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31. Add MS 9639

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Title:
Two treatises on inheritance shares (farāʾiḍ) and mathematics
Scope & Content:
Contents: (1) al-Maghīlī (المغيلي), [Sharḥ ʿalá urjūzah fī al-farāʾiḍ lil-Burrī] ([شرح على أرجوزة في الفرائض للبري]; ff. 1r-114r); (2) al-Qalaṣādī (القلصادي), Kashf al-astār ʿan ʿilm ḥurūf al-ghubār (كشف الأستار عن علم حروف الغبار; ff. 114r-120v).　 The two texts are followed by a page of pray...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
2 Rajab 1064
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+120+ii

32. Add MS 9690

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Title:
Kitāb al-ishārāt fī ʿilm al-ʿibārāt كتاب الإشارات في علم العبارات Ibn Shāhīn, Khalīl ابن شاهين، خليل
Scope & Content:
Manual of dream interpretation in eighty chapters (أبواب) by the mamluk historian Ghars al-Dīn Khalīl ibn Shāhīn al-Ẓāhirī (غرس الدين خليل بن شاهين الظاهري, d. 1468). A list of the chapters with their title and the folio on which they begin is given on ff. 4v-6v On the title page (f. 2r) and on...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+278+ii

33. Add MS 10461

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Title:
Kitāb al-filāḥah كتاب الفلاحة Ibn al-ʻAwwām, Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad ابن العوام، يحيى بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Comprehensive treatise on agriculture by the Andalusian agronomist Abū Zakariyā Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ishbīlī (أبو زكريا يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد الإشبيلي, fl. late 12th century?), known as Ibn al-ʻAwwām (ابن العوام). The copy was made by an anonymous Spanish Arabist, reputedly from Madri...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+205+iv

34. Add MS 12187

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Title:
Tadhkirat ūlī al-albāb wa-al-jāmi‘ lil-‘ajb al-‘ujāb تذكرة أولي الألباب والجامع للعجب للعجاب Anṭākī, Dāwūd ibn ‘Umar أنطاكي، داوود بن عمر and three other short medical texts
Scope & Content:
A copy of the medical encyclopaedia Tadhkirat ūlī al-albāb wa-al-jāmi‘ lil-‘ajb al-‘ujāb (تذكرة أولي الألباب والجامع للعجب للعجاب) by Dāwūd ibn ‘Umar al-Anṭākī (داوود بن عمر الأنطاكي; d. 1599). The encyclopaedia is accompanied by three other short medical texts. The manuscript was copied in 183...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1838
Extent:

Codex; ff. vi+330+viii

35. Add MS 14055

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Title:
Kitāb al-ḥiyal fī al-ḥurūb wa-fatḥ al-madāʾin wa-ḥifẓ al-durūb كتاب الحيل في الحروب وفتح المدائن وحفظ الدروب Ibn Mankalī, Muḥammad ابن منكلي، محمد
Scope & Content:
A manual on the military arts supposed to have been discovered in the tomb of Alexander the Great at Alexandria and translated from Greek into Arabic (see ff. 2v, line 7-3r, line 2). In fact, the author is thought to be the mamluk general and tactician Muḥammad Ibn Mankalī or Ibn Manjlī (محمد ب...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. vi+224+v

36. Add MS 14056

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Title:
Three Mamluk treatises on horsemanship
Scope & Content:
(1) Anonymous collection of lance drills (ff. 1v-10v); (2) Fragment of anonymous treatise on the arts of the lance (ff. 11r-18v); (3) Kitāb fī ‘ilm al-bayṭarah (كتاب في علم البيطرة; ff. 19r-123v).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
870
Extent:

Codex; ff. vi+124+vi

37. Add MS 14332

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Title:
Four treatises on conic sections
Scope & Content:
A collection of four mathematical treatises on conic sections. The mansucript was completed on 26 December 1834 (see colophon to Item 4, fol. 193v, line 13).The final eight folios (ff. 194v-201v) contain diagrams omitted in their proper places in the texts. Contents: (1) Clavius, Christophorus ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
26 Dec 1834
Extent:

Codex; ff. v+201+v

38. Add MS 15480

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Title:
Two mathematical treatises
Scope & Content:
Contents: (1) al-Jurjānī الجرجاني)), al-Sharīfīyah fī sharḥ al-farāʾiḍ al-sirājīyah (الشريفية في شرح الفرائض السراجية; ff. 2v-88v); (2) al-Zamzamī (الزمزمي), al-Murshidah fī ṣināʿat al-ghubār (المرشدة في صناعة الغبار; ff. 89v-116v).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1148-1177
Extent:

Codex; ff. v+117+v

39. Add MS 18866

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Title:
نهاية السؤل والامنية في تعلم أعمال الفروسية Nihāyat al-su’l wa-al-umnīyah fī ta‘allum a‘māl al-furūsīyah أقسرائي، محمد بن عيسى Aqsarā’ī, Muḥammad ibn ‘Īsá ibn Ismā‘īl al-Ḥanafī
Scope & Content:
A Mamluk manual on horsemanship, military arts and technology by Muḥammad ibn ‘Īsá ibn Ismā‘īl al-Aqsarā’ī (محمد بن عيسى بن إسماعيل الأقسرائي ; d. 1348, Damascus). The manuscript was completed on 10 Muḥarram 773 (25 July 1371) by the scribe Aḥmad ibn ‘Umar ibn Aḥmad al-Miṣrī (see colophon on f. ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
10 Muḥarram 773
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+292+ii

40. Add MS 19547

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Title:
al-Ṣulḥ bayna al-ikhwān fī ḥukm ibāḥat al-dukhān الصلح بين الإخوان في حكم إباحة الدخان Nābulusī, ‘Abd al-Ghanī ibn Ismā‘īl نابلسي، عبد الغني بن إسماعيل
Scope & Content:
Treatise in defence of tobacco smoking (شَرَب التُتُن) on medical and legal grounds, written in 1092/1682 (see Author's Colophon, f. 127v, lines 11-13, transcribed below) by ‘Abd al-Ghanī ibn Ismā‘īl al-Nābulusī (عبد الغني بن إسماعيل النابلسي, b. 1641, d. 1731). The copy was completed at t...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Muḥarram 1161
Extent:

Codex; ff. v+127+vi

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