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Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1142
Title:: Jāmiʿ li-mufradāt al-adwiyah wa-al-aghdhiyah جامع لمفردات الأدوية والأغذية Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ابن البيطار، عبد الله بن أحمد
Scope & Content:: The most influential and important Arabic handbook of materia medica, written by the Andalusian botanist Ḍiyā’ al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad (ضياء الدين أبو محمد عبد الله بن أحمد; d. 1248), known as Ibn al-Bayṭār (ابن البيطار), Chief Herbalist (رئيس العشابين) to the Ayyubid sultan...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 29 Sha‘bān 925
Extent:: Codex; iii+550+iv ff

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 1210
Title:: Talkhīṣ al-miftāḥ تلخيص المفتاح Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd كاشي، جمشيد بن مسعود
Scope & Content:: Abridgement of the Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb (مفتاح الحساب) by Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd ibn Maḥmūd al-Kāshī (غياث الدين جمشيد بن مسعود بن محمود الكاشي, d. 1429 or 1436) or al-Kāshānī (الكاشاني), composed by the author himself (see f. 1v, lines 5-7, transcribed below). The abridgement is arranged ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century-18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+10+i

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1249
Title:: Arabic versions of seven Greek treatises on mathematics edited by Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: First 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 texts and responses to them which were meant to be read after Euclid...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Jumādá I 1198
Extent:: Codex; ff. viii+240+viii

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1270
Title:: Compendium of texts on mathematics and optics mostly by Alhazen (ابن الهيثم)
Scope & Content:: Collection of twenty-one treatises on mathematics, optics and related subjects. Contents: (1) Thābit ibn Qurrah (ثابت بن قرّة), Kitāb fī sanat al-shams bil-irṣād (كتاب في سنة الشمس بالإرصاد) (ff. 1v-9v); (2) Abū Naṣr ibn ‘Irāq (أبو نصر بن عراق), Istikhrāj mā bayna al-markaz min al-Majisṭī al-sh...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+123+v

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1296
Title:: al-Mu‘ālajah al-buqrāṭīyah المعالجة البقراطية Ṭabarī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad طبري، أحمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Compendium (كناش) of medicine by Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭabarī al-Turunjī (أبو الحسن أحمد بن محمد الطبري الترنجي), personal physician to the Buyid amīr Rukn al-Dawlah (ركن الدولة; reg. 947-76). A table of contents by a hand other than that of the main scribe appears on ff. 1Cr-3v. ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1117-1121
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+661

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1308
Title:: Kitāb al-maqāyīs كتاب المقاييس Christophorus Clavius كلاويوس الفرنجي
Scope & Content:: Holograph rough draft (مسودة, see note f. 1v) of the Arabic translation of Gnomonices libri octo (Rome: Apud F. Zanettum, 1581) by Christophorus Clavius Bambergensis (Christoph Klau of Bamberg, كلاويوس بامبرجنسيس الفرنجي, d. 1537 or 38; see f. 82r, line 16). This treatise on gnomonics, the study...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1109
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+427+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1362
Title:: Three texts on mathematics
Scope & Content:: Contents: (1) Anonymous treatise on multiplication (ff. 1r-2v); (2) al-‘Āmilī (العاملي), Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb (خلاصة الحساب; preface only, f. 4r); (3) Luṭf Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Muhandis al-Lahūrī (لطف الله بن أحمد المهندس اللهوري), Sharḥ Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb (شرح خلاصة الحساب; ff. 4v-69r).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. v+69+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1490
Title:: Sharḥ ‘alá al-urjūzah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī ‘ilm al-jabr شرح على الأرجوزة الياسمينية في علم الجبر
Scope & Content:: Anonymous commentary on the didactic poem (أرجوزة) on algebra al-Manẓūmah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah (المنظومة الياسمينية في الجبر والمقابلة) by Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥajjāj ibn al-Yāsamīn al-Adrinī al-Ishbīlī (أبو محمد عبد الله بن محمد بن حجاج بن الياسمين الأدر...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 21 Muḥarram 1081
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+34+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1514
Title:: Anonymous treatise on the construction of the astrolabe and Kitāb al-mujmal fī aḥkām al-nujūm كتاب المجمل في أحكام النجوم Kūshyār كوشيار
Scope & Content:: Composite volume containing two texts on the manufacture of the astrolabe and on astrology. The first text was copied in the middle of Jumādá I 1056/end of June 1646, while the second was completed on 18 Shawwāl 1061/4 October 1651 by the scribe Ghiyāth al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan Bīk Munajjim, '...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: Jumādá I 1056-18 Shawwāl 1061
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+1+i+31+iii

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