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Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1514, ff 2v-9r
Title:: Anonymous treatise on the construction of the astrolabe [رساله در صنعت اسطرلاب]
Scope & Content:: A short anonymous treatise (مختصر) in Persian on the construction and operation of the astrolabe, in twenty sections (bābs). The copy is extensively provided with diagrams and tables illustrating the instrument's stages of manufacture. The text was copied in the middle of Jumādá I 1056 (end of ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: Mid Jumādá I 1056
Extent:: Ff. 2v-9r

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1793/1
Title:: al-Sādī lil-shādī (includes text in persian)
Scope & Content:: Author: Maydānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1124 VIAF ID: 96969465 Subject: Arabic language--Grammar--Early works to 1800
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Persian
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1793/3
Title:: al-Sāmī fī al-asāmī (includes text in persian)
Scope & Content:: Author: Maydānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1124 VIAF ID: 96969465 Subject: Arabic philology
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Persian
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1856/1
Title:: Tanmīq sharḥ [qaṣīdat bānat suʿād] (includes text in persian)
Scope & Content:: Author: al-Banbānī, Ḥusām (Ṣadr al-Dīn) Subject: Arabic poetry
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Persian
Date Range:: 0978
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 2124/1
Title:: al-Jawāhir al-khamsah (al-sarāʾir al-ilāhīyah) (includes text in persian)
Scope & Content:: Author: Ibn Khaṭīr al-Dīn, Muḥammad, -1562 or 1563 VIAF ID: 19540626 Subject: Mysticism--Islam
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Persian
Date Range:: 1173
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 2171, ff 1r-365v
Title:: Baḥr al-jawāhirبحر الجواهر al-Harawī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf الهروي، محمد بن يوسف
Scope & Content:: An alphabetically-arranged medical dictionary in Arabic and Persian. The work was compiled from multiple source texts enumerated on f. 2r, lines 1-4 and including the Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطبّ) by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سي...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1096
Extent:: Ff. 1r-365v

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 2171, ff 366r-368v
Title:: Two lists of weights and measures
Scope & Content:: Names and definitions of various weights and measures, following Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, 980-1037; ff. 366r-366v, line 1). This is followed by a similar list, alphabetically arranged and taken from a text...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: Ff. 366r-368v

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