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Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1909
Title:: Geometrical texts related to Euclid's Elements
Scope & Content:: Front flyleaf ii-v contains a magical text based on the names of the Companions of the Cave (أصحاب الكهف, see Qur’ān 18:9-26). Ff. 1ar and 1av contain an astrnomical table. The first and by far the longest text in this manuscript was completed on 5 Jumādá II 1214/4 November 1799 (see its coloph...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 5 Jumādá II 1214
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+173+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1909, ff 1v-152v
Title:: Taḥrīr uṣūl al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb تحرير أصول الهندسة والحساب Euclid أقليدس Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Arabic version of the fundamental introduction to geometry, the Elements (Στοιχεῖα; الأصول) by the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (Εὐκλείδης, أقليدس; fl. 300 BC), in the annotated edition (تحرير) of Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). The edi...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 5 Jumādá II 1214
Extent:: Ff. 1v-152v

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1909, ff 153v-156v
Title:: Three short texts related to Euclid's Elements
Scope & Content:: Three short texts related to Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274) annotated edition (تحرير) of the Arabic version of Euclid's (Εὐκλείδης, أقليدس; fl. 300 BC) Elements (Στοιχεῖα; الأصول), perhaps by al-Ṭūsī himself. 　 Contents: (1) Statement on ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 5 Jumādá II 1214
Extent:: Ff. 153v-156v

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1909, ff 157r-158v
Title:: Ziyādāt fī maqālah al-khāmisah min kitāb Uqlīdis زيادات في المقالة الخامسة من كتاب أقليدس Jawharī, al-‘Abbās ibn Sa‘īd جوهري، العباس بن سعيد
Scope & Content:: Three propositions to be added to Book Five of Euclid's (Εὐκλείδης, أقليدس; fl. 300 BC) Elements (Στοιχεῖα; الأصول) by the astronomer and mathematician al-‘Abbās ibn Sa‘īd al-Jawharī (العباس بن سعيد الجوهري, fl. ca 830). 　 Begins (f. 157r, 2-5): هذه زيادات للعباس بن سعيد في المقالة الخامسة من...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 5 Jumādá II 1214
Extent:: Ff. 157r-158v

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1916
Title:: Kitāb al-masā’il كتاب المسائل Qaṣrānī, Ya‘qūb ibn ‘Alī قصراني، يعقوب بن علي
Scope & Content:: Two volumes (جزءان) of an extensive treatise on astrological interrogations by Abū Yūsuf Ya‘qūb ibn ‘Alī al-Qarshī al-Qaṣrānī (أبو يوسف يعقوب بن علي القرشي القصراني, fl. late 9th century). Both volumes were copied in Mamluk Egypt, the title pages of the volumes label them as Volume One and Vol...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 640 and 768
Extent:: Two codices

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1916 vol 1
Title:: al-Juz’ al-awwal min kitāb al-masā’il الجزء الأول من كتاب المسائل Qaṣrānī, Ya‘qūb ibn ‘Alī قصراني، يعقوب بن علي
Scope & Content:: Volume One of the Book of Interrogations (كتاب المسائل), an extensive treatise on astrological interrogations by Abū Yūsuf Ya‘qūb ibn ‘Alī al-Qarshī al-Qaṣrānī (أبو يوسف يعقوب بن علي القرشي القصراني, fl. late 9th century). This volume was completed during the first 10 days of Shawwāl 768/late M...
Collection Area:: Corporate Archives
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Shawwāl 768
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+193+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1916 vol 2
Title:: al-Juz’ al-thānī min kitāb al-masā’il الجزء الثاني من كتاب المسائل Qaṣrānī, Ya‘qūb ibn ‘Alī قصراني، يعقوب بن علي
Scope & Content:: Volume two of the Book of Interrogations (كتاب المسائل), an extensive treatise on astrological interrogations by Abū Yūsuf Ya‘qūb ibn ‘Alī al-Qarshī al-Qaṣrānī (أبو يوسف يعقوب بن علي القرشي القصراني, fl. late 9th century). An illuminated frontispiece (f. 1r) contains the following title in its ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Rajab 640
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+182+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1919
Title:: Folios from four manuscripts on scientific subjects
Scope & Content:: Collection of unbound folios comprising four codicological units. Contents: (1) Abū al-Barakāt al-Baghdādī (أبو البركات البغدادي), Risālah fī sabab ẓuhūr al-kawākib laylan wa-khafā’ihā nahāran (رسالة في سبب ظهور الكواكب ليلًا وخفائها نهارًا; ff. 1v-3v); (2) al-Ṭūsī (الطوسي), Treatise on heat ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 17th-19th century
Extent:: Codex [without binding]; ff. 10+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1919, f 10v
Title:: Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb خلاصة الحساب ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين
Scope & Content:: Fragment of a popular textbook of arithmetic by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي, d. 1621). 　 Begins (f. 10v, lines 3-4): نحمدك يا من لا يحيط بجمع نعمه عدد ولا ينتهي تضاعف قسمه إلى أمد ونصلي على سيّدنا محمد Ends (f. 10v, line 9): وسمو مكانه ورشاقة...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: F. 10v

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1919, ff 1v-3v
Title:: Risālah fī sabab ẓuhūr al-kawākib laylan wa-khafā’ihā nahāran رسالة في سبب ظهور الكواكب ليلًا وخفائها نهارًا Abū al-Barakāt Hibat Allāh ibn ʻAlī أبو البركات هبة الله بن علي
Scope & Content:: Treatise on astronomy by Abū al-Barakāt Hibat Allāh ([ibn] ‘Alī) ibn Malkā al-Baghdādī al-Baladī (أبو البركات هبة الله [(بن) علي] بن ملكا البغدادي البلدي) written for the Seljuq sultan Muḥammad Tapar ibn Malikshāh (محمد تبر بن ملكشاه, reg. 1105-18). Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-6): وبعد حمد الله وال...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: Ff. 1v-3v

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