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Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1925
Title:: Two treatises on the sizes and distances of the celestial bodies
Scope & Content:: Composite manuscript; folios 1-14 and 15-25 were originally two separate manuscripts, and were written on different papers by different copyists. Front flyleaf i was a pastedown, and was detached from the inside right board (front-i) during conservation work to reveal the inscriptions of H. Wat...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th-18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+26+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1926
Title:: Kitāb al-ukar كتاب الأكر Theodosius ثاودوسيوس
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of the De sphaericis (كتاب الأكر) by Theodosius of Bithynia (ثاودوسيوس; Θεοδόσιος; c 160-c 100 BC). The preface (f. 1v, lines 3-5, transcribed below) states that it was translated from Greek into Arabic by Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا; c 820-912), up to Chapter 3, figure 5, at th...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+34+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1927
Title:: Sullam al-idrāk fī hayʾat al-aflāk سلم الإدراك في هيئة الأفلاك Riyāḍī Muhandis, Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Khayr Allāh رياضي مهندس، محمد علي بن خير الله
Scope & Content:: Treatise on cosmology by Muḥammad ‘Alī al-Rīyāḍī ibn Khayr Allāh Khān al-Muhandis ibn Luṭf Allāh Khān al-Muhandis (محمد علي الرياضي ابن خير الله خان المهندس ابن لطف الله خان المهندس, fl. 18th century). The author's intention is to produce a condensed treatise (رسالة وجيزة) that will allow Arabic...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1185
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+48+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1928
Title:: Sharḥ tashrīḥ al-aflāk شرح تشريح الأفلاك Sahāranfūrī, ʿIṣmat Allāh ibn Aʿẓam سهارنفوري، عصمة الله بن أعظم and al-Ijābah ʿalá taʿlīq al-Jawnbūrī الإجابة على تعليق الجونبوري Landanī, Ḥusayn لندني، حسين
Scope & Content:: (1) al-Sahāranfūrī (السهارنفوري), Sharḥ tashrīḥ al-aflāk (شرح تشريح الأفلاك; ff. 1r-129v); (2) al-Landanī (اللندني), al-Ijābah ʿalá taʿlīq al-Jawnbūrī (الإجابة على تعليق الجونبوري; ff. 130r-141r). Folios 141r, line 3-145v contain various Persian notes and extracts.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1245
Extent:: Codex; ff. v+147+v

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1930
Title:: Sharḥ mūjaz li-Kitāb tashrīḥ al-aflāk شرح موجز لكتاب تشريح الأفلاك Dihlawī, Muḥammad Rashīd al-Dīn Khān دهلوي، محمد رشيد الدين خان
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Muḥammad Rashīd al-Dīn (محمد رشيد الدين) on the Tashrīḥ al-aflāk (تشريح الأفلاك, Anatomy of the Spheres), a summary of theoretical astronomy (علم الهيئة) by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي, d. 1621) in which it is argued that the earth ro...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: late 18th century-early 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+51

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1934
Title:: Tawḍīḥ al-Tadhkirah al-Nāṣirīyah توضيح التذكرة الناصرية Nīsābūrī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad نيسابوري، الحسن بن محمد
Scope & Content:: A commentary by al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn Niẓām al-Dīn al-Aʿraj al-Nīsābūrī (الحسن بن محمد بن الحسين نظام الدين الأعرج النيسابوري; d. 1328 or 9) on the Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah (كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة; see British Library, MS Or.11209) a treatise on the astronomical system prese...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Rabī‘ II 827
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+192+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1937B
Title:: Four texts on astronomy
Scope & Content:: Contents: (1) al-Lāhūrī (اللاهوري), al-Taṣrīḥ fī sharḥ al-tashrīḥ (التصريح في شرح التشريح; ff. 1r-16r); (2) al-Landanī (اللندني), al-Ijābah ʿalá taʿlīq al-Jawnbūrī (الإجابة على تعليق الجونبوري; ff. 16v-22r); (3) Anonymous, Tarjamah-’i Sab‘ shidād (ترجمه سبع الشداد; ff. 23r-44v); (4) al-Ṭūsī (...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+62+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1941
Title:: Dustūr al-ʿajāʾib دستور العجائب Anṭākī, Dāwūd ibn ʿUmar أنطاكي، داوود بن عمر
Scope & Content:: A treatise on medicine preceded by a number of sections dealing with the various subjects which should be included in the physician's education. The title appears at f. 3r, line 3. The author's name does not appear but he can be identified as Dā’ūd ibn ‘Umar al-Qaṣīr al-Anṭākī (داوود بن عمر القص...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. vii+320+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1946
Title:: Collection of texts on talisman making and related occult sciences
Scope & Content:: Eleven texts on talisman making, the occult properties of stones and other natural substances, amulet engraving and related subjects. The first five items in the manuscript form parts of the cycle of texts known as the pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica, which purport to contain the occult knowledge...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. 200

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1949
Title:: Ṭabā’i‘ al-ḥayawān طبائع الحيوان Marwazī, Sharaf al-Zamān Ṭāhir مروزي، شرف الزمان طاهر
Scope & Content:: Treatise on zoology in five chapters (مقالات) by Sharaf al-Zamān Ṭāhir al-Marwazī (شرف الزمان طاهر المروزي; fl. 1056-1125). It is likely that this copy was transcribed by a student of al-Marwazī, during the author's lifetime (see the scribal aside at f. 214v, lines 18-19). This copy contains Ch...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+217+ii

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