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Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1734
Title:: Ibn al-Wardī, Sirāj al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʻUmar ابن الوردي، سراج الدين أبو حفص عمر Kharīdat al-ʿajāʾib wa-farīdat al-gharāʾib خريدة العجائب وفريدة الغرائب
Scope & Content:: A work of cosmography, natural history and eschatology focused on Egypt, compiled by Sirāj al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʻUmar ibn al-Wardī (سراج الدين أبو حفص عمر بن الوردي, d. 1457), sometimes mistakenly attributed to the earlier poet and historian Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Muẓaffar ibn al-Wardī (زين الدين ع...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+273+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1748
Title:: Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb خلاصة الحساب ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين
Scope & Content:: Very popular textbook of arithmetic by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621). The text was originally completed in Ṣafar 1004/October 1595, and the present copy was completed at noon on a Saturday in Rabīʿ II 1046/September-October 1636 by the scri...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Rabīʿ II 1046
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+34+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 2171
Title:: Baḥr al-jawāhir بحر الجواهر al-Harawī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf الهروي، محمد بن يوسف and Two lists of weights and measures
Scope & Content:: (1) al-Harawī (الهروي), Baḥr al-jawāhir (بحر الجواهر, ff. 1r-365v); (2) Two lists of weights and measures (ff. 366r-368v)
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1096
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+369+i

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 2171, ff 1r-365v
Title:: Baḥr al-jawāhirبحر الجواهر al-Harawī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf الهروي، محمد بن يوسف
Scope & Content:: An alphabetically-arranged medical dictionary in Arabic and Persian. The work was compiled from multiple source texts enumerated on f. 2r, lines 1-4 and including the Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطبّ) by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سي...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1096
Extent:: Ff. 1r-365v

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 2171, ff 366r-368v
Title:: Two lists of weights and measures
Scope & Content:: Names and definitions of various weights and measures, following Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, 980-1037; ff. 366r-366v, line 1). This is followed by a similar list, alphabetically arranged and taken from a text...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: Ff. 366r-368v

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 2274
Title:: Anonymous fragment on medicine
Scope & Content:: A fragment of a medical text. A note on the first flyleaf (f. i-r) attributes authorship to one Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn Ṣāʾigh Ḥanafī (أحمد بن محمد بن صائغ حنفي), and the text makes reference to the authority of the 'Chief Shaykh' (الشيخ الرئيس, i.e., Ibn Sīnā [ابن سينا, d. 1037]), also invoking...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+32+i

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 3810
Title:: al-Mughnī fī tadbīr al-amrāḍ wa-maʿrifat al-ʿilal wa-al-aʿrāḍ المغني في تدبير الأمراض ومعرفة العلل والأعراض Saʿīd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn سعيد بن هبة الله بن الحسين
Scope & Content:: Concise handbook of medicine by Abū al-Ḥasan Sa‘īd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn (أبو الحسن سعيد بن هبة الله بن الحسين; d. 1101), personal physician to the Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadī (المقتدي, reg. 1075-94) to whom this work is dedicated (f. 3v, line 9). The title of the text is often abbreviated...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Syriac, Classical
Date Range:: 19 Jumādá II 567
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+108+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 3811
Title:: Maqālat khalq al-insān مقالة خلق الإنسان Saʿīd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn سعيد بن هبة الله بن الحسين
Scope & Content:: Treatise on embryology, obstetrics, paediatrics and psychology by Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn (أبو الحسن بن هبة الله بن الحسين; d. 1101), personal physician to the Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadī (المقتدي, reg. 1075-94). The text is divided into fifty chapters (أبواب), and ff. 1r-4v co...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 16 Rajab 611
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+121+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 4419
Title:: Mukhtaṣar fī ṣanʿat baʿḍ al-ālāt al-raṣadīyah wa-al-ʿamal bihā مختصر في صنعة بعض الآلات الرصدية والعمل بها Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn برجندي، عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين and Risālat mukhtaṣarah shāmilah kayfīyat inshāʾ al-jadwal wa-istikhrāj aʿmālihi رسالة مختصرة شاملة كيفية إنشاء الجدول واستخراج أعماله
Scope & Content:: Two treatises on the construction and use of astronomical instruments. The manuscript was copied at Hyderabad Deccan in 1066/1656 for Qubād ibn ‘Abd al-Jalīl al-Ḥārithī al-Badakhshī (قباد بن عبد الجليل الحارثي البدخشي, d. 1083/1672-3), later known by the honorific title Diyānat Khān (ديانت خان,...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 18 Ramadan 1066-2 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1066
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+106+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 4419, ff 1r-59v
Title:: Mukhtaṣar fī ṣanʿat baʿḍ al-ālāt al-raṣadīyah wa-al-ʿamal bihā مختصر في صنعة بعض الآلات الرصدية والعمل بها Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn برجندي، عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the construction and use of over twenty astronomical instruments by ‘Abd al-‘Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Bīrjandī (عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين البيرجندي, d. 923/1525 or 26). At the end of the text, al-Bīrjandī explains that he took the descriptions of the construction and use of all...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 2 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1066
Extent:: Ff. 1r-59v

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