‘Amal ‘āmm fī ‘amal ālāt al-iẓlāl عمل عام في عمل آلات الإظلال Ibn al-Raqqām, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ابن الرقام، محمد بن ابراهيم
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Fragment of a general introduction to the use of sundials. The text does not appear to be preserved elsewhere. Only one folio of this treatise is preserved and the text is imperfect at the end. The text on the lower half of f. 30v is obscured by water damage, worm holes and repairs. Begins (f. ...
Treatise on the construction of a hydaulic pipe organ (الأرغين البوقي; lit. 'trumpet organ'). The instrument is said to have been carried into battle and used as a siren capable of emitting a blast the could be heard for sixty miles. The author states that he made such an organ for the 'king of ...
Treatise on the construction of a pneumatic pipe organ (الأرغين الزمري; lit. 'reed-pipe organ'). The instrument is said to produce all manner of wonderous sounds, which cause their listeners by turns to weep, fall asleep at once, rejoice and dance, and lose their senses (f. 6v, lines 3-6, transc...
Treatise on the construction of a rattling instrument called the juljul (الجلجل), which produces distressing (شجيّة) sounds. The instrument, which is oval in shape and made of copper and glass, is said to have been made in ancient Egypt by a certain Sā‘āṭis (ساعاطس القديم في بلاد مصر العتيقة; f....
Luʼluʼ al-naẓīm fī rawm al-taʻallum wa-al-taʻlīm لؤلؤ النظيم في روم التعلم والتعليم Anṣārī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad أنصاري، زكريا ابن محمد
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A short inventory of sciences by Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad al-Anṣārī (زكريا ابن محمد الأنصاري c. 1423-c. 1520) encompassing subjects found in the second and main text of the present manuscript, Fatḥ al-ḥayy al-qayyūm sharḥ rawḍat al-fuhūm (فتح الحيّ القيوم شرح روضة الفهوم; Or 9868 ff. 3v-393v), as w...
Fatḥ al-ḥayy al-qayyūm sharḥ rawḍat al-fuhūm فتح الحيّ القيوم شرح روضة الفهوم Sunbāṭī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq سنباطي، أحمد ابن عبد الحقّ
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A commentary by Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Sunbāṭī (أحمد ابن أحمد ابن عبد الحقّ السنباطي, d. 1582 [or 1574]) on his own Garden of Understanding (روضة الفهوم), a versified rendering of Selection of the sciences (نقاية العلوم) by Suyūṭī (سيوطي, d. 911/1505). The text was written in 982/15...
al-Bāḥah fī ʿilmay al-ḥisāb wa-al-misāḥah الباحة في علمي الحساب والمساحة Biqāʿī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar بقاعي، إبراهيم بن عمر
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Short versified treatise (urjūzah, see f. 3v, line 5) on arithmetic and geodesy entitled al-Bāḥah fī ʿilmay al-ḥisāb wa-al-misāḥah (الباحة في علمي الحساب والمساحة, see f. 3v, line 6) by Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar al-Biqāʿī (إبراهيم بن عمر البقاعي, d. 1480). The composition of the text was completed on 2...
Ibāḥat al-bāḥah إباحة الباحة Biqāʿī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar بقاعي، إبراهيم بن عمر
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A commentary on the preceding text, al-Bāḥah fī ʿilmay al-ḥisāb wa-al-misāḥah (الباحة في علمي الحساب والمساحة), in which the text of the latter is also fully transcribed (علم الحساب: ff. 28r-87r; علم المساحة: ff. 87r-109r). The text was completed on 25 Rabīʿ II 836/19 December 1432 and the tran...
