Mir’āt al-ayyām wa-al-daraj مرآة الأيام والدرج Najm al-Dīn Muḥammad Ma‘rūf نجم الدين محمد معروف
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Treatise by Najm al-Dīn Muḥammad Ma‘rūf (نجم الدين محمد معروف; fl. ca 1001/1592) describing and explaining the use of an instrument for making calendrical conversions, and calculating the beginnings of the months in the Islamic (عربي), Syro-Macedonian (رومي), Persian and Coptic calendars, includ...
On f. 170v a hand other than that of the main scribe, ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Ḥalabī, probably that of one of the manuscript’s owners, has copied out three prescriptions: (1) a tested remedy for haemorrhoids taken from Ibn al-Ḥadhdhā; (2) ‘hospital dried fruit (al-nuqū‘ al-māristānī)’; and (3) an ...
Aqrābādhīn madīnat al-salam أقراباذين مدينة السلم Ibn al-Tilmīdh, Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣā‘id ابن التلميذ، هبة الله بن صاعد
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The medical formulary of Amīn al-Dawlah Abū al-Ḥasan Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣā‘id (أمين الدولة أبو الحسن هبة الله بن صاعد) known as Ibn al-Tilmīdh (ابن التلميذ, d. 560 AH/AD 1165), chief physician at the ‘Aḍudī Hospital in Baghdad, and later court physician to the Abbasid Caliph al-Muqtafī (المقتفي, re...
This collection begins (ff. 129v-163v) with prescriptions similar in style and format to those of the Aqrābādhīn of Ibn al-Tilmīdh, and at least one is said to have been chosen by Ibn al-Tilmīdh (اختاره أمين الدولة; f. 151v, line 3). Next is a ‘selection from Galen’s Substitutions [مختار من أبدا...
Sharḥ al-mulakhkhaṣ fī ‘ilm al-hayʾah شرح الملخص في علم الهيئة Qāḍīʹzādah, Mūsá ibn Muḥammad قاضي زاده، موسى بن محمد
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Commentary by Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Mūsá ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd (صلاح الدين موسى بن محمد بن محمود, d. after 1440), known as Qāḍīʹzādah al-Rūmī (قاضي زاده الرومي), on al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī ‘ilm al-hayʾah al-basīṭah (الملخص في علم الهيئة البسيطة), an elementary textbook of astronomy by Sharaf al-Dīn Maḥmūd...
[Taʿlīqāt ʿalá sharḥ al-mulakhkhaṣ تعليقات على شرح الملخص] Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn برجندي، عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين
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Commentary by ‘Abd al-‘Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Birjandī (عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين البرجندي, d. 923/1525 or 26) on the Sharḥ al-mulakhkhaṣ fī ‘ilm al-hayʾah (شرح الملخص في علم الهيئة) by Qāḍīʹzādah al-Rūmī (قاضي زاده الرومي; d. after 1440). The title page to the text (f. 102r) is dat...
Sawāniḥ al-qarīḥah fī sharḥ al-ṣafīḥah fī ‘ilm al-asṭurlāb سوانح القريحة في شرح الصفيحة في علم الأسطرلاب Fakhrī''zādah al-Mawṣilī, ‘Abd Allāh فخري زاده الموصلي، عبد الله
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Commentary by Sayyid Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd Allāh ibn Fakhr al-Dīn al-Ḥusaynī al-A‘raj (سيد أبو محمد عبد الله بن فخر الدين الحسيني الأعرج, d. 1775), known as Fakhrī''zādah al-Mawṣilī (فخري زاده الموصلي), on the Treatise on the Tympanum Concerning the Astrolabe (رسالة الصفيحة في الأسطرلاب) by Bahā’ al...
Tashrīḥ al-aflāk تشريح الأفلاك ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين
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Summary of theoretical astronomy (علم الهيئة) by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621) in which he argues that the earth rotates around its axis. The treatise contains numerous diagrams. The copy was completed on the evening of Friday 20 Jumādá I...
Sharḥ nuzhat al-nuẓẓār fī ʿilm al-ghubār شرح نزهة النظار في علم الغبار Ghazzī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad غزي، أحمد بن محمد
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Commentary by Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jibrīl al-Ghazzī al-Maghribī (شهاب الدين أحمد بن محمد بن محمد بن جبريل الغزي المغربي, d. 1575) on the arithmetical treatise The Observers' Delight Concerning the Science of Ghubār (شرح نزهة النظار في علم الغبار) by Shihāb al-Dīn Abū...
‘Umdat al-ṭullāb fī ‘ilm al-ḥisāb عمدة الطلاب في علم الحساب Qabāqibī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad قباقبي، إبراهيم بن محمد
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Treatise on arithmetic by Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Qabāqibī al-Ḥalabī (إبراهيم ابن محمد القباقبي الحلبي, d. 851/1447-8). Begins (f. 129v, lines 2-4): الحمد لله المنفرد بالديمومية (!) والقدم المحيط بأنواع الأعداد وكمية ضلع الأصم الذي علم بالقلم الإنسان ما لم يعلم ... Ends (270r, lines 7-13...
