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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23394, ff 2r-60v
Title:: Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: A treatise on astronomy which summarises, rationalises and improves upon the system presented in the Almagest of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168). The text was composed after 1256 by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). The text is divid...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1107
Extent:: Ff. 2r-60v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23394, ff 61r-110r
Title:: al-Tabṣirah fī ʿilm al-hayʾah التبصرة في علم الهيئة Kharaqī, ʻAbd al-Jabbār ibn ʻAbd al-Jabbār خرقي، عبد الجبار بن عبد الجبار
Scope & Content:: Treatise on astronomy by Bahā’ al-Dīn (بهاء الدين) and Shams al-Dīn Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Kharaqī (شمس الدين أبو بكر محمد بن أحمد الخرقي, d. 1138-39), elsewhere called Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Jabbār ibn ‘Abd al-Jabbār ibn Muḥammad (أبو محمد عبد الجبار بن عبد الجبار بن محمد). The author's c...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1107
Extent:: Ff. 61r-110r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23397
Title:: Three astronomical commentaries
Scope & Content:: Collection of three astronomical commentaries from the 14th and 15th centuries. A bibliographical note in English appears on f. 1r, and ff. 2r-3r contain astronomical notes and diagrams. A number of related notes on scraps of paper have been bound into the volume. Contents: (1) al-Jurjānī, ʿ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 822-828
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+364+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23397, ff 4v-52r
Title:: Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah شرح الملخص في الهيئة Jurjānī, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad جرجاني، علي بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Commentary by ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAli al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī ( علي بن محمد بن علي الحسيني الجرجاني; d. 1413), known as al-Sayyid al-Sharīf (السيد الشريف), on the al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī ‘ilm al-hayʾah al-basīṭah (الملخص في علم الهيئة البسيطة), an elementary textbook of astronomy by Sharaf al-Dīn Maḥm...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 26 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 822
Extent:: Ff. 4v-52r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23397, ff 53v-109r
Title:: Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah شرح الملخص في الهيئة Turkmānī, Kamāl al-Dīn تركماني، كمال الدين
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Kamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ‘Uthmān ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muṣṭafá al-Māridīnī al-Turkmānī al-Ḥanafī (كمال الدين محمد بن أحمد بن عثمان بن إبراهيم بن منصطفى المارديني التركماني الحنفي; b. 1314) on the al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī ‘ilm al-hayʾah al-basīṭah (الملخص في علم الهيئة البسيطة), an ele...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Sha‘bān 824
Extent:: Ff. 53v-109r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23397, ff 110v-364v
Title:: Tawḍīḥ al-Tadhkirah al-Nāṣirīyah توضيح التذكرة الناصرية Nīsābūrī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad نيسابوري، الحسن بن محمد
Scope & Content:: A commentary by al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn Niẓām al-Dīn al-Aʿraj al-Nīsābūrī (الحسن بن محمد بن الحسين نظام الدين الأعرج النيسابوري; d. 1328 or 9) on the al-Tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah (التذكرة في الهيئة) a treatise on the astronomical system presented in the Almagest of Ptolemy (Claudius Pto...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Sha‘bān 828
Extent:: Ff. 110v-364v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23398
Title:: Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hay’ah شرح الملخص في الهيئة Jurjānī, ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad جرجاني، علي بن محمد and al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī ‘ilm al-hay’ah al-basīṭah الملخص في علم الهيئة البسيطة Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Jaghmīnī محمود بن محمد الجغميني
Scope & Content:: Contents: (1) al-Jurjānī, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad (الجرجاني، علي بن محمد), Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah (شرح الملخص في الهيئة; ff 2r-65v); (2) al-Jaghmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad (الجغميني، محمود بن محمد), al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī ‘ilm al-hay’ah al-basīṭah (الملخص في علم الهيئة البسيطة; ff 66v-86r).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+1+i+85+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23398, ff 2r-65v
Title:: Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hay’ah شرح الملخص في الهيئة Jurjānī, ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad جرجاني، علي بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Commentary by ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAli al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī ( علي بن محمد بن علي الحسيني الجرجاني; d. 1413), known as al-Sayyid al-Sharīf (السيد الشريف), on the al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī ‘ilm al-hay’ah al-basīṭah (الملخص في علم الهيئة البسيطة), an elementary textbook of astronomy by Sharaf al-Dīn Maḥm...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Ff. 2r-65v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23398, ff 66v-86r
Title:: al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī ‘ilm al-hay’ah al-basīṭah الملخص في علم الهيئة البسيطة Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Jaghmīnī محمود بن محمد الجغميني
Scope & Content:: Popular elementary textbook of astronomy by Sharaf al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn ‘Umar al-Jaghmīnī al-Khwārizmī (شرف الدين محمود بن محمد بن عمر الجغميني الخوارزمي; fl. early 13th century). The text contains the following diagrams: (1) The cosmos (f. 67r); (2) The spheres of the Sun, the stars,...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Ff. 66v-86r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23403
Title:: 23 treatises on philosophy and science, most by Ibn Sīnā
Scope & Content:: Acollection of twenty-three works on various philosophical, metaphysical, andmedical topics, mostly by Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). Accordingto a colophon at the end of the fifteenth text in the vol...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Shaʻbān 1019
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+247+iii

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