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251. Or 10885

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 10885
Title:
Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-wusṭá كتاب حياة الحيوان الوسطى Damīrī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá دميري، محمد بن موسى
Scope & Content:
Intermediate recension (وسطى) of a zoological encyclopedia by Kamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Mūsá al-Damīrī (كمال الدين محمد بن موسى الدميري, d. 1405). The work, arranged in alphabetical order, deals not only with strictly zoological material, but also with lexical and legal considerations of animals...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
10 Shawwāl 821
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+225+i

252. Or 10975

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 10975
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). According to the colophon (f. 63r, lines 4-15, transcribed ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
23 Ramaḍān 711
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+63+i

253. Or 11136

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11136
Title:
Raqāʾiq al-ḥaqāʾiq fī ḥisāb al-daraj wa-al-daqāʾiq رقائق الحقائق في الحساب الدرج والدقائق Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad سبط المارديني، بدر الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
A manual by Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīnī (بدر الدين محمد بن محمد سبط المارديني, b. 1423, d. after 1497) on the calculation of the movements of celestial bodies with arcminute precision. In an introduction, ten chapters and a conclusion (خاتمة, f. 19v), the text summa...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. 1+i+24+i

254. Or 11207

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11207
Title:
Sharḥ al-tadhkirat al-naṣīrīyah fī ʿilm al-hayʾah شرح التذكرة النصيرية في علم الهيئة ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī علي بن محمد بن علي الحسيني الجرجاني
Scope & Content:
Commentary by ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī (علي بن محمد بن علي الحسيني الجرجاني; d. 1413), known as al-Sayyid al-Sharīf (السيد الشريف) on the Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hayʾah (كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة; see British Library, MS Or. 11209) a treatise on the astronomical system pres...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19 Shawwāl 831
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+100+i

255. Or 11209

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11209
Title:
Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
A treatise on astronomy which summarises, rationalises and improves upon the system presented in the Almagest of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168). The text was composed after 1256 by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). The text is divid...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
11 Shawwāl 688
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+74+i

256. Or 11210

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11210
Title:
A treatise on arithmetic and geometry, with its commentary Biqāʿī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar بقاعي، إبراهيم بن عمر
Scope & Content:
Rough holograph copies of a short treatise on arithmetic and mensuration (geodesy) in verse form (urjūzah) entitled al-Bāḥah fī ʿilmay al-ḥisāb wa-al-misāḥah (الباحة في علمي الحساب والمساحة, ff. 2r-27r), followed by a commentary upon it entitled Ibāḥat al-bāḥah (إباحة الباحة, ff. 28r-109v, both ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
24 Jumada 836
Extent:

ff. i+109+i

257. Or 11211

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11211
Title:
Ghāyat al-itqān fī tadbīr badan al-insān غاية الاتقان في تدبير بدن الإنسان Ḥalabī, Ṣāliḥ Naṣr Allāh ibn Sallūm حلبي، صالح نصر الله بن سلوم
Scope & Content:
Book One (الكتاب الأول) of a medical compendium on pharmacognosy by Ṣāliḥ ibn Naṣr Allāh ibn Sallūm al-Ḥalabī (صالح بن نصر الله بن سلوم الحلبي, d. 1669), personal physician to the Ottoman sultan Mehmet IV (محمد رابع, reg. 1648-87). The subject of Book One is diseases and their therapies. ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+236+ii

258. Or 11213

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11213
Title:
Kitāb al-bāhīyah wa-al-tarkībāt al-Sulṭānīyah كتاب الباهية والتركيبات السلطانية Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي, نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
A short work on medicine composed upon request, as the author Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274) relates in the preface, in response to the ailments of unidentified prince (see preface, f. 1r, line 9-2r, line 1). Its 18 short chapters (أبواب) co...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+31+ii

259. Or 11247

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11247
Title:
Risālat al-shifāʾ li-adwāʾ al-wabāʾ رسالة الشفاء لأدواء الوباء Ṭāshkubrīʹzādah, Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafá طاشكبريزاده، أحمد بن مصطفى
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the prevention and cure of plague by the Ottoman polymath ʿIṣām al-Dīn Abū al-Khayr Aḥmad ibn Muṣliḥ al-Dīn Muṣṭafá Ṭāshkubrīʹzādah (عصام الدين أبو الخير أحمد بن مصلح الدين مصطفى طاشكبريزاده, Taşköprīzāde, d. 1561). The text is divided into the following sections, of which all but t...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+74+i

260. Or 11314

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11314
Title:
al-Amān min akhṭār al-asfār wa-al-azmān الأمان من أخطار الأسفار والأزمان Ibn Ṭāwūs, ‘Alī ibn Mūsá ابن طاووس، علي بن موسى
Scope & Content:
Handbook on health and medicine for use while travelling or at home, divided into 14 chapters (أبواب) by Raḍī al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim ‘Alī ibn Mūsá ibn ibn Ja‘far ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭāwūs al-‘Alawī al-Fāṭimī (رضي الدين أبو القاسم علي بن موسى بن جعفر بن محمد بن محمد الطاووس العلوي الفاطمي; ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
28 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1092
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+138+i

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