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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14332, ff 22v-32v
Title:: Qawl lil-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan al-Haytham fī shakl Banī Mūsá قول للحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم في شكل بني موسى Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham, al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan) ابن الهيثم ,الحسن بن الحسن
Scope & Content:: Treatise by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham (أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم; d. ca 1040) on a proposition from the prolegomena of the Banū Mūsá (بنو موسى, fl. 9th century) to the Conics (Κωνικά; كتاب المخروطات) by Apollonius of Perga (Ἀπολλώνιος; أبلونيوس; fl ca 200 BC)....
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 26 Dec 1834
Extent:: Ff. 22v-32v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14332, ff 32v-37v
Title:: Maqālah fī rasm al-qutū‘ al-thalāthah مقالة في رسم القطوع الثلثة Ibn Sinān, Ibrāhīm ابن سنان ,إبراهيم
Scope & Content:: Treatise by Ibrāhīm ibn Sinān ibn Thābit ibn Qurrah (إبراهيم بن سنان بن ثابت بن قرّة, d. 946) on the three types of conic section: the hyperbola, parabola and ellipse. The diagrams are missing in the text and may be found on ff. 194v-201v. Begins (fol. 32v, lines 5-8): قال إبراهيم بن سنان هذه...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 26 Dec 1834
Extent:: Ff. 32v-37v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14332, ff 38r-193v
Title:: Kitāb al-makhrūṭāt كتاب المخروطات Apollonius of Perga أبلونيوس
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of the Conics (Κωνικά; كتاب المخروطات) by Apollonius of Perga (Ἀπολλώνιος; أبلونيوس; fl ca 200 BC). Originally in eight books, only Books 1 to 4 survive in the original Greek; Books 1 to 7 are preserved in Arabic, and are presented here in the edition/translation by Muḥyī al-Dīn Y...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 26 Dec 1834
Extent:: Ff. 38r-193v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15480
Title:: Two mathematical treatises
Scope & Content:: Contents: (1) al-Jurjānī الجرجاني)), al-Sharīfīyah fī sharḥ al-farāʾiḍ al-sirājīyah (الشريفية في شرح الفرائض السراجية; ff. 2v-88v); (2) al-Zamzamī (الزمزمي), al-Murshidah fī ṣināʿat al-ghubār (المرشدة في صناعة الغبار; ff. 89v-116v).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1148-1177
Extent:: Codex; ff. v+117+v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15480, ff 2v-88v
Title:: al-Sharīfīyah fī sharḥ al-farāʾiḍ al-sirājīyah الشريفية في شرح الفرائض السراجية Jurjānī, ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad جرجاني، علي بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Commentary by ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAli al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī ( علي بن محمد بن علي الحسيني الجرجاني; d. 1413), known as al-Sayyid al-Sharīf (السيد الشريف), on the al-Farā’id al-Sirājīyah (الفرائض السراجية), a treatise on Ḥanafī inheritance calculation by Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad a...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 25 Shuwwāl 1177
Extent:: Ff. 2v-88v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15480, ff 89v-116v
Title:: al-Murshidah fī ṣināʿat al-ghubār المرشدة في صناعة الغبار Zamzamī, ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad علي بن محمد، زمزمي
Scope & Content:: Treatise on mathematical calculation by means of the dust board (تخت) and dust numerals ( غبار) by the Meccan mathematician and astronomer ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad b. Ismā‘īl al-Zamzamī al-Makkī (علي بن محمد بن إسماعيل الزمزمي المكي, fl. 15th century). The copy was completed on 8 Shawwāl 1148/21 Febru...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 8 Shawwāl 1148
Extent:: Ff. 89v-116v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659
Title:: Compendium of philosophical and scientific texts by and about Avicenna (ابن سينا)
Scope & Content:: Collection of fifty-three short works on various philosophical and scientific topics by and about Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The colophon to text 6 states that the copy was completed in 1182/1768-...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+1+vii+584+vii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, f 560v
Title:: Sharḥ kalimāt al-shaykh al-raʼīs raḥimahu Allāh شرح كلمات الشيخ الرئيس رحمه الله Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Answers attributed to Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037) to questions on Islamic belief and unbelief posed by the sufi Abū Saʻīd ibn Abī al-Khayr al-Mayhanī (أبو سعيد بن أبي الخير الميهني, d. 1049).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: F. 560v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 4v-5r
Title:: Fihrist kutub al-shaykh al-raʾīs فهرست كتب الشيخ الرئيس Jūzjānī, ʻAbd al-Wāḥid جوزجاني، عبد الواحد
Scope & Content:: Bibliography of the works of Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037) by his student Abū ʻUbayd ʻAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Jūzjānī (أبو عبيد عبد الواحد بن محمد الجوزجاني) and completed by an unknown compiler.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 4v-5r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 5v-7v
Title:: al-Risālah fī aḥwālih الرسالة في أحواله Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Autobiography of Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037) completed after his death by his student Abū ʻUbayd ʻAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Jūzjānī (أبو عبيد عبد الواحد بن محمد الجوزجاني).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 5v-7v

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