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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

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

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

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

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Arabic 1934
Title:: Tawḍīḥ al-Tadhkirah al-Nāṣirīyah توضيح التذكرة الناصرية Nīsābūrī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad نيسابوري، الحسن بن محمد
Scope & Content:: A commentary by al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn Niẓām al-Dīn al-Aʿraj al-Nīsābūrī (الحسن بن محمد بن الحسين نظام الدين الأعرج النيسابوري; d. 1328 or 9) on the Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah (كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة; see British Library, MS Or.11209) a treatise on the astronomical system prese...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Rabī‘ II 827
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+192+i

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

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

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

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