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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14791, ff 64v-69v
Title:: ترصيد شهر المحرم المبارك Tarṣīd shaḥr al-Muḥarram al-mubārrak رمادي، ابن مراد Ramādī, Ibn Murād
Scope & Content:: A treatise on meteorological divination by Ibn Murād al-Ramādī. The manuscript was copied on 19 Ṣafar 1295 (22 February 1878) by an anonymous scribe from an autograph copy, dated 4 Muḥarram 1041 (2 August 1631; see colophon on f. 69v). Begins (f. 64v, lines 2-5): ... نبتدي بعون الله وتوفيقه ب...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1295
Extent:: ff. 64v-69v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15639
Title:: al-Qānūn al-waḍīḥ fī ‘ilm al-bayzarah القانون الواضح في علم البيزرة Waṭwāṭ, وطواط
Scope & Content:: Treatise on falconry focussing on the health and treatment of birds of prey attributed on the cover page (f. 1r) to al-Waṭwāṭ (الوطواط), presumably Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyá (محمد بن إبراهيم بن يحى, d. 1318) the Mamluk bookseller and author of the encyclopedia of natural history Mab...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+42+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15643
Title:: Tuḥfat al-Fuḥūl fī tamhīd al-uṣūl fī ‘ilm al-biḥār تحفة الفحول في تمهيد الأصول في علم البحار Mahrī, Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad مهري، سليمان بن أحمد
Scope & Content:: A manual on the principles of navigational theory by Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān al-Mahrī (سليمان بن أحمد بن سليمان المهري, fl. 16th century), here called al-Muḥammadī (المحمدي), an Indian Ocean navigator from the city of al-Shiḥr (الشحر), Yemen. The treatise is arranged in seven parts (أبوا...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15 Jumādá II 1153
Extent:: Codex; ff. 5+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 A VIII
Title:: Taḥrīr kitāb al-majisṭī تحرير كتاب المجسطي Ptolemy بطلميوس Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: The Almagest (كتاب المجسطي), an Arabic version of the Μαθηματικῆς σύνταξις of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168), in the annotated edition (تحرير) of Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). This was the most influential and enduring astronomic...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th-16th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+192+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 2696
Title:: Miscellany of texts on gemstones, Ottoman sultans, and herbs
Scope & Content:: An anonymous notebook containing texts on gemstones, Ottoman sultans, and herbs, interspersed with notes and a prayer. Divisions of the text: (1) Lughat al-jawhar wa-asmāʾ al-jawāhir wa-manāfiʿhā (كتاب لغة الجوهر واسماء الجواهر ومنافعها, ff.1v-20v); A text enumerating different types of gemsto...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1595-1603
Extent:: Vertical format codex; ff. ii+25+xxi+2+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 3032
Title:: المقالة الثالثة من كتاب جالينوس في حيلة البروء al-Maqālah al-thālithah min Kitāb Jālīnūs fī ḥīlat al-burū’ Jālīnūs جالينوس
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of Book Three of Galen's (جالينوس) De methodo medendi (Θεραπευτικὴ μέθοδος; حيلة البروء). The Arabic translation from the Greek was made by Ḥubaysh ibn al-Ḥasan (حبيش بن الحسن known as Ḥubaysh al-A‘sam [حبيش الأعسم]; AD 9th century), and partially revised by his uncle, Ḥunayn ibn ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+64+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 3034
Title:: Maqālah fī istikhrāj irtifā‘ al-quṭb ‘alá ghāyat al-taḥqīq مقالة في استخراج ارتفاع القطب على غاية التحقيق Alhazen ابن الهيثم، الحسن بن الحسن
Scope & Content:: A short treatise describing a geometrical method for precisely determining latitude by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan known as Ibn al-Haytham (أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن known as ابن الهيثم, d c 1039). The Arabic text is accompanied by a Latin translation produced by Jacobus Golius (1596-1667) in 16...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Latin
Date Range:: 2 Feb 1646
Extent:: Codex; ff. xxvii+12+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: ST 393, vol 10
Title:: Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from September 1850 to June 1852. Edited by the Secretary. Volume X.
Scope & Content:: Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from September 1850 to June 1852. Edited by the Secretary. Volume X. Publication details: Bombay: Printed at The Times' Press, by J D'Gama, 1852. With drawings and diagrams. Inscriptions in Arabic, with translation into English: pages 87-89.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1850-1852
Extent:: 1 volume (402 pages)

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