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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 22493
Title:: Apocalypse, fragment with commentary by Berengaudus (ff. 1-4).
Scope & Content:: Contents: Apocalypse with commentary by Berengaudus (Fragment): f. 1r-4v: 'Et cum appervisset agnus sigillum secundum'. Ending: 'terre ac populi qui eis subicientur'. The manuscript includes the same gloss as in Additional 22493: f. 1v: 'Apertio primi signaculi ad ea que ante diluvium facta ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 22719
Title:: Constantinus Africanus, Pantegni; Qusta Ibn Luqa, De Physicis Ligaturis
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the medical treatise Pantegni (The Book of Medical Arts) by Constantine the African (b. c. 1015, d. 1087), physician and monk at the Benedictine abbey of Monte Cassino. It also includes De Physicis Ligaturis (On Physical Ligatures), the Latin translation of a work by the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23211
Title:: Fragment of Latin verses on the date of Easter, regnal lists, and fragment of the Old English Martyrology
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains one of the earliest fragments of the Old English martyrology and the earliest known West Saxon and East Saxon royal geneaologies. These fragments survive in two folios, apparently written by the same scribe, which were cut down and formerly used as pastedowns in an early...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of 9th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23379
Title:: ‘Ajā’ib al-aqālīm al-sab‘ah عجائب الأقاليم السبعة Suhrāb سهراب
Scope & Content:: Treatise on mathematical geography for cartographers by Suhrāb (سهراب; see f. 3, line 1) composed between between 902 and 945 (see LeStrange, 'Description of Mesopotamia and Baghdād', Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society [1895], p. 2). The full title as given on the title page (f. 2r) is Book o...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15 Rabī‘ I 709
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+68+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23387
Title:: Taḥrīr kitāb uṣūl al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb تحرير كتاب أصول الهندسة والحساب Euclid أقليدس Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of the fundamental introduction to geomentry, the Elements (Στοιχεῖα; الأصول) by the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (Εὐκλείδης, أقليدس; fl. 300 BC), in the annotated edition (تحرير) of Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). The ed...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15 Rabī‘ II 656
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+216+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23390
Title:: Fī raf‘ al-ashyā’ al-thaqīlah في رفع الأشياء الثقيلة Hero of Alexandria إيرن الإسكندراني and ‘Uyūn al-ḥaqā’iq wa-īḍāḥ al-ṭarā’iq عيون الحقائق وإيضاح الطرائق ‘Irāqī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad عراقي، محمد ابن أحمد
Scope & Content:: The manuscript appears to have been copied in the seventeenth century. The colophon (f. 87v) has been deliberately erased, and next to it a more recent hand has written '‘Alī the scribe completed its writing on 10 Sha‘bān 1320 (تم في تأريخ عشر شهر شعبان المعظم سنة ألف وعشرين وثلاثمائة تحريره [؟]...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ix+87+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23391
Title:: Kitāb Arshimīdas fī al-binkāmāt كتاب أرشميدس في البنكامات Archimedes أرشميدس and Ṣan‘at al-zāmir صنعة الزامر Apollonius the carpenter and geometer أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي
Scope & Content:: Two technical treatises on the design and construction of hydraulic machines. Contents: (1) Archimedes (أرشميدس), Kitāb Arshimīdas fī al-binkāmāt (كتاب أرشميدس في البنكامات; ff. 2r-21r); (2) Apollonius the carpenter and geometer (أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي), Ṣan‘at al-zāmir (صنعة الزامر; ff. 21r-25v).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+25+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23392
Title:: Taḥrīr kitāb al-majisṭī تحرير كتاب المجسطي Ptolemy بطلميوس Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: The Almagest (كتاب المجسطي), an Arabic version of the Μαθηματικῆς σύνταξις of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168), in the annotated edition (تحرير) of Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). This was the most influential and enduring astronomic...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Jumādá II 956
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+160+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23393
Title:: al-Tuḥfah al-shāhīyah fī al-hayʾah التحفة الشاهية في الهيئة Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd قطب الدين الشيرازي، محمود بن مسعود
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Quṭb al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Mas‘ūd al-Shīrāzī (قطب الدين محمود بن مسعود الشيرازي; c 1236-1310) 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 presented in the Almagest of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemae...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 22 Ramaḍān 737
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+177+iii

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