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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9599, ff 60v-61v
Title:: Anonymous text on the lunar stations
Scope & Content:: Anonymous text on the twenty-eight lunar stations (منازل القمر). The text begins with a didactic poem, unusually laid out in three rather than two columns (f. 60v), followed by prose descriptions and rough diagrams of the asterisms (أنواء) that mark the lunar stations (ff. 61r-61v). Begins (f. ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 60v-61v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9599, ff 62v-79v
Title:: Zīj for Algiers
Scope & Content:: Anonymous astronomical handbook with tables (زيج). The brief introductory text (ff. 62v-63r), which mentions calculations based on the latitudes of Algiers (الجزائر) and Istanbul (إستنبول) and the year 1221/1806-07, is apparently fragmentary and comprises only two sections: (1) Section on calcul...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 62v-79v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9599, ff 80v-118v
Title:: Commentary on a poem on calendrical calculations
Scope & Content:: Anonymous commentary on an anonymous didactic poem on calendrical calculations. The commentary was composed in 911/1505-06 (see f. 86v, line 17). The author of the commentary frequently refers to the Student's Method on Planetary Equations (منهاج الطالب في تعديل الكواكب), by the mathematician an...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 80v-118v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9599, ff 119v-127v
Title:: Fragment of an astrological treatise
Scope & Content:: Fragment of a treatise on astrology dealing with ascendants (طوالع), exaltations (أشراف), horoscopes, and calendrical calculations. The text contains three horoscope diagrams (ff. 122v-124r). The text mentions the dates 16 May 1808 (f. 121v, line 23) and 1223/1808-9 (f. 122v, line 3), the dates...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1223
Extent:: Ff. 119v-127v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9599, ff 128r-131r and 133r-136v
Title:: [Kitāb al-tadbīr كتاب التدبير] Zarqālī, Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyá زرقالي، إبراهيم بن يحيى
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the production and use of magic square talismans of the seven planets by the Andalusian astronomer Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyá al-Ṭulayṭilī al-Zarqālī (أبو إسحق إبرهيم بن يحيى الطليطلي الزرقالي; d. 1100), also known as Walad al-Zarqīyāl (ولد الزرقيال), Ibn al-Zarqālluh (ابن الزرقاله)...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1223
Extent:: Ff. 128r-131r and 133r-136v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9599, ff 131v and 137r-145v
Title:: Seventeen chapters on astrology
Scope & Content:: Collection of seventeen short chapters on various astrological subjects. (1) Section on knowing the house of the wandering [stars] by the power of the Mighty, the Omnipotent in the twelve months (فصل في معرفة مبيت [؟] السيارة بقدرة العزيز الجبار في الشهور اثنى عشر العربية, f. 137r; instructions...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1223
Extent:: Ff. 131v and 137r-145v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9599, ff 132r-132v
Title:: Bāb yuʻraf minhā manāzil al-qamar باب يعرف منها منازل القمر
Scope & Content:: Brief chapter explaining how to use a table to discover which station the moon is in on any given day of the year. See the 'Section of the circle from which can be known which station and which sign of the zodiac the new moon of each month will be in and the method for each of them' (فصل دائرة ي...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1223
Extent:: Ff. 132r-132v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9599, ff 146v-149r
Title:: Two chapters on astrology
Scope & Content:: Two chapters (بابان) on astrology taken from one or more texts: (1) Chapter of knowing the years by the stationing of the Moon in the signs of the zodiac (باب في معرفة السنين بنزول القمر في البروج, ff.146v-148v);(2) Chapter of the signs of the crescents in the Arabic [months] (باب علامات الأهلة ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 146v-149r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9599, ff 166v-171v
Title:: Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-asṭurlāb رسالة في العمل بالأسطرلاب Abū al-Ṣalt, Umayyah ibn ‘Abd al-Azīz أبو الصلت، أميّة بن عبد العزيز
Scope & Content:: Extract from the Treatise on the Use of the Astrolabe (رسالة في العمل بالأسطرلاب) by the Andalusian polymath Abū al-Ṣalt Umayyah ibn ‘Abd al-‘Azīz ibn Abī al-Ṣalt al-Dānī al-Andalusī (أبو الصلت أميّة بن عبد العزيز بن أبي الصلت الداني الأندلسي, d. 1134; see note in head margin of f. 166v). Of the...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 166v-171v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9599, ff 172r-176r
Title:: Mufīd al-muḥtāj fī sharḥ al-sirāj مفيد المحتاج في شرح السراج Wansharīsī, Saḥnūn ibn ʻUthmān ونشريسي، سحنون بن عثمان
Scope & Content:: Fragment of the Help for the Needy: Commentary on the Lamp (مفيد المحتاج في شرح السراج) by the Algerian jurisconsult (فقيه) Saḥnūn ibn ʻUthmān bin Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad bin Abī Bakr al-Wansharīsī (سحنون بن عثمان بن سليمان بن أحمد بن أبي بكر الونشريسي), who completed the work in 1016/1607. The text ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 172r-176r

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