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1. Add MS 7492

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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

2. Add MS 20736

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Add MS 20736
Title:
Two treatises on horsemanship
Scope & Content:
Originally copied as an Arabic treatise on horsemanship, arms and military skills. The treatise is generously illustrated as far as f. 36v, after which only sporadic illustrations were added to the many remaining spaces. Most of the remaining blank spaces were subsequently utilised for the tran...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
ca 16th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. iii+97+iv

3. Or 9454

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Or 9454
Title:
Kitāb al-waḍīḥ fī maʿrifat ʿilm al-ramy كتاب الوضيح في معرفة علم الرمي [Ṭabarī,ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad طبري، عبد الرحمن أحمد]
Scope & Content:
Luxury copy of a practical treatise on archery, very popular and widely-used especially in the Mamluk period, by Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭabarī (أبو محمد عبد الرحمن بن أحمد الطبري, active ca 9th century). The present copy was completed by an un-named scribe on 9 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 78...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
9 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 780
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+88+iii; Detached binding: +ii

4. Or 11247

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11247
Title:
Risālat al-shifāʾ li-adwāʾ al-wabāʾ رسالة الشفاء لأدواء الوباء Ṭāshkubrīʹzādah, Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafá طاشكبريزاده، أحمد بن مصطفى
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the prevention and cure of plague by the Ottoman polymath ʿIṣām al-Dīn Abū al-Khayr Aḥmad ibn Muṣliḥ al-Dīn Muṣṭafá Ṭāshkubrīʹzādah (عصام الدين أبو الخير أحمد بن مصلح الدين مصطفى طاشكبريزاده, Taşköprīzāde, d. 1561). The text is divided into the following sections, of which all but t...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+74+i

5. Or 13006

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13006
Title:
Compendium of alchemical treatises in Arabic, Persian and Ottoman
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises two manuscripts. The first (ff. 3-112) was the notebook of Qudrat Allāh al-Marandī al-Ādharī, who copied into it thirteen alchemical texts between 919 AH/AD 1513 and 925 AH/AD 1519, first at Fez and then at Damascus (see colophons on ff. 11r, 14r, 57r and 66r). The second (f...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
919-1177
Extent:
Codex; ff. 159+i