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21. Add MS 7473, ff 113v-121v

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Title:
Risālah fī-mā taqarrara ‘indihi fī ḥujaj al-muthbitīn lil-māḍī mubdā’an zamānīyan wa-taḥlīlihā ilá al-qīyāsāt رسالة فيما تقرر عنده في حجج المثبتين للماضي مبداءً زمانيًا وتحليلها إلى القياسات Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:
Philosophical treatise on the question of the eternity of the world by Avicenna (أبو علي بن سينا; ca 980-1037) in eleven sections (فصول), which are listed in a table of contents on ff. 113v-114r. Begins (f. 113v, line 6-7): قال الشيخ أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله بن سينا هذه الرسالة عملتها فيما ت...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
639
Extent:

Ff. 113v-121v

22. Add MS 7473, ff 122r-164r

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Title:
al-Madkhal ilá ‘ilm al-‘adad المدخل إلى علم العدد Nicomachus of Gerasa نيقوماخس الجراسيني
Scope & Content:
Arabic translation of the Introductio Arithmetica (Ἀριθμητικὴ εἰσαγωγή, المدخل إلى علم العدد المسمى بالأرثماطيقي) by the neo-Pythagorean philosopher and mathematician Nicomachus of Gerasa (Νικόμαχος ὁ Γερασινός, نيقوماخس الجراسيني; d. ca 120). The translation is attributed to Thābit ibn Qurrah (...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
639
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Ff. 122r-164r

23. Add MS 7473, ff 164v-172v

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Title:
Min kitāb Abūlūnīyūs fī al-ashkāl al-sanaubarīyah من كتاب أبولونيوس في الأشكال الصنوبرية Apollonius of Perga أبولونيوس
Scope & Content:
The title states that this text is an excerpt from an Arabic version of the Conics (Κωνικά; في الأشكال الصنوبية) by Apollonius of Perga (Ἀπολλώνιος; أبولونيوس; fl ca 200 BC). The colophon, however, gives the title of the work as the Book of Burning-Mirrors and Compendium of Conics (كتاب المرايا ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Dhū al-Qa‘dah 639
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Ff. 164v-172v

24. Add MS 7473, ff 173r-175v

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Title:
al-Qawl fī al-namūdhārāt القول في نموذارات Abū Ma‘shar أبو معشر
Scope & Content:
A short astrological treatise on nativities (مواليد) by Abū Ma‘shar Ja‘far ibn Muḥammad al-Balkhī (أبو معشر جعفر بن محمد البلخي; d. 886). Contents: Begins (f. 173r, lines 2-4): قال أبو معشر حعفر بن محمد وجدنا من قول الأوائل في مسقط النطفة ومن قول يعقوب بن طارق اختلافًا وذلك أن الذي حدّ الأوا...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
639
Extent:

Ff. 173r-175v

25. Add MS 7473, ff 175v-178v

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Title:
Risālah fī mulk al-‘arab wa-kammīyatihi رسالة في ملك العرب وكميته Kindī كندي
Scope & Content:
Astrological treatise on Arab hegemony and its duration by the philosopher Ya‘qūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī (يعقوب بن إسحق الكندي; d. ca 873). The colophon (f. 178r, lines 3-4, transcribed below) states that the text was copied from an exemplar dated mid-Rabī‘ I 531/December 1136. Appended to the tex...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
639
Extent:

Ff. 175v-178v

26. Add MS 7473, ff 179r-188r

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Title:
Maqālah fī al-ḍarb wa-l-qismah bil-hindī min ghayr maḥw wa-la naql مقالة في الضرب والقسمة بالهندي من غير محو ولا نقل Abū al-Majd ibn ‘Aṭīyah ibn Abī al-Majd al-Kātib أبو المجد بن عطية بن أبي المجد الكاتب
Scope & Content:
Treatise on arithmetic and the multiplication and division using Arabic (hindī) numerals. The full title given in the text is (f. 179r, lines 2-5): مقال ألفه الشيخ الفاضل أبو المجد بن عطية بن أبي المجد الكاتب في الضرب والقسمة بالهندي من غير محو ولا نقل اخترعًا منه Begins (f. 179r, lines 6-...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
639
Extent:

Ff. 179r-188r

27. Add MS 7473, ff 188v-198v

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Title:
Maqālah fī al-nafs مقالة في النفس Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:
Philosophical treatise on the soul (known in Latin as the De anima) by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. ca 1037), extracted from his philosophical encyclopaedia the Kitāb al-shifā’ (كتاب الشفاء). The treatise ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
639
Extent:

Ff. 188v-198v

28. Add MS 7492, f 48v

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Title:
Dar yāftan-i avval-i sāl-i suryāni در يافتن أول سال سرياني
Scope & Content:
Anonymous short text in Ottoman Turkish on calculating the first day of each month in the Byzantine (rūmī), here called Syriac (suryānī), calendar year, accompanied by a summarising table. The only section in the present volume not written in Arabic, the text nevertheless covers similar conten...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

F. 48v

29. Add MS 7492, ff 1r-48r

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Title:
Sharḥ mukhtaṣar fī maʿrifat al-taqāwīm شرح مختصر في معرفة التقاويم
Scope & Content:
An anonymous commentary on an astronomical treatise in thirty sections called al-Mukhtaṣar fī maʿrifat al-taqāwīm (المختصر في معرفة التقاويم), also known as Sī faṣl dar maʿrifat-i taqwīm (سي فصل در معرفة تقويم) by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين الطوسي, d. 1274). The copy was completed at noon ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
25 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 912
Extent:

Ff. 2v-48r

30. Add MS 7492, ff 49v-52r

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Title:
Anonymous treatise on the calculation of days and months
Scope & Content:
Brief anonymous treatise on the calculation of days and months. An instruction for calculating hijrī years indicates the date of the text's composition as 849/1445-46, during the second reign of the Ottoman sultan Murād II (مراد الثاني, reg. 1446-51, see f. 50v, lines 6-9). Instructions for fi...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Ff. 48v-52r

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