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51. Add MS 7496

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Title:
IkhtiṣārKitāb al-buldān اختصار كتاب البلدان Ibnal-Faqīh al-Hamadhanī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ابن الفقيهالهمذاني، أحمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Abridgement made around 413/1022 by ʿAlī ibn Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad al-Shayzarī (علي بن جعفر بن أحمد الشيزري) of a treatise on literary geography composed by the traditionist and jurist Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Hamadhānī (أبو بكر أحمد بن محمد الهمذاني, fl. circa 290/903), known as Ibn al-Faqīh (...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13th century-14th century
Extent:
Codex; ff. i+91+i

52. Add MS 7498

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Title:
Taqwīm al-buldān تقويم البلدان Abū al-Fidāʼ, Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAlī أبو الفداء، إسماعيل بن علي
Scope & Content:
Geographical compendium by the Ayyubid prince and scholar Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAlī ibn Maḥmūd al-Malik al-Muʼayyad ʻImād al-Dīn Abū al-Fidāʼ (إسماعيل بن علي بن محمود الملك المؤيد عماد الدين أبو الفداء, d. 1331). Its composition was completed in Shaʻbān 721/August-September 1321 (see authorial colophon, ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17 Ṣafar 743
Extent:
Codex; ff. ii+119+ii

53. Add MS 7499

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Title:
Taqwīm al-buldān تقويم البلدان Abū al-Fidāʼ, Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAlī أبو الفداء، إسماعيل بن علي
Scope & Content:
A copy, without colophon, of a geographical compendium by the Ayyubid prince and scholar Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAlī ibn Maḥmūd al-Malik al-Muʼayyad ʻImād al-Dīn Abū al-Fidāʼ (إسماعيل بن علي بن محمود الملك المؤيد عماد الدين أبو الفداء, d. 1331). Its composition was completed in Shaʻbān 721/August-September...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 17th century
Extent:
Codex; ff. ii+113+ii

54. Add MS 7502

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Title:
Nukhbat al-dahr fī ʻajāʼib al-barr wa-al-baḥr نخبة الدهر في عجائب البر والبحر Dimashqī, Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Abī Ṭālib دمشقي، شمس الدين محمد بن أبي طالب
Scope & Content:
Illustrated cosmological compendium in nine chapters (أبواب), subdivided into many sections (فصول), by the theologian and polymath Shams al-Dīn Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Ansārī al-Dimashqī (شمس الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن أبي طالب الأنصاري الدمشقي, d. 1327). The copy was completed...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16 Shaʻbān 1130
Extent:
Codex; ff. ii+118+i

55. Add MS 7503

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Title:
Ibn Iyās ابن إياس Nashq al-azhār fī ʻajāʼib al-aqṭār نشق الأزهار في عجائب الأقطار
Scope & Content:
A geographical compendium with a particular emphasis on Egypt (see f. 1v, lines 9-13), by Abū al-Barakāt Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Ibn Iyās (أبو البركات محمد ابن أحمد ابن إياس; died c. 1524). The text was completed on 14 Shaʻbān 922/11 September 1516 (see f. 293v, lines 17-20 transcribed below), and t...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
20 Ramaḍān 1065
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+294+ii

56. Add MS 7511

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Title:
Kitāb fī ma‘rifat ṭabā’i‘ al-ḥayawān al-barrī wa-al-baḥrī كتاب في معرفة طبائع الحيوان البري والبحري Aristotle أرسطاطاليس
Scope & Content:
This Arabic work on zoology is in fact a compilation of translations of three treatises by Aristotle (384-322 BC). The Arabic text is arranged into 19 books (أقوال), which divide the Aristotelian treatises as follows: Books 1-10 (Historia animalium), Books 11-14 (De partibus animalium), and Book...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13th-14th century
Extent:
Codex; ff. iv+232+iii

57. Add MS 7514

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Title:
Treatise on swordmanship, archery and other military skills [Dhikr al-ʿamal bi-al-sayf] [ذكر العمل بالسيف]
Scope & Content:
Anonymous compendium on military technologies and skills. The manuscript is defective at the beginning and the author's name is unknown. The assumed title 'On Using the Sword' (ذكر العمل بالسف) is taken from a heading on f. 1r. The copy was completed on 9 Rabī' I 739/24 September 1338 by an ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
9 Rabī' al-Awwal 739
Extent:
Codex; ff. iii+65+iii

58. Add MS 7515

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Title:
Kitāb fī al-shaṭranj wa-manṣūbātihi wa-mulaḥih كتاب في الشطرنج ومنصوباته وملحه
Scope & Content:
Anonymous handbook on chess, dealing with its legality, origins, symbolism, classes of players, poetry in praise of chess, poetry to be recited at various stages of play, and chess techniques. The sections on techniques cover chess problems (منصوبات), openings (تعبيات) and puzzles (مخارق). For a...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
6 Jumādá II 655
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+132+i

59. Add MS 7527

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Title:
Three treatises on natural philosophy and medicine
Scope & Content:
(1) Sākhīyūs al-Qass (ساخيوس القس), Tafsīr kitāb al-ʿilal (تفسير كتاب العلل; ff. 2v-170r); (2) Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا), Risālah fī tadbīr safar al-ḥajj (رسالة في تدبير سفر الحج; ff. 171v-185v); (3) Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا), Kitāb fī ʿilal al-shaʿr (كتاب في علل الشعر; ff. 186v-194r)....
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1097
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+194+i

60. Add MS 7527, ff 2v-170r

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Title:
Tafsīr kitāb al-ʿilal تفسير كتاب العلل Sākhīyūs al-Qass ساخيوس القس
Scope & Content:
Compendium of natural philosophy attributed to the Greek Pythagorean sage Apollonius of Tyana (Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Τυανεύς, here transliterated بلينوس, fl. 1st century). The text is presented as a translation and commentary by a certain priest Sākhīyūs resident at Nablus (ساخيوس القس الذي منزل بنابلس; ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Rabī‘ II 1097
Extent:

Ff. 2v-170r

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