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Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1937B
Title:: Four texts on astronomy
Scope & Content:: Contents: (1) al-Lāhūrī (اللاهوري), al-Taṣrīḥ fī sharḥ al-tashrīḥ (التصريح في شرح التشريح; ff. 1r-16r); (2) al-Landanī (اللندني), al-Ijābah ʿalá taʿlīq al-Jawnbūrī (الإجابة على تعليق الجونبوري; ff. 16v-22r); (3) Anonymous, Tarjamah-’i Sab‘ shidād (ترجمه سبع الشداد; ff. 23r-44v); (4) al-Ṭūsī (...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+62+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1937B, ff 1r-16r
Title:: al-Taṣrīḥ fī sharḥ al-tashrīḥ التصريح في شرح التشريح Lāhūrī, Imām al-Dīn ibn Luṭf Allāh لاهوري، إمام الدين بن لطف الله
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Imām al-Dīn ibn Luṭf Allāh al-Muhandis al-Lahūrī thumma al-Dihlawī (إمام الدين بن لطف الله المهندس اللاهوري ثم الدهلوي, d. 1732?) on the Anatomy of the Spheres (تشريح الأفلاك), a summary of theoretical astronomy (علم الهيئة) by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 1r-16r

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1937B, ff 16v-22r
Title:: al-Ijābah ʿalá taʿlīq al-Jawnbūrī الإجابة على تعليق الجونبوري Landanī, Ḥusayn لندني، حسين
Scope & Content:: Treatise on contemporary European discoveries and theories in astronomy and other sciences by Mīr Muḥammad Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd al-‘Aẓīm Iṣfahānī Landanī (مير محمد حسين بن عبد العظيم إصفهاني لندني, d. 1790) written in response to a request by ‘Abd al-Qādir ibn Khayr al-Dīn ‘Amādī Jawnpūrī (عبد القادر...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 16v-22r

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1937B, ff 23r-44v
Title:: Tarjamah-’i Sab‘ shidād ترجمه سبع شداد
Scope & Content:: Anonymous commentary on the al-Sabʿ al-shidād fī ‘ilm al-hayʾah (السبع الشداد في علم الهيئة) by Ḥusayn ibn Kamāl al-Dīn al-Ṭabāṭabāʾī. The text contains numerous diagrams. 　 Begins (f. 23, lines 2-4): الحمد لله حمد الشاكرين والصلوة والسلام على خير الخلقة محمد وآله وأصحابه أجمعين أما بعد اين ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 23r-44v

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1937B, ff 47r-60v
Title:: Risālah fī kayfīyat al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb رسالة في كيفية العمل بالأسطرلاب Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of a treatise on the use of the Persian Treatise in Twenty Chapters on Knowledge of the Astrolabe (رساله بیست باب در معرفت اسطرلاب) by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). The treatise is, according to the preface (f. 47r, line 7)...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 47r-60v

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1941
Title:: Dustūr al-ʿajāʾib دستور العجائب Anṭākī, Dāwūd ibn ʿUmar أنطاكي، داوود بن عمر
Scope & Content:: A treatise on medicine preceded by a number of sections dealing with the various subjects which should be included in the physician's education. The title appears at f. 3r, line 3. The author's name does not appear but he can be identified as Dā’ūd ibn ‘Umar al-Qaṣīr al-Anṭākī (داوود بن عمر القص...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. vii+320+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1946
Title:: Collection of texts on talisman making and related occult sciences
Scope & Content:: Eleven texts on talisman making, the occult properties of stones and other natural substances, amulet engraving and related subjects. The first five items in the manuscript form parts of the cycle of texts known as the pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica, which purport to contain the occult knowledge...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. 200

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 1v-21r
Title:: Kitāb al-Isṭimākhīs كتاب الإسطماخيس Aristotle أرسطاطاليس
Scope & Content:: Text on the making and use of talismans. The text is said to have been taken from Hermes (هرمس) and recorded by Aristotle (أرسطاطاليس, d. 322 BC) for his pupil Alexander the Great (الإسكندر, d. 323 BC) while he was planning his expedition to the east, during the fourth year of his reign (see f. ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 1v-21r

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 21v-32r
Title:: Kitāb istijlāb rūḥānīyat al-bahāʼim kullihā كتاب استجلاب روحانية البهائم كلها Aristotle أرسطاطاليس
Scope & Content:: Treatise on attracting the spiritual beings (روحانيات) of animals taken from Hermes (هرمس) and recorded by Aristotle (أرسطاطاليس, d. 322 BC). The introduction to the text gives it the alternative title al-Madhāṭīs (المذاطيس, see f. 21v, line 3, transcribed below), while the colophon suggests tha...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 21v-32r

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 32v-52v
Title:: Extract from Kitāb al-Iṣṭimāṭīs من كتاب الإصطماطيس Aristotle أرسطاطاليس
Scope & Content:: Text on the making and use of talismans said to have been taken from Hermes (هرمس) and recorded by Aristotle (أرسطاطاليس, d. 322 BC) for his pupil Alexander the Great (الإسكندر, d. 323 BC). 　 Begins (f. 32v, lines 2-8): من كتاب الإصطماطيس الذي وضعه هرمس في علل الروحانيات والمقسوم من الأقاليم...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 32v-52v

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