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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 411v-413v
Title:: Risālat al-mabdaʼ wa-al-maʻād رسالة المبدأ والمعاد Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Persian condensed translation of a work on metaphysics by 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 Arabic version of this text is item 35 (ff. 466v-497r) in the present manuscript.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 411v-413v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 424v-435r
Title:: Sharḥ risālah al-marmūzah al-musammāh bi-risālat al-ṭayr lil-shaykh al-raʼīs شرح رسالة المرموزة المسماة برسالة الطير للشيخ الرئيس Ibn Sahlān al-Sāwī, ʻUmar ابن سهلان الساوي، عمر
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn Sahlān al-Sāwajī (عمر بن سهلان الساوجي, also al-Sāwī [الساوي], fl. early 12th century) on the allegorical Epistle of the Bird (رسالة الطير) by Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 424v-435r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23391
Title:: Kitāb Arshimīdas fī al-binkāmāt كتاب أرشميدس في البنكامات Archimedes أرشميدس and Ṣan‘at al-zāmir صنعة الزامر Apollonius the carpenter and geometer أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي
Scope & Content:: Two technical treatises on the design and construction of hydraulic machines. Contents: (1) Archimedes (أرشميدس), Kitāb Arshimīdas fī al-binkāmāt (كتاب أرشميدس في البنكامات; ff. 2r-21r); (2) Apollonius the carpenter and geometer (أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي), Ṣan‘at al-zāmir (صنعة الزامر; ff. 21r-25v).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+25+ii

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
Title:: A compendium of medical texts in Arabic and Persian
Scope & Content:: Four texts in Arabic and one in Persian on medicine and pharmacology. Colophons to the first three texts in the volume bear dates between Ramaḍān and Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1099/July-October 1688. Contents: (1) ʽImād al-Dīn Shīrāzī (عماد الدين شيرازي), Risālah-i yanbūʿ (رساله ينبوع, ff. 2v-98r); (2) ʽImā...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1099
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+311+iii

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

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