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Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1665
Title:: Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-mujayyab رسالة في العمل بالربع المجيب Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad سبط المارديني، بدر الدين محمد بن محمد and [Kitāb al-asṭurlāb] [كتاب الأسطرلاب] Kūshyār ibn Labbān كوشيار بن لبان
Scope & Content:: Two short works on astronomical instruments. (1) Sibṭ al-Māridīnī (سبط المارديني), Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-mujayyab (رسالة في العمل بالربع المجيب, ff. 1v-7r); (2) Kūshyār ibn Labbān (كوشيار بن لبان), [Kitāb al-asṭurlāb] ([كتاب الأسطرلاب], ff. 7v-39v).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: ca 17th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+40+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1713
Title:: al-Mukhtār fī al-ṭibb المختار في الطب Ibn Hubal, ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ابن هبل، علي بن أحمحد
Scope & Content:: Comprehensive encyclopaedia of medicine by Muhadhdhib al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ‘Alī ibn Aḥmad ibn ‘Alī ibn Hubal al-Baghdādī (مهذب الدين أبو الحسن علي بن أحمد بن علي بن هبل البغدادي, d. 1213). An introduction to the text in Persian and written by a later hand (16th century?) is found on f. 1v, which...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Dhū al-Ḥijja 683
Extent:: Codex; ff. v+360+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1896
Title:: Sharḥ khulāṣat al-ḥisāb شرح خلاصة الحساب Kāẓimī, Jawād ibn Saʿd كاظمي، جواد بن سعد
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Jawād ibn Saʿd ibn Jawād al-Kāẓimī (جواد بن سعد بن جواد الكاظمي, d. ca 1654-5 [see al-Amīn, A‘yān al-shī‘ah, vol. 4, p. 271]) on the Summa of Arithmetic (خلاصة الحساب) by his teacher Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621). The text co...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+169+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1897
Title:: Two treatises on algebra and inheritance calculations and an excerpt on magic squares Khuzā‘ī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad خزاعي، محمد بن أحمد
Scope & Content:: Collection of treatises and excerpts mostly by the Yemeni mathematician Jamāl al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar al-Khuzāʾī (جمال الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن أحمد بن عمر الخزاعي, fl. 13th century, see King, 'A Medieval Arabic Report on Algebra Before al-Khwārizmī' and idem, Mathem...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1036
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+133+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1898
Title:: Sharḥ al-Mūjaz al-musammá ḥisāban yasīran شرح الموجز المسمى حسابًا يسيرًا
Scope & Content:: Anonymous commentary on a treatise on arithmetic titled The Summary Called Easy Arithmetic (الموجز المسمى حسابًا يسيرًا), by al-Hadīyah Aḥmad ibn Masʿūd al-Ḥusaynī al-Hargāmī (الهدية أحمد بن مسعود الحسيني الهرگامي, d. 1175/1761-2). The text of the commentary (or perhaps of the text commented upo...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. v+201+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1901
Title:: al-Durr al-thamīn fī sharḥ urjūzat Ibn al-Yāsamīn الدر الثمين في شرح أرجوزة ابن الياسمين Ibn al-Hāʾim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ابن الهائم، أحمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ha’im al-Maqdisī al-Faraḍī (شهاب الدين أبو العباس أحمد بن محمد بن الهائم المقدسي الفرضي, d. 1412), known as Ibn al-Hā’im (ابن الهائم) on the didactic poem (أرجوزة) on algebra al-Manẓūmah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 5 Sha‘bān 887
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+105+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1902
Title:: Composite volume of treatises on mathematics
Scope & Content:: Composite volume comprising four codicological units: ff. 1-20, 21-53, 54-69, and 70-79. The manuscript contains many inclusions, notes on small slips of paper, now bound into the volume. Contents: (1) al-Nīsābūrī (النيسابوري), al-Risālah al-Shamsīyah fī al-uṣūl al-ḥisābīyah (الرسالة الشمس...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century-18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+79+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1909
Title:: Geometrical texts related to Euclid's Elements
Scope & Content:: Front flyleaf ii-v contains a magical text based on the names of the Companions of the Cave (أصحاب الكهف, see Qur’ān 18:9-26). Ff. 1ar and 1av contain an astrnomical table. The first and by far the longest text in this manuscript was completed on 5 Jumādá II 1214/4 November 1799 (see its coloph...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 5 Jumādá II 1214
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+173+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1916
Title:: Kitāb al-masā’il كتاب المسائل Qaṣrānī, Ya‘qūb ibn ‘Alī قصراني، يعقوب بن علي
Scope & Content:: Two volumes (جزءان) of an extensive treatise on astrological interrogations by Abū Yūsuf Ya‘qūb ibn ‘Alī al-Qarshī al-Qaṣrānī (أبو يوسف يعقوب بن علي القرشي القصراني, fl. late 9th century). Both volumes were copied in Mamluk Egypt, the title pages of the volumes label them as Volume One and Vol...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 640 and 768
Extent:: Two codices

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1919
Title:: Folios from four manuscripts on scientific subjects
Scope & Content:: Collection of unbound folios comprising four codicological units. Contents: (1) Abū al-Barakāt al-Baghdādī (أبو البركات البغدادي), Risālah fī sabab ẓuhūr al-kawākib laylan wa-khafā’ihā nahāran (رسالة في سبب ظهور الكواكب ليلًا وخفائها نهارًا; ff. 1v-3v); (2) al-Ṭūsī (الطوسي), Treatise on heat ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 17th-19th century
Extent:: Codex [without binding]; ff. 10+ii

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