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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 6940
Title:: Ardā vīrāf nāmah اردا ویراف نامه by Zartusht Bahrām
Scope & Content:: The Ardā vīrāf nāmah (اردا ویراف نامه), a poetical version in Persian by Zartusht Bahrām ibn Pazhdū of the book of Ardā Vīrāf, based on a Pahlavi original of the 9th/10th century describing Arda Viraf's journey through heaven and hell and his return home afterwards. Copied by the Rev. John Hadd...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+64+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 6998
Title:: Ṣad dar صد در attributed to Īrānshāh ibn Malikshāh ایرانشاه ابن ملکشاه
Scope & Content:: The Ṣad dar (صد در) attributed to Īrānshāh ibn Malikshāh (ایرانشاه ابن ملکشاه). A popular version of the 100 Zoroastrian rules composed in Persian verse in Kerman in 1494 (14 Muharram 900 AH) at the request of Shahriyār ibn Ardashīr ibn Bahrāmshāh. Copied by the Rev. John Haddon Hindley (1765-1...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin and Persian
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+236+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7492
Title:: Four treatises on astronomy and calendrics
Scope & Content:: Contents: (1) Sharḥ mukhtaṣar fī maʿrifat al-taqāwīm (شرح مختصر في معرفة التقاويم, ff. 1r-48r); (2) Dar yāftan-i avval-i sāl-i suryāni (در يافتن أول سال سرياني, f. 48v); (3) Anonymous treatise on the calculation of days and months (ff. 49v-52r); (4) al-Abharī (الأبهري), al-Zīj al-shāmil (الزيج ا...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 25 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 912
Extent:: Codex; ii+1+i+47+iii+20+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7492, f 48v
Title:: Dar yāftan-i avval-i sāl-i suryāni در يافتن أول سال سرياني
Scope & Content:: Anonymous short text in Ottoman Turkish on calculating the first day of each month in the Byzantine (rūmī), here called Syriac (suryānī), calendar year, accompanied by a summarising table. The only section in the present volume not written in Arabic, the text nevertheless covers similar conten...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: F. 48v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7492, ff 52v-66v
Title:: al-Zīj al-Shāmil الزيج الشامل [Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī, al-Mufaḍḍal ibn ʿUmar أثير الدين الأبهري، المفضّل بن عمر]
Scope & Content:: Astronomical handbook in ten bābs (أبواب), each subdivided into fuṣūl (فصول) in the tradition of Abū al-Wafāʾ al-Būzjānī and his colleagues at the Bāb al-Tibn Observatory in Baghdad (أبو الوفاء البوزجاني, d. 998, see f. 52v, line 3). The incipit also mentions the earlier work carried out under c...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Ff. 52v-67v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659
Title:: Compendium of philosophical and scientific texts by and about Avicenna (ابن سينا)
Scope & Content:: Collection of fifty-three short works on various philosophical and scientific topics by and about 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 colophon to text 6 states that the copy was completed in 1182/1768-...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+1+vii+584+vii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 101r-140r
Title:: Tarjamah-i Ishārāt ترجمۀ إشارات Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Persian translation of the second part of the Book of Directives and Remarks (كتاب الإشارات والتنبيهات) on metaphysics 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).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 101r-140r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 228v-235v
Title:: Risālat ḥikmat al-mawt رسالة حكمة الموت Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Ethical treatise on eschatology attributed to Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 228v-235v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 258v-310r
Title:: Ḥikmat-i ʿAlāʾī حكمة علائي Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Persian summary of his own philosophical teachings 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), written for the Kākūyid amir ʿAlāʾ al-Dawlah Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Rustam Dushmanziyār (علاء الدولة أبو جعفر محمد ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 258v-310r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 310v-342v
Title:: Risālah dar ʿilm-i rīyāz̤īyāt (رساله در علم رياضيات) Jūzjānī, ʻAbd al-Wāḥid جوزجاني، عبد الواحد
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the mathematical sciences (geometry, astronomy, arithmetic and music) excerpted from the works of Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037), edited and translated into Persian by his student Abū ʿUbayd...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 310v-342v

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