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42. IO Islamic 1514
- 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
43. IO Islamic 1514, ff 2v-9r
- 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
44. IO Islamic 2171
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 2171
- Title:
- Baḥr al-jawāhir بحر الجواهر al-Harawī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf الهروي، محمد بن يوسف and Two lists of weights and measures
- Scope & Content:
- (1) al-Harawī (الهروي), Baḥr al-jawāhir (بحر الجواهر, ff. 1r-365v); (2) Two lists of weights and measures (ff. 366r-368v)
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
- Date Range:
- 1096
- Extent:
-
Codex; ff. i+369+i
45. IO Islamic 2171, ff 1r-365v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 2171, ff 1r-365v
- Title:
- Baḥr al-jawāhirبحر الجواهر al-Harawī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf الهروي، محمد بن يوسف
- Scope & Content:
- An alphabetically-arranged medical dictionary in Arabic and Persian. The work was compiled from multiple source texts enumerated on f. 2r, lines 1-4 and including the Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطبّ) by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سي...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
- Date Range:
- 1096
- Extent:
-
Ff. 1r-365v
46. IO Islamic 2171, ff 366r-368v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 2171, ff 366r-368v
- Title:
- Two lists of weights and measures
- Scope & Content:
- Names and definitions of various weights and measures, following Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, 980-1037; ff. 366r-366v, line 1). This is followed by a similar list, alphabetically arranged and taken from a text...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Extent:
-
Ff. 366r-368v
47. IO Islamic 4419
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 4419
- Title:
- Mukhtaṣar fī ṣanʿat baʿḍ al-ālāt al-raṣadīyah wa-al-ʿamal bihā مختصر في صنعة بعض الآلات الرصدية والعمل بها Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn برجندي، عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين and Risālat mukhtaṣarah shāmilah kayfīyat inshāʾ al-jadwal wa-istikhrāj aʿmālihi رسالة مختصرة شاملة كيفية إنشاء الجدول واستخراج أعماله
- Scope & Content:
- Two treatises on the construction and use of astronomical instruments. The manuscript was copied at Hyderabad Deccan in 1066/1656 for Qubād ibn ‘Abd al-Jalīl al-Ḥārithī al-Badakhshī (قباد بن عبد الجليل الحارثي البدخشي, d. 1083/1672-3), later known by the honorific title Diyānat Khān (ديانت خان,...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
- Date Range:
- 18 Ramadan 1066-2 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1066
- Extent:
-
Codex; ff. iii+106+ii
48. IO Islamic 4419, ff 1r-59v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 4419, ff 1r-59v
- Title:
- Mukhtaṣar fī ṣanʿat baʿḍ al-ālāt al-raṣadīyah wa-al-ʿamal bihā مختصر في صنعة بعض الآلات الرصدية والعمل بها Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn برجندي، عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين
- Scope & Content:
- Treatise on the construction and use of over twenty astronomical instruments by ‘Abd al-‘Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Bīrjandī (عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين البيرجندي, d. 923/1525 or 26). At the end of the text, al-Bīrjandī explains that he took the descriptions of the construction and use of all...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
- Date Range:
- 2 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1066
- Extent:
-
Ff. 1r-59v
49. IOR/F/4/1880/79880
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/F/4/1880/79880
- Title:
- ‘Persian Gulf. Abolition of the Slave Trade in the Principal ports of-’
- Scope & Content:
- The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence, minutes and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] to the East India Company Court of Directors. The item relates to attempts by the Government of Bombay to suppress the trade in enslaved ...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- Arabic, English, Gujarati, Marathi, and Persian
- Date Range:
- 23 Sep 1837-28 Feb 1841
- Extent:
-
1 item (150 folios)
50. IOR/F/4/2504/142198
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/F/4/2504/142198
- Title:
- ‘Persian Gulf Relative to the conduct of Nakodah and crew of a Boat belonging to the port of Bushire-’
- Scope & Content:
- The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 13 January 1853, and found at IOR/F/4/2504/142185. Further enclosures to the letter can be found at: I...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- Arabic, English, Gujarati, and Persian
- Date Range:
- 5 Jul 1852-11 Jan 1853
- Extent:
- 1 item (15 folios)
