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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23489
Title:: Ghunyat al-ṭullāb fī maʿrifat al-ramy bi-al-nushshāb غنية الطلاب في معرفة الرمي بالنشاب Ṭaybughā al-Ashrafī al-Baklamishī al-Yūnānī طيبغا الأشرفي البكلمشي اليوناني
Scope & Content:: An undated copy of a technical treatise on archery, partly in verse, by Ṭaybughā al-Ashrafī al-Baklamishī al-Yūnānī (طيبغا الأشرفي البكلمشي اليوناني, d. c. 1394, see f. 19r, line 4), and probably written under the Mamluk sultan al-Ashraf Shaʻbān (reg. 1368-77). The title is given in a frontispi...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: ff. iv+139+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23492
Title:: Khazīndār, Al-Ḥājj Luṭf Allāh الحاج لطف الله الشهير بالخزيندار [Mukhtaṣar kashf al-ẓunūn مختصر كشف الظنون]
Scope & Content:: A summary by al-Ḥajj Luṭf Allāh, known as al-Khazīndār (الحاج لطف الله الشهير بالخزيندار; see f. 2v, lines 5-6), based on the bibliographical encyclopaedia completed in about 1062/1652 by the Ottoman scholar Muṣṭafá ibn ʿAbd Allāh (مصطفى بن عبد الله, d.1067/1657), also known as Kâtip Çelebi (كات...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1245
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+284+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23494
Title:: al-Durr al-naqī fī fann al-mūsīqī الدرّ النقيّ في الفنّ الموسيقي Mawṣilī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥman موصلي، أحمد بن عبد الرحمن
Scope & Content:: Treatise on music theory relating the musical modes, or maqams (مقامات), to the Prophets, signs of the zodiac, hours of the day, etc. by Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Sayyid Aḥmad al-Rifā‘ī ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, given the laqab al-Musallam al-Mawṣilī (أبو صالح السيّد الرفاعي الملقّب بالمسلم الموصلي ابن عبد الرحمن,...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. v+1+iii+9+xiii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23560
Title:: A compendium of medical texts in Arabic and Persian
Scope & Content:: Four texts in Arabic and one in Persian on medicine and pharmacology. Colophons to the first three texts in the volume bear dates between Ramaḍān and Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1099/July-October 1688. Contents: (1) ʽImād al-Dīn Shīrāzī (عماد الدين شيرازي), Risālah-i yanbūʿ (رساله ينبوع, ff. 2v-98r); (2) ʽImā...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1099
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+311+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23560, ff 2v-98r
Title:: Risālah-i yanbūʿ رساله ينبوع 'Imād al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Maḥmud ibn Masʿūd عماد الدين شيرازى، محمود بن مسعود
Scope & Content:: A Persian-language manual on medicine in nineteen chapters (faṣls) by ʽImad al-Din Maḥmud ibn Masʿūd Shirāzī (عماد الدين محمود بن مسعود شيرازى, fl. 16th century). The transcription was completed on Friday, 12 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1099/8 October 1688 (see colophon, f. 98r, transcribed below). Contents:...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 12 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1099
Extent:: Ff. 2v-98r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23560, ff 98v-214v
Title:: al-Murakkabāt al-Shāhīyah المركبات الشاهية 'Imad al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd عماد الدين شيرازي، محمود بن مسعود
Scope & Content:: An Arabic-language treatise on compound medicaments also entitled Qarābādhīn (قراباذين), by Maḥmud ibn Masʿūd ʽImad al-Din Shīrāzī (محمود بن مسعود عماد الدين شيرازى, fl. 16th century). The copy was completed on 23 Ramaḍān 1099/22 July 1688 (see colophon, f. 214v, transcribed below). The twenty-f...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 23 Ramaḍān 1099
Extent:: Ff. 98v-214v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23560, ff 218v-262v
Title:: Khuffī-'i ʿAlāʾī خفئ علأى Jurjānī, Ismāʿīl ibn Ḥasan جرجاني، إسماعيل بن حسن
Scope & Content:: Abridgement of the comprehensive medical compendium Dhakhīrah-i Khwārazmshāhī (ذخيره خوارزمشاهي) which the author, Ismaʿīl ibn Ḥasan al-Jurjānī (اسماعيل بن الحسن الجرجاني, d. 1042/4) had composed previously. The abridgement was composed at the request of the second Khwārazmshāhī ruler ʿAlāʾ al-...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 4 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1099
Extent:: Ff. 218v-262v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23560, ff 262v-264r
Title:: Intikhāb az kitāb Jāmiʿ al-favāʾid-i Yūsufī انتخاب از كتاب جامع الفوائد يوسفي Yūsufī, Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Maḥallī يوسفي، يوسف بن محمد بن يوسف المحلي
Scope & Content:: Extracts from the Jāmiʿ al-Favāʾid-i Yūsufī (انتخاب از كتاب جامع الفوائد يوسفي), a commentary by the Herātī physician Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Maḥallī al-Ȳūsufī (يوسف بن محمد بن يوسف المحلي اليوسفي, d. 1556) on another of his own medical works,ʿIlāj al-Amrāḍ (علاج الأمراض), a versified tr...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 1688
Extent:: Ff. 262v-264r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23560, ff 264v-311r
Title:: Mūjaz Kummī موجز كمي
Scope & Content:: An anonymous medical compendium assembled from various Arabic and Persian works listed in the preface (f. 264v). The work is divided into 38 bābs, each subdivided into faṣls as enumerated in the contents pages (ff. 264v-266v). The date of the transcription was originally included in a colophon,...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 1688
Extent:: Ff. 264v-311v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23569
Title:: Five treatises on astronomy and mathematics in Persian and Arabic
Scope & Content:: A collection of five astronomical and mathematical treatises in Persian and Arabic. Folios 77v and 78r have been left blank. Contents: (1) al-Qūshjī (القوشجي), Risālah dar ‘ilm-i hay’ah (رسالة در علم هيئة; ff. 1v-46r) (2) al-‘Āmilī (العاملي), Tashrīḥ al-aflāk (تشريح الأفلاك; ff. 46v-56v); (3) a...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Persian
Date Range:: 1055-1057
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+135+v

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