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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11313, ff 97r-136r
Title:: Zubdat al-hayʼah زبدة الهيئة [Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد]
Scope & Content:: Treatise on astronomy usually attributed to Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي, d. 1274; see Storey [ed.], ‘3 Astronomy and Astrology’, § 91, item 15, Storey Online, Brill Reference Online https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/storey-online/3-astr...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 3 Muḥarram 751
Extent:: Ff. 97r-136r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13006
Title:: Compendium of alchemical treatises in Arabic, Persian and Ottoman
Scope & Content:: The volume comprises two manuscripts. The first (ff. 3-112) was the notebook of Qudrat Allāh al-Marandī al-Ādharī, who copied into it thirteen alchemical texts between 919 AH/AD 1513 and 925 AH/AD 1519, first at Fez and then at Damascus (see colophons on ff. 11r, 14r, 57r and 66r). The second (f...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 919-1177
Extent:: Codex; ff. 159+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13006, ff 66v-67v
Title:: اين فصول از بعض كتب ستاذ كبير جابر Īn fuṣūl az ba‘z̤ī kutub-i ustaẕ kabīr Jābir Jābir ibn Ḥayyān جابر بن حيان
Scope & Content:: Five passages in Persian supposedly taken from the writings of Jābir ibn Ḥayyān. The main bulk of the corpus of texts attributed to this semi-legendary figure, however, are thought to have been composed between the second half of the 9th century and first half 10th century. Since this text begin...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: c 930
Extent:: ff. 66v-67v

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