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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13006, ff 98r-110v
Title:: Excerpts from a commentary on the alchemical poem Shudhūr al-dhahab (شذور الذهب)
Scope & Content:: Excerpts from an anonymous and unattributed commentary on the alchemical poem Shudhūr al-dhahab by Abū Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Mūsá ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad Ibn Khalaf al-Anṣārī al-Jayyānī al-Andalusī, known as Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs (died 593 AH/AD 1197). The title in full is given as follows (f. 98r, 11-15): في...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: c 930
Extent:: ff. 98r-110v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13006, ff 111r-112r
Title:: Excerpts from the Risālah fī al-Ṣināʿah al-falsafīyah (رسالة في الصناعة الفلسفية) al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Bukhārī al-Naqshabandī السيد الشريف البخاري النقشبندي
Scope & Content:: Excerpts from the Risālah fī al-Ṣināʿah al-falsafīyah by al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Bukhārī al-Naqshabandī, a native of Constantinople (see scribal correction above line 2, f. 111r). The compiler explains his method of abridgement and tells us a bit more about this unknown author in a note appended ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: c 930
Extent:: ff. 111r-112r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13006, ff 113r-158r
Title:: Kitāb al-Wāfī fī al-Tadbīr al-kāfīكتاب الوافي في التدبير الكافي Maṣmūdī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad مصمودي، محمد بن أحمد
Scope & Content:: A general treatise on practical chemistry, composed in Tilimsān in 897 AH/AD 1492 (see Ullmann, 1972, p. 245) by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Maṣmūdī (محمد بن أحمد المصمودي). The text was copied on 27 Ramaḍān 1177 AH (30 March AD 1764) at Algiers by Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Mawṣilī (محمد بن سليمان المو...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 27 Ramaḍān 1177
Extent:: ff. 113r-158v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13019
Title:: [Kitāb al-inʿām bi-maʿrifat al-anghām كتاب الإنعام بمعرفة الأنغام] Ṣaydāwī, Shams al-Dīn صيداوي، شمس الدين
Scope & Content:: A musical treatise in verse accompanied by diagrams, tables, and lyrical poems, by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ṣaydāwī al-Dhahabī al-Dimashqī (شمس الدين محمد الصيداوي الذهبي الدمشقي, d. 1506). It was copied by ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Kurdī al-Shāfiʿī (عبد العزيز ابن...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 13 Ramaḍān 906
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+19+xxx

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13060
Title:: Sharḥ al-tadhkirah شرح التذكرة Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn برجندي، عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين
Scope & Content:: Commentary by ‘Abd al-‘Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Birjandī (عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين البرجندي, d. 923/1525 or 26) on the Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah (كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة; see British Library, MS Or. 11209) a treatise on the astronomical system presented in the Almagest of Ptolemy (Cl...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 30 Sha‘bān 1097
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+394+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13127
Title:: Kitāb Mānālāwus fī al-ashkāl al-kurrīyahكتاب مانالاوس في الأشكال الكرية Menelaus of Alexandria مانالاوس
Scope & Content:: An early copy of Aḥmad ibn Abī Sa‘d al-Harawī's (أحمد بن أبي سعد الهروي; d. ca AD 1000) revised edition of the Arabic translation of Menelaus of Alexandria's (fl. ca AD 100) Greek treatise on spherical trigonometry known as Kitāb fī al-ashkāl al-kurrīyah (كتاب في الأشكال الكرية) or simply as Kit...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 4 Rabī‘ II 548
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+55+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13284
Title:: West African Qur'an
Scope & Content:: The first 23 folios are part of a richly illuminated copy of the Qur'an, with marginal gloss. From West Africa, probably Nigeria. After the 23rd folio, this is a less refined copy. Trefoils in red ink with yellow filling after each verse, and after every fifth verse a hāʾ/number five in black fil...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Early 20th century
Extent:: 558 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13383
Title:: al-Ḥāwī fī ʿilm al-tadāwī الحاوي في علم التداوي Shīrāzi, Najm al-Dīn Mahmud ibn Ilyās شيرازي، نجم الدين محمود بن إلياس
Scope & Content:: Medical encyclopedia by Najm al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Ṣā’in al-Dīn Ilyās al-Shīrāzi (نجم الدين محمود بن صائن الدين إلياس الشيرازي, d. 730/1330; see text in shamsa on f. 2r). This copy was produced for ‘Abd al-Raḥīm ibn Ibrāhīm (عبد الرحيم بن إبراهيم, see text in lower cartouches on ff. 1v-2r) by ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Shawwāl 731
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+457+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13523
Title:: Works in Javanese by Kyai Haji Ahmad Rifa‘i of Kalisalak
Scope & Content:: Works by Kyai Haji Ahmad Rifa‘i of Kalisalak (1786-1876). Ahmad Rifa‘i established his pĕsantren at Kalisalak after spending 1833-41 in Mecca, and was exiled by the Dutch colonial regime to Ambon in 1859, where he died. A: ff. 1r.-48r. Nazham tazkiyyah, by Haji Ahmad al-Rifa‘i ibn Muhammad Ma...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Javanese
Date Range:: 1845
Extent:: 1 item; 244 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13572
Title:: A collection of legal texts in Javanese
Scope & Content:: A collection of legal texts. On the title page identified as Nawala Pradata-dalĕm, referring to the first text in the volume. A: ff. 1r.-3r. A printed text beginning, Pengĕt, nawalaningsun Kangjĕng Susuhunan Pakubuwana … ingsun gadhuhakĕn marang kawulaningsun si Angabehi Amongpraja. A legal te...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Javanese
Date Range:: 1782-1832
Extent:: 1 item; 356 folios

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