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1. Delhi Arabic 994 vol 1, ff 1-264

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 994 vol 1, ff 1-264
Title:
Kashshāf iṣṭilāḥāt al-funūn كشاف اصطلاحات الفنون Tahānawī, Muḥammad Aʿlá ibn ʻAlī تهانوي، محمد أعلى بن علي
Scope & Content:
Volume one of an encyclopaedia of technical terminology for self-teaching by the Mughal scholar Muḥammad Aʻlá ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Qāḍī Muḥammad Ḥāmid ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣābir al-Fārūqī al-Tahānawī (محمد أعلى بن علي بن القاضي محمد حامد بن محمد بن صابر الفاروقي التهانوي, d. after 1745). The text begins...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. ix+264+iii

2. Delhi Arabic 994 vol 2, ff 265-568

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 994 vol 2, ff 265-568
Title:
Kashshāf iṣṭilāḥāt al-funūn كشاف اصطلاحات الفنون Tahānawī, Muḥammad Aʿlá ibn ʻAlī تهانوي، محمد أعلى بن علي
Scope & Content:
Volume two of an encyclopaedia of technical terminology for self-teaching by the Mughal scholar Muḥammad Aʻlá ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Qāḍī Muḥammad Ḥāmid ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣābir al-Fārūqī al-Tahānawī (محمد أعلى بن علي بن القاضي محمد حامد بن محمد بن صابر الفاروقي التهانوي, d. after 1745). The foliation i...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. xi+304+iii

3. Delhi Arabic 1937B, ff 23r-44v

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1937B, ff 23r-44v
Title:
Tarjamah-’i Sab‘ shidād ترجمه سبع شداد
Scope & Content:
Anonymous commentary on the al-Sabʿ al-shidād fī ‘ilm al-hayʾah (السبع الشداد في علم الهيئة) by Ḥusayn ibn Kamāl al-Dīn al-Ṭabāṭabāʾī. The text contains numerous diagrams. 　 Begins (f. 23, lines 2-4): الحمد لله حمد الشاكرين والصلوة والسلام على خير الخلقة محمد وآله وأصحابه أجمعين أما بعد اين ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 23r-44v

4. IO Islamic 923, ff 71v-95r

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 923, ff 71v-95r
Title:
Maqalah-’i avvalī az Kitāb-i Uqlīdas مقالهٔ اولى از كتاب اقليدس Euclid أقليدس
Scope & Content:
A Persian version of Book One of the Elements (Στοιχεῖα; كتاب أقليدس في الأصول) by the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (Εὐκλείδης; أقليدس; fl. 300 BC). The diagrams are collected on three fold outs (ff. 74r, 89r and 95r). Begins (f. 71v, lines 1-2: مقالهٔ اولى از كتاب اقليدس چهل وهفت شكل اس...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
1198
Extent:

ff. 71v-95r

5. IO Islamic 1039, ff 2v-14v

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 1039, ff 2v-14v
Title:
Anonymous treatise on mathematics
Scope & Content:
Anonymous and untitled treatise on mathematics containing numerous diagrams. The copy was completed at Ajmer (أجمير) on Tuesday 10 Rabī‘ I 1041/7 October 1631 by Muḥammad Amīn ibn Mirzā Muḥammad Faḍl Allāh Kāshānī (محمد أمين بن مرزا محمد فضل الله كاشاني; see colophon, f. 14v, lines 15-21 and se...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
Rabī‘ I 1041
Extent:

Ff. 2v-14v

6. IO Islamic 1148, ff 68v-135v

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 1148, ff 68v-135v
Title:
زيج ألغبيك Zīj-i Ulugh Beg ألغ بيك Ulugh Beg
Scope & Content:
The Zīj, or tables of astronomical calculations, produced by Ulugh Beg (1394-1449). This copy lacks the introduction and explanatory material and contains only the tables themselves. Folio 68r contains a diagram apparently unrelated to the texts before or after it.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

ff 68v-135v

7. IO Islamic 1514, ff 2v-9r

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 1514, ff 2v-9r
Title:
Anonymous treatise on the construction of the astrolabe [رساله در صنعت اسطرلاب]
Scope & Content:
A short anonymous treatise (مختصر) in Persian on the construction and operation of the astrolabe, in twenty sections (bābs). The copy is extensively provided with diagrams and tables illustrating the instrument's stages of manufacture. The text was copied in the middle of Jumādá I 1056 (end of ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
Mid Jumādá I 1056
Extent:

Ff. 2v-9r

8. IO Islamic 2171, ff 1r-365v

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 2171, ff 1r-365v
Title:
Baḥr al-jawāhirبحر الجواهر al-Harawī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf الهروي، محمد بن يوسف
Scope & Content:
An alphabetically-arranged medical dictionary in Arabic and Persian. The work was compiled from multiple source texts enumerated on f. 2r, lines 1-4 and including the Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطبّ) by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سي...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
1096
Extent:

Ff. 1r-365v

9. IO Islamic 2171, ff 366r-368v

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 2171, ff 366r-368v
Title:
Two lists of weights and measures
Scope & Content:
Names and definitions of various weights and measures, following Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, 980-1037; ff. 366r-366v, line 1). This is followed by a similar list, alphabetically arranged and taken from a text...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

Ff. 366r-368v

10. IO Islamic 4419, ff 1r-59v

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 4419, ff 1r-59v
Title:
Mukhtaṣar fī ṣanʿat baʿḍ al-ālāt al-raṣadīyah wa-al-ʿamal bihā مختصر في صنعة بعض الآلات الرصدية والعمل بها Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn برجندي، عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the construction and use of over twenty astronomical instruments by ‘Abd al-‘Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Bīrjandī (عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين البيرجندي, d. 923/1525 or 26). At the end of the text, al-Bīrjandī explains that he took the descriptions of the construction and use of all...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
2 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1066
Extent:

Ff. 1r-59v