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211. Add MS 23569, ff 78v-103r

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Add MS 23569, ff 78v-103r
Title:
Bīst bāb dar ma‘rifat asṭurlāb بيست باب در معرفت اسطرلاب Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the use of the astrolabe in twenty chapters (بيست باب) by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين الطوسي, d. 1274). This copy was completed on 29 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 1057/26 December 1647 (see colophon, f. 103r, lines 9-11, transcribed below). Begins (f. 78v, lines 4-6): اين مختصر يست در معرفت...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
29 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 1057
Extent:

Ff. 78v-103r

212. Add MS 23569, ff 103v-135v

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Add MS 23569, ff 103v-135v
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 treatise contains numerous diagrams and tables (ff. 104v, 105r, 105v, 106r, 109r, 109v, 110v, 112r, 118v, 119r, 122r, 122v and 124v). The text is defective at the en...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1646-1647
Extent:

Ff. 103v-135v

213. Add MS 23570

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Add MS 23570
Title:
Mathematical compendium
Scope & Content:
Compendium containing treatises on astronomy, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and shorter extracts and notes on related topics. The title page (f. 7r), which is written by a later hand than that of the main scribe, calls the volume 'a compendium of seven treatises accompanied by various studies (...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1014-1018
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+136+iv

214. Add MS 23570, ff 2v-3v

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Add MS 23570, ff 2v-3v
Title:
(Fā’idah) min Sharḥ Shamsīyat al-ḥisāb من شرح شمسية الحساب (فائدة) Abū Isḥāq ibn ‘Abd Allāh أبو إسحاق بن عبد الله
Scope & Content:
Extract from a commentary (شرح) by Abū Isḥāq ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو إسحاق بن عبد الله, fl. mid-sixteenth century) on the al-Risāla al-Shamsīyah fī al-ḥisāb (الرسالة الشمسية في علم الحساب), a work on arithmetic by Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Nīsābūrī (نظام الدين الحسن بن محمد النيسابوري; d...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
c 1605
Extent:

Ff. 2v-3v

215. Add MS 23570, ff 4v-6r

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Add MS 23570, ff 4v-6r
Title:
Short extracts and notes in Persian and Arabic
Scope & Content:
A collection of short extracts of poetry and prose in Perisan and Arabic on various topics related to the natural sciences. The extracts are attributed to such authorities and works as Sharaf al-Dīn ‘Alī Yazdī (شرف الدين علي يزدي, d. 1454; f. 5r), the Optica (كتاب المناظر) of Euclid of Alexandri...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
c 1605
Extent:

Ff. 4v-6r

216. Add MS 23570, ff 7v-12r

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Add MS 23570, ff 7v-12r
Title:
Ṣafīḥat al-imkān fī aṣṭurlāb صفيحة الإمكان في أصطرلاب عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn
Scope & Content:
A short treatise on the construction and use of the astrolabe by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621). The scribe, Ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥīm Abū al-Qāsim Yaḥyá al-Astar’ābādī (ابن عبد الرحيم أبو القاسم يحيى الأسترآبادي), states in the colophon that he cop...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
c 1605
Extent:

Ff. 7v-12r

217. Add MS 23570, ff 12v-13r

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Add MS 23570, ff 12v-13r
Title:
Two short extracts on astronomy in Arabic and Persian
Scope & Content:
Folio 12v contains six lines of unpointed Arabic text entitled ' On ascertaining the distance between countries (في معرفة قدر المسافة بين البلدين)', and a diagram showing the orbit of the moon around the earth. Folio 13r contains a short and mostly unpointed Persian text attributed to Naṣīr al-...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
c 1605
Extent:

Ff. 12v-13r

218. Add MS 23570, ff 14r-24v

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Add MS 23570, ff 14r-24v
Title:
Mā lā budda lil-faqīh min al-ḥisāb ما لا بد للفقيه من الحساب Isfarā’aynī, Abū al-‘Alā’ Muḥammad al-Bihishtī إسفرايني، أبو العلاء محمد البهشتي
Scope & Content:
A treatise on arithmetic and algebra by Abū al-‘Alā’ Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bihishtī al-Isfarā’aynī (أبو العلاء محمد بن أحمد البهشتي الإسفرايني; d. 749 AH/AD 1348-49), known as Fakhr-i Khurāsān (فخر خراسان). The text is divided into two parts (مقالتان); Part One (ff. 2v, line 8-20r, line 10) conc...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
c 1605
Extent:

Ff. 14r-24v

219. Add MS 23570, ff 25v-28r

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Add MS 23570, ff 25v-28r
Title:
Anonymous treatise on geometry
Scope & Content:
A short anonymous treatise on geometry in the form of a commentary on an unknown work. The tables said to follow the text (see f. 28r, line 18, transcribed below) does not appear in this manuscript. Because the text is almost entirely unpointed, the transcriptions below are approximate. Conten...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
c 1605
Extent:

Ff. 25v-28r

220. Add MS 23570, ff 29v-30r

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Add MS 23570, ff 29v-30r
Title:
Treatise on ascertaining the levelness of surfaces
Scope & Content:
A short anonymous treatise on the construction and use of an instrument called the 'pipe (الأنبوبة; see f. 29v, line 7)', which functions similarly to a spirit level to ascertain the levelness of a surface. There is a diagram of the instrument on f. 30v. The 'tube (الأنبوبة)' is suspended from ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
c 1605
Extent:

Ff. 29v-30r

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