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1. Add MS 7496

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Title:
IkhtiṣārKitāb al-buldān اختصار كتاب البلدان Ibnal-Faqīh al-Hamadhanī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ابن الفقيهالهمذاني، أحمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Abridgement made around 413/1022 by ʿAlī ibn Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad al-Shayzarī (علي بن جعفر بن أحمد الشيزري) of a treatise on literary geography composed by the traditionist and jurist Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Hamadhānī (أبو بكر أحمد بن محمد الهمذاني, fl. circa 290/903), known as Ibn al-Faqīh (...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13th century-14th century
Extent:
Codex; ff. i+91+i

2. Add MS 7498

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Taqwīm al-buldān تقويم البلدان Abū al-Fidāʼ, Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAlī أبو الفداء، إسماعيل بن علي
Scope & Content:
Geographical compendium by the Ayyubid prince and scholar Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAlī ibn Maḥmūd al-Malik al-Muʼayyad ʻImād al-Dīn Abū al-Fidāʼ (إسماعيل بن علي بن محمود الملك المؤيد عماد الدين أبو الفداء, d. 1331). Its composition was completed in Shaʻbān 721/August-September 1321 (see authorial colophon, ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17 Ṣafar 743
Extent:
Codex; ff. ii+119+ii

3. Add MS 7499

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Title:
Taqwīm al-buldān تقويم البلدان Abū al-Fidāʼ, Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAlī أبو الفداء، إسماعيل بن علي
Scope & Content:
A copy, without colophon, of a geographical compendium by the Ayyubid prince and scholar Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAlī ibn Maḥmūd al-Malik al-Muʼayyad ʻImād al-Dīn Abū al-Fidāʼ (إسماعيل بن علي بن محمود الملك المؤيد عماد الدين أبو الفداء, d. 1331). Its composition was completed in Shaʻbān 721/August-September...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 17th century
Extent:
Codex; ff. ii+113+ii

4. Add MS 7502

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Title:
Nukhbat al-dahr fī ʻajāʼib al-barr wa-al-baḥr نخبة الدهر في عجائب البر والبحر Dimashqī, Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Abī Ṭālib دمشقي، شمس الدين محمد بن أبي طالب
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Illustrated cosmological compendium in nine chapters (أبواب), subdivided into many sections (فصول), by the theologian and polymath Shams al-Dīn Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Ansārī al-Dimashqī (شمس الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن أبي طالب الأنصاري الدمشقي, d. 1327). The copy was completed...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16 Shaʻbān 1130
Extent:
Codex; ff. ii+118+i

5. Or 8086, ff 51r-76v

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Or 8086, ff 51r-76v
Title:
Compilation of technical and practical advice for navigators
Scope & Content:
A compilation of technical and practical advice for navigators, attributed to the 'wise men of the sea' (علماء البحر), and completed by an un-named scribe on 2 Jumādá II 1287/30 August 1870 (see colophon, f. 76r, transcribed below). The first half of the work (ff. 51r-59v) is divided into an in...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
2 Jumādá II 1287
Extent:
Ff. 51r-76v

6. Or 8086, ff 77v-106r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8086, ff 77v-106r
Title:
Didactic manual of nautical and navigational practices
Scope & Content:
A teaching manual transmitted from an anonymous author (المؤلف) on navigational practices and nautical information, interspersed with poems. Following an introductory sermon (خطبة), the first part of the work contains numerous sections (أبواب) on theoretical astronomy and observation (understan...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 1870
Extent:
Ff. 77v-106r