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Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1039, ff 15v-122r
Title:: Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb مفتاح الحساب Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd كاشي، جمشيد بن مسعود
Scope & Content:: Compendium of mathematics by Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd ibn Maḥmūd al-Kāshī (غياث الدين جمشيد بن مسعود بن محمود الكاشي, d. 1429 or 1436) or al-Kāshānī (الكاشاني, see f. 15v, line 5). The text is known by both the short title Key to Calculation (مفتاح الحساب, see f. 16v, line 3) and the lo...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1041
Extent:: Ff. 15v-122r

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1044
Title:: Minhāj al-bayān fīmā yastaʿmiluhū al-insān منهاج البيان فيما يستعمله الإنسان Ibn Jazlah, Yaḥyá ibn ʿĪsá ابن جزلة، يحيى ابن عيسى
Scope & Content:: Alphabetically arranged handbook on pharmacology by Abū ‘Alī Yahyá ibn ‘Īsá (أبو علي يحيى ابن عيسى, d. 1100), known as Ibn Jazlah (ابن جزلة), composed for the Abbasid Caliph al-Muqtadī bi-Amr Allāh (المقتدي بأمر الله, reg. 1075-94). The copy is defective at end; the final folio contains the beg...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 16th century-17th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+269+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1132
Title:: Tarwīḥ al-arwāḥ min ʿilal al-ashbāḥ ترويح الأرواح من علل الأشباح Khujandī, Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad خجندي، فخر الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: The introduction, first seven chapters and beginning of the eighth chapter of a large work on diseases and their symptoms, complications and remedies. The identity of the author is somewhat confused; the author names himself in this copy only as Ibn Saʻd al-Dīn (ابن سعد الدين, f. 6r, line 7). C...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+171+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1142
Title:: Jāmiʿ li-mufradāt al-adwiyah wa-al-aghdhiyah جامع لمفردات الأدوية والأغذية Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ابن البيطار، عبد الله بن أحمد
Scope & Content:: The most influential and important Arabic handbook of materia medica, written by the Andalusian botanist Ḍiyā’ al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad (ضياء الدين أبو محمد عبد الله بن أحمد; d. 1248), known as Ibn al-Bayṭār (ابن البيطار), Chief Herbalist (رئيس العشابين) to the Ayyubid sultan...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 29 Sha‘bān 925
Extent:: Codex; iii+550+iv ff

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1148
Title:: Three treatises on astronomy and geometry
Scope & Content:: The volume comprises three distinct manuscripts (ff. 1v-63r, 63v-67r and 68r-135r). Contents: (1) Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين الطوسي), Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (تحرير المجسطي ; ff. 1v-63r); (2) Menelaus of Alexandria (مانالاوس), Fī ashkāl al-kurīyah (في أشكال الكرية; ff. 63v-67r); (3) Ulugh Beg (...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1322-1599
Extent:: Codex; ff. v+135+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1148, ff 1v-63r
Title:: تحرير المجسطي Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad
Scope & Content:: Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī''s (AD 1201-1274) edition (تحرير) of the Arabic translation of the Almagest (كتاب المجسطي), an Arabic version of the Μαθηματικῆς σύνταξις of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD c 90-c 168), thought to have been translated by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī (AD c 809-873). The copy ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 6 Muḥarram 722
Extent:: ff. 1v-63r

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1148, ff 63v-67v
Title:: Kitāb Mānālāwus fī al-ashkāl al-kurīyah كتاب مانالاوس في الأشكال الكرية Menelaus of Alexandria مانالاوس
Scope & Content:: An early copy of Muḥyī al-Dīn Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Shukr al-Maghribī's (محيي الدين يحيى بن محمد بن أبي الشكر المغربي; d. between 680/1281 and 690-1291) revised edition of the Arabic translation of Menelaus of Alexandria's (fl. ca AD 100) Greek treatise on spherical trigonometry known as...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: ff. 63v-67v

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1148, ff 68v-135v
Title:: زيج ألغبيك Zīj-i Ulugh Beg ألغ بيك Ulugh Beg
Scope & Content:: The Zīj, or tables of astronomical calculations, produced by Ulugh Beg (1394-1449). This copy lacks the introduction and explanatory material and contains only the tables themselves. Folio 68r contains a diagram apparently unrelated to the texts before or after it.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: ff 68v-135v

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1210
Title:: Talkhīṣ al-miftāḥ تلخيص المفتاح Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd كاشي، جمشيد بن مسعود
Scope & Content:: Abridgement of the Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb (مفتاح الحساب) by Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd ibn Maḥmūd al-Kāshī (غياث الدين جمشيد بن مسعود بن محمود الكاشي, d. 1429 or 1436) or al-Kāshānī (الكاشاني), composed by the author himself (see f. 1v, lines 5-7, transcribed below). The abridgement is arranged ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17th century-18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+10+i

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1249
Title:: Arabic versions of seven Greek treatises on mathematics edited by Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: First part of a collection of Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274) editions (تحارير) of the so-called intermediate books (متوسطات), Arabic versions of ancient Greek mathematical texts and responses to them which were meant to be read after Euclid...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Jumādá I 1198
Extent:: Codex; ff. viii+240+viii

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