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121. Add MS 19619, ff 285v-308v

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 19619, ff 285v-308v
Title:
Risālah-i ātashak رساله آتشك 'Imād al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd عماد الدين شيرازي، محمود بن مسعود
Scope & Content:
A treatise on syphilis (آتشك) by the physician Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd ʿImād al-Dīn Shīrāzī (محمود بن مسعود عماد الدين شيرازى, fl. 16th century).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
21 Jumādá II 1103
Extent:

Ff. 285v-308v

122. Add MS 19691, ff 129r-156r

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 19691, ff 129r-156r
Title:
Risālah-i chūb-i Chīnī رساله چوب چينى Yazdī, Qāz̤ī ibn Muḥammad يزدي، قاضي بن محمد
Scope & Content:
A treatise in Persian on the medicinal properties of China root (چوب چينى or چينى بيخ, see f. 130r, line 6), by Mirzā Qāz̤ī ibn Kāshif al-Dīn Muḥammad Yazdī (ميرزا قاضي بن كاشف الدين محمد يزدي, died 1664-65). The work is divided into three chapters (أبواب), the first on China root (ff. 130r-154...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
21 Jumādá II 1103
Extent:
Ff. 129r-156r

123. Add MS 20736, ff 2v-96r

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 20736, ff 2v-96r
Title:
Treatise on horsemanship, arms and military skills
Scope & Content:
A general treatise on horsemanship, arms and military skills in the tradition of the so-called 'Treatise B' of the ʿAbbasid furūsīyah master Ibn Akhī Ḥizām (ابن أخي حزام, d. ca 864, see citation and note about the incipit of the latter, with identical wording to the present text, in Al-Sarraf, S...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Ff. 2v-96r

124. Add MS 23390, ff 3r-50r

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 23390, ff 3r-50r
Title:
Fī raf‘ al-ashyā’ al-thaqīlah في رفع الأشياء الثقيلة Hero of Alexandria إيرن الإسكندراني
Scope & Content:
Arabic version of the Mechanica (Μηχανικά) by the mathematician and engineer Hero of Alexandria (Ἥρων ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς; إيرن; fl. 1st century). Only fragments of the original Greek text survive. The beginnings of Chapters Two and Three (ff. 18r, line 2 and 39v, line 2) give the title of the Arabic ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

ff. 3r-50r

125. Add MS 23390, ff 50v-87v

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 23390, ff 50v-87v
Title:
‘Uyūn al-ḥaqā’iq wa-īḍāḥ al-ṭarā’iq عيون الحقائق وإيضاح الطرائق ‘Irāqī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad عراقي، محمد ابن أحمد
Scope & Content:
An exhaustive treatise on the magical arts based upon writings attributed to Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Galen as well as more recent authorities. The author's name is given in full as Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, known as al-‘Irāqī in Khusrawshāh (أبو القاسم أحمد ابن محمد المعروف بال...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

ff. 50v-87v

126. Add MS 23391, ff 2r-21r

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 23391, ff 2r-21r
Title:
Kitāb Arshimīdas fī al-binkāmāt كتاب أرشميدس في البنكامات Archimedes أرشميدس
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the hydraulic and pneumatic machinery of water-clocks with thirteen diagrams, attributed to Archimedes (Ἀρχιμήδης; أرشميدس; fl. 3rd century BC). The title is given wrongly as كتاب أرشميدش في عمل السكامات (Kitāb Arshimīdash fī ‘amal al-sakāmāt; f. 2v, line 1); the final word should re...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Ff. 2r-21r

127. Add MS 23391, ff 21r-25v

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 23391, ff 21r-25v
Title:
Ṣan‘at al-zāmir صنعة الزامر Apollonius the carpenter and geometer أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the design and construction of an hydraulic flute playing machine. The treatise is attributed to 'Apollonius the carpenter and geometer (أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي)', who some have identified as the geometer Apollonius of Perga (Ἀπολλώνιος; أبلونيوس; fl ca 200 BC). Begins (f. 21r, lines...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

ff. 21r-25v

128. Add MS 23394, ff 2r-60v

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 23394, ff 2r-60v
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:
1107
Extent:

Ff. 2r-60v

129. Add MS 23394, ff 61r-110r

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 23394, ff 61r-110r
Title:
al-Tabṣirah fī ʿilm al-hayʾah التبصرة في علم الهيئة Kharaqī, ʻAbd al-Jabbār ibn ʻAbd al-Jabbār خرقي، عبد الجبار بن عبد الجبار
Scope & Content:
Treatise on astronomy by Bahā’ al-Dīn (بهاء الدين) and Shams al-Dīn Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Kharaqī (شمس الدين أبو بكر محمد بن أحمد الخرقي, d. 1138-39), elsewhere called Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Jabbār ibn ‘Abd al-Jabbār ibn Muḥammad (أبو محمد عبد الجبار بن عبد الجبار بن محمد). The author's c...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1107
Extent:

Ff. 61r-110r

130. Add MS 23397, ff 4v-52r

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 23397, ff 4v-52r
Title:
Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah شرح الملخص في الهيئة Jurjānī, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad جرجاني، علي بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Commentary by ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAli al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī ( علي بن محمد بن علي الحسيني الجرجاني; d. 1413), known as al-Sayyid al-Sharīf (السيد الشريف), on the al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī ‘ilm al-hayʾah al-basīṭah (الملخص في علم الهيئة البسيطة), an elementary textbook of astronomy by Sharaf al-Dīn Maḥm...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
26 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 822
Extent:

Ff. 4v-52r

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