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Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1142
Title:: Jāmiʿ li-mufradāt al-adwiyah wa-al-aghdhiyah جامع لمفردات الأدوية والأغذية Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ابن البيطار، عبد الله بن أحمد
Scope & Content:: The most influential and important Arabic handbook of materia medica, written by the Andalusian botanist Ḍiyā’ al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad (ضياء الدين أبو محمد عبد الله بن أحمد; d. 1248), known as Ibn al-Bayṭār (ابن البيطار), Chief Herbalist (رئيس العشابين) to the Ayyubid sultan...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 29 Sha‘bān 925
Extent:: Codex; iii+550+iv ff

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1148
Title:: Three treatises on astronomy and geometry
Scope & Content:: The volume comprises three distinct manuscripts (ff. 1v-63r, 63v-67r and 68r-135r). Contents: (1) Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين الطوسي), Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (تحرير المجسطي ; ff. 1v-63r); (2) Menelaus of Alexandria (مانالاوس), Fī ashkāl al-kurīyah (في أشكال الكرية; ff. 63v-67r); (3) Ulugh Beg (...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1322-1599
Extent:: Codex; ff. v+135+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1148, ff 1v-63r
Title:: تحرير المجسطي Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad
Scope & Content:: Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī''s (AD 1201-1274) edition (تحرير) of the Arabic translation of the Almagest (كتاب المجسطي), an Arabic version of the Μαθηματικῆς σύνταξις of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD c 90-c 168), thought to have been translated by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī (AD c 809-873). The copy ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 6 Muḥarram 722
Extent:: ff. 1v-63r

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1148, ff 63v-67v
Title:: Kitāb Mānālāwus fī al-ashkāl al-kurīyah كتاب مانالاوس في الأشكال الكرية Menelaus of Alexandria مانالاوس
Scope & Content:: An early copy of Muḥyī al-Dīn Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Shukr al-Maghribī's (محيي الدين يحيى بن محمد بن أبي الشكر المغربي; d. between 680/1281 and 690-1291) revised edition of the Arabic translation of Menelaus of Alexandria's (fl. ca AD 100) Greek treatise on spherical trigonometry known as...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: ff. 63v-67v

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1210
Title:: Talkhīṣ al-miftāḥ تلخيص المفتاح Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd كاشي، جمشيد بن مسعود
Scope & Content:: Abridgement of the Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb (مفتاح الحساب) 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), composed by the author himself (see f. 1v, lines 5-7, transcribed below). The abridgement is arranged ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century-18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+10+i

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1249
Title:: Arabic versions of seven Greek treatises on mathematics edited by Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: First part of a collection of Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274) editions (تحارير) of the so-called intermediate books (متوسطات), Arabic versions of ancient Greek mathematical texts and responses to them which were meant to be read after Euclid...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Jumādá I 1198
Extent:: Codex; ff. viii+240+viii

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1249, ff 36v-56r
Title:: تحرير المناظر لأقليدس Taḥrīr al-manāẓir li-Uqlīdis Euclid أقليدس
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of the Optica (المناظر) by the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (Εὐκλείδης; أقليدس; fl. 300 BC) presented here in the edition (تحرير) of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 1274). The diagrams are collected on a fold out (f. 56r) following the text. Begins (ff. 36v, lines 2-4): تحرير ال...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Jumādá I 1198
Extent:: ff. 36v-56r

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1249, ff 57v-86r
Title:: كتاب ظاهرات الفلك لأقليدس Kitāb Ẓāhirāt al-falak li-Uqlīdis Euclid أقليدس
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of the Phaenomena (Φαινόμενα; ظاهرات الفلك) by the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (Εὐκλείδης; أقليدس; fl. 300 BC) presented here in the edition of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 1274). The diagrams are collected on a fold out (f. 86r) following the text. Begins (f. 57v, lines 2-4)...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Jumādá I 1198
Extent:: ff. 57v-86r

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1249, ff 87v-110r
Title:: كتاب أوطولوقس في الطلوع والغروب Kitāb Awtūlūqūs fī al-ṭulūʿ wa-al-ghurūb Autolycus أوطولوقس
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of the De ortibus et occasibus (Περὶ ἐπιτολῶν καὶ δύσεων; في الطلوع والغروب [f. 87v, line 2, transcribed below] or في الطلوعات والغروبات [f. f. 109r, line 10, transcribed below]) by the astronomer, mathematician and geographer Autolycus of Pitane (Αὐτόλυκος ὁ Πιταναῖος; أوطول...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Jumādá I 1198
Extent:: ff. 87v-110r

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1249, ff 111v-116r
Title:: كتاب إسقلاوس في المطالع Kitāb Isqilawus fī maṭāli‘ Hypsicles إبسقلاوس
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of the Anaphoricus (Ἀναφορικός; في المطالع) by the astronomer and mathematician Hypsicles of Alexandria (Ὑψικλῆς; إبسقلاوس [here written إسقلاوس and إيسقلاوس]; first half of 2nd century BC), translated from the Greek by Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا; d. ca 912), revised by al-Kindī...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Jumādá I 1198
Extent:: ff. 111v-116r

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