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Mukhtaṣar fī ṣanʿat baʿḍ al-ālāt al-raṣadīyah wa-al-ʿamal bihā A summary of the manufacture and operation of some observational instruments Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Burjandi, Abd al-Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Hussein and Risālat mukhtaṣarah shāmilah kayfīyat inshāʾ al-jadwal wa-istikhrāj aʿmālihi A brief comprehensive message on how to create the table and extract its work

Author: the honorific title Diyānat Khān
Date: 18 Ramadan 1066-2 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1066 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Publication Date: 18 Ramadan 1066-2 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1066 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Publication Place: Hyderabad Deccan
Subject: 0
Language: Arabic
Type: Book
Library: Qatar Digital Library
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Khuṭbat al-shaykh al-raʼīs hujjat al-ḥaqq Abī ʻAlī ibn Sīnā qaddasa Allāhu rūḥahu wa-qad awrada fīhā maʻná al-ilāhīyāt wa-al-riyāḍīyāt wa-al-ṭabīʻīyāt ʻalá aḥsan ʻibāratin wa-aṣaḥḥahā The sermon of the main Sheikh, Hujjat al-Haq, Abu Ali Ibn Sina, may God sanctify his soul, in which he mentioned the meaning of divinity, mathematics, and nature in the best and most correct expression Avicenna Ibn Sina

Author: Abū 'Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh
Date: 1182 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Publication Date: 1182 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Subject: 0
Language: Arabic
Type: Book
Library: Qatar Digital Library
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Luʼluʼ al-naẓīm fī rawm al-taʻallum wa-al-taʻlīm Luluʼ al-Nazim in Rum Learning and Teaching Anṣārī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad Ansari, Zakariya ibn Muhammad and Fatḥ al-ḥayy al-qayyūm sharḥ rawḍat al-fuhūm Fath al-Hayy al-Qayyum Explanation of Rawdat al-Fahum Sunbāṭī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq Sunbati, Ahmad ibn Abd al-Haqq

Date: Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1139 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Publication Date: Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1139 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Subject: 0
Language: Arabic
Type: Book
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Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah The book of the ticket in the body Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Tusi, Nasir al-Din Muhammad bin Muhammad and al-Tabṣirah fī ʿilm al-hayʾah Insight into the knowledge of the body Kharaqī, ʻAbd al-Jabbār ibn ʻAbd al-Jabbār Kharqi, Abdul-Jabbar bin Abdul-Jabbar

Author: Muhammad Ridā ibn ‘Aziz Allah al-Tunī
Date: 1107 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Publication Date: 1107 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Subject: 1
Language: Arabic
Type: Book
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Kitāb al-dalālāt ʻalá al-ittiṣālāt wa-qirānāt al-kawākib fī al-burūj al-ithná ʻashar wa-ashrāfihā wa-hubūṭātihā wa-istiqāmātihā wa-rujūʻihā wa-ẓuhūrihā wa-ghaybātihā wa-kawnihā maʻa al-raʼs wa-al-dhanab The Book of Significations of Communications and Conjunctions of Planets in the Twelve Zodiac Signs, Their Nominations, Descendants, Ascension, Return, Appearance, Occultation, and Being with the Head and the Tail

Date: 867 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Publication Date: 867 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Subject: 0
Language: Arabic
Type: Book
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Sharḥ Fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ Explanation of the Chapters of Hippocrates Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-Nīsābūrī, Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī Ibn Abi Sadiq al-Naysaburi, Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Rahman ibn Ali and Kitāb fī-dafʿ al-maḍarr al-kullīyah li-l-abdān al-insānīyah A book on repelling total harm to human bodies Avicenna Ibn Sina

Date: 1094 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Publication Date: 1094 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Publication Place: Burhanpur, India
Subject: 0
Language: Arabic
Type: Book
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Kitāb fī ‘ilm al-bayṭarah A book on veterinary science

