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Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1514
Title:: Anonymous treatise on the construction of the astrolabe and Kitāb al-mujmal fī aḥkām al-nujūm كتاب المجمل في أحكام النجوم Kūshyār كوشيار
Scope & Content:: Composite volume containing two texts on the manufacture of the astrolabe and on astrology. The first text was copied in the middle of Jumādá I 1056/end of June 1646, while the second was completed on 18 Shawwāl 1061/4 October 1651 by the scribe Ghiyāth al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan Bīk Munajjim, '...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: Jumādá I 1056-18 Shawwāl 1061
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+1+i+31+iii

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 1619
Title:: Parsi marriage ceremony
Scope & Content:: Nikāḥ bastan bi-ravish-i mubidān-i Hindūstān ( نکاح بستن بروش مبدان هندوستان), the Parsi marriage ceremony in Persian, copied by the brother of Dastūr Kāʼus (f. 6v) and given by Dastūr Kāʼus to Jonathan Duncan (1756-1811) who was Governor of Bombay from 1795 until his death in 1811. Dastūr Kā’us...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: late 18th or early 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+10

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1654
Title:: al-Ṣurāḥ min al-ṣiḥāḥ (includes text in persian)
Scope & Content:: Author: Jamāl Qarshī, Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar, active 13th century VIAF ID: 73771977 Subject: Arabic philology
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Persian
Date Range:: 18th century-19th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1682
Title:: Kanz al-lughah (includes text in persian)
Scope & Content:: Author: Ibn Maʻrūf, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Khāliq, active 15th century VIAF ID: 52106944 Subject: Arabic philology
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Persian
Date Range:: 1106
Extent:: 1 item

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

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