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392. Delhi Arabic 1925
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Delhi Arabic 1925
- Title:
- Two treatises on the sizes and distances of the celestial bodies
- Scope & Content:
- Composite manuscript; folios 1-14 and 15-25 were originally two separate manuscripts, and were written on different papers by different copyists. Front flyleaf i was a pastedown, and was detached from the inside right board (front-i) during conservation work to reveal the inscriptions of H. Wat...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Date Range:
- 17th-18th century
- Extent:
-
Codex; ff. iii+26+i
393. Delhi Arabic 1925, ff 1r-14r
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Delhi Arabic 1925, ff 1r-14r
- Title:
- Sullam al-samāʾ (al-Risālah al-kamālīyah) سلم السماء (الرسالة الكمالية) Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd كاشي، جمشيد بن مسعود
- Scope & Content:
- Treatise on the sizes and distances of the celestial bodies by Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd ibn Maḥmūd al-Kāshī (غياث الدين جمشيد بن مسعود بن محمود الكاشي, d. 1429 or 1436). This text was composed in 1407 and is also known as the Treatise for Kamāl (الرسالة الكمالية) because it was dedicate...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Date Range:
- 19 Muḥarram 1130
- Extent:
-
Ff. 1r-14r
394. Delhi Arabic 1925, ff 15r-25v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Delhi Arabic 1925, ff 15r-25v
- Title:
- Safīr al-ghabrāʾ wa-al-khaḍrāʾ سفير الغبراء والخضراء Dashtakī Shīrāzī, Ghiyāth al-Dīn Manṣūr دشتكي شيرازي، غياث الدين منصور
- Scope & Content:
- Treatise on the sizes and distances of the celestial bodies by Amīr Sayyid Ghiyāth al-Dīn Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad al-Dashtakī (أمير سيد غياث الدين منصور بن محمد الدشتكي, d. 1541). The treatise is divided into four chapters (أبواب), each subdivided into sections (فصول): Chapter One (الباب الأول, ff....
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Extent:
-
Ff. 15r-25v
395. Delhi Arabic 1926
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Delhi Arabic 1926
- Title:
- Kitāb al-ukar كتاب الأكر Theodosius ثاودوسيوس
- Scope & Content:
- Arabic version of the De sphaericis (كتاب الأكر) by Theodosius of Bithynia (ثاودوسيوس; Θεοδόσιος; c 160-c 100 BC). The preface (f. 1v, lines 3-5, transcribed below) states that it was translated from Greek into Arabic by Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا; c 820-912), up to Chapter 3, figure 5, at th...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Extent:
-
Codex; ff. iii+34+ii
396. Delhi Arabic 1927
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Delhi Arabic 1927
- Title:
- Sullam al-idrāk fī hayʾat al-aflāk سلم الإدراك في هيئة الأفلاك Riyāḍī Muhandis, Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Khayr Allāh رياضي مهندس، محمد علي بن خير الله
- Scope & Content:
- Treatise on cosmology by Muḥammad ‘Alī al-Rīyāḍī ibn Khayr Allāh Khān al-Muhandis ibn Luṭf Allāh Khān al-Muhandis (محمد علي الرياضي ابن خير الله خان المهندس ابن لطف الله خان المهندس, fl. 18th century). The author's intention is to produce a condensed treatise (رسالة وجيزة) that will allow Arabic...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Date Range:
- 1185
- Extent:
-
Codex; ff. i+48+i
397. Delhi Arabic 1928
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Delhi Arabic 1928
- Title:
- Sharḥ tashrīḥ al-aflāk شرح تشريح الأفلاك Sahāranfūrī, ʿIṣmat Allāh ibn Aʿẓam سهارنفوري، عصمة الله بن أعظم and al-Ijābah ʿalá taʿlīq al-Jawnbūrī الإجابة على تعليق الجونبوري Landanī, Ḥusayn لندني، حسين
- Scope & Content:
- (1) al-Sahāranfūrī (السهارنفوري), Sharḥ tashrīḥ al-aflāk (شرح تشريح الأفلاك; ff. 1r-129v); (2) al-Landanī (اللندني), al-Ijābah ʿalá taʿlīq al-Jawnbūrī (الإجابة على تعليق الجونبوري; ff. 130r-141r). Folios 141r, line 3-145v contain various Persian notes and extracts.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Date Range:
- 1245
- Extent:
-
Codex; ff. v+147+v
398. Delhi Arabic 1928, ff 1r-129v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Delhi Arabic 1928, ff 1r-129v
- Title:
- Sharḥ tashrīḥ al-aflāk شرح تشريح الأفلاك Sahāranfūrī, ʿIṣmat Allāh ibn Aʿẓam سهارنفوري، عصمة الله بن أعظم
- Scope & Content:
- 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) on the Anatomy of the Spheres (تشريح الأفلاك), a summary of theoretical astronomy (علم الهيئة) by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Date Range:
- 4-5 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 1245
- Extent:
-
Ff. 1r-129v
399. Delhi Arabic 1928, ff 130r-141r
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Delhi Arabic 1928, ff 130r-141r
- Title:
- al-Ijābah ʿalá taʿlīq al-Jawnbūrī الإجابة على تعليق الجونبوري Landanī, Ḥusayn لندني، حسين
- Scope & Content:
- Treatise on contemporary European discoveries and theories in astronomy and other sciences by Mīr Muḥammad Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd al-‘Aẓīm Iṣfahānī Landanī (مير محمد حسين بن عبد العظيم إصفهاني لندني, d. 1790) written in response to a request by ‘Abd al-Qādir ibn Khayr al-Dīn ‘Amādī Jawnpūrī (عبد القادر...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Date Range:
- 1245
- Extent:
-
Ff. 1r-129v
400. Delhi Arabic 1930
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Delhi Arabic 1930
- Title:
- Sharḥ mūjaz li-Kitāb tashrīḥ al-aflāk شرح موجز لكتاب تشريح الأفلاك Dihlawī, Muḥammad Rashīd al-Dīn Khān دهلوي، محمد رشيد الدين خان
- Scope & Content:
- Commentary by Muḥammad Rashīd al-Dīn (محمد رشيد الدين) on the Tashrīḥ al-aflāk (تشريح الأفلاك, Anatomy of the Spheres), a 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 it is argued that the earth ro...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Date Range:
- late 18th century-early 19th century
- Extent:
-
Codex; ff. ii+51





