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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

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 622
Title:: Sullam al-samāʾ (al-Risālah al-kamālīyah) (سلم السماء (الرسالة الكمالية Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd كاشي، جمشيد بن مسعود
Scope & Content:: An astronomical treatise on the sizes and distances of the planets and fixed stars by Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd Ibn Masʿūd ibn Maḥmūd al-Kāshī (غياث الدين جمشيد بن مسعود بن محمود الكاشي, d. 1429 or 1436). The text was composed in 1407 and was dedicated to the vizier Kamāl al-Dīn Maḥmūd (كمال الدي...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Late Shawwāl 850
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+16+i

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 681
Title:: Sharḥ al-Majisṭī شرح المجسطي Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn برجندي، عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين
Scope & Content:: Commentary by ‘Abd al-‘Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Birjandī (عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين البرجندي, d. 923/1525 or 26) on the Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (تحرير المجسطي), the edition by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274; see f. 3r, lines 17-18) of the Alma...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+369+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 923, ff 11v-21r
Title:: Taḥrīr kitāb al-masākin تحرير كتاب المساكن Theodosius ثاودوسيوس
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of the De habitationibus (Περὶ οἰκήσεων; كتاب المساكن), a work on astronomy by Theodosius of Bithynia (ثاودوسيوس; Θεοδόσιος; c 160-c 100 BC), translated from the Greek by Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا; c 820-912). The diagrams are collected on a fold out (f. 21r) following the te...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18 Jumādá I 1198
Extent:: ff. 11v-21r

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 923, ff 23v-51r
Title:: Kitāb Thāwudhūsīyus fī al-ayyām wa-al-layālī كتاب ثاوذوسيوس في الأيام والليالي Theodosius ثاودوسيوس
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of the De diebus et noctibus (Περὶ ἡμερῶν καὶ νυκτῶν; كتاب في الأيام والليالي) a work on astronomy by Theodosius of Bithynia (ثاودوسيوس; Θεοδόσιος; c 160-c 100 BC). The text is divided into two books (مقالتان): Book One (المقالة الأولى; ff. 23v-36v); Book Two (المقالة الثانية; f...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 13 Sha‘bān 1198
Extent:: ff. 23v-51r

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 923, ff 52v-69r
Title:: Fī jirmay al-nayyirayn wa-bu‘dayhimma في جرمي النيرين وبعديهما Aristarchus أرسطرخس
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of the De magnitudinibus et distantiis solis et lunae (περὶ μεγεθῶν καὶ ἀποστημάτων ἡλίου καὶ σελήνης; في جرمي النيرين وبعديهما) by Aristarchus of Samos (أرسطرخس, Ἀρίσταρχος ὁ Σάμιος, ca 310-ca 230 BC). The diagrams are collected on a fold out (f. 69r) following the text. At th...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 13 Jumādá I 1198
Extent:: ff. 52v-69r

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1148
Title:: Three treatises on astronomy and geometry
Scope & Content:: The volume comprises three distinct manuscripts (ff. 1v-63r, 63v-67r and 68r-135r). Contents: (1) Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين الطوسي), Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (تحرير المجسطي ; ff. 1v-63r); (2) Menelaus of Alexandria (مانالاوس), Fī ashkāl al-kurīyah (في أشكال الكرية; ff. 63v-67r); (3) Ulugh Beg (...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1322-1599
Extent:: Codex; ff. v+135+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1249, ff 87v-110r
Title:: كتاب أوطولوقس في الطلوع والغروب Kitāb Awtūlūqūs fī al-ṭulūʿ wa-al-ghurūb Autolycus أوطولوقس
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of the De ortibus et occasibus (Περὶ ἐπιτολῶν καὶ δύσεων; في الطلوع والغروب [f. 87v, line 2, transcribed below] or في الطلوعات والغروبات [f. f. 109r, line 10, transcribed below]) by the astronomer, mathematician and geographer Autolycus of Pitane (Αὐτόλυκος ὁ Πιταναῖος; أوطول...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Jumādá I 1198
Extent:: ff. 87v-110r

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1270, f 10r
Title:: Istikhrāj mā bayna al-markaz min al-Majisṭī al-shāhī استخراج ما بين المركز من المجسطي الشاهي Abū Naṣr ibn ‘Irāq أبو نصر بن عراق
Scope & Content:: Short text on geometry by Abū Naṣr Manṣūr ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Irāq (أبو نصر منصور بن علي بن عراق; d. 1036) extracted from his lost astronomical work the al-Majisṭī al-shāhī (المجسطي الشاهي). The text contains one diagram. Begins (f. 10v, line 3): دائرة أب للفلك الخارج المركز وقطر أب
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: F. 10r

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