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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialKitāb sharḥ al-Lumaʻ fī al-ḥisāb
كتاب شرح اللمع في الحساب / The text is a commentary on al-Lumaʻ al-yasīrah fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Hāʼim. According to the colophon, the author stated that he finished writing the commentary on 27 Ramaḍān 873 [10 April 1469] in Abū Tīj in al-Ṣa'īd, [Egypt]. The treatise in this manuscript is a commentary on a mathematical treatise by Šihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Hā'im (circa...- Contributor: Ibn Al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad - Sibṭ Al-Māridīnī, Badr Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad
- Date: 17??
- Resource: - 40 pages
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialMunājāt
مناجات Caliph 'Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib (circa 601-61) is one of the most revered religious and holy figures of Islam. In Iran, he is referred to by the honorary name Amir al-Muʼminin, which translates from Arabic as “Commander of the Faithful” and is used to refer to him in Persian. Written works by 'Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib and sayings attributed to him are sacred to...- Contributor: Vahīd Ḥusaynī - Alī Ibn Abī Ṭālib - ʻalī Ibn Abī Ṭālib
- Date: 17??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLevha (panel) Dimensions of Written Surface: 20.4 (w) x 15.5 (h) cm Shi'i calligraphic panels in Arabic written in Thuluth script by calligrapher Muhammad Ibrahim during the 18th century Iran and India. In the left vertical border, the artist Muhammad Ibrahim has included his seal and has dated his composition 1134/1721-2. Both the right and left vertical borders are decorated with blue-and-white marble (ebru or abri)...
- Contributor: Muhammad Ibrahim
- Date: 1721
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialHādhā kitāb ʻAjāʼib al-dunyā wa-mā fīhā
هاذا كتاب عجائب الدنيا و ما فيها / | Partie de Merveìlle du monde, Adjaib-i makhlukhat | ʻAjāʼib al-dunyā wa-mā fīhā The text is a section of ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt by Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad Qazwīnī. This text contains sections extracted from the second part of the well-known and highly popular work of cosmography known as ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt, written in the 13th century (7th century AH) by Abū Yaḥyā Zakarīyā al-Qazwīnī. The work begins with a section on the sources and properties of gems and stones, followed...- Contributor: Ibn Muḥammad, ʻalī - Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā Ibn Muḥammad
- Date: 1797
- Resource: - 136 pages
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Manuscript/Mixed Materialal-Insān fī al-ṭibb
الإنسان في الطب | Title from fol. 1b: Majmūʻ fī ʻilm al-ṭibb | Majmūʻ fī ʻilm al-ṭibb al-insānī Text is a treatise on the human body and how to maintain good health. It explains that the body is composed of chemical elements, and deals with medication, nutrition, and diseases of various parts of the body. This anonymous manuscript can be dated to between the second half of the 18th century and the first years of the 19th century, thanks to a watermark...- Date: 17??
- Resource: - 59 pages
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Manuscript/Mixed Materialal-Nuzhat al-ḥisāb li-Ibn al-Haʼīm
النزهة الحساب لابن هائم According to Carl Brockelmann's Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur (Supplement II, p. 154), the text is an abridgement of the author's book al-Murshidah fī ṣināʻat al-ghubār. This manuscript is an 18th-century copy of Nuzhat al-ḥisāb (The excursion of calculus) by mathematician Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Farāḍī ibn al-Hā'im (around 1356-1412). The copyist of this brief but densely written codex provided his name and the date of...- Contributor: Ibn Al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Ḥanbalī, Aḥmad Ibn Qāsim Ibn Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
- Date: 1772
- Resource: - 24 pages
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Manuscript/Mixed Material[Qurʼān] Manuscript. Arabic and Persian. Title supplied by cataloger. Written by Aḥmad al-Nayrīzī. Written in Iran. Paper; thin, cream color polished paper with no watermarks; elaborate floral unwan in gold, black, blue and red; fol. 1b and 2a have gold floral design in borders; in remainder of the work, the text is enclosed in an elaborate ruled border of blue, gold, red and blue; the...
