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8231. Or 14155, ff 99v-163v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14155, ff 99v-163v
Title:
al-Qarābādhīn ʿalá tartīb al-ʿilal القراباذين على ترتيب العلل Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī نجيب الدين السمرقندي، محمد بن علي
Scope & Content:
Treatise on pharmacopoeia arranged head to toe by ailment by Najīb al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Samarqandī (نجيب الدين أبو حامد محمد بن علي بن عمر السمرقندي, d. 1222). 　 Begins (f. 99v, lines 2-6): الحمد لله رب العالمين حمد الشاكرين والصلوة على رسوله محمد وآله أجمعين كتاب ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1576
Extent:

Ff. 99v-163v

8232. Or 14270, ff 2v-14r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14270, ff 2v-14r
Title:
Kitāb Arshimīdas fī ‘amal al-binkamāt كتاب أرشميدس في عمل البنكامات Archimedes أرشميدس
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the hydraulic and pneumatic machinery of water-clocks with eighteen diagrams, attributed to Archimedes (Ἀρχιμήδης; أرشميدس; fl. 3rd century BC). The title page gives the title wrongly as كتاب أرشميدس في عمل الساعات (Kitāb Arshimīdas fī ‘amal al-sā‘āt). This early known copy of the te...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
28 Shawwāl 691
Extent:
ff. 2v-14r

8233. Or 14270, ff 14r-21r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14270, ff 14r-21r
Title:
San‘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). The text in this copy...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
28 Shawwāl 691
Extent:

Ff. 14r-21r

8234. Or 14270, ff 21v-73r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14270, ff 21v-73r
Title:
al-Kāmil fī ṣan‘at al-asṭurlāb al-shimālī wa-al-junūbī wa-‘ilalihuma bi-l-handasah wa-al-ḥisab الكامل في صنعة الأسطرلاب الشمالي والجنوبي وعللهما بالهندسة والحساب Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr فرغاني، أحمد بن محمد بن كثير
Scope & Content:
Earliest known Arabic treatise on the construction of the astrolabe, by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Farghānī (أحمد بن محمد الفرغاني; fl. ca 820-860). The text contains seventy-two diagrams and tables: Geometric diagram (f. 22v); Geometric diagram (f. 24r); Geometric diagram (f. 24v); Geometric diagra...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
28 Shawwāl 691
Extent:
ff. 21v-73r

8235. Or 14791, ff 1v-37r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14791, ff 1v-37r
Title:
Fihrist Arisṭā[ṭā]līs Aristotle, Pseudo-
Scope & Content:
A treatise on meteorological divination attributed to Aristotle and perhaps related to the tradition of his Meteorologica (كتاب الأثار العلوية). Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-7): الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على أثر و [!] المرسلين سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وأصحابه أجمعين وبعد فهذا كتاب فهرست أرس...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1295
Extent:
ff. 1v-37r

8236. Or 14791, ff 37r-64r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14791, ff 37r-64r
Title:
Treatise on meteorological divination attributed to the prophet Daniel
Scope & Content:
A treatise on meteorological divination attributed to the prophet Daniel, divided into two parts: Part 1 (ff. 37r-48v); Part 2 ( فصل آخر على حكمة دانيال عليه السلام; ff. 48v-64r). Begins (f. 37r, lines 3-6) قال دانيال عليه السلام إذا أردت أنْ تعلم أحوال السنة من أولها إلى آخرها وما يحدث بها من...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1295
Extent:

ff. 37r-64r

8237. Or 14791, ff 64v-69v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14791, ff 64v-69v
Title:
ترصيد شهر المحرم المبارك Tarṣīd shaḥr al-Muḥarram al-mubārrak رمادي، ابن مراد Ramādī, Ibn Murād
Scope & Content:
A treatise on meteorological divination by Ibn Murād al-Ramādī. The manuscript was copied on 19 Ṣafar 1295 (22 February 1878) by an anonymous scribe from an autograph copy, dated 4 Muḥarram 1041 (2 August 1631; see colophon on f. 69v). Begins (f. 64v, lines 2-5): ... نبتدي بعون الله وتوفيقه ب...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1295
Extent:

ff. 64v-69v

8238. Photo 112(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 112(1)
Title:
'The Sultan interested in the tanks after the demonstration' by Sport & General Press Agency, London
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: This scene, captured at Aldershot during an official visit of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, Āl Sa‘īd, Sa‘īd ibn Taymūr, to Britain, shows the Sultan (right of image, looking towards the tank) and two of his men: ‘Abd al-Munim bin Yusuf al-Zawauri, Secretary to the Sultan ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Apr 1938
Extent:
1 loose b&w photographic print

8239. Photo 112(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 112(2)
Title:
The Sultan at Westminster Abbey with the Dean of Westminster, the Right Rev. Paul F. D. de Labilliere by London News Agency, London
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: This full-length portrait of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, Āl Sa‘īd, Sa‘īd ibn Taymūr, also features the Dean of Westminster, the Right Reverend Paul F. D. de Labilliere, Dean of Westminster Abbey (1938–46) (left of the Sultan), the Sultan’s Secretary, ‘Abd al-Munim bin Y...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Apr 1938
Extent:
1 loose b&w photographic print

8240. Photo 174(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 174(1)
Title:
Picture of the Tents of the Turks. Photographer: H. A. Mirza & Sons
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter This image shows the tents of the Ottoman Turkish troops at their camp at Medina. Despite the apparently secular nature of the subject, and the fact that the camp does not depict a stopping-off point on the hadj, the laudatory poetry and prose makes clear the relevance of t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English and Urdu
Date Range:
c 1907
Extent:

1 b/w photographic print laid down on a blue card window mount

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