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131. Add MS 6940

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Title:
Ardā vīrāf nāmah اردا ویراف نامه by Zartusht Bahrām
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The Ardā vīrāf nāmah (اردا ویراف نامه), a poetical version in Persian by Zartusht Bahrām ibn Pazhdū of the book of Ardā Vīrāf, based on a Pahlavi original of the 9th/10th century describing Arda Viraf's journey through heaven and hell and his return home afterwards. Copied by the Rev. John Hadd...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+64+i

132. Add MS 6998

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Title:
Ṣad dar صد در attributed to Īrānshāh ibn Malikshāh ایرانشاه ابن ملکشاه
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The Ṣad dar (صد در) attributed to Īrānshāh ibn Malikshāh (ایرانشاه ابن ملکشاه). A popular version of the 100 Zoroastrian rules composed in Persian verse in Kerman in 1494 (14 Muharram 900 AH) at the request of Shahriyār ibn Ardashīr ibn Bahrāmshāh. Copied by the Rev. John Haddon Hindley (1765-1...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Persian
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+236+ii

133. Add MS 7138

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Title:
The Plegmund Narrative or Crediton Claim (with letters from Sir Walter Trevelyan and Henry Petrie)
Scope & Content:
Statement of Crediton’s claim to certain estates in Cornwall, giving an account of the purported creation of new bishops and their consecration in 905 (Winchester, Ramsbury, Sherborne, Wells, Crediton, Selsey and Dorchester), and statement of the assignment to Crediton, on that occasion, of land...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 10th century
Extent:

Parchment leaf bound with paper correspondence

134. Add MS 7446

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Title:
Kashf al-ẓunūn ʿan asāmī al-kutub wa-al-funūn كشف الظنون عن أسامي الكتب والفنون Kâtip Çelebi كاتب چلبي
Scope & Content:
Bibliographical encyclopaedia by the Ottoman scholar Muṣṭafā ibn ʿAbd Allāh (مصطفى بن عبد الله, d.1067/1657), also known as Kâtip Çelebi (كاتب چلبي) and Ḥājjī Khalīfah (حجي خليفة). The work begins with an introductory section dealing with the classification of the science (ff. 1v-21v), followed ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
4 Rabīʿ II 1170
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+339+ii

135. Add MS 7469

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Title:
Ḥāwī al-lubāb wa-sharḥ talkhīṣ aʿmāl al-ḥisāb حاوي اللباب وشرح تلخيص أعمال الحساب Ibn al-Majdī, Aḥmad ibn Rajab ابن المجدي، أحمد بن رجب
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Commentary by Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Rajab ibn Ṭaybūghā al-Majdī al-Shāfi‘ī (شهاب الدين أبو العباس أحمد بن رجب بن طيبوغا المجدي الشافعي, d 1447) of the Talkhīṣ aʿmāl al-ḥisāb (تلخيص أعمال الحساب, Epitome of the Operations of Arithmetic) by Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Marrā...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17 Rabī‘ II 840
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+206+i

136. Add MS 7470

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Title:
Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb مفتاح الحساب Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd كاشي، جمشيد بن مسعود
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Compendium of mathematics by Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd ibn Maḥmūd al-Kāshī (غياث الدين جمشيد بن مسعود بن محمود الكاشي, d. 1429 or 1436) or al-Kāshānī (الكاشاني, see f. 3v, line 3). The text is known by both the short title Key to Calculation (مفتاح الحساب, see ff. 2r, line 8 and 3v, line...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
2 Shawwāl 997
Extent:

Codex; ff. iii+110+iii

137. Add MS 7471

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Title:
Sharḥ ashkāl al-taʾsīs شرح أشكال التأسيس Qāḍīʹzādah, Mūsá ibn Muḥammad قاضي زاده، موسى بن محمد and Sharḥ al-adwār شرح الأدوار
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(1) Qāḍīʹzādah (قاضي زاده), Sharḥ ashkāl al-taʾsīs (شرح أشكال التأسيس; ff. 2v-41r); (2) anonymous, Sharḥ al-adwār (شرح الأدوار; ff. 41v-92r). An owner's inscription by the 'son of the learned Shaykh ‘Abd Allāh, known as al-Suwaydī' (نجل العلامة الشيخ عبد الله المعروف بالسويدي), and dated 1...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1104
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+96+iii

138. Add MS 7471, ff 2v-41r

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Title:
Sharḥ ashkāl al-taʾsīs شرح أشكال التأسيس Qāḍīʹzādah, Mūsá ibn Muḥammad قاضي زاده، موسى بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Qāḍīʹzādah al-Rūmī's (قاضي زاده الرومي; d. after 1440) commentary on the Ashkāl al-ta’sīs (أشكال التأسيس) by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ashraf al-Ḥusaynī al-Samarqandī (شمس الدين محمد بن أشرف الحسيني السمرقندي, d. 1302). A title line added by a later hand at the head of f. 2v misattributes t...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1104
Extent:

Ff. 2v-41r

139. Add MS 7471, ff 41v-92r

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Title:
شرح الأدوار Sharḥ al-adwār
Scope & Content:
Anonymous commentary on Ṣafī al-Dīn ‘Abd al-Mu’min ibn Yūsuf ibn Fākhir al-Urmawī's (صفي الدين عبد المؤمن بن يوسف بن فاخر الأرموي, d. 1294) Book of Cycles (كتاب أدوار), an extremely influential treatise on music theory. A title line added by a later hand at the head of f. 41v identifies the tex...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
8 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1104
Extent:

Ff. 41v-92r

140. Add MS 7472

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Title:
Tawḍīḥ al-Tadhkirah al-Nāṣirīyah توضيح التذكرة الناصرية Nīsābūrī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad نيسابوري، الحسن بن محمد
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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 Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah (كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة; see British Library, MS Or.11209) a treatise on the astronomical system prese...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
20 Jumādá II 1062
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+119+ii

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