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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8229, ff 161v-182r
Title:: Kitāb tarākīb al-anwār كتاب تراكيب الأنوار Ṭughrāʼī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī طغرائي، الحسين بن علي
Scope & Content:: Alchemical text by the Seljuq chancellor (صاحب ديوان الإنشاء) and vizier, poet and alchemist Muʼayyad al-Dīn Abū Ismāʻīl al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī al-Ṭughrāʼī (مؤيد الدين أبو إسماعيل الحسين بن علي الطغرائي, d. 1121). This text is a companion piece to items one and six in the present volume, the Collect...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 6 Rabīʻ I 1091
Extent:: Ff. 161v-182r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8229, ff 182v-196v
Title:: al-Juzʼ al-awwal min Kitāb jāmiʻ al-asrār الجزء الأول من كتاب جامع الأسرار Ṭughrāʼī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī طغرائي، الحسين بن علي
Scope & Content:: Part One (الجزء الأول) of a defense of alchemy against an unnamed detractor by the Seljuq chancellor (صاحب ديوان الإنشاء) and vizier, poet and alchemist Muʼayyad al-Dīn Abū Ismāʻīl al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī al-Ṭughrāʼī (مؤيد الدين أبو إسماعيل الحسين بن علي الطغرائي, d. 1121). An incomplete copy of the...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 9 Rabīʻ I 1091
Extent:: Ff. 182v-196v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8878
Title:: al-Bahjah al-unsīyah fī al-firāsah al-insānīyah البهجة الأُنسية في الفراسة الإنسانية Sibṭ al-Marṣafī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad سبط المرصفي، محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: A treatise on physiognomy by the Egyptian jurist and Sufi Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghamrī Sibṭ al-Marṣafī (زين العابدين محمد بن محمد الغمري سبط المرصفي, d 1599). The text comprises an introduction (مقدمة, ff. 1v-6v) on bodily humours, two inventory sections (الكشف الأول, ff. 6v-...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century-18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff i+28+i

Reference (shelfmark):: or 9040
Title:: al-Badr al-munīr fī ʿilm al-taʿbīr wa sharḥuh البدر المنير في علم التعبير وشرحه Ibn Niʿmah, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ابن نعمة، أحمد بن عبد الرحمن
Scope & Content:: A manual on dream interpretation and a commentary on it added to the margin, both by Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Maqdisī (شهاب الدين أبو العباس أحمد بن عبد الرحمن المقدسي, d. 1297 or 1298 [697 AH]), also known as Ibn Surūr (ابن سرور) and Ibn Niʿmah (ابن نعمة). The p...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 695
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+1+i+110+ii

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

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

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

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11313, ff 137r-142v
Title:: al-Muqaddimah fī ʻilm al-hayʼah المقدمة في علم الهيئة Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad سبط المارديني، بدر الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Introduction to astronomy for beginners in the science of time keeping (علم الميقات). The title page (f. 137r) attributes the text to the astronomer and timekeeper (مُوَقِّت) at the al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad (بدر الدين محمد بن محمد, d. after 1497), known as Sibṭ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Ff. 137r-142v

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