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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14270
Title:: Three technological treatises
Scope & Content:: Volume containing three technological treatises: Kitāb Arshimīdas fī ‘amal al-binkamāt (كتاب أرشميدس في عمل البنكامات, ff. 2v-14r); Apollonius the carpenter and geometer (أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي), San‘at al-zāmir (صنعة الزامر, ff. 14r-21r); Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad (فرغاني، أحمد بن محمد), a...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 28 Shawwāl 691
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+73+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14270, ff 2v-14r
Title:: Kitāb Arshimīdas fī ‘amal al-binkamāt كتاب أرشميدس في عمل البنكامات Archimedes أرشميدس
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the hydraulic and pneumatic machinery of water-clocks with eighteen diagrams, attributed to Archimedes (Ἀρχιμήδης; أرشميدس; fl. 3rd century BC). The title page gives the title wrongly as كتاب أرشميدس في عمل الساعات (Kitāb Arshimīdas fī ‘amal al-sā‘āt). This early known copy of the te...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 28 Shawwāl 691
Extent:: ff. 2v-14r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14270, ff 14r-21r
Title:: San‘at al-zāmir صنعة الزامر Apollonius the carpenter and geometer أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the design and construction of an hydraulic flute playing machine. The treatise is attributed to 'Apollonius the carpenter and geometer (أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي)', who some have identified as the geometer Apollonius of Perga (Ἀπολλώνιος; أبلونيوس; fl ca 200 BC). The text in this copy...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 28 Shawwāl 691
Extent:: Ff. 14r-21r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14270, ff 21v-73r
Title:: al-Kāmil fī ṣan‘at al-asṭurlāb al-shimālī wa-al-junūbī wa-‘ilalihuma bi-l-handasah wa-al-ḥisab الكامل في صنعة الأسطرلاب الشمالي والجنوبي وعللهما بالهندسة والحساب Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr فرغاني، أحمد بن محمد بن كثير
Scope & Content:: Earliest known Arabic treatise on the construction of the astrolabe, by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Farghānī (أحمد بن محمد الفرغاني; fl. ca 820-860). The text contains seventy-two diagrams and tables: Geometric diagram (f. 22v); Geometric diagram (f. 24r); Geometric diagram (f. 24v); Geometric diagra...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 28 Shawwāl 691
Extent:: ff. 21v-73r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14271/1
Title:: Risālah fī faḍl al-khayl wa-rukūbihi wa-khawāṣṣih
Scope & Content:: Author: Sūyūtī, 1445-1505 VIAF ID: 90051632 Subject: Hadith--Early works to 1800
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14271/2
Title:: Jarr al-dhayl fī ʿilm al-khayl
Scope & Content:: Author: Sūyūtī, 1445-1505 VIAF ID: 90051632 Subject: Hadith--Early works to 1800
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14272
Title:: al-Nawādir
Scope & Content:: Author: Aṣmaʻī, ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Qurayb, 740-approximately 828 VIAF ID: 90046590 Subject: Arabic literature
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14273
Title:: al-Zīj [al-mufīd] ʿalá uṣūl al-raṣd al-jadīd الزيج [المفيد] على أصول الرصد الجديد Razzāz, Riḍwān ibn ʻAbd Allāh رزاز، رضوان بن عبد الله
Scope & Content:: Astronomical handbook with tables (زيج) by the Ottoman Egyptian astronomer Riḍwān Efendi ibn ʿAbdallāh al-Razzāz al-Falakī (رضوان أفندي بن عبد الله الرزاز الفلكي, d. 1711). The text, also known as the al-Zīj al-Riḍwānī (الزيج الرضواني), is a revision of the Samarqand observatory's Zīj-i Ulugh Be...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1172
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+260+ii

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