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1. Delhi Arabic 1902

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1902
Title:
Composite volume of treatises on mathematics
Scope & Content:
Composite volume comprising four codicological units: ff. 1-20, 21-53, 54-69, and 70-79. The manuscript contains many inclusions, notes on small slips of paper, now bound into the volume. Contents: (1) al-Nīsābūrī (النيسابوري), al-Risālah al-Shamsīyah fī al-uṣūl al-ḥisābīyah (الرسالة الشمس...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+79+ii

2. Or 11313, ff 2r-21r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11313, ff 2r-21r
Title:
Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-ḥisāb كتاب التذكرة في الحساب
Scope & Content:
Treatise on arithmetic in three sections (أقسام), each subdivided into chapters (أبواب) and parts (فصول). In the preface to the work, the author states that he called his work a Memorandum (تذكرة), and that it is a condensed translation of a Persian text called The Introduction (التبصرة), in whi...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
Dhū al-Qaʻdah 748
Extent:
Ff. 2r-21r

3. Or 11313, ff 23r-43v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11313, ff 23r-43v
Title:
al-Risālah al-ʻAlāʼīyah fī al-masāʼil al-ḥisābīyah الرسالة العلائية في المسائل الحسابية Turkistānī, Saʻīd ibn Muḥammad تركستاني، سعيد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Treatise on arithmetic and geometry composed in 711/1312 by Jamāl al-Dīn Saʻīd ibn Muḥammad ibn Muṣaddiq al-Sughdī al-Turkistānī (جمال الدين سعيد بن محمد بن مصدق السغدي التركستاني) for his patron ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Faryūmalī (? علاء الدين محمد بن محمد بن محمود الفري...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
9 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 748
Extent:
Ff. 23r-43v

4. Or 11313, ff 44r-87r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11313, ff 44r-87r
Title:
Jawāmiʻ al-ḥisāb bi-al-takht wa-al-turāb جوامع الحساب بالتخت والتراب Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Treatise on making mathematical calculations by means of a dustboard by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي, d. 1274). The title of the text as stated by its author in the preface (f. 44v, line 5, transcribed below) differs slightly from the variant title g...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
26 Ṣafar 751
Extent:
Ff. 44r-87r

5. Or 11313, ff 88v-96r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11313, ff 88v-96r
Title:
al-Risālah al-ʻIzzīyah الرسالة العزية [Zanjānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ibrāhīm زنجاني، عبد الوهاب بن إبراهيم]
Scope & Content:
Treatise on mental arithmetic by ʻIzz al-Dīn Abū al-Faḍāʼil ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Abū al-Maʻālī al-Khazrajī al-Zanjānī (عز الدين أبو الفضائل عبد الوهاب بن إبراهيم بن عبد الوهاب بن أبو المعالي الخزرجي الزنجاني, fl. mid-13th century). The treatise is sometimes found in ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
9 Jumādá I 751
Extent:
Ff. 88v-96r

6. Or 11313, ff 97r-136r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11313, ff 97r-136r
Title:
Zubdat al-hayʼah زبدة الهيئة [Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد]
Scope & Content:
Treatise on astronomy usually attributed to Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي, d. 1274; see Storey [ed.], ‘3 Astronomy and Astrology’, § 91, item 15, Storey Online, Brill Reference Online https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/storey-online/3-astr...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
3 Muḥarram 751
Extent:
Ff. 97r-136r