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71. Or 2361, ff 15r-17v

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Or 2361, ff 15r-17v
Title:
Risālah-'i masīḥī dar kayfīyat va haqīqat-i samāʿ va ibāḥatān رساله مسيحي در كيفيت وحقيقت سماع واباحتان Ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, ʿAbd al-Jalīl ابن عبد الرحمن، عبد الجليل
Scope & Content:
A tract in Persian on the lawfulness of sacred music and on terms used by Sufis. It was entitled Masīḥī in honour of the physician and poet Hakīm Sadrā ibn Hakīm Fakhr al-Dīn Shīrazī (حكيم سدرا بن حكيم فخر الدين شيرازي, d. 1061/1650-51), who came to India in c. 1603 and was awarded the title Mas...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
17 Ṣafar 1073
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Ff. 15r-17v

72. Or 2361, ff 157r-164r

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Or 2361, ff 157r-164r
Title:
Mūsīqī-yi ḥikmat-i ʿAlāʾī موسيقي حكمت علائي Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:
Section on music from the Persian summary of his own philosophical teachings by Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037), written for the Kākūyid amir ʿAlāʾ al-Dawlah Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Rustam Dushmanziyār (...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
Jumādá II 1073
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Ff. 157r-164r

73. Or 2361, ff 240v-246r

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Or 2361, ff 240v-246r
Title:
Kashf al-awtār كشف الأوتار Bukhārī, Qāsim ibn Dūst ʻAlī بخاري، قاسم ابن دوست علي
Scope & Content:
A Persian treatise on the fretting of musical instruments, by Qāsim ibn Dūst ʿAlī Bukhārī (قاسم ابن دوست علي بخارى). The present copy was completed by the scribe Muḥammad Amīn in Delhi on 19 Rabīʿ II 1075/9 October 1664 ( see colophon, f. 246r, lines 7-9). A diagram in red ink labelled in Per...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
19 Rabīʿ II 1075
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Ff. 240v-246r

74. Or 2361, ff 247r-269v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2361, ff 247r-269v
Title:
Risālah-'i kanz al-tuḥaf dar mūsīqī رساله كنز التحف در موسيقي
Scope & Content:
A Persian treatise on music, the composition of which was finished on 22 Jumādá I of either 756/4 June 1355, or 764/9 March 1363 depending on the reading of a chronogram on f. 269v, line 17, one letter of which lacks any diacritical points (see discussion of this chronogram in MS IO Islamic 2067...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
12 Rajab 1075
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Ff. 247r-269v

75. Or 5591, ff 212r-214v

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Or 5591, ff 212r-214v
Title:
Fragment of a Persian text on poetry
Scope & Content:
Fragment, defective at beginning and end, of a Persian text on poetry, possibly a commentary on the work of an early Persian poet. The fragment forms a separate codicoligical unit, coming from another manuscript not related to the rest of the folios in this volume in either format or content. A...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
16th century
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Ff. 212r-214v

76. Or 5820, ff 2v-177r

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Or 5820, ff 2v-177r
Title:
Sharḥ Fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ شرح فصول أبقراط Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-Nīsābūrī, Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī ابن أبي صادق النيسابوري، أبو القاسم عبد الرحمن بن علي
Scope & Content:
Commentary by Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-Nīsābūrī (أبو القاسم عبد الرحمن بن علي ابن أبي صادق النيسابوري, d. ca 1068) on the Aphorisms (كتاب الفصول) of Hippocrates (أبقراط, d. ca 370 BC). The commentary is based on Galen of Pergamon's (جالينوس, d. ca 216) co...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
1094
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Ff. 2v-177r

77. Or 5860, ff 136r-237v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5860, ff 136r-237v
Title:
Treatise on drugs Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ṣadr al-Dīn ‘Alī تقي الدين محمد ابن صدر الدين علي
Scope & Content:
Treatise on drugs by Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ṣadr al-Dīn ‘Alī (تقي الدين محمد ابن صدر الدين علي, see f. 136v, line 5, fl. ca 1600). The treatise is followed by three folios (ff. 234r-236v) of Persian verse. 　 Begins (f. 136v, lines 2-5): زيب ديباچه هر رساله تسباليش صانع حكيمى رو است كه قلوب...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
19th century
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Ff. 136r-237v

78. Or 11313, ff 2r-21r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11313, ff 2r-21r
Title:
Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-ḥisāb كتاب التذكرة في الحساب
Scope & Content:
Treatise on arithmetic in three sections (أقسام), each subdivided into chapters (أبواب) and parts (فصول). In the preface to the work, the author states that he called his work a Memorandum (تذكرة), and that it is a condensed translation of a Persian text called The Introduction (التبصرة), in whi...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
Dhū al-Qaʻdah 748
Extent:
Ff. 2r-21r

79. Or 11313, ff 97r-136r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11313, ff 97r-136r
Title:
Zubdat al-hayʼah زبدة الهيئة [Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد]
Scope & Content:
Treatise on astronomy usually attributed to Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي, d. 1274; see Storey [ed.], ‘3 Astronomy and Astrology’, § 91, item 15, Storey Online, Brill Reference Online https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/storey-online/3-astr...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
3 Muḥarram 751
Extent:
Ff. 97r-136r

80. Or 13006, ff 66v-67v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13006, ff 66v-67v
Title:
اين فصول از بعض كتب ستاذ كبير جابر Īn fuṣūl az ba‘z̤ī kutub-i ustaẕ kabīr Jābir Jābir ibn Ḥayyān جابر بن حيان
Scope & Content:
Five passages in Persian supposedly taken from the writings of Jābir ibn Ḥayyān. The main bulk of the corpus of texts attributed to this semi-legendary figure, however, are thought to have been composed between the second half of the 9th century and first half 10th century. Since this text begin...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
c 930
Extent:
ff. 66v-67v

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