمد
Scope & Content:: A commentary by al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn Niẓām al-Dīn al-Aʿraj al-Nīsābūrī (الحسن بن محمد بن الحسين نظام الدين الأعرج النيسابوري; d. 1328 or 9) on the Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah (كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة; see British Library, MS Or.11209) a treatise on the astronomical system prese...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Rabī‘ II 827
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+192+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1937B
Title:: Four texts on astronomy
Scope & Content:: Contents: (1) al-Lāhūrī (اللاهوري), al-Taṣrīḥ fī sharḥ al-tashrīḥ (التصريح في شرح التشريح; ff. 1r-16r); (2) al-Landanī (اللندني), al-Ijābah ʿalá taʿlīq al-Jawnbūrī (الإجابة على تعليق الجونبوري; ff. 16v-22r); (3) Anonymous, Tarjamah-’i Sab‘ shidād (ترجمه سبع الشداد; ff. 23r-44v); (4) al-Ṭūsī (...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+62+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1937B, ff 1r-16r
Title:: al-Taṣrīḥ fī sharḥ al-tashrīḥ التصريح في شرح التشريح Lāhūrī, Imām al-Dīn ibn Luṭf Allāh لاهوري، إمام الدين بن لطف الله
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Imām al-Dīn ibn Luṭf Allāh al-Muhandis al-Lahūrī thumma al-Dihlawī (إمام الدين بن لطف الله المهندس اللاهوري ثم الدهلوي, d. 1732?) on the Anatomy of the Spheres (تشريح الأفلاك), a summary of theoretical astronomy (علم الهيئة) by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 1r-16r

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1937B, ff 16v-22r
Title:: al-Ijābah ʿalá taʿlīq al-Jawnbūrī الإجابة على تعليق الجونبوري Landanī, Ḥusayn لندني، حسين
Scope & Content:: Treatise on contemporary European discoveries and theories in astronomy and other sciences by Mīr Muḥammad Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd al-‘Aẓīm Iṣfahānī Landanī (مير محمد حسين بن عبد العظيم إصفهاني لندني, d. 1790) written in response to a request by ‘Abd al-Qādir ibn Khayr al-Dīn ‘Amādī Jawnpūrī (عبد القادر...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 16v-22r

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1937B, ff 47r-60v
Title:: Risālah fī kayfīyat al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb رسالة في كيفية العمل بالأسطرلاب Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of a treatise on the use of the Persian Treatise in Twenty Chapters on Knowledge of the Astrolabe (رساله بیست باب در معرفت اسطرلاب) by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). The treatise is, according to the preface (f. 47r, line 7)...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 47r-60v

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1941
Title:: Dustūr al-ʿajāʾib دستور العجائب Anṭākī, Dāwūd ibn ʿUmar أنطاكي، داوود بن عمر
Scope & Content:: A treatise on medicine preceded by a number of sections dealing with the various subjects which should be included in the physician's education. The title appears at f. 3r, line 3. The author's name does not appear but he can be identified as Dā’ūd ibn ‘Umar al-Qaṣīr al-Anṭākī (داوود بن عمر القص...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. vii+320+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1946
Title:: Collection of texts on talisman making and related occult sciences
Scope & Content:: Eleven texts on talisman making, the occult properties of stones and other natural substances, amulet engraving and related subjects. The first five items in the manuscript form parts of the cycle of texts known as the pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica, which purport to contain the occult knowledge...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. 200

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 1v-21r
Title:: Kitāb al-Isṭimākhīs كتاب الإسطماخيس Aristotle أرسطاطاليس
Scope & Content:: Text on the making and use of talismans. The text is said to have been taken from Hermes (هرمس) and recorded by Aristotle (أرسطاطاليس, d. 322 BC) for his pupil Alexander the Great (الإسكندر, d. 323 BC) while he was planning his expedition to the east, during the fourth year of his reign (see f. ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 1v-21r

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 21v-32r
Title:: Kitāb istijlāb rūḥānīyat al-bahāʼim kullihā كتاب استجلاب روحانية البهائم كلها Aristotle أرسطاطاليس
Scope & Content:: Treatise on attracting the spiritual beings (روحانيات) of animals taken from Hermes (هرمس) and recorded by Aristotle (أرسطاطاليس, d. 322 BC). The introduction to the text gives it the alternative title al-Madhāṭīs (المذاطيس, see f. 21v, line 3, transcribed below), while the colophon suggests tha...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 21v-32r

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