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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8415
Title:: Four treatises on astronomy
Scope & Content:: Collection of four treatises on astronomy copied between 15 (?) Dhū al-Qa‘dah 1226/1 (?) December 1811 and 20 Jumādá I 1227/29 (?) May 1812 by Muḥammad Muḥsin ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Dawrī (محمد محسن بن محمد صالح بن محي الدين الدوري, see ff. 1r, 235r, 245v, and 255v), Qāḍī at Ūrdá...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1226-1227
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+257+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8415, ff 1r-100v
Title:: Sharḥ al-mulakhkhaṣ fī ‘ilm al-hayʾah شرح الملخص في علم الهيئة Qāḍīʹzādah, Mūsá ibn Muḥammad قاضي زاده، موسى بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Mūsá ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd (صلاح الدين موسى بن محمد بن محمود, d. after 1440), known as Qāḍīʹzādah al-Rūmī (قاضي زاده الرومي), on al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī ‘ilm al-hayʾah al-basīṭah (الملخص في علم الهيئة البسيطة), an elementary textbook of astronomy by Sharaf al-Dīn Maḥmūd...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1811-1812
Extent:: Ff. 1r-100v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8415, ff 102r-235r
Title:: [Taʿlīqāt ʿalá sharḥ al-mulakhkhaṣ تعليقات على شرح الملخص] Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn برجندي، عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين
Scope & Content:: Commentary by ‘Abd al-‘Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Birjandī (عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين البرجندي, d. 923/1525 or 26) on the Sharḥ al-mulakhkhaṣ fī ‘ilm al-hayʾah (شرح الملخص في علم الهيئة) by Qāḍīʹzādah al-Rūmī (قاضي زاده الرومي; d. after 1440). The title page to the text (f. 102r) is dat...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 10 Muḥarram-1 Rajab 1227
Extent:: Ff. 102r-235r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8415, ff 237r-245v
Title:: Sawāniḥ al-qarīḥah fī sharḥ al-ṣafīḥah fī ‘ilm al-asṭurlāb سوانح القريحة في شرح الصفيحة في علم الأسطرلاب Fakhrī''zādah al-Mawṣilī, ‘Abd Allāh فخري زاده الموصلي، عبد الله
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Sayyid Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd Allāh ibn Fakhr al-Dīn al-Ḥusaynī al-A‘raj (سيد أبو محمد عبد الله بن فخر الدين الحسيني الأعرج, d. 1775), known as Fakhrī''zādah al-Mawṣilī (فخري زاده الموصلي), on the Treatise on the Tympanum Concerning the Astrolabe (رسالة الصفيحة في الأسطرلاب) by Bahā’ al...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 13 Jumādá I 1227
Extent:: Ff. 237r-245v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8415, ff 247r-255v
Title:: Tashrīḥ al-aflāk تشريح الأفلاك ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين
Scope & Content:: Summary of theoretical astronomy (علم الهيئة) by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621) in which he argues that the earth rotates around its axis. The treatise contains numerous diagrams. The copy was completed on the evening of Friday 20 Jumādá I...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 20 Jumādá I 1227
Extent:: Ff. 247r-255v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8416
Title:: Three treatises on arithmetic
Scope & Content:: Contents: (1) al-Ghazzī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad (الغزي، أحمد بن محمد), Sharḥ nuzhat al-nuẓẓār fī ʿilm al-ghubār (شرح نزهة النظار في علم الغبار; ff. 2r-129r); (2) al-Qabāqibī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad (القباقبي، إبراهيم ابن محمد), ʿUmdat al-ṭullāb fī ʿilm al-ḥisāb (عمدة الطلاب في علم الحساب; ff. 129v-2...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1023
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+284+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8416, ff 2r-129r
Title:: Sharḥ nuzhat al-nuẓẓār fī ʿilm al-ghubār شرح نزهة النظار في علم الغبار Ghazzī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad غزي، أحمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jibrīl al-Ghazzī al-Maghribī (شهاب الدين أحمد بن محمد بن محمد بن جبريل الغزي المغربي, d. 1575) on the arithmetical treatise The Observers' Delight Concerning the Science of Ghubār (شرح نزهة النظار في علم الغبار) by Shihāb al-Dīn Abū...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1023
Extent:: Ff. 2r-129r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8416, ff 129v-270r
Title:: ‘Umdat al-ṭullāb fī ‘ilm al-ḥisāb عمدة الطلاب في علم الحساب Qabāqibī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad قباقبي، إبراهيم بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Treatise on arithmetic by Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Qabāqibī al-Ḥalabī (إبراهيم ابن محمد القباقبي الحلبي, d. 851/1447-8). Begins (f. 129v, lines 2-4): الحمد لله المنفرد بالديمومية (!) والقدم المحيط بأنواع الأعداد وكمية ضلع الأصم الذي علم بالقلم الإنسان ما لم يعلم ... 　 Ends (270r, lines 7-13...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1023
Extent:: Ff. 129v-270r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8416, ff 271v-283r
Title:: Kitāb al-lumaʿ al- yasīrah fī ʿilm al-ḥisāb كتاب اللمع اليسيرة في علم الحساب Ibn al-Hāʾim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ابن الهائم، أحمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Treatise on arithmetic by Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Faraḍī (شهاب الدين أبو العباس أحمد بن محمد الفرضي), known as Ibn al-Hā’im (ابن الهائم, d. 1412, see f. 2v). The copy was completed on Monday 3 Rabī‘ I 1023/14 April 1614 (see colophon, f. 283r, transcribed below). 　 B...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 3 Rabī‘ I 1023
Extent:: Ff. 271v-283r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8857
Title:: Fragment of a Christian Arabic Miscellany
Scope & Content:: Five quires (quires 5-9) of a miscellany produced in a monastic context containing Christian prayers, recipes for incenses, calendrical, astronomical, astrological, agricultural, medical and weather lore along with information about Christian feast days. Contents: 1) Fragment of a Christian pra...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: ca 1000
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+33+i

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