al-Bāḥah fī ʿilmay al-ḥisāb wa-al-misāḥah الباحة في علمي الحساب والمساحة Biqāʿī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar بقاعي، إبراهيم بن عمر
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Short versified treatise (urjūzah, see f. 3v, line 5) on arithmetic and geodesy entitled al-Bāḥah fī ʿilmay al-ḥisāb wa-al-misāḥah (الباحة في علمي الحساب والمساحة, see f. 3v, line 6) by Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar al-Biqāʿī (إبراهيم بن عمر البقاعي, d. 1480). The composition of the text was completed on 2...
Ibāḥat al-bāḥah إباحة الباحة Biqāʿī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar بقاعي، إبراهيم بن عمر
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A commentary on the preceding text, al-Bāḥah fī ʿilmay al-ḥisāb wa-al-misāḥah (الباحة في علمي الحساب والمساحة), in which the text of the latter is also fully transcribed (علم الحساب: ff. 28r-87r; علم المساحة: ff. 87r-109r). The text was completed on 25 Rabīʿ II 836/19 December 1432 and the tran...
Ghāyat al-itqān fī tadbīr badan al-insān غاية الاتقان في تدبير بدن الإنسان Ḥalabī, Ṣāliḥ Naṣr Allāh ibn Sallūm حلبي، صالح نصر الله بن سلوم
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Book One (الكتاب الأول) of a medical compendium on pharmacognosy by Ṣāliḥ ibn Naṣr Allāh ibn Sallūm al-Ḥalabī (صالح بن نصر الله بن سلوم الحلبي, d. 1669), personal physician to the Ottoman sultan Mehmet IV (محمد رابع, reg. 1648-87). The subject of Book One is diseases and their therapies. ...
Kitāb al-bāhīyah wa-al-tarkībāt al-Sulṭānīyah كتاب الباهية والتركيبات السلطانية Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي, نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
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A short work on medicine composed upon request, as the author Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274) relates in the preface, in response to the ailments of unidentified prince (see preface, f. 1r, line 9-2r, line 1). Its 18 short chapters (أبواب) co...
This volume contains an Ottoman Turkish translation of the Forty Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad صلعم by Seyit İbrahim called Seyit Osmanzade, with a Persian metrical paraphrase by Jāmī. This Ottoman Turkish version, of which no other copy appears to be recorded, is dedicated to Abdülhamit I (r...
This volume contains an account of the Ethiopians compiled in 1020 AH (1611-12 CE) by Mekki Ali İbn-i Musfata İbn-i Ali el-Müderris who was, at that time, in the medrese of the mother of Mehmet III. The author tells us that he was from Bursa but emigrated with his family to Makkah in 995 AH (158...