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1. Bijapur 442

Reference (shelfmark):
Bijapur 442
Title:
al-Tuḥfah al-jāmiʿah li-mufradāt al-ṭibb al-nāfiʿah التحفة الجاميعة لمفردات الطب النافعة ‘Āmirī, Yaḥyā ibn Abī Bakr عامري، يحيى ابن أبي بكر
Scope & Content:
Treatise on medicine by Yaḥyā ibn Abī Bakr ibn Yaḥyá al-ʿĀmirī (يحيى ابن أبي بكر بن يحيى العامري, d. 893/1488). Contrary to what is suggested by the title, the treatise deals not only with materia medica (covered in the introduction), but also with diagnosis and therapy. On the title page (f. 1...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
21 Shawwāl 1058
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+47+iii

2. Delhi Arabic 994

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 994
Title:
Kashshāf iṣṭilāḥāt al-funūn كشاف اصطلاحات الفنون Tahānawī, Muḥammad Aʿlá ibn ʻAlī تهانوي، محمد أعلى بن علي
Scope & Content:
Encyclopaedia of technical terminology for self-teaching by the Mughal scholar Muḥammad Aʻlá ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Qāḍī Muḥammad Ḥāmid ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣābir al-Fārūqī al-Tahānawī (محمد أعلى بن علي بن القاضي محمد حامد بن محمد بن صابر الفاروقي التهانوي, d. after 1745). After a long introduction (vol. 1...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Two codices; ff. ix+264+iii and xi+304+iii

3. Delhi Arabic 994 vol 1, ff 1-264

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 994 vol 1, ff 1-264
Title:
Kashshāf iṣṭilāḥāt al-funūn كشاف اصطلاحات الفنون Tahānawī, Muḥammad Aʿlá ibn ʻAlī تهانوي، محمد أعلى بن علي
Scope & Content:
Volume one of an encyclopaedia of technical terminology for self-teaching by the Mughal scholar Muḥammad Aʻlá ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Qāḍī Muḥammad Ḥāmid ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣābir al-Fārūqī al-Tahānawī (محمد أعلى بن علي بن القاضي محمد حامد بن محمد بن صابر الفاروقي التهانوي, d. after 1745). The text begins...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. ix+264+iii

4. Delhi Arabic 994 vol 2, ff 265-568

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 994 vol 2, ff 265-568
Title:
Kashshāf iṣṭilāḥāt al-funūn كشاف اصطلاحات الفنون Tahānawī, Muḥammad Aʿlá ibn ʻAlī تهانوي، محمد أعلى بن علي
Scope & Content:
Volume two of an encyclopaedia of technical terminology for self-teaching by the Mughal scholar Muḥammad Aʻlá ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Qāḍī Muḥammad Ḥāmid ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣābir al-Fārūqī al-Tahānawī (محمد أعلى بن علي بن القاضي محمد حامد بن محمد بن صابر الفاروقي التهانوي, d. after 1745). The foliation i...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. xi+304+iii

5. Delhi Arabic 1665

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1665
Title:
Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-mujayyab رسالة في العمل بالربع المجيب Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad سبط المارديني، بدر الدين محمد بن محمد and [Kitāb al-asṭurlāb] [كتاب الأسطرلاب] Kūshyār ibn Labbān كوشيار بن لبان
Scope & Content:
Two short works on astronomical instruments. (1) Sibṭ al-Māridīnī (سبط المارديني), Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-mujayyab (رسالة في العمل بالربع المجيب, ff. 1v-7r); (2) Kūshyār ibn Labbān (كوشيار بن لبان), [Kitāb al-asṭurlāb] ([كتاب الأسطرلاب], ff. 7v-39v).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 17th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+40+i

6. Delhi Arabic 1665, ff 1v-7r

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1665, ff 1v-7r
Title:
Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-mujayyab رسالة في العمل بالربع المجيب Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad سبط المارديني، بدر الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Treatise in 12 bābs on the use of the sine quadrant (ربع المجيب) by Badr al-Dīn Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shāfi‘ī al-Miṣrī al-Dimashqī (بدر الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن محمد بن أحمد الشافعي المصري الدمشقي, b. 1423), known as Sibṭ al-Māridīnī (سبط المارديني), timekeeper (موق...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 17th century
Extent:

Ff. 1v-7r

7. Delhi Arabic 1665, ff 7v-39v

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1665, ff 7v-39v
Title:
[Kitāb al-asṭurlāb كتاب الأسطرلاب] Kūshyār ibn Labbān كوشيار بن لبان
Scope & Content:
A treatise in four chapters (fuṣūl) on the use and construction of the astrolabe, by Kūshyār ibn Labbān al-Jīlī (كوشيار بن لبان بن باشهري بن الجيلي, fl. 961). The text contains three diagrams (ff. 34r, 23v and 24v) and three tables: Solar declination to north and south (جدول الدرجات في الشمال ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 17th century
Extent:

Ff. 7v-39v

8. Delhi Arabic 1896

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1896
Title:
Sharḥ khulāṣat al-ḥisāb شرح خلاصة الحساب Kāẓimī, Jawād ibn Saʿd كاظمي، جواد بن سعد
Scope & Content:
Commentary by Jawād ibn Saʿd ibn Jawād al-Kāẓimī (جواد بن سعد بن جواد الكاظمي, d. ca 1654-5 [see al-Amīn, A‘yān al-shī‘ah, vol. 4, p. 271]) on the Summa of Arithmetic (خلاصة الحساب) by his teacher Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621). The text co...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+169+ii

9. Delhi Arabic 1897

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1897
Title:
Two treatises on algebra and inheritance calculations and an excerpt on magic squares Khuzā‘ī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad خزاعي، محمد بن أحمد
Scope & Content:
Collection of treatises and excerpts mostly by the Yemeni mathematician Jamāl al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar al-Khuzāʾī (جمال الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن أحمد بن عمر الخزاعي, fl. 13th century, see King, 'A Medieval Arabic Report on Algebra Before al-Khwārizmī' and idem, Mathem...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1036
Extent:

Codex; ff. iii+133+i

10. Delhi Arabic 1897, ff 1r-124v

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1897, ff 1r-124v
Title:
Sharḥ mukhtaṣar al-Shaykh Abī Bakr Muḥammad ibn Mūsá al-Khwārizmī fī al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah شرح مختصر الشيخ أبي بكر محمد بن موسى الخوارزمي في الجبر والمقابلة Khuzā‘ī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad خزاعي، محمد بن أحمد
Scope & Content:
Commentary by Jamāl al-Dīn Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ʿUmar al-Khuzāʿī (جمال الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن أحمد بن عمر الخزاعي, fl. 13th century) on the Compendium of Algebra (كتاب المختصر في الجبر والمقابلة) by Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Mūsá al-Khwārizmī (أبو جعفر محمد بن موسى الخوارزمي, d. c...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
30 Rabī‘ II 1036
Extent:

Ff. 1r-124v