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Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 994 vol 1, ff 1-264
Title:: Kashshāf iṣṭilāḥāt al-funūn كشاف اصطلاحات الفنون Tahānawī, Muḥammad Aʿlá ibn ʻAlī تهانوي، محمد أعلى بن علي
Scope & Content:: Volume one of an 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). The text begins...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Ff. ix+264+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 994 vol 2, ff 265-568
Title:: Kashshāf iṣṭilāḥāt al-funūn كشاف اصطلاحات الفنون Tahānawī, Muḥammad Aʿlá ibn ʻAlī تهانوي، محمد أعلى بن علي
Scope & Content:: Volume two of an 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). The foliation i...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Ff. xi+304+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1937B
Title:: Four texts on astronomy
Scope & Content:: Contents: (1) al-Lāhūrī (اللاهوري), al-Taṣrīḥ fī sharḥ al-tashrīḥ (التصريح في شرح التشريح; ff. 1r-16r); (2) al-Landanī (اللندني), al-Ijābah ʿalá taʿlīq al-Jawnbūrī (الإجابة على تعليق الجونبوري; ff. 16v-22r); (3) Anonymous, Tarjamah-’i Sab‘ shidād (ترجمه سبع الشداد; ff. 23r-44v); (4) al-Ṭūsī (...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+62+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1937B, ff 23r-44v
Title:: Tarjamah-’i Sab‘ shidād ترجمه سبع شداد
Scope & Content:: Anonymous commentary on the al-Sabʿ al-shidād fī ‘ilm al-hayʾah (السبع الشداد في علم الهيئة) by Ḥusayn ibn Kamāl al-Dīn al-Ṭabāṭabāʾī. The text contains numerous diagrams. 　 Begins (f. 23, lines 2-4): الحمد لله حمد الشاكرين والصلوة والسلام على خير الخلقة محمد وآله وأصحابه أجمعين أما بعد اين ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 23r-44v

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 824
Title:: Scientific and Philosophical Compendium of Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān Ghūjārātī (أحمد بن سليمان غوجاراتي)
Scope & Content:: Compendium of short texts, extracts and notes on scientific and philosophical subjects, compiled by Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān Ghūjārātī (أحمد بن سليمان غوجاراتي; d. 1681), and completed in Dhū al-ḥijjah 1134/September-October 1722 (see note on f. 5r). The manuscript was later owned by the compiler''s ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: Dhū al-ḥijjah 1134
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+250+i

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 923
Title:: Arabic (and one Persian) versions of six Greek treatises on mathematics edited by Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Second part of a collection of Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274) editions (تحارير) of the so-called 'intermediate [books] (متوسطات)', Arabic versions of ancient Greek mathematical and astronomical texts and Arabic responses to them which were ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: Jumādá I-Sha‘bān 1198
Extent:: Codex; ff. vi+101+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 923, ff 71v-95r
Title:: Maqalah-’i avvalī az Kitāb-i Uqlīdas مقالهٔ اولى از كتاب اقليدس Euclid أقليدس
Scope & Content:: A Persian version of Book One of the Elements (Στοιχεῖα; كتاب أقليدس في الأصول) by the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (Εὐκλείδης; أقليدس; fl. 300 BC). The diagrams are collected on three fold outs (ff. 74r, 89r and 95r). Begins (f. 71v, lines 1-2: مقالهٔ اولى از كتاب اقليدس چهل وهفت شكل اس...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 1198
Extent:: ff. 71v-95r

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 924
Title:: كتاب أبلونيوس في المخروطات Kitāb Abulūnīyūs fī al-makhrūṭāt Apollonius of Perga أبلونيوس
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of the Conics (Κωνικά; كتاب المخروطات) by Apollonius of Perga (Ἀπολλώνιος; أبلونيوس; fl ca 200 BC). Originally in eight books, only Books 1 to 4 survive in the original Greek; Books 1 to 7 are preserved in Arabic. The edition is called Taḥrīr makhrūṭāt (تحرير مخروطات), indicating ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: Ramaḍān 1198
Extent:: Codex; ff. vi+205+viii; one loose leaf

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