Maqālah fī istikhrāj irtifā‘ al-quṭb ‘alá ghāyat al-taḥqīq مقالة في استخراج ارتفاع القطب على غاية التحقيق Alhazen ابن الهيثم، الحسن بن الحسن
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A short treatise describing a geometrical method for precisely determining latitude by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan known as Ibn al-Haytham (أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن known as ابن الهيثم, d c 1039). The Arabic text is accompanied by a Latin translation produced by Jacobus Golius (1596-1667) in 16...
This volume contains 150 psalms in Arabic according to Ibn al-Fadl’s revision, followed by Psalm 151 (marked as outside of the canonical books) and the ten biblical Odes. Contents: Psalms 1–150, fols. 1v–114v Psalm 151, fol. 114v–115r The First Song of Moses 1, fols. 115v–116v The Second S...
This volume contains a versified Arabic-Ottoman Turkish vocabulary by Şemsi. In a prologue in mesnevi (ff 1-15), the author relates how he was induced by friends to write this vocabulary in imitation of those first composed by Ferişteoğlu for Arabic, and then by Şahidi for Persian. His object wa...
Major Richard Salwey, Prisoner in the Tower: Allowance of materials to, for petitioning Charles II.: 1661. Philip V of Spain: Account of Spanish ships taken and burnt in Rodondello Harbour by the English and Dutch,: 1702. includes: f. 1 Elizabeth I of England: Letter to, from the Consuls and ...
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Western Manuscripts
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Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
This volume contains a tabular version of the Tuhfe-yi Şahidi, a well-known versified Persian-Ottoman Turkish vocabulary composed in 920 AH (1514-15 CE) by Şahidi, who died in 957 AH (1550-51 CE). The formatting of the text and addition of Arabic equivalents was completed by Al-Ḥājj Mūsá al-Shar...
Leonhardt Thurneisser zum Thurn: Cabala in Alchemy; translated by S. Michelspacterus: 1667. Johann Remmelin, Dr. of Philosophy and Physic at Ulm: MS was dedicated to him: in 1667. Justus Raphelengius: Tacuini sanitatis Elluchasem Elimithar versio interlinearis: 1614.: Arab. and Lat.: Autogr.: ...
Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet: Original correspondence, chronologically arranged: 17th-18th centt. includes: f. 1 Jaques Levi, of Venice: Letters to Sir H. Sloane: 1722-1744.: Fr. and Engl. ff. 1, 198, 337, 353 Abbé Jean Paul Bignon, Librarian to Louis XV: Letters to Sir H. Sloane: 1709-1741, and n...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
This volume contains a bilingual Latin translation of the Pauline Epistles (ArabSyr3), with the final component in Arabic. Contents : Latin, preface and biblical books, fols. 1r–54r (fol. 54v blank) Titus, fols. 55r–61v (59r–65v) Philemon, fols. 62r–65v (55r–58v) There is no colophon to ...
Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from September 1850 to June 1852. Edited by the Secretary. Volume X.
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Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from September 1850 to June 1852. Edited by the Secretary. Volume X. Publication details: Bombay: Printed at The Times' Press, by J D'Gama, 1852. With drawings and diagrams. Inscriptions in Arabic, with translation into English: pages 87-89.
Manuscripts collected by Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham (d 1839) at Stowe House, Bucks. c 1000-c 1800. 1085 manuscripts
