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Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 923, ff 1v-10r
Title:: Taḥrīr kitāb al-kurrah al-mutaḥarrikah تحرير كتاب الكرة المتحركة Autolycus أوطولوقس
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of the De sphaera quae movertur (Περὶ κινουμένης σφαίρας;كتاب الكرة المتحركة) by the astronomer, mathematician and geographer Autolycus of Pitane (Αὐτόλυκος ὁ Πιταναῖος; أوطولوقس; fl. 300 BC), translation from the Greek revised by Thābit ibn Qurrah (ثابت بن قرة; d. 901). The diag...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17 Jumādá I 1198
Extent:: ff. 1v-10r

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 923, ff 11v-21r
Title:: Taḥrīr kitāb al-masākin تحرير كتاب المساكن Theodosius ثاودوسيوس
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of the De habitationibus (Περὶ οἰκήσεων; كتاب المساكن), a work on astronomy by Theodosius of Bithynia (ثاودوسيوس; Θεοδόσιος; c 160-c 100 BC), translated from the Greek by Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا; c 820-912). The diagrams are collected on a fold out (f. 21r) following the te...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18 Jumādá I 1198
Extent:: ff. 11v-21r

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 923, ff 23v-51r
Title:: Kitāb Thāwudhūsīyus fī al-ayyām wa-al-layālī كتاب ثاوذوسيوس في الأيام والليالي Theodosius ثاودوسيوس
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of the De diebus et noctibus (Περὶ ἡμερῶν καὶ νυκτῶν; كتاب في الأيام والليالي) a work on astronomy by Theodosius of Bithynia (ثاودوسيوس; Θεοδόσιος; c 160-c 100 BC). The text is divided into two books (مقالتان): Book One (المقالة الأولى; ff. 23v-36v); Book Two (المقالة الثانية; f...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 13 Sha‘bān 1198
Extent:: ff. 23v-51r

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 923, ff 52v-69r
Title:: Fī jirmay al-nayyirayn wa-bu‘dayhimma في جرمي النيرين وبعديهما Aristarchus أرسطرخس
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of the De magnitudinibus et distantiis solis et lunae (περὶ μεγεθῶν καὶ ἀποστημάτων ἡλίου καὶ σελήνης; في جرمي النيرين وبعديهما) by Aristarchus of Samos (أرسطرخس, Ἀρίσταρχος ὁ Σάμιος, ca 310-ca 230 BC). The diagrams are collected on a fold out (f. 69r) following the text. At th...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 13 Jumādá I 1198
Extent:: ff. 52v-69r

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 923, ff 98v-101r
Title:: كتاب أقليدس في الثقل والخفة وقياس الأجرام بعضها إلى بعض Kitāb Uqlīdas fī al-thiqal wa-al-khiffah wa-qiyās al-ajrām ba‘ḍihā ilá ba‘ḍ Euclid أقليدس
Scope & Content:: A work on the principles of specific gravity probably falsely attributed to the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (Εὐκλείδης; أقليدس; fl. 300 BC). The translation, presumabely from the Greek now lost, is said to have been corrected by Thābit ibn Qurrah (ثابت ابن قرة; d. 901; f. 98v, line 3, tra...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1198
Extent:: ff. 98v-101r

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 924
Title:: كتاب أبلونيوس في المخروطات Kitāb Abulūnīyūs fī al-makhrūṭāt Apollonius of Perga أبلونيوس
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of the Conics (Κωνικά; كتاب المخروطات) by Apollonius of Perga (Ἀπολλώνιος; أبلونيوس; fl ca 200 BC). Originally in eight books, only Books 1 to 4 survive in the original Greek; Books 1 to 7 are preserved in Arabic. The edition is called Taḥrīr makhrūṭāt (تحرير مخروطات), indicating ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: Ramaḍān 1198
Extent:: Codex; ff. vi+205+viii; one loose leaf

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1039
Title:: Anonymous treatise on mathematics and Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb مفتاح الحساب Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd كاشي، جمشيد بن مسعود
Scope & Content:: (1) Anonymous, Untitled treatise on mathematics (ff. 2v-14v); (2) Jamshīd al-Kāshī (جمشيد الكاشي), Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb (مفتاح الحساب; ff. 15v-122r).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1041
Extent:: Codex; ff. ix+123+ix

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1039, ff 15v-122r
Title:: Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb مفتاح الحساب Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd كاشي، جمشيد بن مسعود
Scope & Content:: Compendium of mathematics by Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd ibn Maḥmūd al-Kāshī (غياث الدين جمشيد بن مسعود بن محمود الكاشي, d. 1429 or 1436) or al-Kāshānī (الكاشاني, see f. 15v, line 5). The text is known by both the short title Key to Calculation (مفتاح الحساب, see f. 16v, line 3) and the lo...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1041
Extent:: Ff. 15v-122r

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1044
Title:: Minhāj al-bayān fīmā yastaʿmiluhū al-insān منهاج البيان فيما يستعمله الإنسان Ibn Jazlah, Yaḥyá ibn ʿĪsá ابن جزلة، يحيى ابن عيسى
Scope & Content:: Alphabetically arranged handbook on pharmacology by Abū ‘Alī Yahyá ibn ‘Īsá (أبو علي يحيى ابن عيسى, d. 1100), known as Ibn Jazlah (ابن جزلة), composed for the Abbasid Caliph al-Muqtadī bi-Amr Allāh (المقتدي بأمر الله, reg. 1075-94). The copy is defective at end; the final folio contains the beg...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 16th century-17th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+269+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1132
Title:: Tarwīḥ al-arwāḥ min ʿilal al-ashbāḥ ترويح الأرواح من علل الأشباح Khujandī, Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad خجندي، فخر الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: The introduction, first seven chapters and beginning of the eighth chapter of a large work on diseases and their symptoms, complications and remedies. The identity of the author is somewhat confused; the author names himself in this copy only as Ibn Saʻd al-Dīn (ابن سعد الدين, f. 6r, line 7). C...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+171+ii

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