Complete list of 125 Arabic scientific manuscripts digitised during the second phase of the British Library and Qatar Foundation Partnership © Bink Hallum, Arabic Scientific Manuscripts Curator, British Library Qatar Foundation Partnership Add MS 5931: al-ʿAynzarbī, al-Kāfī fī ṣinā‘at al-ṭibb and al-Qawṣūnī, Zād al-masīr fī ʿilāj al-bawāsīr. Dated 28 Ramaḍān 1087 (4 December 1676). Add MS 5932: al-Rāzī, al-Taqsīm wa-al-tashjīr and Ibn al-Labbān, Nihayat al-ikhtiṣār fī ‘ilm al-farā’iḍ. 13th century. Add MS 6026: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī al-Qurashī, Kitāb al-ḥikmah fī al-ṭibb. 18th century. Add MS 7469: Ibn al-Majdī, Ḥāwī al-lubāb wa-sharḥ talkhīṣ aʿmāl al-ḥisāb. Dated 17 Rabīʿ II 840 (29 October 1436). Add MS 7470: al-Kāshī, Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb. Dated 2 Shawwāl 997 (14 August 1589), and copied by the hand of the author’s great-great-grandson. Colophon of a copy of Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd ibn Maḥmūd al-Kāshī’s Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb in which it is claimed that the scribe was the great-great-great-grandson of the author (Add. MS 7470, f. 110r) 1 Add MS 7471: Qāḍīʹzādah, Sharḥ ashkāl al-taʾsīs and an anonymous commentary on al-Urmawī's treatise on music theory Kitāb al-adwār. Dated 8 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1104 (11 August 1693). Add MS 7472: al-Nīsābūrī, Tawḍīḥ al-Tadhkirah al-Nāṣirīyah. Dated 20 Jumādá II 1062 (May 29 1652). Add MS 7477: Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, al-Tuḥfah al-shāhīyah fī al-hayʾah. 13th or 14th century. Add MS 7484: al-Maḥbūbī, Kitāb al-taʿdīl fī al-hayʾah. Dated Bukhārā, Rajab 823 (July 1420). Add MS 7489: ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Muḥammad Sharīf al-Sharīf, Maqṣad al-ṭālib wa- muntahá al-maṭālib. Dated Baghdad, 1 Rabīʿ I 1165 (18 January 1752). Add MS 7515: Kitāb fī al-shaṭranj wa-manṣūbātihi wa-mulaḥih, copy of a treatise on chess by and unknown author that was once in the library of the Ottoman sultan Bāyezīd II (reg. 1481-1512). Dated 6 Jumādá II 655 (21 June 1257). Title page of the Kitāb fī al-shaṭranj wa-manṣūbātihi wa-mulaḥih on which the seal of the Ottoman sultan Bāyezīd II (reg. 1481-1512) can be seen in the lower left corner (Add. MS 7515, f. 1r) 2 Add MS 7527: Three treatises on natural philosophy and medicine: Sākhīyūs al- Qass, Tafsīr kitāb al-ʿilal (more commonly known as: Sirr al-khalīqah); Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, Risālah fī tadbīr safar al-ḥajj; and Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, Kitāb fī ʿilal al-shaʿr. Dated Jumādá I 1097 (March-April 1686) Add MS 9604: ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Dādasī, Itḥāf dhawī al-albāb fī sharḥ Bidāyat al-ṭullāb. Dated 16 Ramaḍān 1057 (15 October 1647). Add MS 14056: Three Mamluk treatises on horsemanship. Dated 2 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 870 (15 June 1466). Add MS 15480: al-Jurjānī and al-Zamzamī, Two mathematical treatises. Dated 25 Shuwwāl 1177 (27 April 1764). Add MS 19547: al-Nābulusī, al-Ṣulḥ bayna al-ikhwān fī ḥukm ibāḥat al-dukhān, reatise in defence of tobacco smoking on medical and legal grounds. Dated Muḥarram 1161 (January-February 1748). Add MS 21102: al-Marwazī, Ṭabāʾiʿ al-ḥayawān, a treatise on zoology in five chapters. 