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A treatise on arithmetic and geometry, with its commentary Biqāʿī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar بقاعي، إبراهيم بن عمر
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Rough holograph copies of a short treatise on arithmetic and mensuration (geodesy) in verse form (urjūzah) entitled al-Bāḥah fī ʿilmay al-ḥisāb wa-al-misāḥah (الباحة في علمي الحساب والمساحة, ff. 2r-27r), followed by a commentary upon it entitled Ibāḥat al-bāḥah (إباحة الباحة, ff. 28r-109v, both ...
al-Bāḥah fī ʿilmay al-ḥisāb wa-al-misāḥah الباحة في علمي الحساب والمساحة Biqāʿī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar بقاعي، إبراهيم بن عمر
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Short versified treatise (urjūzah, see f. 3v, line 5) on arithmetic and geodesy entitled al-Bāḥah fī ʿilmay al-ḥisāb wa-al-misāḥah (الباحة في علمي الحساب والمساحة, see f. 3v, line 6) by Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar al-Biqāʿī (إبراهيم بن عمر البقاعي, d. 1480). The composition of the text was completed on 2...
Ibāḥat al-bāḥah إباحة الباحة Biqāʿī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar بقاعي، إبراهيم بن عمر
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A commentary on the preceding text, al-Bāḥah fī ʿilmay al-ḥisāb wa-al-misāḥah (الباحة في علمي الحساب والمساحة), in which the text of the latter is also fully transcribed (علم الحساب: ff. 28r-87r; علم المساحة: ff. 87r-109r). The text was completed on 25 Rabīʿ II 836/19 December 1432 and the tran...
Ghāyat al-itqān fī tadbīr badan al-insān غاية الاتقان في تدبير بدن الإنسان Ḥalabī, Ṣāliḥ Naṣr Allāh ibn Sallūm حلبي، صالح نصر الله بن سلوم
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Book One (الكتاب الأول) of a medical compendium on pharmacognosy by Ṣāliḥ ibn Naṣr Allāh ibn Sallūm al-Ḥalabī (صالح بن نصر الله بن سلوم الحلبي, d. 1669), personal physician to the Ottoman sultan Mehmet IV (محمد رابع, reg. 1648-87). The subject of Book One is diseases and their therapies. ...
Kitāb al-bāhīyah wa-al-tarkībāt al-Sulṭānīyah كتاب الباهية والتركيبات السلطانية Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي, نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
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A short work on medicine composed upon request, as the author Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274) relates in the preface, in response to the ailments of unidentified prince (see preface, f. 1r, line 9-2r, line 1). Its 18 short chapters (أبواب) co...
Risālat al-shifāʾ li-adwāʾ al-wabāʾ رسالة الشفاء لأدواء الوباء Ṭāshkubrīʹzādah, Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafá طاشكبريزاده، أحمد بن مصطفى
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Treatise on the prevention and cure of plague by the Ottoman polymath ʿIṣām al-Dīn Abū al-Khayr Aḥmad ibn Muṣliḥ al-Dīn Muṣṭafá Ṭāshkubrīʹzādah (عصام الدين أبو الخير أحمد بن مصلح الدين مصطفى طاشكبريزاده, Taşköprīzāde, d. 1561). The text is divided into the following sections, of which all but t...
Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-ḥisāb كتاب التذكرة في الحساب
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Treatise on arithmetic in three sections (أقسام), each subdivided into chapters (أبواب) and parts (فصول). In the preface to the work, the author states that he called his work a Memorandum (تذكرة), and that it is a condensed translation of a Persian text called The Introduction (التبصرة), in whi...
al-Risālah al-ʻAlāʼīyah fī al-masāʼil al-ḥisābīyah الرسالة العلائية في المسائل الحسابية Turkistānī, Saʻīd ibn Muḥammad تركستاني، سعيد بن محمد
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Treatise on arithmetic and geometry composed in 711/1312 by Jamāl al-Dīn Saʻīd ibn Muḥammad ibn Muṣaddiq al-Sughdī al-Turkistānī (جمال الدين سعيد بن محمد بن مصدق السغدي التركستاني) for his patron ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Faryūmalī (? علاء الدين محمد بن محمد بن محمود الفري...
Jawāmiʻ al-ḥisāb bi-al-takht wa-al-turāb جوامع الحساب بالتخت والتراب Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
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Treatise on making mathematical calculations by means of a dustboard by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي, d. 1274). The title of the text as stated by its author in the preface (f. 44v, line 5, transcribed below) differs slightly from the variant title g...
al-Risālah al-ʻIzzīyah الرسالة العزية [Zanjānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ibrāhīm زنجاني، عبد الوهاب بن إبراهيم]
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Treatise on mental arithmetic by ʻIzz al-Dīn Abū al-Faḍāʼil ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Abū al-Maʻālī al-Khazrajī al-Zanjānī (عز الدين أبو الفضائل عبد الوهاب بن إبراهيم بن عبد الوهاب بن أبو المعالي الخزرجي الزنجاني, fl. mid-13th century). The treatise is sometimes found in ...