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Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1308
Title:: Kitāb al-maqāyīs كتاب المقاييس Christophorus Clavius كلاويوس الفرنجي
Scope & Content:: Holograph rough draft (مسودة, see note f. 1v) of the Arabic translation of Gnomonices libri octo (Rome: Apud F. Zanettum, 1581) by Christophorus Clavius Bambergensis (Christoph Klau of Bamberg, كلاويوس بامبرجنسيس الفرنجي, d. 1537 or 38; see f. 82r, line 16). This treatise on gnomonics, the study...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1109
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+427+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1362
Title:: Three texts on mathematics
Scope & Content:: Contents: (1) Anonymous treatise on multiplication (ff. 1r-2v); (2) al-‘Āmilī (العاملي), Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb (خلاصة الحساب; preface only, f. 4r); (3) Luṭf Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Muhandis al-Lahūrī (لطف الله بن أحمد المهندس اللهوري), Sharḥ Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb (شرح خلاصة الحساب; ff. 4v-69r).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. v+69+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1362, f 4r
Title:: Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb خلاصة الحساب ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين
Scope & Content:: Preface only to the Summa of Arithmetic (خلاصة الحساب) by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621). Begins (f. 4r, lines 3-6): نحمدك يا من لا يحيط بجمع نعمه عدد ولا ينتهى تضاعف قسمه إلى أمد ونصلي على سيدنا محمد المجتبي وعترته سيما الأربعة المتناسب...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 4r

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1362, ff 1r-2v
Title:: Anonymous treatise on multiplication
Scope & Content:: Anonymous treatise or fragment of a treatise on multipication. The text treats of two methods (مسلكان) of a type of multiplication it refers to as ضرب التوشيح. 　 Begins (f. 1r, lines 1-3): وضرب التوشيح وهو أن تضع المضروب في اليمين والمضروب فيه في اليسار متحاذية المراتب بحيث يكون الآحاد تحت ا...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 1r-2v

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1362, ff 4v-69r
Title:: Sharḥ Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb شرح خلاصة الحساب al-Muhandis al-Lahūrī, Luṭf Allāh ibn Aḥmad المهندس اللهوري، لطف الله بن أحمد
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Luṭf Allāh al-Muhandis ibn al-Ustādh Aḥmad al-Mi‘mār al-Lahūrī (لطف الله المهندس بن الأستاذ أحمد المعمار اللهوري, fl. second half of 17th century) on the Summa of Arithmetic (خلاصة الحساب) by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621). The...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 4v-69r

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1490
Title:: Sharḥ ‘alá al-urjūzah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī ‘ilm al-jabr شرح على الأرجوزة الياسمينية في علم الجبر
Scope & Content:: Anonymous commentary on the didactic poem (أرجوزة) on algebra al-Manẓūmah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah (المنظومة الياسمينية في الجبر والمقابلة) by Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥajjāj ibn al-Yāsamīn al-Adrinī al-Ishbīlī (أبو محمد عبد الله بن محمد بن حجاج بن الياسمين الأدر...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 21 Muḥarram 1081
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+34+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1514
Title:: Anonymous treatise on the construction of the astrolabe and Kitāb al-mujmal fī aḥkām al-nujūm كتاب المجمل في أحكام النجوم Kūshyār كوشيار
Scope & Content:: Composite volume containing two texts on the manufacture of the astrolabe and on astrology. The first text was copied in the middle of Jumādá I 1056/end of June 1646, while the second was completed on 18 Shawwāl 1061/4 October 1651 by the scribe Ghiyāth al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan Bīk Munajjim, '...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: Jumādá I 1056-18 Shawwāl 1061
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+1+i+31+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1514, ff 2v-9r
Title:: Anonymous treatise on the construction of the astrolabe [رساله در صنعت اسطرلاب]
Scope & Content:: A short anonymous treatise (مختصر) in Persian on the construction and operation of the astrolabe, in twenty sections (bābs). The copy is extensively provided with diagrams and tables illustrating the instrument's stages of manufacture. The text was copied in the middle of Jumādá I 1056 (end of ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: Mid Jumādá I 1056
Extent:: Ff. 2v-9r

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1514, ff 14v-32v
Title:: Kitāb al-mujmal fī aḥkām al-nujūm كتاب المجمل في أحكام النجوم Kūshyār كوشيار
Scope & Content:: Astrological treatise also known as Kitāb al-mudkhal fī ṣināʿat aḥkām al-nujūm (كتاب المدخل في صناعة أحكام النجوم) and Mujmal al-uṣūl fī aḥkām al-nujūm (مجمل الأصول في أحكام النجوم) in four chapters (مقالات), composed in the late 10th century by Kiyā Abū al-Ḥasan Kūshyār ibn Labbān Bāshahrī al-J...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18 Shawwāl 1061
Extent:: Ff. 14v-32v

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1582
Title:: Anwār khulāṣat al-ḥisāb أنوار خلاصة الحساب Sahāranfūrī, ʿIṣmat Allāh ibn Aʿẓam سهارنفوري، عصمة الله بن أعظم
Scope & Content:: A commentary by ʿIṣmat Allāh ibn Aʿẓam ibn ‘Abd al-Rasūl al-Sahāranfūrī (عصمة الله بن أعظم بن عبد الرسول السهارنفوري, or Sahāranpūrī سهارنپوری, d. ca 1690, see f. 127r, line 4) on the popular Summa of Arithmetic (خلاصة الحساب) by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسي...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 10 Muḥarram 1105
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+127+iv

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