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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14270
Title:: Three technological treatises
Scope & Content:: Volume containing three technological treatises: Kitāb Arshimīdas fī ‘amal al-binkamāt (كتاب أرشميدس في عمل البنكامات, ff. 2v-14r); Apollonius the carpenter and geometer (أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي), San‘at al-zāmir (صنعة الزامر, ff. 14r-21r); Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad (فرغاني، أحمد بن محمد), a...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 28 Shawwāl 691
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+73+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14270, ff 2v-14r
Title:: Kitāb Arshimīdas fī ‘amal al-binkamāt كتاب أرشميدس في عمل البنكامات Archimedes أرشميدس
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the hydraulic and pneumatic machinery of water-clocks with eighteen diagrams, attributed to Archimedes (Ἀρχιμήδης; أرشميدس; fl. 3rd century BC). The title page gives the title wrongly as كتاب أرشميدس في عمل الساعات (Kitāb Arshimīdas fī ‘amal al-sā‘āt). This early known copy of the te...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 28 Shawwāl 691
Extent:: ff. 2v-14r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14270, ff 14r-21r
Title:: San‘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). The text in this copy...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 28 Shawwāl 691
Extent:: Ff. 14r-21r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14270, ff 21v-73r
Title:: al-Kāmil fī ṣan‘at al-asṭurlāb al-shimālī wa-al-junūbī wa-‘ilalihuma bi-l-handasah wa-al-ḥisab الكامل في صنعة الأسطرلاب الشمالي والجنوبي وعللهما بالهندسة والحساب Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr فرغاني، أحمد بن محمد بن كثير
Scope & Content:: Earliest known Arabic treatise on the construction of the astrolabe, by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Farghānī (أحمد بن محمد الفرغاني; fl. ca 820-860). The text contains seventy-two diagrams and tables: Geometric diagram (f. 22v); Geometric diagram (f. 24r); Geometric diagram (f. 24v); Geometric diagra...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 28 Shawwāl 691
Extent:: ff. 21v-73r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14273
Title:: al-Zīj [al-mufīd] ʿalá uṣūl al-raṣd al-jadīd الزيج [المفيد] على أصول الرصد الجديد Razzāz, Riḍwān ibn ʻAbd Allāh رزاز، رضوان بن عبد الله
Scope & Content:: Astronomical handbook with tables (زيج) by the Ottoman Egyptian astronomer Riḍwān Efendi ibn ʿAbdallāh al-Razzāz al-Falakī (رضوان أفندي بن عبد الله الرزاز الفلكي, d. 1711). The text, also known as the al-Zīj al-Riḍwānī (الزيج الرضواني), is a revision of the Samarqand observatory's Zīj-i Ulugh Be...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1172
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+260+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14293
Title:: Yatīmat al-ʿaṣr fī al-madd wa-al-jazr يتيمة العصر في المد والجزر Ibn Mīmī, ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ابن مِيمي، عبد القادر بن أحمد بن علي
Scope & Content:: A wide-ranging treatise on natural phenomena relating to the seas, by ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Mīmī al-Baṣrī (عبد القادر بن أحمد بن علي بن مِيمي البصري, d. 1674). The text, also known as Wary al-zand bi-al-jazr wa-al-madd (وري الزند بالجزر والمد), was composed in 1084/1673 and the pr...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 14 Jumādá II 1085
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+125

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14376
Title:: Kitāb fī ʿilm al-zardaqah كتاب في علم الزردقة Bayṭār, Abū Bakr ibn Mundhir بيطار، أبو بكر بن المنذر
Scope & Content:: Veterinary manual on the medical treatment of horses, consisting of a summary of the fifth and sixth chapters (مقالات) of the Kitāb kāmil al-ṣināʻatayn fī al-bayṭarah wa-al-zardaqah (كتاب كامل الصناعتين في البيطرة والزردقة), also known as Kāshif hamm al-wayl fī maʻrifat amrāḍ al-khayl (كاشف هم ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 2 Āb 1838
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+95+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14791
Title:: Three treatises on meteorological divination
Scope & Content:: Three treatises on the prediction of future events based on astronomical, meteorological and other natural phenomena. The contents of the volume are: (1) Fihrist Arisṭā[ṭā]līs (ff 1v-37r); (2) Treatise on meteorological divination attributed to the prophet Daniel (ff 37r-64r); (3) Ramādī, Ibn M...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1295
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+69+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14791, ff 1v-37r
Title:: Fihrist Arisṭā[ṭā]līs Aristotle, Pseudo-
Scope & Content:: A treatise on meteorological divination attributed to Aristotle and perhaps related to the tradition of his Meteorologica (كتاب الأثار العلوية). Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-7): الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على أثر و [!] المرسلين سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وأصحابه أجمعين وبعد فهذا كتاب فهرست أرس...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1295
Extent:: ff. 1v-37r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14791, ff 37r-64r
Title:: Treatise on meteorological divination attributed to the prophet Daniel
Scope & Content:: A treatise on meteorological divination attributed to the prophet Daniel, divided into two parts: Part 1 (ff. 37r-48v); Part 2 ( فصل آخر على حكمة دانيال عليه السلام; ff. 48v-64r). Begins (f. 37r, lines 3-6) قال دانيال عليه السلام إذا أردت أنْ تعلم أحوال السنة من أولها إلى آخرها وما يحدث بها من...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1295
Extent:: ff. 37r-64r

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