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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12349
Title:: Bugis diary from Bone, 1780-5
Scope & Content:: A court diary from Bone, written in Bugis language and script. A: ff. 2v. et seqq. Buginese diary, A.D. I780-5 (A.H. 1194-9). The keeper of the diary seems to have had close relations with the court of Bone. Various activities are mentioned. B: ff. 38v.-44r. An astronomical, meteorological, and...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Buginese
Date Range:: 1780-5
Extent:: 64 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12367
Title:: Mystical treatises in Arabic, Makasar and Bugis
Scope & Content:: Collection of mystical treatises, teachings, and sayings of well-known mystics in Arabic, Makasarese, and Buginese. A: ff. 4v.-28r. Ar-Risāla al-mubāraka, by Shaikh Abu'l Fatḥ Abū Yaḥya 'Abd al-Baṣīr aḍ-Ḍarīrī al-Khalwatĩ ar-Raffanī. Finished on a Thursday evening at the beginning of Safar A.H....
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Buginese, and Makasar
Date Range:: Late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:: 193 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12374
Title:: Verses from the Quran in Arabic, with Bugis translation
Scope & Content:: Verses from the Qur’an in Arabic, with Buginese translation (ff. 2r.-53r., 58v.-59v., 61v.-68r., 69v.-70r), without translation (ff. 53v.-58r), and with partial Buginese translation (ff. 1r.-2r). 72 written ff. (thereafter further unnumbered ff). Quran, in Arabic and Bugis script. (This descr...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Buginese
Date Range:: Late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:: 73 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14055
Title:: Kitāb al-ḥiyal fī al-ḥurūb wa-fatḥ al-madāʾin wa-ḥifẓ al-durūb كتاب الحيل في الحروب وفتح المدائن وحفظ الدروب Ibn Mankalī, Muḥammad ابن منكلي، محمد
Scope & Content:: A manual on the military arts supposed to have been discovered in the tomb of Alexander the Great at Alexandria and translated from Greek into Arabic (see ff. 2v, line 7-3r, line 2). In fact, the author is thought to be the mamluk general and tactician Muḥammad Ibn Mankalī or Ibn Manjlī (محمد ب...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 16th century-17th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. vi+224+v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14056
Title:: Three Mamluk treatises on horsemanship
Scope & Content:: (1) Anonymous collection of lance drills (ff. 1v-10v); (2) Fragment of anonymous treatise on the arts of the lance (ff. 11r-18v); (3) Kitāb fī ‘ilm al-bayṭarah (كتاب في علم البيطرة; ff. 19r-123v).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 870
Extent:: Codex; ff. vi+124+vi

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14056, ff 1v-10v
Title:: Anonymous collection of lance drills
Scope & Content:: Collection of instructions for military drills for lancers. Each set of instructions for a drill is called a band (بند, pl. بنود). The fragment contains 26 bunūd most of which are attributed to companions of the Prophet. Although no title or author of the fragment is specified, it is probable th...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 870
Extent:: Ff. 1v-10v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14056, ff 11r-18v
Title:: Fragment of an anonymous treatise on the arts of the lance
Scope & Content:: Fragment of an anonymous treatise on the arts of the lance. The text is defective at beginning and end, starting abruptly in Chapter 1 (باب الأول) and ending just after the chapter heading for Chapter 7 (الباب السابع). Contents: Chapter 1 (ff 11r-13v, defective at beginning); Chapter 2: Strateg...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 870
Extent:: Ff. 11r-18v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14056, ff 19r-123v
Title:: Kitāb fī ‘ilm al-bayṭarah كتاب في علم البيطرة
Scope & Content:: Treatise on horses compiled from the works of the Mamluk Amīr al-Sayfī Yashbak al-Faqīh al-Malikī al-Ashrafī (السيفي يشبك الفقيه الملكي الأشرفي, fl. ca 1450) and Abū Bakr al-Bayṭār (أبو بكر البيطار, for both of these names see title page, f. 19v, transcribed below). The second named authority is...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 2 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 870
Extent:: Ff. 19r-123v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14332
Title:: Four treatises on conic sections
Scope & Content:: A collection of four mathematical treatises on conic sections. The mansucript was completed on 26 December 1834 (see colophon to Item 4, fol. 193v, line 13).The final eight folios (ff. 194v-201v) contain diagrams omitted in their proper places in the texts. Contents: (1) Clavius, Christophorus ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 26 Dec 1834
Extent:: Codex; ff. v+201+v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14332, ff 2v-22r
Title:: al-Shakl al-thāmin min al-maqālah al-ūlá min kitāb al-maqāyīs الشكل الثامن من المقالة الأولى من كتاب المقاييس And four excerpts from Euclidis elementorum libri VI Christophorus Clavius كلاويوس الفرنجي
Scope & Content:: Proposition 8 from Book 1 of Gnomonices libri octo (Rome: Apud F. Zanettum, 1581, pp. 26-37) by Christophorus Clavius (Christoph Klau, كلاويوس, d. 1537 or 38; see fol. 3r, line 9), translated into Arabic by Mu‘tamad Khān (معتمد خان) Rustam Beg al-Ḥārithī al-Badakhshī ibn Qubād Beg, titled Dīyāna...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 26 Dec 1834
Extent:: Ff. 2v-22r

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