On the history of Mecca and Medina, Arabic manuscript on paper, 31ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of black naskh, text panels... Show moreOn the history of Mecca and Medina, Arabic manuscript on paper, 31ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of black naskh, text panels outlined in gold, catchwords, important words and titles in sepia and gold, opening folio with illuminated shamsa containing the name of the author in red thuluth on gold ground, surmounted by two further lines of thuluth in gold above and below with the name and descriptions of the manuscript, subsequent page with later added illuminated heading, in gilt and stamped brown morocco binding. اعتمدت هذه التسجيلة المؤقتة على الفهرسة الأولية السابقة للمجموعة. Main Heritage Shelves General HC.MS.2018.0039 Manuscripts Item-ID: i25519645 BIB-ID: 2695084 اللغة العربية؛ خط النسخ Show less
Falcons in art, Falcons in art--Pictorial works, Arts, Indic--Islamic influences
This miniature portrait of a nobleman holding a falcon and remains of its prey (the bird's legs are held in the man's left hand) was part of an... Show moreThis miniature portrait of a nobleman holding a falcon and remains of its prey (the bird's legs are held in the man's left hand) was part of an album of small court portraits prepared for Akbar I (1542-1605) Emperor of Hindustan. Portraits provided the emperor with a visual record of the members of his court. The work is attributed to the Indian miniaturist Basawan, active as a royal artist at the court of the Mughal Empire between 1556 and 1600. The miniature was later enlarged for an album prepared for Nūr-ud-dīn Muhammad Salīm (1569-1627), the future Jahāngīr, Mughal Emperor of India from 1605 to 1627. Title and date devised by Library staff. Main Heritage Compact General HC.GM.2016.0030 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26116091 BIB-ID: 2796175 Major Harold Amery, London (1877-1915) Rt. Hon. Leopold Amery, C.H., P.C., London (1873-1955) Rt. Hon. Baron Amery of Lustleigh, P.C., London (1919-96) Michael Brand and Glenn D. Lowry, Akbar's India : art from the Mughal City of Victory, New York : Asia Society Galleries ; London : Sotheby Publications [distributor], 1985. Show less
Astronomy, Astronomy--Early works to 1800, QB41 .F37 1590
ALFRAGANUS. Choronologica et astronomica elementa, e Palatinae bibliothecae veteribus libris versa, expleta, & scholiis expolita. Additus est... Show moreALFRAGANUS. Choronologica et astronomica elementa, e Palatinae bibliothecae veteribus libris versa, expleta, & scholiis expolita. Additus est commentarius ... Autore M. Iacobo Christmanno. Frankfurt, heirs of Andrea Wechel, 1590. 8vo, lea. (bind.) + 1 tit. + 1 + 8 ((epist didicat.) + 4 (epist.) + 2 + 565 + 1 (erratte) + 2 + 2lea. (bind.), woodcut printer's device on title, repeated on verso of final blank, some passages of Greek and Arabic in text; contemporary vellum. First edition of this late sixteenth-century commentary and Latin version of al-Farghani's 'Elements', Kitab al-Jawami, based by the translator, Jacob Christmann, on Jacob Anatoli's Hebrew version of the Arabic text. "The influence of the Elements on medieval Europe is clearly attested by the existence of numerous Latin manuscrips in European libraries. References to it in medieval writers are many, and there is no doubt that it was greatly responsible for spreading knowledge of Ptolemaic astronomy, at least until this role was taken over by Sacrobosco's Sphere. But even then the Elements of Alfraganus continued to be used, and Sacrobosco's Sphere was clearly indebted to it. It was from the Elements (in Gerard's translation) the Dante derived [his] astronomical knowledge" (DSB). Kepler refers several times to Alfraganus, once, for instance, citing his measurement of the circumference of the world (Epitome, Book I, Part I). DSB, 4, 541-545; EI, II, p. 793; Sezgin, VI, 149-51. Carmody p. 116; Houzeau & Lancaster 1115 ("notes precieuses"); IA 103.684; Lalande p. 121; Wightman 157; Zinner 3368. Beiträger: Schede, Paul Main Heritage Shelves General QB41 .F37 1590 Book Item-ID: i10072524 BIB-ID: 1008888 Show less
Main Heritage Display General Book Item-ID: i15961916 BIB-ID: 1025504 Show moreMain Heritage Display General Book Item-ID: i15961916 BIB-ID: 1025504 Show less