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Anonymous nautical directory containing sets of tables used for the calculation of latitudes and distances, and a gazetteer of ports on the Persian Gulf coasts, Arabian Peninsula, East Africa, Iran, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, and Indian Ocean island groups. The tables are occasionally decorate...
Compilation of technical and practical advice for navigators
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A compilation of technical and practical advice for navigators, attributed to the 'wise men of the sea' (علماء البحر), and completed by an un-named scribe on 2 Jumādá II 1287/30 August 1870 (see colophon, f. 76r, transcribed below). The first half of the work (ff. 51r-59v) is divided into an in...
Didactic manual of nautical and navigational practices
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A teaching manual transmitted from an anonymous author (المؤلف) on navigational practices and nautical information, interspersed with poems. Following an introductory sermon (خطبة), the first part of the work contains numerous sections (أبواب) on theoretical astronomy and observation (understan...
Sharḥ kullīyāt al-qānūn شرح كليات القانون Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd قطب الدين الشيرازي، محمود بن مسعود
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Volume four (المجلد الرابع) of a commentary by Quṭb al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Mas‘ūd al-Shīrāzī (قطب الدين محمود بن مسعود الشيرازي; d. 1310) on the Colliget (كتاب الكلية), the first book of the Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطب) by Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, d. 1037). This commentary is also known as The Sa‘d...
Treatise on falconry focussing on the health and treatment of birds of prey by an unnamed author. The title appears on the title page (f. 3r) asكتاب البيزرة صنّفه الحكماء المتقدمين للملك الاسكندري (!) الرومي وهو كتاب عجيب مما يصلح بالملوك إذ لا بدّ لكلّ ملك من مسيره إلى الصيد بإحدى هذه الطيور ال...
Six alchemical texts Ṭughrāʼī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī طغرائي، الحسين بن علي
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Collection of alchemical texts by the Seljuq chancellor (صاحب ديوان الإنشاء) and vizier, poet and alchemist Muʼayyad al-Dīn Abū Ismāʻīl al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī al-Ṭughrāʼī (مؤيد الدين أبو إسماعيل الحسين بن علي الطغرائي, d. 1121). The copy was produced by Darwīsh ʻAlī ibn Shams al-Dīn al-Kāẓimī (دروي...
al-Juzʼ al-thānī min Kitāb jāmiʻ al-asrār الجزء الثاني من كتاب جامع الأسرار Ṭughrāʼī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī طغرائي، الحسين بن علي
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Incomplete copy of Part Two (الجزء الثاني) of a defense of alchemy against an unnamed detractor by the Seljuq chancellor (صاحب ديوان الإنشاء) and vizier, poet and alchemist Muʼayyad al-Dīn Abū Ismāʻīl al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī al-Ṭughrāʼī (مؤيد الدين أبو إسماعيل الحسين بن علي الطغرائي, d. 1121). The c...
[al-Juzʼ al-awwal wa-huwa Mafātīḥ al-raḥmah الجزء الأول وهو مفاتيح الرحمة] Ṭughrāʼī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī طغرائي، الحسين بن علي
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Incomplete copy of a two-part alchemical text by the Seljuq chancellor (صاحب ديوان الإنشاء) and vizier, poet and alchemist Muʼayyad al-Dīn Abū Ismāʻīl al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī al-Ṭughrāʼī (مؤيد الدين أبو إسماعيل الحسين بن علي الطغرائي, d. 1121). The copy is defective at beginning, with folios missing...
al-Juzʼ al-thānī wa-huwa Maṣābīḥ al-ḥikmah الجزء الثاني وهو مصابيح الحكمة Ṭughrāʼī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī طغرائي، الحسين بن علي
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Incomplete copy of an alchemical text by the Seljuq chancellor (صاحب ديوان الإنشاء) and vizier, poet and alchemist Muʼayyad al-Dīn Abū Ismāʻīl al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī al-Ṭughrāʼī (مؤيد الدين أبو إسماعيل الحسين بن علي الطغرائي, d. 1121). This text is part two of the preceding item in the present volum...
[Alchemical dream vision] Ṭughrāʼī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī طغرائي، الحسين بن علي
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Record of an alchemical dream vision by the Seljuq chancellor (صاحب ديوان الإنشاء) and vizier, poet and alchemist Muʼayyad al-Dīn Abū Ismāʻīl al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī al-Ṭughrāʼī (مؤيد الدين أبو إسماعيل الحسين بن علي الطغرائي, d. 1121). The text is preceded by a brief preface (f. 160v, lines 2-4, tra...
