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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12369
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Scope & Content:: A VOLUME in Bugis, apparently an European Calendar for the Years 1714 -1718, adapted to the Arabic months. Religious sentences in Arabic are intermixed. Folio. [12,369.] Calendars: An European calendar for 1714-1718, adapted to the Arabic months: Bugis. Bugis language and character: Mss. in the.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Buginese
Date Range:: 1714-1718
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12370
Title:: Bugis translation of Tanbih al-Ghafilin
Scope & Content:: Buginese translation of a part of the Arabic work Tanbīh al-Ghāfilīn by Abu'l-Laith as-Samarkandī. According to an Arabic note on f. 2r. the MS contains the middle part of the work, as-sijill al-wāsit min Tanbīh al-ghāfilīn, and, according to a Buginese note on f. 4r., the second part of the ‘ad...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Buginese
Date Range:: Late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:: 114 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12371
Title:: Akhbar al-akhira
Scope & Content:: A: ff. 86r.-25r. A Buginese translation of Akhbár al-ákhira by Nūr ad-Dīn ar-Rānīrī. Dated A.H. 1178 [A.D. 1764/5] (for this copy) and A.H. 1149 [A.D. 1736] (either for the original of which this is a copy or, less likely, for the date of the translation into Buginese). B: ff. 24r.-18v. A desc...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Buginese
Date Range:: 1764
Extent:: 86 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12373
Title:: Bugis diary from the court of Bone, 1793-1799
Scope & Content:: Diary running from Jan. 1793 to Dec. 1799 (a further year, presumably 1800, is filled in but without the year stated). The diarist must have been a person living in the immediate vicinity of the king of Bone. He reports upon meetings of the members of the high State College, and on events in the...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Buginese
Date Range:: 1793-1799
Extent:: 110 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12374
Title:: Verses from the Quran in Arabic, with Bugis translation
Scope & Content:: Verses from the Qur’an in Arabic, with Buginese translation (ff. 2r.-53r., 58v.-59v., 61v.-68r., 69v.-70r), without translation (ff. 53v.-58r), and with partial Buginese translation (ff. 1r.-2r). 72 written ff. (thereafter further unnumbered ff). Quran, in Arabic and Bugis script. (This descr...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Buginese
Date Range:: Late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:: 73 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14056, ff 1v-10v
Title:: Anonymous collection of lance drills
Scope & Content:: Collection of instructions for military drills for lancers. Each set of instructions for a drill is called a band (بند, pl. بنود). The fragment contains 26 bunūd most of which are attributed to companions of the Prophet. Although no title or author of the fragment is specified, it is probable th...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 870
Extent:: Ff. 1v-10v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14056, ff 11r-18v
Title:: Fragment of an anonymous treatise on the arts of the lance
Scope & Content:: Fragment of an anonymous treatise on the arts of the lance. The text is defective at beginning and end, starting abruptly in Chapter 1 (باب الأول) and ending just after the chapter heading for Chapter 7 (الباب السابع). Contents: Chapter 1 (ff 11r-13v, defective at beginning); Chapter 2: Strateg...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 870
Extent:: Ff. 11r-18v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14056, ff 19r-123v
Title:: Kitāb fī ‘ilm al-bayṭarah كتاب في علم البيطرة
Scope & Content:: Treatise on horses compiled from the works of the Mamluk Amīr al-Sayfī Yashbak al-Faqīh al-Malikī al-Ashrafī (السيفي يشبك الفقيه الملكي الأشرفي, fl. ca 1450) and Abū Bakr al-Bayṭār (أبو بكر البيطار, for both of these names see title page, f. 19v, transcribed below). The second named authority is...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 2 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 870
Extent:: Ff. 19r-123v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14332, ff 2v-22r
Title:: al-Shakl al-thāmin min al-maqālah al-ūlá min kitāb al-maqāyīs الشكل الثامن من المقالة الأولى من كتاب المقاييس And four excerpts from Euclidis elementorum libri VI Christophorus Clavius كلاويوس الفرنجي
Scope & Content:: Proposition 8 from Book 1 of Gnomonices libri octo (Rome: Apud F. Zanettum, 1581, pp. 26-37) by Christophorus Clavius (Christoph Klau, كلاويوس, d. 1537 or 38; see fol. 3r, line 9), translated into Arabic by Mu‘tamad Khān (معتمد خان) Rustam Beg al-Ḥārithī al-Badakhshī ibn Qubād Beg, titled Dīyāna...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 26 Dec 1834
Extent:: Ff. 2v-22r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14332, ff 22v-32v
Title:: Qawl lil-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan al-Haytham fī shakl Banī Mūsá قول للحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم في شكل بني موسى Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham, al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan) ابن الهيثم ,الحسن بن الحسن
Scope & Content:: Treatise by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham (أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم; d. ca 1040) on a proposition from the prolegomena of the Banū Mūsá (بنو موسى, fl. 9th century) to the Conics (Κωνικά; كتاب المخروطات) by Apollonius of Perga (Ἀπολλώνιος; أبلونيوس; fl ca 200 BC)....
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 26 Dec 1834
Extent:: Ff. 22v-32v

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