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Kitāb al-waḍīḥ fī maʿrifat ʿilm al-ramy كتاب الوضيح في معرفة علم الرمي [Ṭabarī,ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad طبري، عبد الرحمن أحمد]
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Luxury copy of a practical treatise on archery, very popular and widely-used especially in the Mamluk period, by Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭabarī (أبو محمد عبد الرحمن بن أحمد الطبري, active ca 9th century). The present copy was completed by an un-named scribe on 9 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 78...
Two treatises on gnomonics Ibn al-Raqqām, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ابن الرقام، محمد بن ابراهيم
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Two treatises on the construction and use of sundials by the Andalusian scholar Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Mursī al-Andalusī al-Tūnisī al-Awsī ibn al-Raqqām (عبد الله محمد بن إبراهيم بن علي بن أحمد بن يوسف المرسي الأندلسي التونسي الأوسي بن الرقام, d. 1315...
Risālah fī ʿilm al-ẓalālāt رسالة في علم الظلالات Ibn al-Raqqām, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ابن الرقام، محمد بن ابراهيم
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A comprehensive treatise on the construction and use of several types of sundials, including explanations of the theoretical principles of gnomonics. The treatise is divided into forty-four chapters (فصول), and contains fifty diagrams. Both the content and arrangement of the text preserved here...
‘Amal ‘āmm fī ‘amal ālāt al-iẓlāl عمل عام في عمل آلات الإظلال Ibn al-Raqqām, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ابن الرقام، محمد بن ابراهيم
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Fragment of a general introduction to the use of sundials. The text does not appear to be preserved elsewhere. Only one folio of this treatise is preserved and the text is imperfect at the end. The text on the lower half of f. 30v is obscured by water damage, worm holes and repairs. Begins (f. ...
Three treatises on musical organs by Mūrisṭus مورسطس
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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...
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 ...
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...
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....
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
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(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...
Luʼluʼ al-naẓīm fī rawm al-taʻallum wa-al-taʻlīm لؤلؤ النظيم في روم التعلم والتعليم Anṣārī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad أنصاري، زكريا ابن محمد
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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...
