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Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1026
Title:: Tarjūmah-' al-Masālik wa al-Mamālik by Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad al-Fārisī ترجومۀ المسالک و الممالک
Scope & Content:: Persian adaptation of al-Istakhrī's al-Masālik wa'l-Mamālik Decorations: Map: Folio 3v: 'The Western Region', i.e.The Straits of Gibraltar, southernSpain(right) andNorth Africa(left). The sea is blue: town are circles of various colours and mountains are roughly triangular. Dimensions [written]...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 95 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1039
Title:: Anonymous treatise on mathematics and Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb مفتاح الحساب Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd كاشي، جمشيد بن مسعود
Scope & Content:: (1) Anonymous, Untitled treatise on mathematics (ff. 2v-14v); (2) Jamshīd al-Kāshī (جمشيد الكاشي), Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb (مفتاح الحساب; ff. 15v-122r).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1041
Extent:: Codex; ff. ix+123+ix

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1039, ff 2v-14v
Title:: Anonymous treatise on mathematics
Scope & Content:: Anonymous and untitled treatise on mathematics containing numerous diagrams. The copy was completed at Ajmer (أجمير) on Tuesday 10 Rabī‘ I 1041/7 October 1631 by Muḥammad Amīn ibn Mirzā Muḥammad Faḍl Allāh Kāshānī (محمد أمين بن مرزا محمد فضل الله كاشاني; see colophon, f. 14v, lines 15-21 and se...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: Rabī‘ I 1041
Extent:: Ff. 2v-14v

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1055/1
Title:: امواج خوبی Amwāj i ḵẖūbī
Scope & Content:: A Sufi work on Islamic theology; consisting of an Urdu Dakhani poem, entitled Ḵẖūb tarang, with a Persian paraphrase and commentary. The text of the Dakhani poem is written on the margin (fol. 128, et seq.). It was composed by Ḵẖūb Muḥammad in A.H. 986 (see fol. 130a, marg.), and contains...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Persian, and Urdu
Date Range:: 1016
Extent:: 126b-212 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1072
Title:: Niṣāb ʿaqīdat al-jawāhir (includes text in persian)
Scope & Content:: Author: Vaṭvāṭ, Rashīd al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1114-approximately 1182 VIAF ID: 13748246 Subject: Arabic philology
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Persian
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1105
Title:: Taysīr al-qāriʾ fī sharḥ saḥīḥ al-Bukhārī (includes text in persian)
Scope & Content:: Author: Dihlavī, Nūr al-Ḥaqq ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq, -1662 or 1663 VIAF ID: 295894712 Subject: Hadith--Early works to 1800
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Persian
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1148
Title:: Three treatises on astronomy and geometry
Scope & Content:: The volume comprises three distinct manuscripts (ff. 1v-63r, 63v-67r and 68r-135r). Contents: (1) Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين الطوسي), Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (تحرير المجسطي ; ff. 1v-63r); (2) Menelaus of Alexandria (مانالاوس), Fī ashkāl al-kurīyah (في أشكال الكرية; ff. 63v-67r); (3) Ulugh Beg (...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1322-1599
Extent:: Codex; ff. v+135+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1148, ff 68v-135v
Title:: زيج ألغبيك Zīj-i Ulugh Beg ألغ بيك Ulugh Beg
Scope & Content:: The Zīj, or tables of astronomical calculations, produced by Ulugh Beg (1394-1449). This copy lacks the introduction and explanatory material and contains only the tables themselves. Folio 68r contains a diagram apparently unrelated to the texts before or after it.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: ff 68v-135v

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1152
Title:: al-Shāfī sharḥ al-kāfī (includes text in persian)
Scope & Content:: Author: Qazwīnī, Khalīl ibn al-Ghāzī, 1592 or 1593-1678 or 1679 VIAF ID: 1632455 Subject: Hadith--Early works to 1800
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Persian
Date Range:: 1086
Extent:: 1 item

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