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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 381v-402r
Title:: Tarjamat risālat al-maʿād ترجمة رسالة المعاد Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Persian translation of a treatise on the immortality of the soul in sixteen parts (فصول) by Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The Arabic text is item 34 (ff. 449v-466r) in the present manuscript and a sho...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 381v-402r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 403v-410r
Title:: Tarjamat risālat al-nafs ترجمة رسالة النفس Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Shorter recension of the Persian translation of a treatise on the immortality of the soul in sixteen parts (فصل) by Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The Arabic text is item 34 (ff. 449v-466r) in the pres...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 403v-410r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 411v-413v
Title:: Risālat al-mabdaʼ wa-al-maʻād رسالة المبدأ والمعاد Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Persian condensed translation of a work on metaphysics by Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The Arabic version of this text is item 35 (ff. 466v-497r) in the present manuscript.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 411v-413v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 424v-435r
Title:: Sharḥ risālah al-marmūzah al-musammāh bi-risālat al-ṭayr lil-shaykh al-raʼīs شرح رسالة المرموزة المسماة برسالة الطير للشيخ الرئيس Ibn Sahlān al-Sāwī, ʻUmar ابن سهلان الساوي، عمر
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn Sahlān al-Sāwajī (عمر بن سهلان الساوجي, also al-Sāwī [الساوي], fl. early 12th century) on the allegorical Epistle of the Bird (رسالة الطير) by Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 424v-435r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 18576
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23391
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23391, ff 2r-21r
Title:: Kitāb Arshimīdas fī al-binkāmāt كتاب أرشميدس في البنكامات Archimedes أرشميدس
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the hydraulic and pneumatic machinery of water-clocks with thirteen diagrams, attributed to Archimedes (Ἀρχιμήδης; أرشميدس; fl. 3rd century BC). The title is given wrongly as كتاب أرشميدش في عمل السكامات (Kitāb Arshimīdash fī ‘amal al-sakāmāt; f. 2v, line 1); the final word should re...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Ff. 2r-21r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23560
Title:: A compendium of medical texts in Arabic and Persian
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1099
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+311+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23560, ff 2v-98r
Title:: Risālah-i yanbūʿ رساله ينبوع 'Imād al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Maḥmud ibn Masʿūd عماد الدين شيرازى، محمود بن مسعود
Scope & Content:: A Persian-language manual on medicine in nineteen chapters (faṣls) by ʽImad al-Din Maḥmud ibn Masʿūd Shirāzī (عماد الدين محمود بن مسعود شيرازى, fl. 16th century). The transcription was completed on Friday, 12 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1099/8 October 1688 (see colophon, f. 98r, transcribed below). Contents:...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 12 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1099
Extent:: Ff. 2v-98r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23560, ff 218v-262v
Title:: Khuffī-'i ʿAlāʾī خفئ علأى Jurjānī, Ismāʿīl ibn Ḥasan جرجاني، إسماعيل بن حسن
Scope & Content:: Abridgement of the comprehensive medical compendium Dhakhīrah-i Khwārazmshāhī (ذخيره خوارزمشاهي) which the author, Ismaʿīl ibn Ḥasan al-Jurjānī (اسماعيل بن الحسن الجرجاني, d. 1042/4) had composed previously. The abridgement was composed at the request of the second Khwārazmshāhī ruler ʿAlāʾ al-...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 4 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1099
Extent:: Ff. 218v-262v

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