Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-wusṭá كتاب حياة الحيوان الوسطى Damīrī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá دميري، محمد بن موسى
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Intermediate recension (وسطى) of a zoological encyclopedia by Kamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Mūsá al-Damīrī (كمال الدين محمد بن موسى الدميري, d. 1405). The work, arranged in alphabetical order, deals not only with strictly zoological material, but also with lexical and legal considerations of animals...
Treatise on mathematical geography for cartographers by Suhrāb (سهراب; see f. 3, line 1) composed between between 902 and 945 (see LeStrange, 'Description of Mesopotamia and Baghdād', Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society [1895], p. 2). According to the colophon (f. 63r, lines 4-15, transcribed ...
Raqāʾiq al-ḥaqāʾiq fī ḥisāb al-daraj wa-al-daqāʾiq رقائق الحقائق في الحساب الدرج والدقائق Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad سبط المارديني، بدر الدين محمد بن محمد
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A manual by Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīnī (بدر الدين محمد بن محمد سبط المارديني, b. 1423, d. after 1497) on the calculation of the movements of celestial bodies with arcminute precision. In an introduction, ten chapters and a conclusion (خاتمة, f. 19v), the text summa...
Sharḥ al-tadhkirat al-naṣīrīyah fī ʿilm al-hayʾah شرح التذكرة النصيرية في علم الهيئة ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī علي بن محمد بن علي الحسيني الجرجاني
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Commentary by ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī (علي بن محمد بن علي الحسيني الجرجاني; d. 1413), known as al-Sayyid al-Sharīf (السيد الشريف) on the Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hayʾah (كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة; see British Library, MS Or. 11209) a treatise on the astronomical system pres...
Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
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A treatise on astronomy which summarises, rationalises and improves upon the system presented in the Almagest of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168). The text was composed after 1256 by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). The text is divid...
A treatise on arithmetic and geometry, with its commentary Biqāʿī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar بقاعي، إبراهيم بن عمر
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Rough holograph copies of a short treatise on arithmetic and mensuration (geodesy) in verse form (urjūzah) entitled al-Bāḥah fī ʿilmay al-ḥisāb wa-al-misāḥah (الباحة في علمي الحساب والمساحة, ff. 2r-27r), followed by a commentary upon it entitled Ibāḥat al-bāḥah (إباحة الباحة, ff. 28r-109v, both ...
al-Bāḥah fī ʿilmay al-ḥisāb wa-al-misāḥah الباحة في علمي الحساب والمساحة Biqāʿī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar بقاعي، إبراهيم بن عمر
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Short versified treatise (urjūzah, see f. 3v, line 5) on arithmetic and geodesy entitled al-Bāḥah fī ʿilmay al-ḥisāb wa-al-misāḥah (الباحة في علمي الحساب والمساحة, see f. 3v, line 6) by Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar al-Biqāʿī (إبراهيم بن عمر البقاعي, d. 1480). The composition of the text was completed on 2...
Ibāḥat al-bāḥah إباحة الباحة Biqāʿī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar بقاعي، إبراهيم بن عمر
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A commentary on the preceding text, al-Bāḥah fī ʿilmay al-ḥisāb wa-al-misāḥah (الباحة في علمي الحساب والمساحة), in which the text of the latter is also fully transcribed (علم الحساب: ff. 28r-87r; علم المساحة: ff. 87r-109r). The text was completed on 25 Rabīʿ II 836/19 December 1432 and the tran...
Ghāyat al-itqān fī tadbīr badan al-insān غاية الاتقان في تدبير بدن الإنسان Ḥalabī, Ṣāliḥ Naṣr Allāh ibn Sallūm حلبي، صالح نصر الله بن سلوم
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Book One (الكتاب الأول) of a medical compendium on pharmacognosy by Ṣāliḥ ibn Naṣr Allāh ibn Sallūm al-Ḥalabī (صالح بن نصر الله بن سلوم الحلبي, d. 1669), personal physician to the Ottoman sultan Mehmet IV (محمد رابع, reg. 1648-87). The subject of Book One is diseases and their therapies. ...
Kitāb al-bāhīyah wa-al-tarkībāt al-Sulṭānīyah كتاب الباهية والتركيبات السلطانية Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي, نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
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A short work on medicine composed upon request, as the author Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274) relates in the preface, in response to the ailments of unidentified prince (see preface, f. 1r, line 9-2r, line 1). Its 18 short chapters (أبواب) co...