- Contributor: Nayrīzī, Aḥmad
- Date: 1708
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialStory in Arabic about a princess who told riddles to a young man Executed in: Oriental [Karaite?]. Semi-square script. Description based on finding aid Story in Arabic about a princess who told riddles to a young man.
- Date: 17??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialHādhā Bughyat al-ṭullāb ʻalá Munyat al-ḥussāb
هذا بغية الطلاب على منية الحساب / | Also known as: Bughyat al-ṭullāb fī sharḥ Munyat al-ḥussāb Poem written in rajaz meter. Marginal notes indicate that the manuscript was compared with another copy of the same text. This manuscript offers a clear example of the liveliness of the North African mathematical tradition under the Muslim-Berber dynasties that ruled over the Islamic West from the 12th century to the first half of the 17th century. They were the Almohads (12th-13th centuries), the...- Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Ibn Ghāzī, Muḥammad Ibn Aḥmad - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Shandawīlī, Harīdī Aḥmad
- Date: 17??
- Resource: - 231 pages
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialKitab Qawāʻid al-ʻaqāʼid muḥaqqiq-i Ṭūsī Naṣīr al-Millah wa-al-Dīn quddisa sirrahu
كتاب قواعد العقائد محقق طوسي نصير الملة والدين قدس سره Brief treaties on Islamic doctrine.- Contributor: Ṭūsī, Naṣīr Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad
- Date: 17??
- Resource: - 129 pages
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialWall hanging A Qit'a, or literally "cutting out" a découpage panel in the shape of a closed altar piece with Qur'anic verses typical of Ottoman Turkey in the 18th or 19th century. Another découpage calligraphic panel similar to this piece also is held in the Library of Congress (1-84-154.6): this piece may have been the companion piece of 1-84-154.5. Diameter of calligraphic circle: 15.1 cm Diameter...
- Date: 17??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialKitāb-i akhlāq-i muḥsinī
كتاب اخلاق محسني Treatis on Islamic ethics and religious life.- Contributor: Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ
- Date: 17??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialKitāb mafātīḥ al-raḥmah wa-asrār al-ḥikmah
كتاب مفاتيح الرحمة و أسرار الحكمة | Part II has title : Mafātīḥ al-ḥikmah Part II entitled "From keys of wisdom" is divided into 7 sections: Definitions and symbols; Promotion and what can be promoted; Distillation, what cannot be distilled; Conversions and synthesis; Degradation and decomposition; How the chemist deduced these facts; and, The stages of work. It is hard to consider this part an accurate translation of Zosimos book "Keys of the craft". It often contains references...- Contributor: Ṭughrāʼī, Al-Ḥusayn Ibn ʻalī - Zosimos
- Date: 17??
- Resource: - 529 pages
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[قران] Manuscript. Arabic. Title supplied by cataloger. Scribe not identified. Written in the Caucasus? Paper; thin, cream color laid paper with horizontal laid lines and no visible chain lines or watermarks; fol. 1b and 2a elaborately decorated in gold, light blue, and red; text enclosed in an outer ruled border of a single blue line and an inner border of a blue, a very thin...- Date: 1700-01-01
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Manuscript/Mixed Material[Collection of Arabic religious and ascetic sayings and adages with Persian explanations.] Collection of Arabic religious and Sufi adages with Persian explanations following each adage.
- Date: 17??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialMihrab découpage panel A Qit'a, or literally "cutting out" a découpage panel cut out to produce an image of interlacing vines and flowers with Arabic prayers typical of Ottoman Turkey in the 18th or 19th century. Above the mihrab, a rectangular frame contains the words Allah, Muhammad (peace and prayers upon him), and 'Ali written in such a way as to create a reverse or mirror image....
- Date: 17??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialArabic and Persian excerpts Textual excerpts in Arabic and Persian on faith and poetic verses, written in 18th-19th centuries, in the Indian Tahriri script by the calligrapher Fayaz 'Ali Vasi'i. As Nahali is a language spoken in Madhya Pradesh, the name of the patron suggests a north central Indian provenance for this calligraphy. The script -- a fluid tahriri found in 18th and 19th-century calligraphies from India --...
- Contributor: Fayaz 'Ali Vasi'i
- Date: 17??