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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9639
Title:: Two treatises on inheritance shares (farāʾiḍ) and mathematics
Scope & Content:: Contents: (1) al-Maghīlī (المغيلي), [Sharḥ ʿalá urjūzah fī al-farāʾiḍ lil-Burrī] ([شرح على أرجوزة في الفرائض للبري]; ff. 1r-114r); (2) al-Qalaṣādī (القلصادي), Kashf al-astār ʿan ʿilm ḥurūf al-ghubār (كشف الأستار عن علم حروف الغبار; ff. 114r-120v).　 The two texts are followed by a page of pray...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 2 Rajab 1064
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+120+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9639, ff 1r-114r
Title:: [Sharḥ ʿalá urjūzah fī al-farāʾiḍ lil-Burrī شرح على أرجوزة في الفرائض للبري] Maghīlī, ʻAlī ibn Yaḥyá مغيلي، علي بن يحيى
Scope & Content:: Commentary by ʻAlī ibn Yaḥyá al-Maghīlī (علي بن يحيى المغيلي, active 1413), named in the present volume as Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿAṣnūnī al-Maghīlī (أبو الحسن علي بن صالح العصنوني المغيلي, see f. 1v, lines 3-4), on a didactic treatise in verse on the law of inheritance shares (farāʾiḍ)...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 2 Rajab 1064
Extent:: Ff. 1r-114r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9639, ff 114r-120v
Title:: Kashf al-astār ʿan ʿilm ḥurūf al-ghubār كشف الأستار عن علم حروف الغبار Qalaṣādī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad قلصادي، علي بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Opening of a treatise on making arithmetical calculations by means of a dust board (takht) and the so-called 'dust numbers' (ḥurūf al-ghubār, see f. 114r, line 14). The text is a précis of the author's own Kashf maʿānī al-jilbāb ʿan ʿilm al-ḥisāb, (اقتطفتها من كتابي المسمي بكشف معاني الجلباب عن ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: ca 1654
Extent:: Ff. 114r-120v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9690
Title:: Kitāb al-ishārāt fī ʿilm al-ʿibārāt كتاب الإشارات في علم العبارات Ibn Shāhīn, Khalīl ابن شاهين، خليل
Scope & Content:: Manual of dream interpretation in eighty chapters (أبواب) by the mamluk historian Ghars al-Dīn Khalīl ibn Shāhīn al-Ẓāhirī (غرس الدين خليل بن شاهين الظاهري, d. 1468). A list of the chapters with their title and the folio on which they begin is given on ff. 4v-6v On the title page (f. 2r) and on...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+278+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 10037
Title:: Jane Segar, The Divine Prophecies of the Ten Sibills
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains The Divine Prophecies of the Ten Sibills, written and illuminated by Jane Segar, sister of the Elizabethan herald and officer of arms Sir William Segar (b. c. 1554, d. 1633) and the courtier and painter Francis Segar (b. 1563, d. 1615). Jane presented the volume to Eliza...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1589
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 10084
Title:: Gaius Julius Caesar, Bellum Gallicum; Bellum Civile; Bellum Alexandrinum; Bellum Africanum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-60r: Gaius Julius Caesar (b. 100 BC, d. 44 BC), Bellum Gallicum (The War in Gaul), beginning: ‘[G]allia est omnia divisa in partes tres’. ff. 60r-94r: Gaius Julius Caesar, Bellum Civile (The Civil War), beginning: ‘Litteris C[aii] Cesaris a Fabio consulibus redditis’. ff. 94r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 10445
Title:: A collection of compositions for strings, as well as melodies, and instrumental arrangements of songs and ballets
Scope & Content:: ff. 1, 13b, 26. Twenty-five pieces, of which all except the first are taken from the 'Royall Consort' by 'William Lawes' (conf. Add MS 31433, etc.); 2nd half of the 17th century. They consist of Courantes, Sarabands, Airs, etc., written for 3 instruments. 1st and 2nd trebles and 'Breaking Base' ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 10459
Title:: Jonas of Orléans, De Institutione Laicali; Epistola Concilii Aquisgranensis ad Pippinum Regem Directa
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains two works that were written separately in the 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 9th century and incorrectly bound together at some point before the 15th century. The first text (ff. 1r-105r, 131r-165v) is De Institutione Laicali (On the Instruction of the Laity) by Jonas of Orlé...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 10461
Title:: Kitāb al-filāḥah كتاب الفلاحة Ibn al-ʻAwwām, Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad ابن العوام، يحيى بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Comprehensive treatise on agriculture by the Andalusian agronomist Abū Zakariyā Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ishbīlī (أبو زكريا يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد الإشبيلي, fl. late 12th century?), known as Ibn al-ʻAwwām (ابن العوام). The copy was made by an anonymous Spanish Arabist, reputedly from Madri...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+205+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 10546
Title:: Bible (The 'Moutier-Grandval Bible')
Scope & Content:: This one-volume Bible of the entire Vulgate as revised by Alcuin of York (d. 804) is one of three surviving illustrated copies produced in Tours at the Benedictine abbey of St Martin. It was probably made during the abbacy of either Adalhard (834-843) or Vivien (843-851) (see McKitterick, 'Carol...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 830-c 840
Extent:: Parchment codex

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