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1. Add MS 6940

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Title:
Ardā vīrāf nāmah اردا ویراف نامه by Zartusht Bahrām
Scope & Content:
The Ardā vīrāf nāmah (اردا ویراف نامه), a poetical version in Persian by Zartusht Bahrām ibn Pazhdū of the book of Ardā Vīrāf, based on a Pahlavi original of the 9th/10th century describing Arda Viraf's journey through heaven and hell and his return home afterwards. Copied by the Rev. John Hadd...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+64+i

2. Add MS 6998

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Title:
Ṣad dar صد در attributed to Īrānshāh ibn Malikshāh ایرانشاه ابن ملکشاه
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The Ṣad dar (صد در) attributed to Īrānshāh ibn Malikshāh (ایرانشاه ابن ملکشاه). A popular version of the 100 Zoroastrian rules composed in Persian verse in Kerman in 1494 (14 Muharram 900 AH) at the request of Shahriyār ibn Ardashīr ibn Bahrāmshāh. Copied by the Rev. John Haddon Hindley (1765-1...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Persian
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+236+ii

3. Add MS 7492

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Title:
Four treatises on astronomy and calendrics
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Contents: (1) Sharḥ mukhtaṣar fī maʿrifat al-taqāwīm (شرح مختصر في معرفة التقاويم, ff. 1r-48r); (2) Dar yāftan-i avval-i sāl-i suryāni (در يافتن أول سال سرياني, f. 48v); (3) Anonymous treatise on the calculation of days and months (ff. 49v-52r); (4) al-Abharī (الأبهري), al-Zīj al-shāmil (الزيج ا...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
25 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 912
Extent:

Codex; ii+1+i+47+iii+20+iii

4. Add MS 18576

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Title:
KISAS UL-ANBIYÁ, a History of the Prophets, by Ibráhím al-Naishápúri. Persian. Paper; XVIth cent. Folio. [Add. 18,576.]
Scope & Content:
Kisas al-Ambiyá: : Arab. and Pers.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Persian
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 23391

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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

6. Add MS 23560

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Title:
A compendium of medical texts in Arabic and Persian
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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...
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Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
1099
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+311+iii

7. Add MS 23569

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Title:
Five treatises on astronomy and mathematics in Persian and Arabic
Scope & Content:
A collection of five astronomical and mathematical treatises in Persian and Arabic. Folios 77v and 78r have been left blank. Contents: (1) al-Qūshjī (القوشجي), Risālah dar ‘ilm-i hay’ah (رسالة در علم هيئة; ff. 1v-46r) (2) al-‘Āmilī (العاملي), Tashrīḥ al-aflāk (تشريح الأفلاك; ff. 46v-56v); (3) a...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Persian
Date Range:
1055-1057
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+135+v

8. Add MS 24413

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Title:
Eight Zoroastrian works
Scope & Content:
A collection of works mostly by Dastur Edalji Darabji Sanjana (d. 1847) of Bombay who was the chief priest of the Shahanshahi Parsis, composed for Sir John Malcolm (1769-1833) of the Madras Army who from 1827 to 1831 was Governor of Bombay. Mostly copied by the author whose full name is given he...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Pahlavi and Persian
Date Range:
1809
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+94+vi (ff. 19-21; 26-30; 46-48, 58-60; 75-76 blank)

9. Delhi Arabic 994

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Delhi Arabic 994
Title:
Kashshāf iṣṭilāḥāt al-funūn كشاف اصطلاحات الفنون Tahānawī, Muḥammad Aʿlá ibn ʻAlī تهانوي، محمد أعلى بن علي
Scope & Content:
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). After a long introduction (vol. 1...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Two codices; ff. ix+264+iii and xi+304+iii

10. Delhi Arabic 1919

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Delhi Arabic 1919
Title:
Folios from four manuscripts on scientific subjects
Scope & Content:
Collection of unbound folios comprising four codicological units. Contents: (1) Abū al-Barakāt al-Baghdādī (أبو البركات البغدادي), Risālah fī sabab ẓuhūr al-kawākib laylan wa-khafā’ihā nahāran (رسالة في سبب ظهور الكواكب ليلًا وخفائها نهارًا; ff. 1v-3v); (2) al-Ṭūsī (الطوسي), Treatise on heat ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
17th-19th century
Extent:

Codex [without binding]; ff. 10+ii

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