Taḥrīr kitāb al-majisṭī تحرير كتاب المجسطي Ptolemy بطلميوس Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
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The Almagest (كتاب المجسطي), an Arabic version of the Μαθηματικῆς σύνταξις of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168), in the annotated edition (تحرير) of Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). This was the most influential and enduring astronomic...
LITURGY. BIBLE. Fragments of Liturgical and Biblical Manuscripts in Latin, Armenian and Greek with additions in Arabic, on vellum. Sotheby’s, Dec 1993, Lot 3. Now Schoyen Collection, MS 1776/1-12 Creation dates: [12th century]
GREEK. Paterikon (Apophthegmata Patrum, Sayings of the Desert Fathers), for the use of an Arabic-speaking monastic community. In Greek with additional headings in Arabic, Mount Athos or Jerusalem. Creation dates: 18th century
Royal Society Persian and Arabic manuscripts transferred to the India Office in July 1876, comprising the collection of Sir William Jones, presented to the Royal Society in 1792 (RSPA 1-118), and the collection of Mr Burjurjee Sorabjee Ashburner (RSPA 119-265), presented between 1864 and 1866. No...