Ghunyat al-ṭullāb fī maʿrifat al-ramy bi-al-nushshāb غنية الطلاب في معرفة الرمي بالنشاب Ṭaybughā al-Ashrafī al-Baklamishī al-Yūnānī طيبغا الأشرفي البكلمشي اليوناني
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An abbreviated copy of a technical treatise on archery, partly in verse, by Ṭaybughā al-Ashrafī al-Baklamishī al-Yūnānī (طيبغا الأشرفي البكلمشي اليوناني, d. c. 1394, see f. 2, lines 3-5, and f. 33v, lines 10-11). The title of the work is given at the end of the introduction (f. 11v, line 11). Th...
Ilḥāq Abī Isḥāq إلحاق أبي إسحق Kūbanānī, Abū Isḥāq ibn ‘Abd Allāh كوبناني، أبو إسحق بن عبد الله
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Commentary on the first five books (maqālāt) of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī''s (نصير الدين الطوسي, d. 1274) recension of Euclid''s Elements by Abū Isḥāq ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Kūbanānī al-Yazdī (أبو إسحق بن عبد الله الكوبناني اليزدي, fl. mid- to late-15th century), also known as Shaykhzādah ibn al-Khādim al...
Kitāb al-bayṭarah كتاب البيطرة Azdī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAtīq أزدي، أحمد بن عتيق
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A treatise on hippiatrics, discussing their good and bad points, training, diseases and treatment. The text is an abridgement of the Kitāb al-furūsīyah wa-l-bayṭarah (كتاب الفروسية والبيطرة) by Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb Ibn Akhī Ḥizām (محمد بن يعقوب بن أخي حزام; see British Library, Add. MS 23416). Th...
Kitāb ʿajāʾib al-aqālīm al-sabʿah كتاب عجائب الأقاليم السبعة Ibn Saʿīd, ʿAlī ibn Mūsá ابن سعيد، علي بن موسى
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The earliest-known copy of a geographical manual, written after 1260 by Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Mūsá ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Saʿīd al-Maghribī al-Andalusī al-Gharnāṭī Nūr al-Dīn (ابو الحسن علي ابن موسى ابن محمد ابن عبد الملك ابن سعيد المغربي الاندلسي الغرناطي نور الدين, d. 1286). The p...
'Ajāʾib al-dunyā عجائب الدنيا Ibn Waṣīf Shāh, Ibrāhīm ابن وصيف شاه، إبراهيم
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A cosmography in three parts (أجزاء) describing the wonders of the world, and of Egypt in particular, by Ibrāhīm ibn Waṣīf Shāh al-Miṣrī (إبراهيم بن وصيف شاه المصري, d. 1199 or 1200). The present copy was completed on 24 Shawwāl 1093/26 October 1682 by the darwīsh ʿAlī ibn Shams al-Dīn (درويش ع...
The ʻAjā’ib al-makhlūqāt (عجائب المخلوقات) by Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad Qazwīnī (زكريا بن محمد قزوینی) translated from Arabic into Persian at the request of Ibrāhīm ʻĀdil Shāh, ruler of Bijapur in Shaʻbān AH 954 (1547). The text is illustrated with 461 mid-seventeenth-century Deccani paintings and d...
al-Qanūn al-Masʿūdī القانون المسعودي Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad بيروني، محمد بن أحمد
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An early and complete copy of the comprehensive astronomical work, or Canon, by Abū al-Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī (أبو الريحان محمد بن أحمد البيروني, ca 973-1048). The al-Qanūn al-Masʿūdī was dedicated to Sultan Mas‘ūd of Ghaznī (reg. 1030-1040), and summarises the astronomy of the Alma...
A collection of fourteen treatises on music theory in Arabic and Persian
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A collection of fourteen treatises on music theory in Arabic and Persian, copied for Shāh Qubād ibn ‘Abd al-Jalīl al-Ḥārithī al-Badakhshī (شاه قباد بن عبد الجليل الحارثي البدخشي, d. Delhi, 1083/1672-3) who by the time of the volume's compilation held the title Dīyānat Khān (ديانتخان). Dīyānat ...
Risālah dar jamʿ-i maqālāt-i fuquhāʾ dar bāb shanīdan-i alḥān رساله در جمع مقالات فقهاء در باب شنيدن الحان Riz̤avī, Muḥammad ibn Jalāl رضوى، محمد ابن جلال
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A treatise in Persian on the lawfulness of music, written by Muḥammad ibn Jalāl Riz̤avī (محمد بن جلال رضوى), in 1028/1618-19 (f. 2v, line 11). The text, also entitled Risālah-yi dar aqwāl-i fuqahāʼ dar samāʻ-i alḥān (رساله در اقوال فقهاء در سماع الحان, f. 2r), discusses the opinions of the great...
Risālah-'i masīḥī dar kayfīyat va haqīqat-i samāʿ va ibāḥatān رساله مسيحي در كيفيت وحقيقت سماع واباحتان Ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, ʿAbd al-Jalīl ابن عبد الرحمن، عبد الجليل
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A tract in Persian on the lawfulness of sacred music and on terms used by Sufis. It was entitled Masīḥī in honour of the physician and poet Hakīm Sadrā ibn Hakīm Fakhr al-Dīn Shīrazī (حكيم سدرا بن حكيم فخر الدين شيرازي, d. 1061/1650-51), who came to India in c. 1603 and was awarded the title Mas...