13th century. Add MS 21952: Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr kitāb uṣūl al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb, al- Ṭūsī’s edition of the Arabic version of Euclid’s Elements. Dated Isfahan, Dhū al- Ḥijjah 1048 (April 1639). Add MS 22371: Ibn Waḥshiyah, al-Thānī min Kitāb al-Filāḥah, Volume Two of the Nabataean Agriculture. Dated Ṣafar 389 (January-February 999), but appears to have been created in the 13th century. Add MS 23379: Suhrāb, ʿAjāʾib al-aqālīm al-sabʿah, a treatise on mathematical geography for cartographers. Dated 15 Rabīʿ I 709 (23 August 1309). Add MS 23392: Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr kitāb al-Majisṭī, al-Ṭūsī’s edition of the Arabic version of Ptolemy’s Almagest. Dated Qazvin, Muḥarram 955 (February- March 1548). Add MS 23394: al-Ṭūsī, Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hayʾah and al-Kharaqī, al-Tabṣirah fī ʿilm al-hayʾah, two works on mathematical astronomy. Dated 1107/1695-96. Add MS 23398: al-Jurjānī, Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah and al-Jaghmīnī, al- Mulakhkhaṣ fī ʿilm al-hayʾah al-basīṭah, two works on mathematical astronomy. 15th century. Add MS 23417: al-Asadī, al-Jamharah fī ʿilm al-bayzarah, a manual on hunting with falcons, dogs and other animals. 17th century. Add MS 23494: al-Mawṣilī, al-Durr al-naqī fī fann al-mūsīqī, treatise on music theory relating the musical modes to the Prophets, signs of the zodiac, hours of the day, etc. 19th century. 3 Diagram from al-Mawṣilī’s al-Durr al-naqī fī fann al-mūsīqī showing the interrelations between the musical modes, the letters of the alphabet, the four elements, the days of the week, the hours of the day, the celestial spheres and the signs of the zodiac (Add. MS 23494, f. 6r) Add MS 23569: Five treatises on astronomy and mathematics in Persian and Arabic. Dated 29 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1057 (26 December 1647). Add MS 23604: Ibn Waḥshiyah, Kitāb sumūm wa-tiryāqāt, treatise on poisons, theriacs and other antidotes. Dated 25 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 919 (21 February 1514) by Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Shaykh ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad al-Nīmidihī, author of a Persian Qurʾānic tafsīr (exegesis) called the Risālat al-anvār fī maʿdan al-asrār yā tafsīr-i āyah-ʾi Nūr. Add MS 25087: Ibn Jumayʿ, al-Irshād li-maṣāliḥ al-anfus wa-al-ajsād, a comprehensive treatise on medicine by Saladin’s personal physician. Dated 8 Rajab 951 (25 September 1544). Arundel Or 14: Part Eight, Nine and Ten of Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī, al-Ḥāwī fī al-ṭibb. Two manuscripts bound in one volume: late 13th-early 14th century and 15th century. 4 Delhi Arabic 110: Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, Nukhbat al-fikr fī muṣṭalaḥ ahl al-athar and anonymouns, Dīwān al-ʿadad al-wafq. Two manuscripts bound in one volume: 18th century and 15th-16th century. Magic square (wafq) of 28 x 28 cells from the Dīwān al-ʿadad al-wafq (Delhi Arabic 110, ff. 108v-109r) Delhi Arabic 1713: ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Hubal, al-Mukhtār fī al-ṭibb. Dated Tabriz Dhū al-Ḥijja 683 (February 1285). Delhi Arabic 1896: Jawād ibn Saʿd al-Kāẓimī, Sharḥ Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb, a commentary on the Summa of Arithmetic (Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb) by al-Kāẓimī’s teacher Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-ʿĀmilī. 