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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Delhi Arabic 1937B

1. Delhi Arabic 1937B

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1937B
Title:
Four texts on astronomy
Scope & Content:
Contents: (1) al-Lāhūrī (اللاهوري), al-Taṣrīḥ fī sharḥ al-tashrīḥ (التصريح في شرح التشريح; ff. 1r-16r); (2) al-Landanī (اللندني), al-Ijābah ʿalá taʿlīq al-Jawnbūrī (الإجابة على تعليق الجونبوري; ff. 16v-22r); (3) Anonymous, Tarjamah-’i Sab‘ shidād (ترجمه سبع الشداد; ff. 23r-44v); (4) al-Ṭūsī (...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+62+ii

2. Delhi Arabic 1937B, ff 1r-16r

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1937B, ff 1r-16r
Title:
al-Taṣrīḥ fī sharḥ al-tashrīḥ التصريح في شرح التشريح Lāhūrī, Imām al-Dīn ibn Luṭf Allāh لاهوري، إمام الدين بن لطف الله
Scope & Content:
Commentary by Imām al-Dīn ibn Luṭf Allāh al-Muhandis al-Lahūrī thumma al-Dihlawī (إمام الدين بن لطف الله المهندس اللاهوري ثم الدهلوي, d. 1732?) on the Anatomy of the Spheres (تشريح الأفلاك), a summary of theoretical astronomy (علم الهيئة) by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 1r-16r

3. Delhi Arabic 1937B, ff 16v-22r

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1937B, ff 16v-22r
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:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 16v-22r

4. Delhi Arabic 1937B, ff 23r-44v

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1937B, ff 23r-44v
Title:
Tarjamah-’i Sab‘ shidād ترجمه سبع شداد
Scope & Content:
Anonymous commentary on the al-Sabʿ al-shidād fī ‘ilm al-hayʾah (السبع الشداد في علم الهيئة) by Ḥusayn ibn Kamāl al-Dīn al-Ṭabāṭabāʾī. The text contains numerous diagrams. 　 Begins (f. 23, lines 2-4): الحمد لله حمد الشاكرين والصلوة والسلام على خير الخلقة محمد وآله وأصحابه أجمعين أما بعد اين ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 23r-44v

5. Delhi Arabic 1937B, ff 47r-60v

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 1937B, ff 47r-60v
Title:
Risālah fī kayfīyat al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb رسالة في كيفية العمل بالأسطرلاب Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Arabic version of a treatise on the use of the Persian Treatise in Twenty Chapters on Knowledge of the Astrolabe (رساله بیست باب در معرفت اسطرلاب) by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). The treatise is, according to the preface (f. 47r, line 7)...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 47r-60v