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1. Add MS 23570

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Title:
Mathematical compendium
Scope & Content:
Compendium containing treatises on astronomy, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and shorter extracts and notes on related topics. The title page (f. 7r), which is written by a later hand than that of the main scribe, calls the volume 'a compendium of seven treatises accompanied by various studies (...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1014-1018
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Codex; ff. iv+136+iv

2. Add MS 23570, ff 83v-85r

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Title:
Two short texts on astronomy
Scope & Content:
Two excerpts from texts on astronomy with comments. The first (ff. 83v-84v) is from a commentary on Ptolemy's (بطلميوس, Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168) Almagest (كتاب المجسطي), and relates to the question of the use of the term 'widest (أوسع)' in relation to figures of circles; it contains one ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1605-1610
Extent:

Ff. 83v-85r

3. Add MS 23570, ff 25v-28r

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Title:
Anonymous treatise on geometry
Scope & Content:
A short anonymous treatise on geometry in the form of a commentary on an unknown work. The tables said to follow the text (see f. 28r, line 18, transcribed below) does not appear in this manuscript. Because the text is almost entirely unpointed, the transcriptions below are approximate. Conten...
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Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
c 1605
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Ff. 25v-28r

4. Add MS 23570, ff 29v-30r

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Title:
Treatise on ascertaining the levelness of surfaces
Scope & Content:
A short anonymous treatise on the construction and use of an instrument called the 'pipe (الأنبوبة; see f. 29v, line 7)', which functions similarly to a spirit level to ascertain the levelness of a surface. There is a diagram of the instrument on f. 30v. The 'tube (الأنبوبة)' is suspended from ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
c 1605
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Ff. 29v-30r

5. Add MS 23570, ff 4v-6r

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Title:
Short extracts and notes in Persian and Arabic
Scope & Content:
A collection of short extracts of poetry and prose in Perisan and Arabic on various topics related to the natural sciences. The extracts are attributed to such authorities and works as Sharaf al-Dīn ‘Alī Yazdī (شرف الدين علي يزدي, d. 1454; f. 5r), the Optica (كتاب المناظر) of Euclid of Alexandri...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
c 1605
Extent:

Ff. 4v-6r

6. Add MS 23570, ff 12v-13r

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Title:
Two short extracts on astronomy in Arabic and Persian
Scope & Content:
Folio 12v contains six lines of unpointed Arabic text entitled ' On ascertaining the distance between countries (في معرفة قدر المسافة بين البلدين)', and a diagram showing the orbit of the moon around the earth. Folio 13r contains a short and mostly unpointed Persian text attributed to Naṣīr al-...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
c 1605
Extent:

Ff. 12v-13r

7. Add MS 23570, ff 86v-117r

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Title:
Short mathematical texts, notes and diagrams in Arabic and Persian
Scope & Content:
Notable contents include: Commentary on Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274) edition of Euclid's (Εὐκλείδης; أقليدس; fl. 300 BC) Elements (الأصول) (ff. 86v-88r); Text by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
1605-1610
Extent:

Ff. 86v-117r

8. Add MS 23570, ff 117v-133v

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Title:
Fawā’id al-Jamālī fī uṣūl al-handasah فوائد الجمالي في أصول الهندسة Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf سمرقندي، محمد بن أشرف
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Persian translation of a treatise on geometry, the Ashkāl al-ta’sīs (أشكال التأسيس) by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ashraf al-Ḥusaynī al-Samarqandī (شمس الدين محمد بن أشرف الحسيني السمرقندي, d. 1302; see f. 118v, line 7). The translation was made by Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Qiwām al-Qāḍ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
1605-1610
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Ff. 117v-133v

9. Add MS 23570, ff 14r-24v

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Title:
Mā lā budda lil-faqīh min al-ḥisāb ما لا بد للفقيه من الحساب Isfarā’aynī, Abū al-‘Alā’ Muḥammad al-Bihishtī إسفرايني، أبو العلاء محمد البهشتي
Scope & Content:
A treatise on arithmetic and algebra by Abū al-‘Alā’ Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bihishtī al-Isfarā’aynī (أبو العلاء محمد بن أحمد البهشتي الإسفرايني; d. 749 AH/AD 1348-49), known as Fakhr-i Khurāsān (فخر خراسان). The text is divided into two parts (مقالتان); Part One (ff. 2v, line 8-20r, line 10) conc...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
c 1605
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Ff. 14r-24v

10. Add MS 23570, ff 7v-12r

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Title:
Ṣafīḥat al-imkān fī aṣṭurlāb صفيحة الإمكان في أصطرلاب عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn
Scope & Content:
A short treatise on the construction and use of the astrolabe by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621). The scribe, Ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥīm Abū al-Qāsim Yaḥyá al-Astar’ābādī (ابن عبد الرحيم أبو القاسم يحيى الأسترآبادي), states in the colophon that he cop...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
c 1605
Extent:

Ff. 7v-12r