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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15480
Title:: Two mathematical treatises
Scope & Content:: Contents: (1) al-Jurjānī الجرجاني)), al-Sharīfīyah fī sharḥ al-farāʾiḍ al-sirājīyah (الشريفية في شرح الفرائض السراجية; ff. 2v-88v); (2) al-Zamzamī (الزمزمي), al-Murshidah fī ṣināʿat al-ghubār (المرشدة في صناعة الغبار; ff. 89v-116v).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1148-1177
Extent:: Codex; ff. v+117+v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15480, ff 2v-88v
Title:: al-Sharīfīyah fī sharḥ al-farāʾiḍ al-sirājīyah الشريفية في شرح الفرائض السراجية Jurjānī, ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad جرجاني، علي بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Commentary by ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAli al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī ( علي بن محمد بن علي الحسيني الجرجاني; d. 1413), known as al-Sayyid al-Sharīf (السيد الشريف), on the al-Farā’id al-Sirājīyah (الفرائض السراجية), a treatise on Ḥanafī inheritance calculation by Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad a...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 25 Shuwwāl 1177
Extent:: Ff. 2v-88v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15480, ff 89v-116v
Title:: al-Murshidah fī ṣināʿat al-ghubār المرشدة في صناعة الغبار Zamzamī, ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad علي بن محمد، زمزمي
Scope & Content:: Treatise on mathematical calculation by means of the dust board (تخت) and dust numerals ( غبار) by the Meccan mathematician and astronomer ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad b. Ismā‘īl al-Zamzamī al-Makkī (علي بن محمد بن إسماعيل الزمزمي المكي, fl. 15th century). The copy was completed on 8 Shawwāl 1148/21 Febru...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 8 Shawwāl 1148
Extent:: Ff. 89v-116v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659
Title:: Compendium of philosophical and scientific texts by and about Avicenna (ابن سينا)
Scope & Content:: Collection of fifty-three short works on various philosophical and scientific topics by and about Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The colophon to text 6 states that the copy was completed in 1182/1768-...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+1+vii+584+vii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, f 560v
Title:: Sharḥ kalimāt al-shaykh al-raʼīs raḥimahu Allāh شرح كلمات الشيخ الرئيس رحمه الله Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Answers attributed to Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037) to questions on Islamic belief and unbelief posed by the sufi Abū Saʻīd ibn Abī al-Khayr al-Mayhanī (أبو سعيد بن أبي الخير الميهني, d. 1049).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: F. 560v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 4v-5r
Title:: Fihrist kutub al-shaykh al-raʾīs فهرست كتب الشيخ الرئيس Jūzjānī, ʻAbd al-Wāḥid جوزجاني، عبد الواحد
Scope & Content:: Bibliography of the works of Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037) by his student Abū ʻUbayd ʻAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Jūzjānī (أبو عبيد عبد الواحد بن محمد الجوزجاني) and completed by an unknown compiler.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 4v-5r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 5v-7v
Title:: al-Risālah fī aḥwālih الرسالة في أحواله Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Autobiography of Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037) completed after his death by his student Abū ʻUbayd ʻAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Jūzjānī (أبو عبيد عبد الواحد بن محمد الجوزجاني).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 5v-7v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 8v-13r
Title:: al-Risālah fī al-ʻishq الرسالة في العشق Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Treatise on love by Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 8v-13r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 13v-15v
Title:: Risālat Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān رسالة حي بن يقظان Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Philosophical allegory by Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 13v-15v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16659, ff 16v-24v
Title:: Sharḥ risālat Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān شرح رسالة حي بن يقظان Ibn Zaylah ابن زيلة
Scope & Content:: Commentary by Abū Manṣūr al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṭāhir ibn Zaylah (أبو منصور الحسين بن طاهر بن زيلة, d. 1048) on the Epistle of Alive Son of Awake (رسالة حي بن يقظان), a philosophical allegory by his teacher Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latin...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1182
Extent:: Ff. 16v-24v

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