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Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1937B
Title:: Four texts on astronomy
Scope & Content:: Contents: (1) al-Lāhūrī (اللاهوري), al-Taṣrīḥ fī sharḥ al-tashrīḥ (التصريح في شرح التشريح; ff. 1r-16r); (2) al-Landanī (اللندني), al-Ijābah ʿalá taʿlīq al-Jawnbūrī (الإجابة على تعليق الجونبوري; ff. 16v-22r); (3) Anonymous, Tarjamah-’i Sab‘ shidād (ترجمه سبع الشداد; ff. 23r-44v); (4) al-Ṭūsī (...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+62+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1937B, ff 1r-16r
Title:: al-Taṣrīḥ fī sharḥ al-tashrīḥ التصريح في شرح التشريح Lāhūrī, Imām al-Dīn ibn Luṭf Allāh لاهوري، إمام الدين بن لطف الله
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Imām al-Dīn ibn Luṭf Allāh al-Muhandis al-Lahūrī thumma al-Dihlawī (إمام الدين بن لطف الله المهندس اللاهوري ثم الدهلوي, d. 1732?) on the Anatomy of the Spheres (تشريح الأفلاك), a summary of theoretical astronomy (علم الهيئة) by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 1r-16r

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1937B, ff 16v-22r
Title:: al-Ijābah ʿalá taʿlīq al-Jawnbūrī الإجابة على تعليق الجونبوري Landanī, Ḥusayn لندني، حسين
Scope & Content:: Treatise on contemporary European discoveries and theories in astronomy and other sciences by Mīr Muḥammad Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd al-‘Aẓīm Iṣfahānī Landanī (مير محمد حسين بن عبد العظيم إصفهاني لندني, d. 1790) written in response to a request by ‘Abd al-Qādir ibn Khayr al-Dīn ‘Amādī Jawnpūrī (عبد القادر...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 16v-22r

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1937B, ff 23r-44v
Title:: Tarjamah-’i Sab‘ shidād ترجمه سبع شداد
Scope & Content:: Anonymous commentary on the al-Sabʿ al-shidād fī ‘ilm al-hayʾah (السبع الشداد في علم الهيئة) by Ḥusayn ibn Kamāl al-Dīn al-Ṭabāṭabāʾī. The text contains numerous diagrams. 　 Begins (f. 23, lines 2-4): الحمد لله حمد الشاكرين والصلوة والسلام على خير الخلقة محمد وآله وأصحابه أجمعين أما بعد اين ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 23r-44v

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1937B, ff 47r-60v
Title:: Risālah fī kayfīyat al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb رسالة في كيفية العمل بالأسطرلاب Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of a treatise on the use of the Persian Treatise in Twenty Chapters on Knowledge of the Astrolabe (رساله بیست باب در معرفت اسطرلاب) by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). The treatise is, according to the preface (f. 47r, line 7)...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 47r-60v

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1941
Title:: Dustūr al-ʿajāʾib دستور العجائب Anṭākī, Dāwūd ibn ʿUmar أنطاكي، داوود بن عمر
Scope & Content:: A treatise on medicine preceded by a number of sections dealing with the various subjects which should be included in the physician's education. The title appears at f. 3r, line 3. The author's name does not appear but he can be identified as Dā’ūd ibn ‘Umar al-Qaṣīr al-Anṭākī (داوود بن عمر القص...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. vii+320+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1949
Title:: Ṭabā’i‘ al-ḥayawān طبائع الحيوان Marwazī, Sharaf al-Zamān Ṭāhir مروزي، شرف الزمان طاهر
Scope & Content:: Treatise on zoology in five chapters (مقالات) by Sharaf al-Zamān Ṭāhir al-Marwazī (شرف الزمان طاهر المروزي; fl. 1056-1125). It is likely that this copy was transcribed by a student of al-Marwazī, during the author's lifetime (see the scribal aside at f. 214v, lines 18-19). This copy contains Ch...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+217+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 461
Title:: Seven treatises on mathematics, astronomy and statics
Scope & Content:: The script, ornamentation and binding of the volume indicate that it is part of a set comprising also manuscripts IO Islamic 923, IO Islamic 924 and IO Islamic 1249, all of which were transcribed in 1198/1784, probably for their owner Warren Hastings, Governor-General of Bengal from 1772 to 1785...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1198
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+208+i

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 461, ff 2v-7v
Title:: Anonymous treatise on the linear astrolabe
Scope & Content:: Anonymous treatise on the construction and use of the linear astrolabe (أسطرلاب خطّي), an instrument also known as 'al-Ṭūsī's Rod' (عصا الطوسي), named after its inventor Sharaf al-Dīn al-Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (شرف الدين المظفر بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1213). The Persian table of contents (f. ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1198
Extent:: Ff. 2v-7v

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 461, ff 8v-34r
Title:: Maqālah fī ṣūrat al-kusūf مقالة في صورة الكسوف Alhazen ابن الهيثم
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the observation of solar eclipses through a camera obscura by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham (أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم; d. ca 1040). The text contains four diagrams, which are collected on a fold out (f. 34r) following the text. Begins (f. 8v, lines...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1198
Extent:: Ff. 8v-34r

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