BACKGROUND AND AIMS Beginning in the last two decades of the 14th century, richly illuminated versions of the Tacuinum Sanitatis, the Latin translation of an 11th-century Arabic manuscript known as Taqwim al-Sihha bi al-Ashab al-Sitta, were produced in northern Italy. These illustrated manuscripts provide a window on late medieval life in that region by containing some 200 full-page illustratio...

amir abu mohammad ‘imadi ghazvini was one of the most prominent poets of the 6th century a.h who was very famous in his lifetime, but we don’t know much about his life and have not yet obtained his divan. the author, in present study, has tried to eradicate on the life of this great poet of the seljuk era introducing several sources, sometimes new, depending on ‘imadi’s published or unpublished...

Abstract The best-known Tudor manuscript partbooks tend to be complete or near-complete sets, associated with known individuals, elegantly copied, and a clear repertorial focus. Yet such manuscripts are not the norm among extant partbooks. Rather most obscure in origin, product of workaday copying, survive as orphans partial sets. They miscellanies wide-ranging contents, complex seemingly chaot...

The most important reference work for pharmacology in the Islamic Era is Materia Medica by Dioscorides, the Greek scientist. It’s also named fi-hayuli-al-Tibb in the Islamic era. There are several different translation of this book in Arabic and Persian. In this article I’m going to introduce a manuscript of one the Arabic translation of this book which hasn’t been mentioned in any bibliographi...

Abstract The Fragment Targums contain selections of verses from the Pentateuch and form a distinct textual family within Palestinian Targum tradition. To date, our understanding their tradition has been based on nine manuscripts (excluding those copied printed texts). This article introduces another manuscript that previously overlooked. describes manuscript’s content, provides preliminary char...

in extant islamic manuscripts we can find some observation reports of a black dot on the surface of the sun. these reports add that this dot should be the planet venus or mercury, transiting over the sun, showing that both of them are below the sphere of the sun. the research made so far on ibn sina’s report shows that it might relate to a really observed venus transit. quṭb al-dīn al-shīrāzī (...