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Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 843, ff 411r-413r
Title:: Mufradāt by Sa‘dī مفردات
Scope & Content:: Decorations: Miniature: Folios 413v - 414r: Double-page miniature of a royal hunt with a splendid illuminated border and margins. On 413v the prince, evidently intended for Shāh 'Abbās, is seated under a tree inspecting the bag. He is surrounded by attendantswith hawks and hunting cheetahs. On 4...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1034
Extent:: 1 text

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 848
Title:: Farhang (fārisī) al-Rashīdī (includes text in persian)
Scope & Content:: Author: ʻAbd al-Rashīd ibn ʻAbd al-Ghafūr Tattavī, active 1653 VIAF ID: 27417654 Subject: Arabic philology
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Persian
Date Range:: 1070
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 883
Title:: Tarjamat ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn (includes text in persian)
Scope & Content:: Author: al-Bihrūjī, Abū Bakr ibn Muḥammad (Tr) Subject: Hadith--Early works to 1800
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Persian
Date Range:: 18th century-19th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 923
Title:: Arabic (and one Persian) versions of six Greek treatises on mathematics edited by Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Second part of a collection of Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274) editions (تحارير) of the so-called 'intermediate [books] (متوسطات)', Arabic versions of ancient Greek mathematical and astronomical texts and Arabic responses to them which were ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: Jumādá I-Sha‘bān 1198
Extent:: Codex; ff. vi+101+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 923, ff 71v-95r
Title:: Maqalah-’i avvalī az Kitāb-i Uqlīdas مقالهٔ اولى از كتاب اقليدس Euclid أقليدس
Scope & Content:: A Persian version of Book One of the Elements (Στοιχεῖα; كتاب أقليدس في الأصول) by the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (Εὐκλείδης; أقليدس; fl. 300 BC). The diagrams are collected on three fold outs (ff. 74r, 89r and 95r). Begins (f. 71v, lines 1-2: مقالهٔ اولى از كتاب اقليدس چهل وهفت شكل اس...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 1198
Extent:: ff. 71v-95r

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 924
Title:: كتاب أبلونيوس في المخروطات Kitāb Abulūnīyūs fī al-makhrūṭāt Apollonius of Perga أبلونيوس
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of the Conics (Κωνικά; كتاب المخروطات) by Apollonius of Perga (Ἀπολλώνιος; أبلونيوس; fl ca 200 BC). Originally in eight books, only Books 1 to 4 survive in the original Greek; Books 1 to 7 are preserved in Arabic. The edition is called Taḥrīr makhrūṭāt (تحرير مخروطات), indicating ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: Ramaḍān 1198
Extent:: Codex; ff. vi+205+viii; one loose leaf

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 972
Title:: Ashi at al-lamaʾāt fī sharḥ al-mishkāt (includes text in persian)
Scope & Content:: Author: ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn Sayf al-Dīn Dihlavī, 1551-1642 VIAF ID: 45690112 Subject: Hadith--Early works to 1800
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Persian
Date Range:: 1160
Extent:: 1 item

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