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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialArabic Firmans 49-162. Decrees and Firmans.
- Date: 1413
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialKitāb qurrat al-ʻayn fī tasyīr al-nayyirayn
كتاب قرة العين في تسيير النيرين / | Title from fol. 1b: Qurrat al-ʻayn bi-tasyīr al-nayyirayn Little is known about the astronomer Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Khalīlī al-Jaʻbarī, who wrote the treatise Kitāb qurrat al-'ayn and prepared the accompanying astronomical tables preserved in this copy. Some information about the original work can be inferred from information provided on the last page of this manuscript, where the colophon specifies that the copy was produced in the year 932 AH (1525), based...- Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Ibn Al-Shāṭir, ʻalī Ibn Ibrāhīm - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Jaʻbarī, Muḥammad Ibn ʻabd Al-Qādir
- Date: 1525
- Resource: - 63 pages
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialḤāshiyat al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī ʻalá sharḥ al-Isfahānī ʻalá al-Tajrīd al-Ṭūsī al-mashhūr dhālika bi-al-Sharḥ al-ʻaqāyid
حاشية السيد الشريف الجرجاني على شرح الاصفهاني على التجريد الطوسي المشهور ذلك بالشرح العقايد Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Commentary on the commentary by Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Iṣfahānī on the Tajrīd al-ʻaqāʼid by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī.- Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Jurjānī, ʻalī Ibn Muḥammad
- Date: 1580
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialArabic Manuscripts 688. Diary and Treaties.
- Date: 1574
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialKitāb al-Uss fī al-ʻamal bi-al-sayf wa-al-turs. Wa-yalīhi Kitāb al-kifayah fī ʻilm al-rimāyah
كتاب الأس في العمل بالسيف والترس. ويليه كتاب الكفاية في علم الرماية / | Ass fī al-ʻamal bi-al-sayf wa-al-tars This original manuscript preserves two treatises, both written in the form of an urjuzah (type of Arabic poem) and copied by the author himself. The first one is entitled Kitāb al-Uss fī al-ʻamal bi-al-sayf wa-al-turs (The basics of using the sword and the shield), and the second al-Kifāyah fī ʻilm al-rimāyah (The sufficiency in the science of archery). The identity of that author, however,...- Contributor: Ḥamawī, Muḥammad Ibn ʻalī
- Date: 1591
- Resource: - 102 pages
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialEulogy to a ruler Eulogistic composition in Persian (insha') to a king written in the "hanging" ta'liq script by Persian calligrapher, Kamal al-Din Husayn (d. 974/1566-7). Arabic prayers (du'as) around the boarder. Dimensions of Written Surface: 14 (w) x 24.5 (h) cm He was a contemporary of Shah Mahmud al-Nishapuri, one of whose works is held in the collections of the Library of Congresss (1-87-154.155). In the lower...
- Contributor: Kamal Al-Din (Ikhtiyar Al-Munshi)
- Date: 15??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialḌawʼ al-lumaʻ fī al-ḥisāb
ضوء اللمع في الحساب Text is a poem on arithmetic dedicated to Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Bahwashī al-Shāfiʻī, as mentioned at the end of the manuscript. This work is a versified treatise on arithmetic ('ilam al- ḥisāb), and specifically the art of dividing inheritance (farā'iḍ), which has application in Islamic law. After a standard expression of praise for the Prophet, his companions, and later followers,...- Contributor: Ibn Al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad - Bahwāshī, Shihāb Al-Dīn Aḥmad Ibn Shams Al-Dīn Muḥammad - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Ḥamīdī, ʻabd Al-Raḥmān Ibn Aḥmad Ibn ʻalī - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
- Date: 1588
- Resource: - 34 pages
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Manuscript/Mixed Materialal-Dustūr
الدستور / Little is known about the author of this treatise on medical remedies, Nağīb al-Dīn Al-Samarqandī, apart from the fact that he was killed during the pillage of Herat (present-day Afghanistan) by the Mongols in 1222. His premature death notwithstanding, al-Samarqandī composed an impressive number of medical treatises dealing with pharmacology, dietetics, toxicology, and ophthalmology, and books on medicine in general. Al-Samarqandī showed a degree...- Contributor: Najīb Al-Dīn Al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad Ibn ʻalī
- Date: 1514
- Resource: - 66 pages
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialRisālah laṭīfah fī rasm al-munḥarifāt ʻalá al-ḥīṭān
رسالة لطيفة في رسم المنحرفات على الحيطان / | Jadāwil fī rasm al-munḥarifāt ʻalá al-ḥīṭān bi-ṭarīq ḥasan lam asbaq ilayh The challenge of calculating the positions and movements of celestial bodies for the purpose of preparing astronomical tables helped to stimulate the development of very sophisticated mathematical tools at least as far back as the Middle Ages. The link between mathematics and astronomy was so strong that important authors in the field of astronomy were often distinguished mathematicians and vice versa. This was the...- Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Sibṭ Al-Māridīnī, Badr Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad
- Date: 15??
- Resource: - 7 pages
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialArabic Manuscripts 685. Pentekostarion.
- Date: 1500
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialArabic prayer Calligraphic prayer panel in Arabic, writen in black Thuluth script, in Tabriz? During the Safavid era, 16th Cent. 'Ala al-Din Tabrizi was a calligrapher active during the reign of the Safavid ruler Shah Tahmasp (r. 1524-76), for whom he executed royal decrees (firmans). He executed a number of inscriptions placed on buildings in the cities Tabriz, Karbalah, and Qazvin (Safwat 1996: 84-88 and cat....
- Contributor: Ala' Al-Din Tabrizi (Attr.)
- Date: 15??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialArabic 66.Simeon Stylites. 1570 A.D. 322 f. Pa. 37 ft.
- Contributor: Simeon Stylites, [Simeon Stylites, Saint, -459]
- Date: 1570
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