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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9585/3
Title:: Shifāʾ al-ghullah
Scope & Content:: Author: Ḥamawī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1686 or 1687 VIAF ID: 53173497 Subject: Arabic language--Grammar--Early works to 1800
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1091
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9586
Title:: Nishwār al-muḥāḍarah (jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh)
Scope & Content:: Author: Tanūkhī, al-Muḥassin ibn ʻAlī, 940?-994 VIAF ID: 54298771 Subject: Islamic Empire--Biography--Early works to 1800
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9587
Title:: Two treatises on gnomonics Ibn al-Raqqām, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ابن الرقام، محمد بن ابراهيم
Scope & Content:: Two treatises on the construction and use of sundials by the Andalusian scholar Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Mursī al-Andalusī al-Tūnisī al-Awsī ibn al-Raqqām (عبد الله محمد بن إبراهيم بن علي بن أحمد بن يوسف المرسي الأندلسي التونسي الأوسي بن الرقام, d. 1315...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1270-1315
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+30+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9587/1
Title:: Risālah fī ʿilm al-zalālah
Scope & Content:: Author: Ibn al-Raqqām, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, -1315 or 1316 VIAF ID: 51552575 Subject: Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9587/2
Title:: ʿAmal ʿāmm fī ʿamal ālāt al-iẓlāl
Scope & Content:: Author: Ibn al-Raqqām, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, -1315 or 1316 VIAF ID: 51552575 Subject: Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9587, ff 1v-29v
Title:: Risālah fī ʿilm al-ẓalālāt رسالة في علم الظلالات Ibn al-Raqqām, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ابن الرقام، محمد بن ابراهيم
Scope & Content:: A comprehensive treatise on the construction and use of several types of sundials, including explanations of the theoretical principles of gnomonics. The treatise is divided into forty-four chapters (فصول), and contains fifty diagrams. Both the content and arrangement of the text preserved here...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1270-1315
Extent:: Ff. 1v-29v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9587, ff 30r-30v
Title:: ‘Amal ‘āmm fī ‘amal ālāt al-iẓlāl عمل عام في عمل آلات الإظلال Ibn al-Raqqām, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ابن الرقام، محمد بن ابراهيم
Scope & Content:: Fragment of a general introduction to the use of sundials. The text does not appear to be preserved elsewhere. Only one folio of this treatise is preserved and the text is imperfect at the end. The text on the lower half of f. 30v is obscured by water damage, worm holes and repairs. Begins (f. ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1270-1315
Extent:: Ff. 30r-30v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9588
Title:: Nihāyat al-rutbah fī ṭalab al-ḥisbah
Scope & Content:: Author: Shayzarī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Naṣr, active 12th century VIAF ID: 17479309 Subject: Islamic law
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9589/1
Title:: ʿUmdat al-nuẓẓār fī taṣḥīḥ ghāyat al-ikhtiṣār
Scope & Content:: Author: Ibn Qāḍī ʻAjlūn, Abū Bakr ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1437 or 1438-1521 or 1522 VIAF ID: 73612684 Subject: Shafiites--Early works to 1800; Islamic law--Early works to 1800
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 0890
Extent:: 1 item

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