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21. IO Islamic 1270

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 1270
Title:
Compendium of texts on mathematics and optics mostly by Alhazen (ابن الهيثم)
Scope & Content:
Collection of twenty-one treatises on mathematics, optics and related subjects. Contents: (1) Thābit ibn Qurrah (ثابت بن قرّة), Kitāb fī sanat al-shams bil-irṣād (كتاب في سنة الشمس بالإرصاد) (ff. 1v-9v); (2) Abū Naṣr ibn ‘Irāq (أبو نصر بن عراق), Istikhrāj mā bayna al-markaz min al-Majisṭī al-sh...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. iii+123+v

22. IO Islamic 1270, ff 118v-119r

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 1270, ff 118v-119r
Title:
Qawl fī mas’alah ‘adadīyah mujassama قول في مسئلة عددية مجسمة Alhazen ابن الهيثم
Scope & Content:
Treatise on cubic numbers by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham (أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم; d. ca 1040). Begins (f. 118v, line 3): نريد أن نقسم عددًا معلومًا بقسمين حتى يكون أحدهما مكعب الآخر ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Ff. 118v-119r

23. IO Islamic 1362

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 1362
Title:
Three texts on mathematics
Scope & Content:
Contents: (1) Anonymous treatise on multiplication (ff. 1r-2v); (2) al-‘Āmilī (العاملي), Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb (خلاصة الحساب; preface only, f. 4r); (3) Luṭf Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Muhandis al-Lahūrī (لطف الله بن أحمد المهندس اللهوري), Sharḥ Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb (شرح خلاصة الحساب; ff. 4v-69r).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. v+69+ii

24. IO Islamic 1490

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 1490
Title:
Sharḥ ‘alá al-urjūzah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī ‘ilm al-jabr شرح على الأرجوزة الياسمينية في علم الجبر
Scope & Content:
Anonymous commentary on the didactic poem (أرجوزة) on algebra al-Manẓūmah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah (المنظومة الياسمينية في الجبر والمقابلة) by Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥajjāj ibn al-Yāsamīn al-Adrinī al-Ishbīlī (أبو محمد عبد الله بن محمد بن حجاج بن الياسمين الأدر...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
21 Muḥarram 1081
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+34+iv

25. IO Islamic 1582

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

26. IO Islamic 1748

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

27. Or 5408, ff 94r-115r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5408, ff 94r-115r
Title:
Sharḥ al-Urjūzah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī ʿilm al-jabr شرح الأرجوزة الياسمينية في علم الجبر
Scope & Content:
Anonymous commentary on the didactic poem (أرجوزة) on algebra al-Manẓūmah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah (المنظومة الياسمينية في الجبر والمقابلة) by Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥajjāj ibn al-Yāsamīn al-Adrinī al-Ishbīlī (أبو محمد عبد الله بن محمد بن حجاج بن الياسمين الأدر...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
mid-Jumādá I 1070
Extent:

Ff. 94r-115r

28. Or 5408, ff 115v-133r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5408, ff 115v-133r
Title:
Nuzhat al-ḥussāb fī ‘ilm al-ḥisāb نزهة الحُسّاب في علم الحِساب Ibn al-Hāʾim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ابن الهائم، أحمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Abridgement of a treatise also by the author, Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ha’im al-Maqdisī al-Faraḍī (شهاب الدين أبو العباس أحمد بن محمد بن الهائم المقدسي الفرضي, d. 1412), entitled al-Murshidah fī ṣinā‘at al-ghubār (المرشدة في صناعة الغبار) on arithmetic and ḥisāb al-g...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1070
Extent:

Ff. 115v-133r

29. Or 6280

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6280
Title:
Three texts on mathematics and astronomy
Scope & Content:
Three texts on mathematics and astronomy related to Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621), two by al-‘Āmilī, and a commentary by his student Jawād ibn Saʿd ibn Jawād al-Kāẓimī (جواد بن سعد بن جواد الكاظمي, d. ca 1654-5 see al-Amīn, A‘yān al-shi‘ah,...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1114
Extent:

Codex; ff. 158+iii

30. Or 8416

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8416
Title:
Three treatises on arithmetic
Scope & Content:
Contents: (1) al-Ghazzī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad (الغزي، أحمد بن محمد), Sharḥ nuzhat al-nuẓẓār fī ʿilm al-ghubār (شرح نزهة النظار في علم الغبار; ff. 2r-129r); (2) al-Qabāqibī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad (القباقبي، إبراهيم ابن محمد), ʿUmdat al-ṭullāb fī ʿilm al-ḥisāb (عمدة الطلاب في علم الحساب; ff. 129v-2...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1023
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+284+ii