18th century. Delhi Arabic 1897: Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Khuzāʿī, Two treatises on algebra and inheritance calculations and an excerpt on magic squares. Dated 30 Rabīʿ II 1036 (18 January 1627). Delhi Arabic 1898: Anonymous, Sharḥ al-Mūjaz al-musammá ḥisāban yasīran, commentary on a treatise on arithmetic by Aḥmad ibn Masʿūd al-Ḥusaynī al- Hargāmī. 18th century. Delhi Arabic 1901: Ibn al-Hāʾim, al-Durr al-thamīn fī sharḥ urjūzat Ibn al-Yāsamīn, commentary on Ibn al-Yāsamīn’s didactic poem on algebra. Dated 5 Shaʿbān 887 (19 September 1482). Delhi Arabic 1902: Composite volume containing four treatises on mathematics: Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Nīsābūrī, al-Risālah al-Shamsīyah fī al- uṣūl al-ḥisābīyah (x2); anonymous, Tadhnīb; and anonymous, Risālah muntakhabah min al-risālah al-mawsūmah bi-al-bahāʾīyah fī ‘ilm al-ḥisāb. 17th-18th centuries. 5 Delhi Arabic 1909: Five geometrical texts related to Euclid's Elements: Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr uṣūl al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb; three short texts; al-Jawharī, Ziyādāt fī al-maqālah al-khāmisah min kitāb Uqlīdis. Dated 5 Jumādá II 1214 (4 November 1799). Delhi Arabic 1916: al-Qaṣrānī, Kitāb al-masāʾil. Two codices, volumes one and two from two separate Mamluk copies of this work on astrological interrogations. Volume one dated Shawwāl 768 (May- June 1367), Volume two dated Rajab 640 (January 1243) Title page of al-Qaṣrānī’s Kitāb al-masāʾil dated 768/1367, with patron statement of the Mamluk amir Sayf al-Dīn Asandamur al-Nāṣirī (d. 769/1368) (Delhi Arabic 1916, vol. 1, f. 1r) Delhi Arabic 1919: Folios from four manuscripts on scientific subjects: Abū al- Barakāt al-Baghdādī, Risālah fī sabab ẓuhūr al-kawākib laylan wa-khafāʾihā nahāran; al-Ṭūsī, Treatise on heat; and al-‘Āmilī, Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb. 17th-19th centuries. 6 Delhi Arabic 1925: Composite manuscript containing two treatises on the sizes and distances of the celestial bodies: al-Kāshī, Sullam al-samāʾ, dated Delhi 19 Muḥarram 1130 (December 23 1717); and al-Dashtakī, Safīr al-ghabrāʾ wa-al- khaḍrā, 17th century. Delhi Arabic 1927: Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Khayr Allāh Riyāḍī Muhandis, Sullam al-idrāk fī hayʾat al-aflāk. Dated 25 Jumādá I 1185 (5 September 1771). Delhi Arabic 1928: ʿIṣmat Allāh ibn Aʿẓam al-Sahāranfūrī, Sharḥ tashrīḥ al-aflāk and Ḥusayn al-Landanī, al-Ijābah ʿalá taʿlīq al-Jawnbūrī. Dated Dhū al-Qa‘dah 1245 (April 1830). Beginning of a treatise on European astronomical and scientific theories by Mīr Muḥammad Ḥusayn (d. 1790), known as Landanī (‘the Londoner’) owing to his travel to England and Europe during 1774-7 (Delhi Arabic 1928, f. 130v) 7 Delhi Arabic 1930: Muḥammad Rashīd al-Dīn, Sharḥ tashrīḥ al-aflāk. 18th or 19th century. Delhi Arabic 1934: al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Nīsābūrī, Tawḍīḥ al-Tadhkirah al- Nāṣirīyah. Dated Rabīʿ II 827 (March-April 1424). Delhi Arabic 1937B: Four texts on astronomy: Imām al-Dīn ibn Luṭf Allāh al- Muhandis al-Lahūrī, al-Taṣrīḥ fī sharḥ al-tashrīḥ; Ḥusayn al-Landanī, al-Ijābah ʿalá ta ʿ līq al-Jawnbūrī; anonymous, Tarjamah-ʾi Sabʿ shidād; Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Risālah fī kayfīyat al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb.