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51. Add MS 7484

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Title:
Kitāb al-ta‘dīl fī al-hay’ah كتاب التعديل في الهيئة Maḥbūbī, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Masʿūd محبوبي، عبيد الله بن مسعود
Scope & Content:
Commentary by ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Masʿūd al-Maḥbūbī al-Bukhārī al-Ḥanafī (عبيد الله بن مسعود المحبوبي البخاري الحنفي, d. 1346 or 47) known as Ṣadr al-Sharīʿa al-Thānī (صدر الشريعة الثاني) on his own treatise on astronomy. The treatise, without commentary, formed the third and final part of his ency...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
mid-Rajab 823
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+70+ii

52. Add MS 7489

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Title:
Maqṣad al-ṭālib wa-muntahá al-maṭālib مقصد الطالب ومنتهى المطالب Sharīf, ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Muḥammad Sharīf شريف، عبد الرحيم بن محمد شريف
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the use of the astrolabe by ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Muḥammad Sharīf al-Sharīf (عبد الرحيم بن محمد شريف الشريف, see f. 1v, line 9). The text was composed in or shortly after 1114/1702 as indicated by the table of star coordinates (ff. 85v-87v) correct for the beginning of the month of Muḥar...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1 Rabī‘ I 1165
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+95+ii

53. Add MS 7492

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Title:
Four treatises on astronomy and calendrics
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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

54. Add MS 7503

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Title:
Ibn Iyās ابن إياس Nashq al-azhār fī ʻajāʼib al-aqṭār نشق الأزهار في عجائب الأقطار
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A geographical compendium with a particular emphasis on Egypt (see f. 1v, lines 9-13), by Abū al-Barakāt Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Ibn Iyās (أبو البركات محمد ابن أحمد ابن إياس; died c. 1524). The text was completed on 14 Shaʻbān 922/11 September 1516 (see f. 293v, lines 17-20 transcribed below), and t...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
20 Ramaḍān 1065
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+294+ii

55. Add MS 7511

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Title:
Kitāb fī ma‘rifat ṭabā’i‘ al-ḥayawān al-barrī wa-al-baḥrī كتاب في معرفة طبائع الحيوان البري والبحري Aristotle أرسطاطاليس
Scope & Content:
This Arabic work on zoology is in fact a compilation of translations of three treatises by Aristotle (384-322 BC). The Arabic text is arranged into 19 books (أقوال), which divide the Aristotelian treatises as follows: Books 1-10 (Historia animalium), Books 11-14 (De partibus animalium), and Book...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13th-14th century
Extent:
Codex; ff. iv+232+iii

56. Add MS 7514

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Title:
Treatise on swordmanship, archery and other military skills [Dhikr al-ʿamal bi-al-sayf] [ذكر العمل بالسيف]
Scope & Content:
Anonymous compendium on military technologies and skills. The manuscript is defective at the beginning and the author's name is unknown. The assumed title 'On Using the Sword' (ذكر العمل بالسف) is taken from a heading on f. 1r. The copy was completed on 9 Rabī' I 739/24 September 1338 by an ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
9 Rabī' al-Awwal 739
Extent:
Codex; ff. iii+65+iii

57. Add MS 7515

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Title:
Kitāb fī al-shaṭranj wa-manṣūbātihi wa-mulaḥih كتاب في الشطرنج ومنصوباته وملحه
Scope & Content:
Anonymous handbook on chess, dealing with its legality, origins, symbolism, classes of players, poetry in praise of chess, poetry to be recited at various stages of play, and chess techniques. The sections on techniques cover chess problems (منصوبات), openings (تعبيات) and puzzles (مخارق). For a...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
6 Jumādá II 655
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+132+i

58. Add MS 7527

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Title:
Three treatises on natural philosophy and medicine
Scope & Content:
(1) Sākhīyūs al-Qass (ساخيوس القس), Tafsīr kitāb al-ʿilal (تفسير كتاب العلل; ff. 2v-170r); (2) Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا), Risālah fī tadbīr safar al-ḥajj (رسالة في تدبير سفر الحج; ff. 171v-185v); (3) Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا), Kitāb fī ʿilal al-shaʿr (كتاب في علل الشعر; ff. 186v-194r)....
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1097
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+194+i

59. Add MS 7914

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Title:
Majmu'a / مجموعه
Scope & Content:
1 (1v-22v): Baḥr al-hudā A didactic qaṣīda. By Shaybānī, i.e. Abū l-Fatḥ Muḥammad Shaybānī Khān. 2 (23v-49v): Tuḥfat al-salāṭīn Selected verses of Navā’ī. Compiled by ‘Abd al-Jamīl Kātib. 3 (50v-114r): Gul va Navrūz The romance of Princess Gul and Prince Navrūz, in verse. By Luṭfī. 4 (115v...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai
Date Range:
914
Extent:
Codex; 12 texts; 337 ff.

60. Add MS 7966 B

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Title:
Roll of expenses in wax and spices by the royal households
Scope & Content:
This roll contains a summary of the expenses in wax and spices incurred by the households of King Edward I of England (r. 1272-1307); Queen Margaret of France (b. c. 1279, d. 1318), his second wife; the Prince of Wales, the future Edward II (r. 1307-1327); and Thomas of Brotherton (b. 1300, d. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
20 Nov 1300-19 Nov 1301
Extent:
1 roll

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