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452. IO Islamic 923, ff 71v-95r
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 923, ff 71v-95r
- Title:
- Maqalah-’i avvalī az Kitāb-i Uqlīdas مقالهٔ اولى از كتاب اقليدس Euclid أقليدس
- Scope & Content:
- A Persian version of Book One of the Elements (Στοιχεῖα; كتاب أقليدس في الأصول) by the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (Εὐκλείδης; أقليدس; fl. 300 BC). The diagrams are collected on three fold outs (ff. 74r, 89r and 95r). Begins (f. 71v, lines 1-2: مقالهٔ اولى از كتاب اقليدس چهل وهفت شكل اس...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Farsi and Persian
- Date Range:
- 1198
- Extent:
-
ff. 71v-95r
453. IO Islamic 923, ff 98v-101r
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 923, ff 98v-101r
- Title:
- كتاب أقليدس في الثقل والخفة وقياس الأجرام بعضها إلى بعض Kitāb Uqlīdas fī al-thiqal wa-al-khiffah wa-qiyās al-ajrām ba‘ḍihā ilá ba‘ḍ Euclid أقليدس
- Scope & Content:
- A work on the principles of specific gravity probably falsely attributed to the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (Εὐκλείδης; أقليدس; fl. 300 BC). The translation, presumabely from the Greek now lost, is said to have been corrected by Thābit ibn Qurrah (ثابت ابن قرة; d. 901; f. 98v, line 3, tra...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Date Range:
- 1198
- Extent:
-
ff. 98v-101r
454. IO Islamic 924
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 924
- Title:
- كتاب أبلونيوس في المخروطات Kitāb Abulūnīyūs fī al-makhrūṭāt Apollonius of Perga أبلونيوس
- Scope & Content:
- Arabic version of the Conics (Κωνικά; كتاب المخروطات) by Apollonius of Perga (Ἀπολλώνιος; أبلونيوس; fl ca 200 BC). Originally in eight books, only Books 1 to 4 survive in the original Greek; Books 1 to 7 are preserved in Arabic. The edition is called Taḥrīr makhrūṭāt (تحرير مخروطات), indicating ...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
- Date Range:
- Ramaḍān 1198
- Extent:
-
Codex; ff. vi+205+viii; one loose leaf
455. IO Islamic 1039
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 1039
- Title:
- Anonymous treatise on mathematics and Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb مفتاح الحساب Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd كاشي، جمشيد بن مسعود
- Scope & Content:
- (1) Anonymous, Untitled treatise on mathematics (ff. 2v-14v); (2) Jamshīd al-Kāshī (جمشيد الكاشي), Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb (مفتاح الحساب; ff. 15v-122r).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
- Date Range:
- 1041
- Extent:
-
Codex; ff. ix+123+ix
456. IO Islamic 1039, ff 2v-14v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 1039, ff 2v-14v
- Title:
- Anonymous treatise on mathematics
- Scope & Content:
- Anonymous and untitled treatise on mathematics containing numerous diagrams. The copy was completed at Ajmer (أجمير) on Tuesday 10 Rabī‘ I 1041/7 October 1631 by Muḥammad Amīn ibn Mirzā Muḥammad Faḍl Allāh Kāshānī (محمد أمين بن مرزا محمد فضل الله كاشاني; see colophon, f. 14v, lines 15-21 and se...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Farsi and Persian
- Date Range:
- Rabī‘ I 1041
- Extent:
-
Ff. 2v-14v
457. IO Islamic 1039, ff 15v-122r
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 1039, ff 15v-122r
- Title:
- Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb مفتاح الحساب Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd كاشي، جمشيد بن مسعود
- Scope & Content:
- Compendium of mathematics by Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd ibn Maḥmūd al-Kāshī (غياث الدين جمشيد بن مسعود بن محمود الكاشي, d. 1429 or 1436) or al-Kāshānī (الكاشاني, see f. 15v, line 5). The text is known by both the short title Key to Calculation (مفتاح الحساب, see f. 16v, line 3) and the lo...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Date Range:
- 1041
- Extent:
-
Ff. 15v-122r
458. IO Islamic 1044
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 1044
- Title:
- Minhāj al-bayān fīmā yastaʿmiluhū al-insān منهاج البيان فيما يستعمله الإنسان Ibn Jazlah, Yaḥyá ibn ʿĪsá ابن جزلة، يحيى ابن عيسى
- Scope & Content:
- Alphabetically arranged handbook on pharmacology by Abū ‘Alī Yahyá ibn ‘Īsá (أبو علي يحيى ابن عيسى, d. 1100), known as Ibn Jazlah (ابن جزلة), composed for the Abbasid Caliph al-Muqtadī bi-Amr Allāh (المقتدي بأمر الله, reg. 1075-94). The copy is defective at end; the final folio contains the beg...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Date Range:
- 16th century-17th century
- Extent:
-
Codex; ff. ii+269+iii
459. IO Islamic 1132
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 1132
- Title:
- Tarwīḥ al-arwāḥ min ʿilal al-ashbāḥ ترويح الأرواح من علل الأشباح Khujandī, Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad خجندي، فخر الدين محمد بن محمد
- Scope & Content:
- The introduction, first seven chapters and beginning of the eighth chapter of a large work on diseases and their symptoms, complications and remedies. The identity of the author is somewhat confused; the author names himself in this copy only as Ibn Saʻd al-Dīn (ابن سعد الدين, f. 6r, line 7). C...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Extent:
-
Codex; ff. ii+171+ii
460. IO Islamic 1142
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 1142
- Title:
- Jāmiʿ li-mufradāt al-adwiyah wa-al-aghdhiyah جامع لمفردات الأدوية والأغذية Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ابن البيطار، عبد الله بن أحمد
- Scope & Content:
- The most influential and important Arabic handbook of materia medica, written by the Andalusian botanist Ḍiyā’ al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad (ضياء الدين أبو محمد عبد الله بن أحمد; d. 1248), known as Ibn al-Bayṭār (ابن البيطار), Chief Herbalist (رئيس العشابين) to the Ayyubid sultan...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Date Range:
- 29 Sha‘bān 925
- Extent:
-
Codex; iii+550+iv ff





