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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7556, ff 142v-188r
Title:: al-Kawkab al-sāṭiʻ fī naẓm jamʻ al-jawāmiʻ الكوكب الساطع في نظم جمع الجوامع Suyūṭī سيوطي
Scope & Content:: Didactic poem (أرجوزة) on the principles of jurisprudence and theology (أصول الفقه والدين, see f. 142v, line 6) by Jalāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Suyūṭī (جلال الدين عبد الرحمن بن أبي بكر السيوطي, d. 1505). The poem is a versification of the Compilation of Compilations (جمع الجوامع) ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 142v-188r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7556, ff 189r-219v
Title:: `Uqūd al-jumān fī ʻilmay al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān عقود الجمان في علمي المعاني والبيان Suyūṭī سيوطي
Scope & Content:: Didactic poem (أرجوزة) on the rhetorical disciplines of word order (علم المعاني) and embellishment (علم البيان) by Jalāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Suyūṭī (جلال الدين عبد الرحمن بن أبي بكر السيوطي, d. 1505). Al-Suyūṭī completed the poem on Sunday, the last day of Jumādá II 872/24 Jan...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 189r-219v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7556, ff 220v-253v
Title:: al-Farīdah fī ʻilm al-naḥw الفريدة في علم النحو Suyūṭī سيوطي
Scope & Content:: Didactic poem (أرجوزة) on grammar (علم النحو) by Jalāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Suyūṭī (جلال الدين عبد الرحمن بن أبي بكر السيوطي, d. 1505). Al-Suyūṭī completed the poem in Dhū al-Ḥijjah 885/February-March 1481 (see f. 253v, lines 1-2, transcribed below). Contents: Introductory dis...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 220v-253v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7556, ff 254v-285v
Title:: Alfīyat Ibn Mālik ألفية ابن مالك Ibn Mālik, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ابن مالك، محمد بن عبد الله
Scope & Content:: Didactic poem (أرجوزة) on grammar (نحو) by the Andalusī grammarian Abū ʻAbd Allāh Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Ṭāʼī al-Jayyānī (أبو عبد الله جمال الدين محمد بن عبد الله الطائي الجياني, d. 1274), known as Ibn Mālik (ابن مالك). The poem is also called The Thousand[-lined] Summary (الخلا...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 254v-285v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7556, ff 286v-375v
Title:: Manẓūmat al-Nasafī منظومة النسفي Nasafī, ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad نسفي، عمر بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Didactic poem (أرجوزة) on differences (خلافيات) in legal opinions between major imāms by the Seljuq Ḥanafī jurist (فقيه) Najm al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Māturīdī al-Nasafī (نجم الدين أبو حفص عمر بن محمد بن أحمد الماتريدي النسفي, d. 1142). The author calls the poem, which is...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 286v-375v

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9596
Title:: Natījat al-ijtihād fī al-muhādanah wa-al-jihād نتيجة الاجتهاد في المهادنة والجهاد Ghazzāl, Aḥmad ibn al-Mahdī غزال، أحمد بن المهدي
Scope & Content:: First-person travel narrative by Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn al-Mahdī al-Ghazzāl al-Fāsī al-Andalusī al-Mālaqī (أبو العباس أحمد بن المهدي الغزال الفاسي الأندلسي المالقي, d. 1777), ambassador and secretary under the ʿAlawī sultan Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh (Muḥammad III; محمد بن عبد الله, reg. 1757-90)....
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1767-1777
Extent:: Codex; ff. v+120+v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9598
Title:: A collection of treatises on astronomical instruments and their use
Scope & Content:: Composite volume containing fourteen texts on astronomy and the construction and use of astronomical instruments. All the texts are copied in various Maghribī hands, and a number are by Maghribī authors. The volume itself is assembled from sections dating to over a 300-year period between 9 Mu...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 903-1199
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+158+i+24+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9598, ff 1r-4r
Title:: Takhbīr al-aḥbāb fī al-ḍarūrī fī ʿilm al-asṭurlāb تخبير الأحباب في الضروري في علم الأسطرلاب Ibn al-Shāṭir, ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm, ابن الشاطر، علي بن إبراهيم
Scope & Content:: A treatise in ten chapters (أبواب) on the uses of the astrolabe, one of numerous works on astronomical instruments authored by ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Shāṭir (علاء الدين أبو الحسن علي بن إبراهيم ابن الشاطر, d. 1360). Begins (f. 1r, lines 2-4): قال الشيخ العلامة الحيسو...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: ca 1650-1750
Extent:: Ff. 1r-4r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9598, ff 4v-17r
Title:: Sharḥ al-Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-mujayyab شرح الرسالة في العمل بالربع المجيب Sanbāṭī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq سنباطي، أحمد بن عبد الحق
Scope & Content:: A commentary by Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Sanbāṭī (أحمد بن أحمد بن عبد الحق السنباطي, fl. 16th century) on the Treatise on the Use of the Sine Quadrant (الرسالة في العمل بالربع المجيب) in twenty chapters (باب) by Badr al-Dīn Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shāfi‘ī al-...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: ca 1650-1750
Extent:: Ff. 4v-17r

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