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Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1665, ff 7v-39v
Title:: [Kitāb al-asṭurlāb كتاب الأسطرلاب] Kūshyār ibn Labbān كوشيار بن لبان
Scope & Content:: A treatise in four chapters (fuṣūl) on the use and construction of the astrolabe, by Kūshyār ibn Labbān al-Jīlī (كوشيار بن لبان بن باشهري بن الجيلي, fl. 961). The text contains three diagrams (ff. 34r, 23v and 24v) and three tables: Solar declination to north and south (جدول الدرجات في الشمال ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: ca 17th century
Extent:: Ff. 7v-39v

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1713
Title:: al-Mukhtār fī al-ṭibb المختار في الطب Ibn Hubal, ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ابن هبل، علي بن أحمحد
Scope & Content:: Comprehensive encyclopaedia of medicine by Muhadhdhib al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ‘Alī ibn Aḥmad ibn ‘Alī ibn Hubal al-Baghdādī (مهذب الدين أبو الحسن علي بن أحمد بن علي بن هبل البغدادي, d. 1213). An introduction to the text in Persian and written by a later hand (16th century?) is found on f. 1v, which...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Dhū al-Ḥijja 683
Extent:: Codex; ff. v+360+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1896
Title:: Sharḥ khulāṣat al-ḥisāb شرح خلاصة الحساب Kāẓimī, Jawād ibn Saʿd كاظمي، جواد بن سعد
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Jawād ibn Saʿd ibn Jawād al-Kāẓimī (جواد بن سعد بن جواد الكاظمي, d. ca 1654-5 [see al-Amīn, A‘yān al-shī‘ah, vol. 4, p. 271]) on the Summa of Arithmetic (خلاصة الحساب) by his teacher Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621). The text co...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+169+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1897
Title:: Two treatises on algebra and inheritance calculations and an excerpt on magic squares Khuzā‘ī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad خزاعي، محمد بن أحمد
Scope & Content:: Collection of treatises and excerpts mostly by the Yemeni mathematician Jamāl al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar al-Khuzāʾī (جمال الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن أحمد بن عمر الخزاعي, fl. 13th century, see King, 'A Medieval Arabic Report on Algebra Before al-Khwārizmī' and idem, Mathem...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1036
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+133+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1897, ff 1r-124v
Title:: Sharḥ mukhtaṣar al-Shaykh Abī Bakr Muḥammad ibn Mūsá al-Khwārizmī fī al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah شرح مختصر الشيخ أبي بكر محمد بن موسى الخوارزمي في الجبر والمقابلة Khuzā‘ī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad خزاعي، محمد بن أحمد
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Jamāl al-Dīn Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ʿUmar al-Khuzāʿī (جمال الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن أحمد بن عمر الخزاعي, fl. 13th century) on the Compendium of Algebra (كتاب المختصر في الجبر والمقابلة) by Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Mūsá al-Khwārizmī (أبو جعفر محمد بن موسى الخوارزمي, d. c...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 30 Rabī‘ II 1036
Extent:: Ff. 1r-124v

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1897, ff 125v-130v
Title:: Kitāb al-inshā’ fī ‘ilm al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah كتاب الإنشاء في علم الجبر والمقابلة Khuzā‘ī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad خزاعي، محمد بن أحمد
Scope & Content:: Treatise on practical examples of the use of algebra in inheritance calculations by Jamāl al-Dīn Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ‘Umar al-Khuzā‘ī (جمال الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن أحمد بن عمر الخزاعي). The title of the treatise does not appear in this manuscript. Begins (f. 125v, lines 2-7): ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1036
Extent:: Ff. 125v-130v

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1897, ff 130v-132v
Title:: Excerpt on magic squares (عدد الوفق) Khuzā‘ī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad خزاعي، محمد بن أحمد and other short extracts and notes (فوائد)
Scope & Content:: Excerpt from a text discussing the construction (إملاء) of magic squares (عدد الوفق) by Jamāl al-Dīn Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ‘Umar al-Khuzā‘ī (جمال الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن أحمد بن عمر الخزاعي). The treatise from which this text is an excerpt may be al-Khuzā‘ī's Introduction to Arith...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 2 Jumādá I 1036
Extent:: Ff. 130v-132v

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1898
Title:: Sharḥ al-Mūjaz al-musammá ḥisāban yasīran شرح الموجز المسمى حسابًا يسيرًا
Scope & Content:: Anonymous commentary on a treatise on arithmetic titled The Summary Called Easy Arithmetic (الموجز المسمى حسابًا يسيرًا), by al-Hadīyah Aḥmad ibn Masʿūd al-Ḥusaynī al-Hargāmī (الهدية أحمد بن مسعود الحسيني الهرگامي, d. 1175/1761-2). The text of the commentary (or perhaps of the text commented upo...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. v+201+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1909
Title:: Geometrical texts related to Euclid's Elements
Scope & Content:: Front flyleaf ii-v contains a magical text based on the names of the Companions of the Cave (أصحاب الكهف, see Qur’ān 18:9-26). Ff. 1ar and 1av contain an astrnomical table. The first and by far the longest text in this manuscript was completed on 5 Jumādá II 1214/4 November 1799 (see its coloph...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 5 Jumādá II 1214
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+173+i

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