An anonymous medical compendium assembled from various Arabic and Persian works listed in the preface (f. 264v). The work is divided into 38 bābs, each subdivided into faṣls as enumerated in the contents pages (ff. 264v-266v). The date of the transcription was originally included in a colophon,...
Risālah dar ‘ilm-i hay’ah رسالة در علم هيئة Qūshjī, ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad قوشجي، علي بن محمد
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Popular textbook of astronomy written in Samarqand in 1458 by Abū al-Qāsim ‘Alā’ al-Dīn ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad al-Qūshjī (أبو القاسم علاء الدين علي بن محمد القوشجي; d. 1474). The text contains 22 diagrams in red and black ink (ff. 2r, 2v, 3r, 5r, 11r, 14r, 15v, 17r, 21v, 23r, 26v, 32v, 33r, 34r, 34v...
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. Contents: Begins (f. 46v, lines 2-5): ربّنا ما خلقت هذا باطلًا سبحانك فقنا عذاب النار واجعلني من ا...
Risālah sī faṣl رساله سي فصل Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
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Treatise on practical astronomy (تقويم) divided into thirty sections (سي فصل) composed in 658/1260 (see Amīn, Mustadrakāt a‘yān al-shī‘ah, p. 233) by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين الطوسي, d. 1274). The full title of the work is Sī faṣl dar ma‘rifat-i taqvīm (سي فصل در معرفت تقويم). The text ...
Bīst bāb dar ma‘rifat asṭurlāb بيست باب در معرفت اسطرلاب Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
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Treatise on the use of the astrolabe in twenty chapters (بيست باب) by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين الطوسي, d. 1274). This copy was completed on 29 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 1057/26 December 1647 (see colophon, f. 103r, lines 9-11, transcribed below). Begins (f. 78v, lines 4-6): اين مختصر يست در معرفت...
Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb خلاصة الحساب ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين
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Very popular textbook of arithmetic by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621). The treatise contains numerous diagrams and tables (ff. 104v, 105r, 105v, 106r, 109r, 109v, 110v, 112r, 118v, 119r, 122r, 122v and 124v). The text is defective at the en...
(Fā’idah) min Sharḥ Shamsīyat al-ḥisāb من شرح شمسية الحساب (فائدة) Abū Isḥāq ibn ‘Abd Allāh أبو إسحاق بن عبد الله
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Extract from a commentary (شرح) by Abū Isḥāq ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو إسحاق بن عبد الله, fl. mid-sixteenth century) on the al-Risāla al-Shamsīyah fī al-ḥisāb (الرسالة الشمسية في علم الحساب), a work on arithmetic by Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Nīsābūrī (نظام الدين الحسن بن محمد النيسابوري; d...
A collection of short extracts of poetry and prose in Perisan and Arabic on various topics related to the natural sciences. The extracts are attributed to such authorities and works as Sharaf al-Dīn ‘Alī Yazdī (شرف الدين علي يزدي, d. 1454; f. 5r), the Optica (كتاب المناظر) of Euclid of Alexandri...
Ṣafīḥat al-imkān fī aṣṭurlāb صفيحة الإمكان في أصطرلاب عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn
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A short treatise on the construction and use of the astrolabe by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621). The scribe, Ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥīm Abū al-Qāsim Yaḥyá al-Astar’ābādī (ابن عبد الرحيم أبو القاسم يحيى الأسترآبادي), states in the colophon that he cop...
Two short extracts on astronomy in Arabic and Persian
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Folio 12v contains six lines of unpointed Arabic text entitled ' On ascertaining the distance between countries (في معرفة قدر المسافة بين البلدين)', and a diagram showing the orbit of the moon around the earth. Folio 13r contains a short and mostly unpointed Persian text attributed to Naṣīr al-...