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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9587, ff 30r-30v
Title:: ‘Amal ‘āmm fī ‘amal ālāt al-iẓlāl عمل عام في عمل آلات الإظلال Ibn al-Raqqām, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ابن الرقام، محمد بن ابراهيم
Scope & Content:: 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. ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1270-1315
Extent:: Ff. 30r-30v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9649, ff 1v-5r
Title:: Ṣan‘at al-arghīn al-būqī صنعة الأرغين البوقي Mūrisṭus مورسطس
Scope & Content:: 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 ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 1v-5r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9649, ff 6v-10v
Title:: Ṣan‘at al-arghīn al-zamarī صنعة الأرغين الزمري Mūrisṭus مورسطس
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 6v-10v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9649, ff 11v-13r
Title:: Ṣan‘at al-juljul صنعة الجلجل Mūrisṭus مورسطس
Scope & Content:: 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....
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 11v-13r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9868, ff 1v-3r
Title:: Luʼluʼ al-naẓīm fī rawm al-taʻallum wa-al-taʻlīm لؤلؤ النظيم في روم التعلم والتعليم Anṣārī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad أنصاري، زكريا ابن محمد
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 1v-3r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9868, ff 3v-393v
Title:: 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
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1139
Extent:: Ff. 3v-393v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11210, ff 2r-27v
Title:: al-Bāḥah fī ʿilmay al-ḥisāb wa-al-misāḥah الباحة في علمي الحساب والمساحة Biqāʿī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar بقاعي، إبراهيم بن عمر
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 27 Rabīʿ II 836
Extent:: Ff. 2r-27v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11210, ff 28r-109v
Title:: Ibāḥat al-bāḥah إباحة الباحة Biqāʿī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar بقاعي، إبراهيم بن عمر
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 24 Jumadá I 836
Extent:: Ff. 28r-109v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 12150, ff 2v-57v
Title:: Kitāb al-iqtiḍāb al-majmūʿ ʿalā ṭarīq al-masʾalah wa-l-jawāb كتاب الاقتضاب المجموع على طريق المسألة والجواب Ibn al-Masīḥī, Saʻīd ibn Abī al-Khayr ابن المسيحي، سعيد بن أبي الخير
Scope & Content:: A compendium of medicine composed in a question and answer format, by Saʻīd ibn Abī al-Khayr ibn ʿIsá al-Ṭabīb al-Masīḥī (سعيد بن أبي الخير بن عيسى الطبيب المسيحي, b. 1177, d. 1259 or 1260). Ibn al-Masīḥī was famous for healing the caliph al-Nāṣir (الناصر, reg. 1180–1225) from a serious illnes...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 2v-57v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 12150, ff 58r-139v
Title:: Muhadhdhab al-Dīn al-Dakhwār, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn ʻAlī مهذب الدين الدخوار، عبد الرحيم بن علي Sharḥ Kitāb Taqdimat al-maʿrifah li-Abuqrāṭ شرح كتاب تقدمة المعرفة لأبقراط
Scope & Content:: A commentary on the Kitāb taqdimat al-maʿrifah li-Abuqrāṭ (كتاب تقدمة المعرفة لأبقراط), a translation of the Prognosticon of Hippocrates (أبقراط, d. ca 370 BC), probably by the physician and translator Abū Zayd Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī (أبو زيد حنين بن إسحق العبادي, d. 873). The text of the ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 58r-139v

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