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22441. Or 116

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 116
Title:
Kitāb fī maʿrifat al-ḥiyal al-handasīyah كتاب في معرفة الحيل الهندسية Jazarī, Ismāʿīl ibn al-Razzāz جزري، إسمعيل بن الرزّاز
Scope & Content:
Treatise on practical mechanics by Badī‘ al-Zamān Abū al-‘Izz Isma‘īl ibn al-Razzāz (بديع الزمان أبو العزّ إسمعيل بن الرزّاز; fl. 1181-1206), written for al-Ṣāliḥ Abū al-Fatḥ Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn Qarā Arslān, Artuqid king of Diyarbakır (الصالح أبو الفتح محمود بن محمد بن قرا أرسلان زعيم ديار ب...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. 153+i

22442. Or 136

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 136
Title:
Kitāb al-adwār fī ʿilm al-mūsīqī كتاب الادوار في علم الموسيقي al-Urmawī, ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn Yūsuf أرموي، عبد المؤمن بن يوسف
Scope & Content:
The Book of Cycles (كتاب أدوار), a succinct but extremely influential treatise on musical theory by Ṣafī al-Dīn ‘Abd al-Mu’min ibn Yūsuf ibn Fākhir al-Urmawī (صفي الدين عبد المؤمن بن يوسف بن فاخر الأرموي, d. 1294). The title page gives the author's name as Ṣafī al-Dīn ‘Abd al-Mu’min (صفي الدين ع...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
792
Extent:

Codex; i+55+ii

22443. Or 1198

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1198
Title:
Kitāb manāfi‘ al-aḥjār wa-qīmatihā wa-usūlihā كتاب منافع الأحجار وقيمتها وأصولها Tīfāshī, Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf تيفاشي، أحمد بن يوسف
Scope & Content:
A treatise on precious stones by Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Tīfāshī. Transcribed by a single scribe who completed his work on 15 Jumādá II 799 AH (16 March AD 1397), and signed his name illegibly at the bottom of f. 60r. Al-Tīfāshī composed the text in 640 AH and gave it the title by which it is more ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
15 Jumādá II 799
Extent:
Codex; ff. i+60+ii

22444. Or 1347

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1347
Title:
Taqwīm al-ṣiḥḥah تقويم الصحّة Ibn Buṭlān ابن بطلان
Scope & Content:
An elaborate presentation copy of Īwānīs al-Mukhtār ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAbdūn ibn Saʻdūn's (إيوانيس المختار بن الحسن بن عبدون بن سعدون, known as Ibn Buṭlān [ابن بطلان], d. ca 1068) book on dietetic medicine produced for Saladin’s (صلاح الدين الأيوبي; d. 1193) son, al-Malik al-Ẓāhir (الملك الظاهر; ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Jumādá II 610
Extent:
Codex; ff. ii+44+iii

22445. Or 1348

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1348
Title:
Kitāb al-uṣūl fī sharḥ al-fuṣūl كتاب الأصول في شرح الفصول Ibn al-Quff, Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq ابن القف ,أبو الفرج بن يعقوب بن إسحاق
Scope & Content:
Commentary by Amīn al-Daulah Abū al-Faraj ibn Ya‘qūb ibn Isḥāq ibn al-Quff (أمين الدولة أبو الفرج بن يعقوب بن إسحاق بن القف, d. 1286) on the Aphorisms (كتاب الفصول) of Hippocrates (أبقراط, d. ca 370 BC). Folio 1 has been bound into the volume upside down. The copy was completed on Friday 6 Sh...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
6 Shawwāl 787
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+179+i

22446. Or 1358

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1358
Title:
Ghunyat al-ṭullāb fī maʿrifat al-ramy bi-al-nushshāb غنية الطلاب في معرفة الرمي بالنشاب Ṭaybughā al-Ashrafī al-Baklamishī al-Yūnānī طيبغا الأشرفي البكلمشي اليوناني
Scope & Content:
An abbreviated copy of a technical treatise on archery, partly in verse, by Ṭaybughā al-Ashrafī al-Baklamishī al-Yūnānī (طيبغا الأشرفي البكلمشي اليوناني, d. c. 1394, see f. 2, lines 3-5, and f. 33v, lines 10-11). The title of the work is given at the end of the introduction (f. 11v, line 11). Th...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

Codex; i+223+i

22447. Or 1514

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1514
Title:
Ilḥāq Abī Isḥāq إلحاق أبي إسحق Kūbanānī, Abū Isḥāq ibn ‘Abd Allāh كوبناني، أبو إسحق بن عبد الله
Scope & Content:
Commentary on the first five books (maqālāt) of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī''s (نصير الدين الطوسي, d. 1274) recension of Euclid''s Elements by Abū Isḥāq ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Kūbanānī al-Yazdī (أبو إسحق بن عبد الله الكوبناني اليزدي, fl. mid- to late-15th century), also known as Shaykhzādah ibn al-Khādim al...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
886-888
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+174+ii

22448. Or 1523

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1523
Title:
Kitāb al-bayṭarah كتاب البيطرة Azdī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAtīq أزدي، أحمد بن عتيق
Scope & Content:
A treatise on hippiatrics, discussing their good and bad points, training, diseases and treatment. The text is an abridgement of the Kitāb al-furūsīyah wa-l-bayṭarah (كتاب الفروسية والبيطرة) by Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb Ibn Akhī Ḥizām (محمد بن يعقوب بن أخي حزام; see British Library, Add. MS 23416). Th...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Rajab 620
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+111+i

22449. Or 1524

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1524
Title:
Kitāb ʿajāʾib al-aqālīm al-sabʿah كتاب عجائب الأقاليم السبعة Ibn Saʿīd, ʿAlī ibn Mūsá ابن سعيد، علي بن موسى
Scope & Content:
The earliest-known copy of a geographical manual, written after 1260 by Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Mūsá ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Saʿīd al-Maghribī al-Andalusī al-Gharnāṭī Nūr al-Dīn (ابو الحسن علي ابن موسى ابن محمد ابن عبد الملك ابن سعيد المغربي الاندلسي الغرناطي نور الدين, d. 1286). The p...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 1300
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+74+i

22450. Or 1526

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1526
Title:
'Ajāʾib al-dunyā عجائب الدنيا Ibn Waṣīf Shāh, Ibrāhīm ابن وصيف شاه، إبراهيم
Scope & Content:
A cosmography in three parts (أجزاء) describing the wonders of the world, and of Egypt in particular, by Ibrāhīm ibn Waṣīf Shāh al-Miṣrī (إبراهيم بن وصيف شاه المصري, d. 1199 or 1200). The present copy was completed on 24 Shawwāl 1093/26 October 1682 by the darwīsh ʿAlī ibn Shams al-Dīn (درويش ع...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
24 Shawwāl 1093
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+109+ii

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