Author: Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn ibn al-Majlis al-‘Ālī al-Sayfī Burdbak al-Muḥammadī Ra’s Nawbat al-Nuwab al-Ẓāhirī
Date: 2 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 870 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Publication Date: 2 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 870 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Subject: 0
Language: Arabic
Type: Book
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Kitāb al-bayzarah Book of Baizarah

Author: an unnamed author. The title appears on the title page
Date: 12 Jumādá II 1201 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Publication Date: 12 Jumādá II 1201 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Subject: 1
Language: Arabic
Type: Book
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Irshād al-ṭullāb ilá wasīlat al-ḥisāb Guiding students to the method of calculation Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad The tribe of al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Din Muhammad ibn Muhammad

Author: Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Hāʼim al-Maqdisī al-Faraḍī
Date: 1 Rabīʿ II 1070 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Publication Date: 1 Rabīʿ II 1070 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Subject: 0
Language: Arabic
Type: Book
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Two medical treatises

Date: 976-988 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Publication Date: 976-988 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Subject: 0
Language: Arabic
Type: Book
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Two treatises on astrolabes

Author: an endowment inscription stating that the manuscript 'has been made the inalienable property of those who are capable [of learning]
Date: 14th century (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 14th century (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Place: Spain
Subject: 0
Language: Arabic
Type: Book
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Sawāniḥ al-qarīḥah fī sharḥ al-ṣafīḥah fī ‘ilm al-asṭurlāb Sawāniḥ al-Qarīha in explaining the plate in the science of the astrolabe Fakhrī’zādah al-Mawṣilī, ‘Abd Allāh Fakhrizadeh al-Mawsili, Abdullah

Author: Sayyid Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd Allāh ibn Fakhr al-Dīn al-Ḥusaynī al-A‘raj
Date: 13 Jumādá I 1227 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Publication Date: 13 Jumādá I 1227 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Subject: 0
Language: Arabic
Type: Book
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Anonymous treatise on ophthalmology

Author: a poem on sexual hygiene
Date: 18th century (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 18th century (CE, Gregorian)
Subject: 0
Language: Arabic
Type: Book
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al-Jāmiʿ li-quwá al-adwiyah wa-al-aghdhiyah Al-Jāmiʿ Al-Jāmiʿ li-quwá al-adwiyah wa-al-aghdhiyah Al-Jāmiʿ al-Jāmiʿ li-quwá al-adwiyah wa-al-aghdhiyah Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad Ibn al-Bitar, Abdullah ibn Ahmad

Author: the Andalusian botanist Ḍiyā’ al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad
Date: Early 15th century (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: Early 15th century (CE, Gregorian)
Subject: 0
Language: Arabic
Type: Book
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al-Kāmil fī ṣan‘at al-asṭurlāb al-shimālī wa-al-junūbī wa-‘ilalihumā bi-l-handasah wa-al-ḥisab The complete workmanship of the northern and southern astrolabe and their reasons for geometry and arithmetic Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr Ferghani, Ahmed bin Muhammad bin Kathir

Author: Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Farghānī
Date: 13th century (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 13th century (CE, Gregorian)
Subject: 0
Language: Arabic
Type: Book
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Isagoge Book of Isagoge Galen Galen

Author: Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī
Date: 711-712 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Publication Date: 711-712 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Publication Place: Aleppo
Subject: 0
Language: Arabic
Type: Book
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Explanation of roles Sharḥ al-adwār

Author: a later hand at the head of f. 41v identifies the text incorrectly as Notes on the Ashkāl al-taʾsīs
Date: 8 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1104 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Publication Date: 8 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1104 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Subject: 0
Language: Arabic
Type: Book
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Three fragments of a medical manuscript

Author: an unfoliated blank flyleaf. Each section is defective at beginning and all but the last also at the end with no indication of authors or titles. Contents:
Date: 13th century (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 13th century (CE, Gregorian)
Subject: 0
Language: Arabic
Type: Book
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