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Subject Cosmology -- early works to 1800

1. Add MS 7502

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Add MS 7502
Title:
Nukhbat al-dahr fī ʻajāʼib al-barr wa-al-baḥr نخبة الدهر في عجائب البر والبحر Dimashqī, Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Abī Ṭālib دمشقي، شمس الدين محمد بن أبي طالب
Scope & Content:
Illustrated cosmological compendium in nine chapters (أبواب), subdivided into many sections (فصول), by the theologian and polymath Shams al-Dīn Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Ansārī al-Dimashqī (شمس الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن أبي طالب الأنصاري الدمشقي, d. 1327). The copy was completed...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16 Shaʻbān 1130
Extent:
Codex; ff. ii+118+i

2. IO Islamic 1270, ff 101r-116v

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IO Islamic 1270, ff 101r-116v
Title:
Qawl fī hay’at al-‘ālam قول في هيئة العالم Alhazen ابن الهيثم
Scope & Content:
Treatise on cosmology by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham (أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم; d. ca 1040). The text is followed by a note that the scribe claims he found appended to this text in his exemplar, which was written by the hand of the author (f. 116r) Begins (f....
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Ff. 101r-116v

3. IO Islamic 1734

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 1734
Title:
Ibn al-Wardī, Sirāj al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʻUmar ابن الوردي، سراج الدين أبو حفص عمر Kharīdat al-ʿajāʾib wa-farīdat al-gharāʾib خريدة العجائب وفريدة الغرائب
Scope & Content:
A work of cosmography, natural history and eschatology focused on Egypt, compiled by Sirāj al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʻUmar ibn al-Wardī (سراج الدين أبو حفص عمر بن الوردي, d. 1457), sometimes mistakenly attributed to the earlier poet and historian Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Muẓaffar ibn al-Wardī (زين الدين ع...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+273+iv

4. Or 1621

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1621
Title:
Tarjumah-ʼi ʻAjā’ib al-makhlūqāt ترجمۀ عجائب المخلوقات Anonymous translator
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
17th and 19th centuries
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+466+ii

5. Or 8254

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8254
Title:
Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ رسائل إخوان الصفاء Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ إخوان الصفاء
Scope & Content:
The second volume (المجلد الثاني, probably of an original three) of the well-known Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ (رسائل إخوان الصفاء, Epistles of the Brethren of Purity), compiled by an anonymous group calling themselves Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ wa Khullān al-Wafāʾ ( إخوان الصفاء وخلان الوفاء, Brethren of Puri...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
644
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+279+i

6. Or 11013

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11013
Title:
‘Ajā’ibal-makhlūqāt wa-gharā’ib al-mawjūdāt عجائب المخلوقاتوغرائب الموجودات Qazwīnī, Zakarīyāibn Muḥammad قزويني، زكريا بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Encyclopaedic work on cosmology by Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Qazwīnī (زكريا بن محمد بن محمود القزويني, d. 1283), without illustrations. The copy was completed on Friday 11 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 827/4 November 1424 by the scribe Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Irbilī (محمد بن محمد بن الإربلي, see ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
11 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 827
Extent:
Codex; ff. ii+163+iii

7. Or 13230

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13230
Title:
Mukhtaṣar ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharāʼib al-mawjūdāt مختصر عجائب المخلوقات وغرائب الموجودات Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad قزويني، زكريا بن محمد
Scope & Content:
An abridgment, without illustrations, of an encyclopaedic work on cosmology by Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Qazwīnī (زكريا بن محمد بن محمود القزويني, d. 1283). The title page attributes the abridgment to one Ibn Jamāʻah (ابن جماعة, f. 1r, line 1), possibly identifiable with the chief qadi...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
0800
Extent:
Codex; ff. ii+51+ii

8. Or 14140

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14140
Title:
‘Ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharā’ib al-mawjūdāt عجائب المخلوقات وغرائب الموجودات Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad قزويني، زكريا بن محمد
Scope & Content:
The London Qazwīnī. Encyclopaedic work on cosmology by Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Qazwīnī (زكريا بن محمد بن محمود القزويني, d. 1283). The text is lavishly illustrated with 368 paintings. In the undated colophon (f. 135v, lines 7-8; transcribed below) the anonymous scribe claims to have...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:

Codex; ff. 135

9. Or 14293

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14293
Title:
Yatīmat al-ʿaṣr fī al-madd wa-al-jazr يتيمة العصر في المد والجزر Ibn Mīmī, ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ابن مِيمي، عبد القادر بن أحمد بن علي
Scope & Content:
A wide-ranging treatise on natural phenomena relating to the seas, by ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Mīmī al-Baṣrī (عبد القادر بن أحمد بن علي بن مِيمي البصري, d. 1674). The text, also known as Wary al-zand bi-al-jazr wa-al-madd (وري الزند بالجزر والمد), was composed in 1084/1673 and the pr...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
14 Jumādá II 1085
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+125