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51. Add MS 23570, ff 76r-82r

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 23570, ff 76r-82r
Title:
Kitāb Thāwudhūsīyus fī al-masākin كتاب ثاوذوسيوس في المساكن Theodosius ثاودوسيوس
Scope & Content:
Arabic version of the De habitationibus (Περὶ οἰκήσεων; كتاب المساكن), a work on astronomy by Theodosius of Bithynia (ثاودوسيوس; Θεοδοìσιος; c 160-c 100 BC), translated from the Greek by Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا; c 820-912). The text contains twelve diagrams. The copy was completed at Yazd ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Rajab 1014
Extent:

Ff. 76r-82r

52. Add MS 23570, ff 86v-117r

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 23570, ff 86v-117r
Title:
Short mathematical texts, notes and diagrams in Arabic and Persian
Scope & Content:
Notable contents include: Commentary on Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274) edition of Euclid's (Εὐκλείδης; أقليدس; fl. 300 BC) Elements (الأصول) (ff. 86v-88r); Text by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
1605-1610
Extent:

Ff. 86v-117r

53. Delhi Arabic 1665

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1665
Title:
Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-mujayyab رسالة في العمل بالربع المجيب Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad سبط المارديني، بدر الدين محمد بن محمد and [Kitāb al-asṭurlāb] [كتاب الأسطرلاب] Kūshyār ibn Labbān كوشيار بن لبان
Scope & Content:
Two short works on astronomical instruments. (1) Sibṭ al-Māridīnī (سبط المارديني), Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-mujayyab (رسالة في العمل بالربع المجيب, ff. 1v-7r); (2) Kūshyār ibn Labbān (كوشيار بن لبان), [Kitāb al-asṭurlāb] ([كتاب الأسطرلاب], ff. 7v-39v).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 17th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+40+i

54. Delhi Arabic 1919, ff 1v-3v

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1919, ff 1v-3v
Title:
Risālah fī sabab ẓuhūr al-kawākib laylan wa-khafā’ihā nahāran رسالة في سبب ظهور الكواكب ليلًا وخفائها نهارًا Abū al-Barakāt Hibat Allāh ibn ʻAlī أبو البركات هبة الله بن علي
Scope & Content:
Treatise on astronomy by Abū al-Barakāt Hibat Allāh ([ibn] ‘Alī) ibn Malkā al-Baghdādī al-Baladī (أبو البركات هبة الله [(بن) علي] بن ملكا البغدادي البلدي) written for the Seljuq sultan Muḥammad Tapar ibn Malikshāh (محمد تبر بن ملكشاه, reg. 1105-18). Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-6): وبعد حمد الله وال...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

Ff. 1v-3v

55. Delhi Arabic 1925

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1925
Title:
Two treatises on the sizes and distances of the celestial bodies
Scope & Content:
Composite manuscript; folios 1-14 and 15-25 were originally two separate manuscripts, and were written on different papers by different copyists. Front flyleaf i was a pastedown, and was detached from the inside right board (front-i) during conservation work to reveal the inscriptions of H. Wat...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17th-18th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. iii+26+i

56. Delhi Arabic 1927

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1927
Title:
Sullam al-idrāk fī hayʾat al-aflāk سلم الإدراك في هيئة الأفلاك Riyāḍī Muhandis, Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Khayr Allāh رياضي مهندس، محمد علي بن خير الله
Scope & Content:
Treatise on cosmology by Muḥammad ‘Alī al-Rīyāḍī ibn Khayr Allāh Khān al-Muhandis ibn Luṭf Allāh Khān al-Muhandis (محمد علي الرياضي ابن خير الله خان المهندس ابن لطف الله خان المهندس, fl. 18th century). The author's intention is to produce a condensed treatise (رسالة وجيزة) that will allow Arabic...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1185
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+48+i

57. Delhi Arabic 1928

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1928
Title:
Sharḥ tashrīḥ al-aflāk شرح تشريح الأفلاك Sahāranfūrī, ʿIṣmat Allāh ibn Aʿẓam سهارنفوري، عصمة الله بن أعظم and al-Ijābah ʿalá taʿlīq al-Jawnbūrī الإجابة على تعليق الجونبوري Landanī, Ḥusayn لندني، حسين
Scope & Content:
(1) al-Sahāranfūrī (السهارنفوري), Sharḥ tashrīḥ al-aflāk (شرح تشريح الأفلاك; ff. 1r-129v); (2) al-Landanī (اللندني), al-Ijābah ʿalá taʿlīq al-Jawnbūrī (الإجابة على تعليق الجونبوري; ff. 130r-141r). Folios 141r, line 3-145v contain various Persian notes and extracts.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1245
Extent:

Codex; ff. v+147+v

58. Delhi Arabic 1930

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1930
Title:
Sharḥ mūjaz li-Kitāb tashrīḥ al-aflāk شرح موجز لكتاب تشريح الأفلاك Dihlawī, Muḥammad Rashīd al-Dīn Khān دهلوي، محمد رشيد الدين خان
Scope & Content:
Commentary by Muḥammad Rashīd al-Dīn (محمد رشيد الدين) on the Tashrīḥ al-aflāk (تشريح الأفلاك, Anatomy of the Spheres), a summary of theoretical astronomy (علم الهيئة) by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي, d. 1621) in which it is argued that the earth ro...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
late 18th century-early 19th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+51

59. Delhi Arabic 1934

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1934
Title:
Tawḍīḥ al-Tadhkirah al-Nāṣirīyah توضيح التذكرة الناصرية Nīsābūrī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad نيسابوري، الحسن بن محمد
Scope & Content:
A commentary by al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn Niẓām al-Dīn al-Aʿraj al-Nīsābūrī (الحسن بن محمد بن الحسين نظام الدين الأعرج النيسابوري; d. 1328 or 9) on the Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah (كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة; see British Library, MS Or.11209) a treatise on the astronomical system prese...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Rabī‘ II 827
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+192+i

60. Delhi Arabic 1937B

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