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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14155, ff 82r-98v
Title:: Kitāb aghdhiyat al-marḍá كتاب أغذية المرضى Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī نجيب الدين السمرقندي، محمد بن علي
Scope & Content:: Treatise on dietetics for patients suffering from a range of ailments, given as headings in the text, by Najīb al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Samarqandī (نجيب الدين أبو حامد محمد بن علي بن عمر السمرقندي, d. 1222). The copy was made in Rabīʿ II 984/June-July 1576 (see colophon, f...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Rabīʿ II 984
Extent:: Ff. 82r-98v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14155, ff 99v-163v
Title:: al-Qarābādhīn ʿalá tartīb al-ʿilal القراباذين على ترتيب العلل Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī نجيب الدين السمرقندي، محمد بن علي
Scope & Content:: Treatise on pharmacopoeia arranged head to toe by ailment by Najīb al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Samarqandī (نجيب الدين أبو حامد محمد بن علي بن عمر السمرقندي, d. 1222). 　 Begins (f. 99v, lines 2-6): الحمد لله رب العالمين حمد الشاكرين والصلوة على رسوله محمد وآله أجمعين كتاب ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1576
Extent:: Ff. 99v-163v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14221
Title:: An anonymous treatise on the interpretation of dreams
Scope & Content:: A manual on the interpretation of dreams. The scribe (and 'compiler'?: كاتبه ومحرّره ) is ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Rahmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Muqrī al-Ḥanafī (عبد الله بن عبد الرحمن بن عبد الله المقري الحنفي, see colophon, f. 477r, lines 8-17, transcribed below). The date of copying (تبع [!] مائة) c...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 719
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+477+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14270
Title:: Three technological treatises
Scope & Content:: Volume containing three technological treatises: Kitāb Arshimīdas fī ‘amal al-binkamāt (كتاب أرشميدس في عمل البنكامات, ff. 2v-14r); Apollonius the carpenter and geometer (أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي), San‘at al-zāmir (صنعة الزامر, ff. 14r-21r); Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad (فرغاني، أحمد بن محمد), a...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 28 Shawwāl 691
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+73+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14270, ff 2v-14r
Title:: Kitāb Arshimīdas fī ‘amal al-binkamāt كتاب أرشميدس في عمل البنكامات Archimedes أرشميدس
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the hydraulic and pneumatic machinery of water-clocks with eighteen diagrams, attributed to Archimedes (Ἀρχιμήδης; أرشميدس; fl. 3rd century BC). The title page gives the title wrongly as كتاب أرشميدس في عمل الساعات (Kitāb Arshimīdas fī ‘amal al-sā‘āt). This early known copy of the te...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 28 Shawwāl 691
Extent:: ff. 2v-14r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14270, ff 14r-21r
Title:: San‘at al-zāmir صنعة الزامر Apollonius the carpenter and geometer أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the design and construction of an hydraulic flute playing machine. The treatise is attributed to 'Apollonius the carpenter and geometer (أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي)', who some have identified as the geometer Apollonius of Perga (Ἀπολλώνιος; أبلونيوس; fl ca 200 BC). The text in this copy...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 28 Shawwāl 691
Extent:: Ff. 14r-21r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14270, ff 21v-73r
Title:: al-Kāmil fī ṣan‘at al-asṭurlāb al-shimālī wa-al-junūbī wa-‘ilalihuma bi-l-handasah wa-al-ḥisab الكامل في صنعة الأسطرلاب الشمالي والجنوبي وعللهما بالهندسة والحساب Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr فرغاني، أحمد بن محمد بن كثير
Scope & Content:: Earliest known Arabic treatise on the construction of the astrolabe, by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Farghānī (أحمد بن محمد الفرغاني; fl. ca 820-860). The text contains seventy-two diagrams and tables: Geometric diagram (f. 22v); Geometric diagram (f. 24r); Geometric diagram (f. 24v); Geometric diagra...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 28 Shawwāl 691
Extent:: ff. 21v-73r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14273
Title:: al-Zīj [al-mufīd] ʿalá uṣūl al-raṣd al-jadīd الزيج [المفيد] على أصول الرصد الجديد Razzāz, Riḍwān ibn ʻAbd Allāh رزاز، رضوان بن عبد الله
Scope & Content:: Astronomical handbook with tables (زيج) by the Ottoman Egyptian astronomer Riḍwān Efendi ibn ʿAbdallāh al-Razzāz al-Falakī (رضوان أفندي بن عبد الله الرزاز الفلكي, d. 1711). The text, also known as the al-Zīj al-Riḍwānī (الزيج الرضواني), is a revision of the Samarqand observatory's Zīj-i Ulugh Be...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1172
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+260+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14293
Title:: Yatīmat al-ʿaṣr fī al-madd wa-al-jazr يتيمة العصر في المد والجزر Ibn Mīmī, ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ابن مِيمي، عبد القادر بن أحمد بن علي
Scope & Content:: A wide-ranging treatise on natural phenomena relating to the seas, by ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Mīmī al-Baṣrī (عبد القادر بن أحمد بن علي بن مِيمي البصري, d. 1674). The text, also known as Wary al-zand bi-al-jazr wa-al-madd (وري الزند بالجزر والمد), was composed in 1084/1673 and the pr...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 14 Jumādá II 1085
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+125

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14376
Title:: Kitāb fī ʿilm al-zardaqah كتاب في علم الزردقة Bayṭār, Abū Bakr ibn Mundhir بيطار، أبو بكر بن المنذر
Scope & Content:: Veterinary manual on the medical treatment of horses, consisting of a summary of the fifth and sixth chapters (مقالات) of the Kitāb kāmil al-ṣināʻatayn fī al-bayṭarah wa-al-zardaqah (كتاب كامل الصناعتين في البيطرة والزردقة), also known as Kāshif hamm al-wayl fī maʻrifat amrāḍ al-khayl (كاشف هم ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 2 Āb 1838
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+95+ii

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