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Subject Didactic poetry Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Add MS 7556

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Add MS 7556
Title:
Twelve didactic poems on various sciences
Scope & Content:
Collection of twelve didactic poems in the rajaz metre (أراجيز) on jurisprudence (فقه), the calculation of inheritance shares (فرائض), and medicine (طب), grammar (نحو), and other sciences. A descriptive volume title has been written in black ink along the head edge of the folios: 'Poems on scie...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+391+i

2. Add MS 9599, ff 80v-118v

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Add MS 9599, ff 80v-118v
Title:
Commentary on a poem on calendrical calculations
Scope & Content:
Anonymous commentary on an anonymous didactic poem on calendrical calculations. The commentary was composed in 911/1505-06 (see f. 86v, line 17). The author of the commentary frequently refers to the Student's Method on Planetary Equations (منهاج الطالب في تعديل الكواكب), by the mathematician an...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 80v-118v

3. Add MS 9599, ff 255r-312r

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Add MS 9599, ff 255r-312r
Title:
Commentary on al-Urjūzah fī aḥkām al-nujūm (أرجوزة في أحكام النجوم) by ʻAlī Ibn Abī al-Rijāl (علي ابن أبي الرجال) Ibn al-Qunfudh, Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn ابن القنفذ، أحمد ابن حسين
Scope & Content:
Commentary by the scholar and judge (قاضي) of Constantine (قسنطينة, in mod. Algeria) Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī ibn al-Khaṭīb (أبو العباس أحمد بن الحسن بن علي بن الخطيب, d. 1407), known as Ibn Qunfudh (ابن قنفذ) on the Didactic Poem on Astrological Judgments (أرجوزة في أحكام النجو...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17 Rabīʻ II 1222
Extent:

Ff. 255r-312r

4. Add MS 9604

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Add MS 9604
Title:
Itḥāf dhawī al-albāb fī sharḥ Bidāyat al-ṭullāb اتحاف ذوي الألباب في شرح بداية الطلاب Dādasī, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad دادسي، علي بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Commentary by ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Qāsim ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dādasī (علي بن محمد بن أبي القاسم بن إبراهيم الدادسي, d. 1683) on his own didactic poem on astronomical timekeeping, Bidāyat al-ṭullāb fī ‘ilm waqt al-yawm bi-al-ḥisāb (بداية الطلاب في علم وقت بالحساب, The Students' Beginning in the...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16 Ramaḍān 1057
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+58+ii

5. Add MS 16659, ff 565v-568r

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Add MS 16659, ff 565v-568r
Title:
Kitāb al-urjūzah fī al-manṭiq كتاب الأرجوزة في المنطق Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:
Didactic poem on logic 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).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1182
Extent:

Ff. 565v-568r

6. Delhi Arabic 1901

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Delhi Arabic 1901
Title:
al-Durr al-thamīn fī sharḥ urjūzat Ibn al-Yāsamīn الدر الثمين في شرح أرجوزة ابن الياسمين Ibn al-Hāʾim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ابن الهائم، أحمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Commentary by Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ha’im al-Maqdisī al-Faraḍī (شهاب الدين أبو العباس أحمد بن محمد بن الهائم المقدسي الفرضي, d. 1412), known as Ibn al-Hā’im (ابن الهائم) on the didactic poem (أرجوزة) on algebra al-Manẓūmah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
5 Sha‘bān 887
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+105+i

7. IO Islamic 1490

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IO Islamic 1490
Title:
Sharḥ ‘alá al-urjūzah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī ‘ilm al-jabr شرح على الأرجوزة الياسمينية في علم الجبر
Scope & Content:
Anonymous commentary on the didactic poem (أرجوزة) on algebra al-Manẓūmah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah (المنظومة الياسمينية في الجبر والمقابلة) by Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥajjāj ibn al-Yāsamīn al-Adrinī al-Ishbīlī (أبو محمد عبد الله بن محمد بن حجاج بن الياسمين الأدر...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
21 Muḥarram 1081
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+34+iv

8. IO Islamic 4713

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 4713
Title:
1 copy of Būstān by Saʻdī
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1758
Extent:
147 ff

9. IO Islamic 4714

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 4714
Title:
1 copy of Iʻjāz-i Khusravī by Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, ca. 1253-1325
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1698
Extent:
601 ff

10. Or 5408, ff 94r-115r

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Or 5408, ff 94r-115r
Title:
Sharḥ al-Urjūzah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī ʿilm al-jabr شرح الأرجوزة الياسمينية في علم الجبر
Scope & Content:
Anonymous commentary on the didactic poem (أرجوزة) on algebra al-Manẓūmah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah (المنظومة الياسمينية في الجبر والمقابلة) by Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥajjāj ibn al-Yāsamīn al-Adrinī al-Ishbīlī (أبو محمد عبد الله بن محمد بن حجاج بن الياسمين الأدر...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
mid-Jumādá I 1070
Extent:

Ff. 94r-115r