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41. Add MS 20736

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Title:
Two treatises on horsemanship
Scope & Content:
Originally copied as an Arabic treatise on horsemanship, arms and military skills. The treatise is generously illustrated as far as f. 36v, after which only sporadic illustrations were added to the many remaining spaces. Most of the remaining blank spaces were subsequently utilised for the tran...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
ca 16th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. iii+97+iv

42. Add MS 21102

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Title:
Ṭabā’i‘ al-ḥayawān طبائع الحيوان Marwazī, Sharaf al-Zamān Ṭāhir مروزي، شرف الزمان طاهر
Scope & Content:
Treatise on zoology in five chapters (مقالات) by Sharaf al-Zamān Ṭāhir al-Marwazī (شرف الزمان طاهر المروزي; fl. 1056-1125). Collation with the two other known copies of this text (British Library, Delhi Arabic 1949 and UCLA, MS Ar. 52) shows that this copy contains a portion of chapter one (ends...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. xxviii+209+iv

43. Add MS 21952

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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 geometry, 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 te...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1048
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+153+iii+1+i+1+iii

44. Add MS 22371

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Title:
al-Thānī min Kitāb al-Filāḥah الثاني من كتاب الفلاحة Ibn Waḥshīyah, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn أحمد بن الحسين، ابن وحشية
Scope & Content:
Volume Two of a copy of the Nabataean Agriculture (الفلاحة النبطية), a work on agronomy in the tradition of the Graeco-Latin Geoponica, which mixes diverse subjects related to farming such as plant, animal and weather lore; descriptions of agricultural techniques; and much material of a more leg...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+257+iv

45. Add MS 23379

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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

46. Add MS 23387

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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

47. Add MS 23390

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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

48. Add MS 23391

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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

49. Add MS 23392

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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

50. Add MS 23393

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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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