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231. Add MS 19619, ff 270r-285r

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Add MS 19619, ff 270r-285r
Title:
Miscellaneous extracts on the bezoar stone, pharmaceutical substances, and weights and measures
Scope & Content:
Extracts from the Indo-Persian perfumery treatise Nawrās-i Shāhī (نوراس شاهى), written for sultan Adil Shāh II, Sultan of Bijapur (1580-1627), on the description and properties of the bezoar stone, and animal, vegetable and mineral substances including mummy (ff. 270v-281v); a list of weights an...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
21 Jumādá II 1103
Extent:
Ff. 270r-285r

232. Add MS 19619, ff 285v-308v

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 19619, ff 285v-308v
Title:
Risālah-i ātashak رساله آتشك 'Imād al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd عماد الدين شيرازي، محمود بن مسعود
Scope & Content:
A treatise on syphilis (آتشك) by the physician Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd ʿImād al-Dīn Shīrāzī (محمود بن مسعود عماد الدين شيرازى, fl. 16th century).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
21 Jumādá II 1103
Extent:

Ff. 285v-308v

233. Add MS 19691, ff 129r-156r

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 19691, ff 129r-156r
Title:
Risālah-i chūb-i Chīnī رساله چوب چينى Yazdī, Qāz̤ī ibn Muḥammad يزدي، قاضي بن محمد
Scope & Content:
A treatise in Persian on the medicinal properties of China root (چوب چينى or چينى بيخ, see f. 130r, line 6), by Mirzā Qāz̤ī ibn Kāshif al-Dīn Muḥammad Yazdī (ميرزا قاضي بن كاشف الدين محمد يزدي, died 1664-65). The work is divided into three chapters (أبواب), the first on China root (ff. 130r-154...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
21 Jumādá II 1103
Extent:
Ff. 129r-156r

234. Add MS 20736

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Add MS 20736
Title:
Two treatises on horsemanship
Scope & Content:
Originally copied as an Arabic treatise on horsemanship, arms and military skills. The treatise is generously illustrated as far as f. 36v, after which only sporadic illustrations were added to the many remaining spaces. Most of the remaining blank spaces were subsequently utilised for the tran...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
ca 16th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. iii+97+iv

235. Add MS 20736, ff 2v-96r

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Add MS 20736, ff 2v-96r
Title:
Treatise on horsemanship, arms and military skills
Scope & Content:
A general treatise on horsemanship, arms and military skills in the tradition of the so-called 'Treatise B' of the ʿAbbasid furūsīyah master Ibn Akhī Ḥizām (ابن أخي حزام, d. ca 864, see citation and note about the incipit of the latter, with identical wording to the present text, in Al-Sarraf, S...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Ff. 2v-96r

236. Add MS 21102

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 21102
Title:
Ṭabā’i‘ al-ḥayawān طبائع الحيوان Marwazī, Sharaf al-Zamān Ṭāhir مروزي، شرف الزمان طاهر
Scope & Content:
Treatise on zoology in five chapters (مقالات) by Sharaf al-Zamān Ṭāhir al-Marwazī (شرف الزمان طاهر المروزي; fl. 1056-1125). Collation with the two other known copies of this text (British Library, Delhi Arabic 1949 and UCLA, MS Ar. 52) shows that this copy contains a portion of chapter one (ends...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. xxviii+209+iv

237. Add MS 21952

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 21952
Title:
Taḥrīr kitāb uṣūl al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb تحرير كتاب أصول الهندسة والحساب Euclid أقليدس Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Arabic version of the fundamental introduction to geometry, the Elements (Στοιχεῖα; الأصول) by the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (Εὐκλείδης, أقليدس; fl. 300 BC), in the annotated edition (تحرير) of Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). The te...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1048
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+153+iii+1+i+1+iii

238. Add MS 22371

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 22371
Title:
al-Thānī min Kitāb al-Filāḥah الثاني من كتاب الفلاحة Ibn Waḥshīyah, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn أحمد بن الحسين، ابن وحشية
Scope & Content:
Volume Two of a copy of the Nabataean Agriculture (الفلاحة النبطية), a work on agronomy in the tradition of the Graeco-Latin Geoponica, which mixes diverse subjects related to farming such as plant, animal and weather lore; descriptions of agricultural techniques; and much material of a more leg...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+257+iv

239. Add MS 22672

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 22672
Title:
[Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb wa-dhikr ālātihi wa-ajzāʾih كتاب العمل بالأسطرلاب وذكر آلآته و أجزائه] Ibn al-Ṣaffār, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ابن الصفار، أحمد بن عبد الله
Scope & Content:
A treatise in 42 short sections (باب) on the construction and use of the astrolabe, by Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Ṣaffār al-Ghāfiqī al-Andalusī (أبو القاسم أحمد بن عبد الله بن عمر بن الصفار الغافقي الأندلسي, d. 426/1035). The author’s name is given in the present copy as ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
Codex; ff. 27+ii

240. Add MS 23379

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 23379
Title:
‘Ajā’ib al-aqālīm al-sab‘ah عجائب الأقاليم السبعة Suhrāb سهراب
Scope & Content:
Treatise on mathematical geography for cartographers by Suhrāb (سهراب; see f. 3, line 1) composed between between 902 and 945 (see LeStrange, 'Description of Mesopotamia and Baghdād', Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society [1895], p. 2). The full title as given on the title page (f. 2r) is Book o...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
15 Rabī‘ I 709
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+68+iv

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