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 ...
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
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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)...
Dustūr al-ʿajāʾib دستور العجائب Anṭākī, Dāwūd ibn ʿUmar أنطاكي، داوود بن عمر
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A treatise on medicine preceded by a number of sections dealing with the various subjects which should be included in the physician's education. The title appears at f. 3r, line 3. The author's name does not appear but he can be identified as Dā’ūd ibn ‘Umar al-Qaṣīr al-Anṭākī (داوود بن عمر القص...
Treatise on zoology in five chapters (مقالات) by Sharaf al-Zamān Ṭāhir al-Marwazī (شرف الزمان طاهر المروزي; fl. 1056-1125). It is likely that this copy was transcribed by a student of al-Marwazī, during the author's lifetime (see the scribal aside at f. 214v, lines 18-19). This copy contains Ch...
Parisa Damandan Collection of Iranian Photographs [1880s-1970s]
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This fonds consists of digital copies of photographs held by Parisa Damandan, created as part of the project EAP001 Faces and Places in Iran: Iranian Photography at the Turn of the 20th Century. The collection features material from a range of photographers, including Minas Patkerhanian Machert...
Photographs from Esfahan taken by Minas Patkerhanian Machertich [1900-1970s]
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This file consists of digital copies of 18 photographs taken by Minas Patkerhanian Machertich in Esfahan, Iran, from 1900-1970s. The material mainly consists of black and white portrait photographs (individual and group), including three photographs of Armenian families, most likely taken to be ...
Digital copy of a group portrait photograph of Armenian migrants, taken by Minas Patkerhanian Machertich in 1946. The photograph would have been taken to attach to travel documents. Multiple families were seated on benches to be captured in one photograph, which would be cut into sections once...
Digital copy of a group portrait photograph of Armenian migrants, taken by Minas Patkerhanian Machertich in 1946. The photograph would have been taken to attach to travel documents. Multiple families were seated on benches to be captured in one photograph, which would be cut into sections once...
Digital copy of a group portrait photograph of Armenian migrants, taken by Minas Patkerhanian Machertich in 1946. The photograph would have been taken to attach to travel documents. Multiple families were seated on benches to be captured in one photograph, which would be cut into sections once...
Digital copy of a family portrait photograph, taken by Minas Patkerhanian Machertich in Esfahan. Date unknown, possibly 20th century. Original prints produced from gelatin negatives; measurement 13 x 18cm.