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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11313
Title:: Nine treatises on scientific and philosophical subjects
Scope & Content:: Nine treatises on mathematics, astronomy, philosophy and geomantic divination. Contents: (1) Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-ḥisāb (كتاب التذكرة في الحساب, ff. 2r-21r);(2) al-Turkistānī (التركستاني), al-Risālah al-ʻAlāʼīyah fī al-masāʼil al-ḥisābīyah (الرسالة العلائية في المسائل الحسابية, ff. 23r-43v)...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1348 to 16th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+174+i

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13006
Title:: Compendium of alchemical treatises in Arabic, Persian and Ottoman
Scope & Content:: The volume comprises two manuscripts. The first (ff. 3-112) was the notebook of Qudrat Allāh al-Marandī al-Ādharī, who copied into it thirteen alchemical texts between 919 AH/AD 1513 and 925 AH/AD 1519, first at Fez and then at Damascus (see colophons on ff. 11r, 14r, 57r and 66r). The second (f...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 919-1177
Extent:: Codex; ff. 159+i

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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