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Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1514
Title:: Anonymous treatise on the construction of the astrolabe and Kitāb al-mujmal fī aḥkām al-nujūm كتاب المجمل في أحكام النجوم Kūshyār كوشيار
Scope & Content:: Composite volume containing two texts on the manufacture of the astrolabe and on astrology. The first text was copied in the middle of Jumādá I 1056/end of June 1646, while the second was completed on 18 Shawwāl 1061/4 October 1651 by the scribe Ghiyāth al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan Bīk Munajjim, '...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: Jumādá I 1056-18 Shawwāl 1061
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+1+i+31+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1514, ff 2v-9r
Title:: Anonymous treatise on the construction of the astrolabe [رساله در صنعت اسطرلاب]
Scope & Content:: A short anonymous treatise (مختصر) in Persian on the construction and operation of the astrolabe, in twenty sections (bābs). The copy is extensively provided with diagrams and tables illustrating the instrument's stages of manufacture. The text was copied in the middle of Jumādá I 1056 (end of ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: Mid Jumādá I 1056
Extent:: Ff. 2v-9r

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1514, ff 14v-32v
Title:: Kitāb al-mujmal fī aḥkām al-nujūm كتاب المجمل في أحكام النجوم Kūshyār كوشيار
Scope & Content:: Astrological treatise also known as Kitāb al-mudkhal fī ṣināʿat aḥkām al-nujūm (كتاب المدخل في صناعة أحكام النجوم) and Mujmal al-uṣūl fī aḥkām al-nujūm (مجمل الأصول في أحكام النجوم) in four chapters (مقالات), composed in the late 10th century by Kiyā Abū al-Ḥasan Kūshyār ibn Labbān Bāshahrī al-J...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18 Shawwāl 1061
Extent:: Ff. 14v-32v

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1582
Title:: Anwār khulāṣat al-ḥisāb أنوار خلاصة الحساب Sahāranfūrī, ʿIṣmat Allāh ibn Aʿẓam سهارنفوري، عصمة الله بن أعظم
Scope & Content:: A commentary by ʿIṣmat Allāh ibn Aʿẓam ibn ‘Abd al-Rasūl al-Sahāranfūrī (عصمة الله بن أعظم بن عبد الرسول السهارنفوري, or Sahāranpūrī سهارنپوری, d. ca 1690, see f. 127r, line 4) on the popular Summa of Arithmetic (خلاصة الحساب) by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسي...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 10 Muḥarram 1105
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+127+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1619
Title:: Parsi marriage ceremony
Scope & Content:: Nikāḥ bastan bi-ravish-i mubidān-i Hindūstān ( نکاح بستن بروش مبدان هندوستان), the Parsi marriage ceremony in Persian, copied by the brother of Dastūr Kāʼus (f. 6v) and given by Dastūr Kāʼus to Jonathan Duncan (1756-1811) who was Governor of Bombay from 1795 until his death in 1811. Dastūr Kā’us...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: late 18th or early 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+10

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1715
Title:: al-Takmilah fī sharḥ al-tadhkirah التكملة في شرح التذكرة Khafrī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad خفري، محمد بن أحمد
Scope & Content:: Supercommentary by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Khafrī (شمس الدين محمد بن أحمد الخفري, d. ca 1550) on the Memoir on Astronomy (كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة) by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). The text is presented as a completion (تكملة) of a...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+258+i

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

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