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1. Add MS 7492, f 48v

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Add MS 7492, f 48v
Title:
Dar yāftan-i avval-i sāl-i suryāni در يافتن أول سال سرياني
Scope & Content:
Anonymous short text in Ottoman Turkish on calculating the first day of each month in the Byzantine (rūmī), here called Syriac (suryānī), calendar year, accompanied by a summarising table. The only section in the present volume not written in Arabic, the text nevertheless covers similar conten...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

F. 48v

2. Add MS 7492, ff 52v-66v

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Add MS 7492, ff 52v-66v
Title:
al-Zīj al-Shāmil الزيج الشامل [Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī, al-Mufaḍḍal ibn ʿUmar أثير الدين الأبهري، المفضّل بن عمر]
Scope & Content:
Astronomical handbook in ten bābs (أبواب), each subdivided into fuṣūl (فصول) in the tradition of Abū al-Wafāʾ al-Būzjānī and his colleagues at the Bāb al-Tibn Observatory in Baghdad (أبو الوفاء البوزجاني, d. 998, see f. 52v, line 3). The incipit also mentions the earlier work carried out under c...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Ff. 52v-67v

3. Add MS 16659

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Add MS 16659
Title:
Compendium of philosophical and scientific texts by and about Avicenna (ابن سينا)
Scope & Content:
Collection of fifty-three short works on various philosophical and scientific topics by and about Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The colophon to text 6 states that the copy was completed in 1182/1768-...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
1182
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+1+vii+584+vii

4. Add MS 19619, ff 3r-128r

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Add MS 19619, ff 3r-128r
Title:
Jām-i jahān'numā-yi ʿAbbāsī جام جهان نماى عباسى Yazdī, Qāz̤ī ibn Muḥammad يزدي، قاضي بن محمد
Scope & Content:
A treatise in Persian on wine, its beneficial properties, and legitimate use, by Mīrzā Qāz̤ī ibn Kāshif al-Dīn Muḥammad Yazdī (ميرزا قاضي بن كاشف الدين محمد يزدي, died 1664-65). The work, comprising an introduction (مقدمة), thirty chapters (باب), and a conclusion (خاتمة), was written upon the o...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
21 Jumādá II 1103
Extent:
Ff. 3r-128r

5. Add MS 19619, ff 157r-242v

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Add MS 19619, ff 157r-242v
Title:
Risālah-i afyūn رساله افيون 'Imād al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd عماد الدين شيرازي، محمود بن مسعود
Scope & Content:
A treatise in Persian on the beneficial and harmful properties of opium, by the physician Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd ʿImād al-Dīn Shīrāzī (محمود بن مسعود عماد الدين شيرازى, fl. 16th century).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
21 Jumādá II 1103
Extent:
Ff. 157r-242v

6. Add MS 19619, ff 247v-262v

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Add MS 19619, ff 247v-262v
Title:
Risālah-i chūb-i Chīnī رساله چوب چينى 'Imād al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd عماد الدين شيرازي، محمود بن مسعود
Scope & Content:
A treatise in Persian on China root (چوب چينى or چينى بيخ), by the physician Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd ʿImād al-Dīn Shīrāzī (محمود بن مسعود عماد الدين شيرازى, fl. 16th century).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
21 Jumādá II 1103
Extent:
Ff. 247v-262v

7. Add MS 19619, ff 263r-265v

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Add MS 19619, ff 263r-265v
Title:
Risālah-i chūb-i Chīnī رساله چوب چينى Nūr Allāh, known as ʿAlāʾ نور الله مشهور بعلاء
Scope & Content:
A treatise on China root (چوب چينى or چينى بيخ), by Nūr Allāh, known as ʿAlāʾ (نور الله مشهور بعلاء). The author, writing in 944/1537-8, says that he had spent twenty years in India, and had obtained his information on China root from a European physician.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
21 Jumādá II 1103
Extent:

Ff. 263r-265v

8. Add MS 19619, ff 265v-270r

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Add MS 19619, ff 265v-270r
Title:
Risālah-i pāzahr رساله پازهر 'Imād al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd عماد الدين شيرازي، محمود بن مسعود
Scope & Content:
A treatise on the pāzahr (bezoar stone), by the physician Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd ʿImād al-Dīn Shīrāzī (محمود بن مسعود عماد الدين شيرازى, fl. 16th century).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
21 Jumādá II 1103
Extent:

Ff. 265v-270r

9. Add MS 19619, ff 270r-285r

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Add MS 19619, ff 270r-285r
Title:
Miscellaneous extracts on the bezoar stone, pharmaceutical substances, and weights and measures
Scope & Content:
Extracts from the Indo-Persian perfumery treatise Nawrās-i Shāhī (نوراس شاهى), written for sultan Adil Shāh II, Sultan of Bijapur (1580-1627), on the description and properties of the bezoar stone, and animal, vegetable and mineral substances including mummy (ff. 270v-281v); a list of weights an...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
21 Jumādá II 1103
Extent:
Ff. 270r-285r

10. Add MS 19619, ff 285v-308v

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Add MS 19619, ff 285v-308v
Title:
Risālah-i ātashak رساله آتشك 'Imād al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd عماد الدين شيرازي، محمود بن مسعود
Scope & Content:
A treatise on syphilis (آتشك) by the physician Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd ʿImād al-Dīn Shīrāzī (محمود بن مسعود عماد الدين شيرازى, fl. 16th century).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
21 Jumādá II 1103
Extent:

Ff. 285v-308v