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171. Add MS 23391, ff 2r-21r

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Title:
Kitāb Arshimīdas fī al-binkāmāt كتاب أرشميدس في البنكامات Archimedes أرشميدس
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the hydraulic and pneumatic machinery of water-clocks with thirteen diagrams, attributed to Archimedes (Ἀρχιμήδης; أرشميدس; fl. 3rd century BC). The title is given wrongly as كتاب أرشميدش في عمل السكامات (Kitāb Arshimīdash fī ‘amal al-sakāmāt; f. 2v, line 1); the final word should re...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Ff. 2r-21r

172. Add MS 23391, ff 21r-25v

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Title:
Ṣan‘at al-zāmir صنعة الزامر Apollonius the carpenter and geometer أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the design and construction of an hydraulic flute playing machine. The treatise is attributed to 'Apollonius the carpenter and geometer (أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي)', who some have identified as the geometer Apollonius of Perga (Ἀπολλώνιος; أبلونيوس; fl ca 200 BC). Begins (f. 21r, lines...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

ff. 21r-25v

173. Add MS 23392

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Title:
Taḥrīr kitāb al-majisṭī تحرير كتاب المجسطي Ptolemy بطلميوس Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
The Almagest (كتاب المجسطي), an Arabic version of the Μαθηματικῆς σύνταξις of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168), in the annotated edition (تحرير) of Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). This was the most influential and enduring astronomic...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Jumādá II 956
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+160+iv

174. Add MS 23393

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Title:
al-Tuḥfah al-shāhīyah fī al-hayʾah التحفة الشاهية في الهيئة Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd قطب الدين الشيرازي، محمود بن مسعود
Scope & Content:
Commentary by Quṭb al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Mas‘ūd al-Shīrāzī (قطب الدين محمود بن مسعود الشيرازي; c 1236-1310) on the Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah (كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة; see British Library, MS Or. 11209) a treatise on the astronomical system presented in the Almagest of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemae...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
22 Ramaḍān 737
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+177+iii

175. Add MS 23394

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Title:
Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد and al-Tabṣirah fī ʿilm al-hayʾah التبصرة في علم الهيئة Kharaqī, ʻAbd al-Jabbār ibn ʻAbd al-Jabbār خرقي، عبد الجبار بن عبد الجبار
Scope & Content:
Two treatises on astronomy. Contents: (1) al-Ṭūsī (الطوسي) Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah (كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة; ff. 2r-60v); (2) al-Kharaqī (الخرقي), al-Tabṣirah fī ‘ilm al-hay’ah (التبصرة في علم الهيئة; ff. 61r-110r); The copy was completed in 1107/1695-96 by Muḥammad Riḍā ibn ‘Azīz All...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1107
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+111+iii

176. Add MS 23394, ff 2r-60v

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Title:
Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
A treatise on astronomy which summarises, rationalises and improves upon the system presented in the Almagest of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168). The text was composed after 1256 by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). The text is divid...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1107
Extent:

Ff. 2r-60v

177. Add MS 23394, ff 61r-110r

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Title:
al-Tabṣirah fī ʿilm al-hayʾah التبصرة في علم الهيئة Kharaqī, ʻAbd al-Jabbār ibn ʻAbd al-Jabbār خرقي، عبد الجبار بن عبد الجبار
Scope & Content:
Treatise on astronomy by Bahā’ al-Dīn (بهاء الدين) and Shams al-Dīn Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Kharaqī (شمس الدين أبو بكر محمد بن أحمد الخرقي, d. 1138-39), elsewhere called Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Jabbār ibn ‘Abd al-Jabbār ibn Muḥammad (أبو محمد عبد الجبار بن عبد الجبار بن محمد). The author's c...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1107
Extent:

Ff. 61r-110r

178. Add MS 23397

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Title:
Three astronomical commentaries
Scope & Content:
Collection of three astronomical commentaries from the 14th and 15th centuries. A bibliographical note in English appears on f. 1r, and ff. 2r-3r contain astronomical notes and diagrams. A number of related notes on scraps of paper have been bound into the volume. Contents: (1) al-Jurjānī, ʿ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
822-828
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+364+iii

179. Add MS 23397, ff 4v-52r

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Title:
Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah شرح الملخص في الهيئة Jurjānī, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad جرجاني، علي بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Commentary by ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAli al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī ( علي بن محمد بن علي الحسيني الجرجاني; d. 1413), known as al-Sayyid al-Sharīf (السيد الشريف), on the al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī ‘ilm al-hayʾah al-basīṭah (الملخص في علم الهيئة البسيطة), an elementary textbook of astronomy by Sharaf al-Dīn Maḥm...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
26 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 822
Extent:

Ff. 4v-52r

180. Add MS 23397, ff 53v-109r

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Title:
Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah شرح الملخص في الهيئة Turkmānī, Kamāl al-Dīn تركماني، كمال الدين
Scope & Content:
Commentary by Kamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ‘Uthmān ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muṣṭafá al-Māridīnī al-Turkmānī al-Ḥanafī (كمال الدين محمد بن أحمد بن عثمان بن إبراهيم بن منصطفى المارديني التركماني الحنفي; b. 1314) on the al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī ‘ilm al-hayʾah al-basīṭah (الملخص في علم الهيئة البسيطة), an ele...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Sha‘bān 824
Extent:

Ff. 53v-109r

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