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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19691, ff 129r-156r
Title:: Risālah-i chūb-i Chīnī رساله چوب چينى Yazdī, Qāz̤ī ibn Muḥammad يزدي، قاضي بن محمد
Scope & Content:: A treatise in Persian on the medicinal properties of China root (چوب چينى or چينى بيخ, see f. 130r, line 6), by Mirzā Qāz̤ī ibn Kāshif al-Dīn Muḥammad Yazdī (ميرزا قاضي بن كاشف الدين محمد يزدي, died 1664-65). The work is divided into three chapters (أبواب), the first on China root (ff. 130r-154...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 21 Jumādá II 1103
Extent:: Ff. 129r-156r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23391, ff 2r-21r
Title:: Kitāb Arshimīdas fī al-binkāmāt كتاب أرشميدس في البنكامات Archimedes أرشميدس
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the hydraulic and pneumatic machinery of water-clocks with thirteen diagrams, attributed to Archimedes (Ἀρχιμήδης; أرشميدس; fl. 3rd century BC). The title is given wrongly as كتاب أرشميدش في عمل السكامات (Kitāb Arshimīdash fī ‘amal al-sakāmāt; f. 2v, line 1); the final word should re...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Ff. 2r-21r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23560, ff 2v-98r
Title:: Risālah-i yanbūʿ رساله ينبوع 'Imād al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Maḥmud ibn Masʿūd عماد الدين شيرازى، محمود بن مسعود
Scope & Content:: A Persian-language manual on medicine in nineteen chapters (faṣls) by ʽImad al-Din Maḥmud ibn Masʿūd Shirāzī (عماد الدين محمود بن مسعود شيرازى, fl. 16th century). The transcription was completed on Friday, 12 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1099/8 October 1688 (see colophon, f. 98r, transcribed below). Contents:...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 12 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1099
Extent:: Ff. 2v-98r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23560, ff 218v-262v
Title:: Khuffī-'i ʿAlāʾī خفئ علأى Jurjānī, Ismāʿīl ibn Ḥasan جرجاني، إسماعيل بن حسن
Scope & Content:: Abridgement of the comprehensive medical compendium Dhakhīrah-i Khwārazmshāhī (ذخيره خوارزمشاهي) which the author, Ismaʿīl ibn Ḥasan al-Jurjānī (اسماعيل بن الحسن الجرجاني, d. 1042/4) had composed previously. The abridgement was composed at the request of the second Khwārazmshāhī ruler ʿAlāʾ al-...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 4 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1099
Extent:: Ff. 218v-262v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23560, ff 262v-264r
Title:: Intikhāb az kitāb Jāmiʿ al-favāʾid-i Yūsufī انتخاب از كتاب جامع الفوائد يوسفي Yūsufī, Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Maḥallī يوسفي، يوسف بن محمد بن يوسف المحلي
Scope & Content:: Extracts from the Jāmiʿ al-Favāʾid-i Yūsufī (انتخاب از كتاب جامع الفوائد يوسفي), a commentary by the Herātī physician Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Maḥallī al-Ȳūsufī (يوسف بن محمد بن يوسف المحلي اليوسفي, d. 1556) on another of his own medical works,ʿIlāj al-Amrāḍ (علاج الأمراض), a versified tr...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 1688
Extent:: Ff. 262v-264r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23560, ff 264v-311r
Title:: Mūjaz Kummī موجز كمي
Scope & Content:: An anonymous medical compendium assembled from various Arabic and Persian works listed in the preface (f. 264v). The work is divided into 38 bābs, each subdivided into faṣls as enumerated in the contents pages (ff. 264v-266v). The date of the transcription was originally included in a colophon,...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 1688
Extent:: Ff. 264v-311v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23570, ff 4v-6r
Title:: Short extracts and notes in Persian and Arabic
Scope & Content:: A collection of short extracts of poetry and prose in Perisan and Arabic on various topics related to the natural sciences. The extracts are attributed to such authorities and works as Sharaf al-Dīn ‘Alī Yazdī (شرف الدين علي يزدي, d. 1454; f. 5r), the Optica (كتاب المناظر) of Euclid of Alexandri...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: c 1605
Extent:: Ff. 4v-6r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23570, ff 12v-13r
Title:: Two short extracts on astronomy in Arabic and Persian
Scope & Content:: Folio 12v contains six lines of unpointed Arabic text entitled ' On ascertaining the distance between countries (في معرفة قدر المسافة بين البلدين)', and a diagram showing the orbit of the moon around the earth. Folio 13r contains a short and mostly unpointed Persian text attributed to Naṣīr al-...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: c 1605
Extent:: Ff. 12v-13r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23570, ff 86v-117r
Title:: Short mathematical texts, notes and diagrams in Arabic and Persian
Scope & Content:: Notable contents include: Commentary on Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274) edition of Euclid's (Εὐκλείδης; أقليدس; fl. 300 BC) Elements (الأصول) (ff. 86v-88r); Text by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1605-1610
Extent:: Ff. 86v-117r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23570, ff 117v-133v
Title:: Fawā’id al-Jamālī fī uṣūl al-handasah فوائد الجمالي في أصول الهندسة Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf سمرقندي، محمد بن أشرف
Scope & Content:: Persian translation of a treatise on geometry, the Ashkāl al-ta’sīs (أشكال التأسيس) by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ashraf al-Ḥusaynī al-Samarqandī (شمس الدين محمد بن أشرف الحسيني السمرقندي, d. 1302; see f. 118v, line 7). The translation was made by Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Qiwām al-Qāḍ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1605-1610
Extent:: Ff. 117v-133v

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