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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9868, ff 3v-393v
Title:: 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
Scope & Content:: A commentary by Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Sunbāṭī (أحمد ابن أحمد ابن عبد الحقّ السنباطي, d. 1582 [or 1574]) on his own Garden of Understanding (روضة الفهوم), a versified rendering of Selection of the sciences (نقاية العلوم) by Suyūṭī (سيوطي, d. 911/1505). The text was written in 982/15...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1139
Extent:: Ff. 3v-393v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 10881
Title:: Talkhīṣ tafsīr Jālīnūs li-fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ تلخيص تفسير جالينوس لفصول أبقراط Nīlī, Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz نيلي، سعيد بن عبد العزيز
Scope & Content:: Arabic summary of Galen of Pergamon's (جالينوس, d. ca 216) commentary on the Aphorisms (كتاب الفصول) of Hippocrates (أبقراط, d. ca 370 BC) by Abū Sahl Sa‘īd ibn ‘Abd al-‘Azīz al-Nīlī (أبو سهل سعيد بن عبد العزيز النيلي, d. 1029). The summary is based on an earlier commentary by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+91+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 10885
Title:: Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-wusṭá كتاب حياة الحيوان الوسطى Damīrī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá دميري، محمد بن موسى
Scope & Content:: Intermediate recension (وسطى) of a zoological encyclopedia by Kamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Mūsá al-Damīrī (كمال الدين محمد بن موسى الدميري, d. 1405). The work, arranged in alphabetical order, deals not only with strictly zoological material, but also with lexical and legal considerations of animals...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 10 Shawwāl 821
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+225+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 10975
Title:: ‘Ajā’ib al-aqālīm al-sab‘ah عجائب الأقاليم السبعة Suhrāb سهراب
Scope & Content:: Treatise on mathematical geography for cartographers by Suhrāb (سهراب; see f. 3, line 1) composed between between 902 and 945 (see LeStrange, 'Description of Mesopotamia and Baghdād', Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society [1895], p. 2). According to the colophon (f. 63r, lines 4-15, transcribed ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 23 Ramaḍān 711
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+63+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11136
Title:: Raqāʾiq al-ḥaqāʾiq fī ḥisāb al-daraj wa-al-daqāʾiq رقائق الحقائق في الحساب الدرج والدقائق Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad سبط المارديني، بدر الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: A manual by Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīnī (بدر الدين محمد بن محمد سبط المارديني, b. 1423, d. after 1497) on the calculation of the movements of celestial bodies with arcminute precision. In an introduction, ten chapters and a conclusion (خاتمة, f. 19v), the text summa...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. 1+i+24+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11207
Title:: Sharḥ al-tadhkirat al-naṣīrīyah fī ʿilm al-hayʾah شرح التذكرة النصيرية في علم الهيئة ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī علي بن محمد بن علي الحسيني الجرجاني
Scope & Content:: Commentary by ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī (علي بن محمد بن علي الحسيني الجرجاني; d. 1413), known as al-Sayyid al-Sharīf (السيد الشريف) on the Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hayʾah (كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة; see British Library, MS Or. 11209) a treatise on the astronomical system pres...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19 Shawwāl 831
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+100+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11209
Title:: Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: A treatise on astronomy which summarises, rationalises and improves upon the system presented in the Almagest of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168). The text was composed after 1256 by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). The text is divid...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 11 Shawwāl 688
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+74+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11210
Title:: A treatise on arithmetic and geometry, with its commentary Biqāʿī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar بقاعي، إبراهيم بن عمر
Scope & Content:: Rough holograph copies of a short treatise on arithmetic and mensuration (geodesy) in verse form (urjūzah) entitled al-Bāḥah fī ʿilmay al-ḥisāb wa-al-misāḥah (الباحة في علمي الحساب والمساحة, ff. 2r-27r), followed by a commentary upon it entitled Ibāḥat al-bāḥah (إباحة الباحة, ff. 28r-109v, both ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 24 Jumada 836
Extent:: ff. i+109+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11210, ff 2r-27v
Title:: al-Bāḥah fī ʿilmay al-ḥisāb wa-al-misāḥah الباحة في علمي الحساب والمساحة Biqāʿī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar بقاعي، إبراهيم بن عمر
Scope & Content:: Short versified treatise (urjūzah, see f. 3v, line 5) on arithmetic and geodesy entitled al-Bāḥah fī ʿilmay al-ḥisāb wa-al-misāḥah (الباحة في علمي الحساب والمساحة, see f. 3v, line 6) by Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar al-Biqāʿī (إبراهيم بن عمر البقاعي, d. 1480). The composition of the text was completed on 2...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 27 Rabīʿ II 836
Extent:: Ff. 2r-27v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11210, ff 28r-109v
Title:: Ibāḥat al-bāḥah إباحة الباحة Biqāʿī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar بقاعي، إبراهيم بن عمر
Scope & Content:: A commentary on the preceding text, al-Bāḥah fī ʿilmay al-ḥisāb wa-al-misāḥah (الباحة في علمي الحساب والمساحة), in which the text of the latter is also fully transcribed (علم الحساب: ff. 28r-87r; علم المساحة: ff. 87r-109r). The text was completed on 25 Rabīʿ II 836/19 December 1432 and the tran...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 24 Jumadá I 836
Extent:: Ff. 28r-109v

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