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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7492
Title:: Four treatises on astronomy and calendrics
Scope & Content:: Contents: (1) Sharḥ mukhtaṣar fī maʿrifat al-taqāwīm (شرح مختصر في معرفة التقاويم, ff. 1r-48r); (2) Dar yāftan-i avval-i sāl-i suryāni (در يافتن أول سال سرياني, f. 48v); (3) Anonymous treatise on the calculation of days and months (ff. 49v-52r); (4) al-Abharī (الأبهري), al-Zīj al-shāmil (الزيج ا...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 25 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 912
Extent:: Codex; ii+1+i+47+iii+20+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7492, f 48v
Title:: Dar yāftan-i avval-i sāl-i suryāni در يافتن أول سال سرياني
Scope & Content:: Anonymous short text in Ottoman Turkish on calculating the first day of each month in the Byzantine (rūmī), here called Syriac (suryānī), calendar year, accompanied by a summarising table. The only section in the present volume not written in Arabic, the text nevertheless covers similar conten...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: F. 48v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7492, ff 1r-48r
Title:: Sharḥ mukhtaṣar fī maʿrifat al-taqāwīm شرح مختصر في معرفة التقاويم
Scope & Content:: An anonymous commentary on an astronomical treatise in thirty sections called al-Mukhtaṣar fī maʿrifat al-taqāwīm (المختصر في معرفة التقاويم), also known as Sī faṣl dar maʿrifat-i taqwīm (سي فصل در معرفة تقويم) by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين الطوسي, d. 1274). The copy was completed at noon ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 25 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 912
Extent:: Ff. 2v-48r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7492, ff 49v-52r
Title:: Anonymous treatise on the calculation of days and months
Scope & Content:: Brief anonymous treatise on the calculation of days and months. An instruction for calculating hijrī years indicates the date of the text's composition as 849/1445-46, during the second reign of the Ottoman sultan Murād II (مراد الثاني, reg. 1446-51, see f. 50v, lines 6-9). Instructions for fi...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Ff. 48v-52r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7492, ff 52v-66v
Title:: al-Zīj al-Shāmil الزيج الشامل [Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī, al-Mufaḍḍal ibn ʿUmar أثير الدين الأبهري، المفضّل بن عمر]
Scope & Content:: Astronomical handbook in ten bābs (أبواب), each subdivided into fuṣūl (فصول) in the tradition of Abū al-Wafāʾ al-Būzjānī and his colleagues at the Bāb al-Tibn Observatory in Baghdad (أبو الوفاء البوزجاني, d. 998, see f. 52v, line 3). The incipit also mentions the earlier work carried out under c...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Ff. 52v-67v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7503
Title:: Ibn Iyās ابن إياس Nashq al-azhār fī ʻajāʼib al-aqṭār نشق الأزهار في عجائب الأقطار
Scope & Content:: A geographical compendium with a particular emphasis on Egypt (see f. 1v, lines 9-13), by Abū al-Barakāt Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Ibn Iyās (أبو البركات محمد ابن أحمد ابن إياس; died c. 1524). The text was completed on 14 Shaʻbān 922/11 September 1516 (see f. 293v, lines 17-20 transcribed below), and t...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 20 Ramaḍān 1065
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+294+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7511
Title:: Kitāb fī ma‘rifat ṭabā’i‘ al-ḥayawān al-barrī wa-al-baḥrī كتاب في معرفة طبائع الحيوان البري والبحري Aristotle أرسطاطاليس
Scope & Content:: This Arabic work on zoology is in fact a compilation of translations of three treatises by Aristotle (384-322 BC). The Arabic text is arranged into 19 books (أقوال), which divide the Aristotelian treatises as follows: Books 1-10 (Historia animalium), Books 11-14 (De partibus animalium), and Book...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 13th-14th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+232+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7514
Title:: Treatise on swordmanship, archery and other military skills [Dhikr al-ʿamal bi-al-sayf] [ذكر العمل بالسيف]
Scope & Content:: Anonymous compendium on military technologies and skills. The manuscript is defective at the beginning and the author's name is unknown. The assumed title 'On Using the Sword' (ذكر العمل بالسف) is taken from a heading on f. 1r. The copy was completed on 9 Rabī' I 739/24 September 1338 by an ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 9 Rabī' al-Awwal 739
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+65+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7515
Title:: Kitāb fī al-shaṭranj wa-manṣūbātihi wa-mulaḥih كتاب في الشطرنج ومنصوباته وملحه
Scope & Content:: Anonymous handbook on chess, dealing with its legality, origins, symbolism, classes of players, poetry in praise of chess, poetry to be recited at various stages of play, and chess techniques. The sections on techniques cover chess problems (منصوبات), openings (تعبيات) and puzzles (مخارق). For a...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 6 Jumādá II 655
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+132+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7527
Title:: Three treatises on natural philosophy and medicine
Scope & Content:: (1) Sākhīyūs al-Qass (ساخيوس القس), Tafsīr kitāb al-ʿilal (تفسير كتاب العلل; ff. 2v-170r); (2) Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا), Risālah fī tadbīr safar al-ḥajj (رسالة في تدبير سفر الحج; ff. 171v-185v); (3) Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا), Kitāb fī ʿilal al-shaʿr (كتاب في علل الشعر; ff. 186v-194r)....
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1097
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+194+i

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