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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23569, ff 1v-46r
Title:: Risālah dar ‘ilm-i hay’ah رسالة در علم هيئة Qūshjī, ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad قوشجي، علي بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Popular textbook of astronomy written in Samarqand in 1458 by Abū al-Qāsim ‘Alā’ al-Dīn ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad al-Qūshjī (أبو القاسم علاء الدين علي بن محمد القوشجي; d. 1474). The text contains 22 diagrams in red and black ink (ff. 2r, 2v, 3r, 5r, 11r, 14r, 15v, 17r, 21v, 23r, 26v, 32v, 33r, 34r, 34v...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1646-47
Extent:: Ff. 1v-46r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23569, ff 46v-56v
Title:: Tashrīḥ al-aflāk تشريح الأفلاك ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين
Scope & Content:: Summary of theoretical astronomy (علم الهيئة) by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621) in which he argues that the earth rotates around its axis. Contents: Begins (f. 46v, lines 2-5): ربّنا ما خلقت هذا باطلًا سبحانك فقنا عذاب النار واجعلني من ا...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1646-47
Extent:: Ff. 46v-56v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23569, ff 56v-77r
Title:: Risālah sī faṣl رساله سي فصل Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Treatise on practical astronomy (تقويم) divided into thirty sections (سي فصل) composed in 658/1260 (see Amīn, Mustadrakāt a‘yān al-shī‘ah, p. 233) by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين الطوسي, d. 1274). The full title of the work is Sī faṣl dar ma‘rifat-i taqvīm (سي فصل در معرفت تقويم). The text ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 25 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1055
Extent:: Ff. 56v-77r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23569, ff 78v-103r
Title:: Bīst bāb dar ma‘rifat asṭurlāb بيست باب در معرفت اسطرلاب Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the use of the astrolabe in twenty chapters (بيست باب) by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين الطوسي, d. 1274). This copy was completed on 29 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 1057/26 December 1647 (see colophon, f. 103r, lines 9-11, transcribed below). Begins (f. 78v, lines 4-6): اين مختصر يست در معرفت...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 29 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 1057
Extent:: Ff. 78v-103r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23569, ff 103v-135v
Title:: Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb خلاصة الحساب ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين
Scope & Content:: Very popular textbook of arithmetic by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621). The treatise contains numerous diagrams and tables (ff. 104v, 105r, 105v, 106r, 109r, 109v, 110v, 112r, 118v, 119r, 122r, 122v and 124v). The text is defective at the en...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1646-1647
Extent:: Ff. 103v-135v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23570
Title:: Mathematical compendium
Scope & Content:: Compendium containing treatises on astronomy, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and shorter extracts and notes on related topics. The title page (f. 7r), which is written by a later hand than that of the main scribe, calls the volume 'a compendium of seven treatises accompanied by various studies (...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1014-1018
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+136+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23570, ff 2v-3v
Title:: (Fā’idah) min Sharḥ Shamsīyat al-ḥisāb من شرح شمسية الحساب (فائدة) Abū Isḥāq ibn ‘Abd Allāh أبو إسحاق بن عبد الله
Scope & Content:: Extract from a commentary (شرح) by Abū Isḥāq ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو إسحاق بن عبد الله, fl. mid-sixteenth century) on the al-Risāla al-Shamsīyah fī al-ḥisāb (الرسالة الشمسية في علم الحساب), a work on arithmetic by Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Nīsābūrī (نظام الدين الحسن بن محمد النيسابوري; d...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: c 1605
Extent:: Ff. 2v-3v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23570, ff 4v-6r
Title:: Short extracts and notes in Persian and Arabic
Scope & Content:: A collection of short extracts of poetry and prose in Perisan and Arabic on various topics related to the natural sciences. The extracts are attributed to such authorities and works as Sharaf al-Dīn ‘Alī Yazdī (شرف الدين علي يزدي, d. 1454; f. 5r), the Optica (كتاب المناظر) of Euclid of Alexandri...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: c 1605
Extent:: Ff. 4v-6r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23570, ff 7v-12r
Title:: Ṣafīḥat al-imkān fī aṣṭurlāb صفيحة الإمكان في أصطرلاب عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn
Scope & Content:: A short treatise on the construction and use of the astrolabe by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621). The scribe, Ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥīm Abū al-Qāsim Yaḥyá al-Astar’ābādī (ابن عبد الرحيم أبو القاسم يحيى الأسترآبادي), states in the colophon that he cop...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: c 1605
Extent:: Ff. 7v-12r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23570, ff 12v-13r
Title:: Two short extracts on astronomy in Arabic and Persian
Scope & Content:: Folio 12v contains six lines of unpointed Arabic text entitled ' On ascertaining the distance between countries (في معرفة قدر المسافة بين البلدين)', and a diagram showing the orbit of the moon around the earth. Folio 13r contains a short and mostly unpointed Persian text attributed to Naṣīr al-...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: c 1605
Extent:: Ff. 12v-13r

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