Anonymous versified abbreviation of a treatise on the sine quadrant (الربع الجيوب), probably Wāfīyat al-maṭlūb fī rubʿ al-juyūb (وافية المطلوب في ربع الجيوب), by Abū Zayd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī al-Maḥāsin Yūsuf al-Fāsi (أبو زيد عبد الرحمن بن أبي محمد عبد ا...
al-Nasamah al-nafḥīyah النسمة النفحية Maqdisī, ʿAlī ibn Ghānim مقدسي، علي بن غانم
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A versified commentary by ʿAlī ibn Ghānim al-Maqdisī (علي بن غانم المقدسي, d. 1596), of the Fatḥīyah Treatise on the Use of the Sine Quadrant (الرسالة الفتحية في العمل بالربع المجيب, see f. 52r, line 10) in twenty chapters (باب) by Badr al-Dīn Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Sh...
Tawḍīḥ al-Nasamah al-nafḥīyah توضيح النسمة النفحية Maqdisī, ʿAlī ibn Ghānim مقدسي، علي بن غانم
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Author's self-commentary on al-Nasamah al-nafḥīyah, a versification by ʿAlī ibn Ghānim al-Maqdisī (علي بن غانم المقدسي, d. 1596) of the Fatḥīyah Treatise on the Use of the Sine Quadrant (الرسالة الفتحية في العمل بالربع المجيب) in twenty chapters (باب) by Badr al-Dīn Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn M...
Taʿlīq ʿalá Sharḥ al-risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-mujayyab تعليق على شرح الرسالة في العمل بالربع المجيب
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Anonymous gloss (تعليق, see f. 73v, line 2) on the commentary by Badr al-Dīn Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shāfi‘ī al-Miṣrī al-Dimashqī (بدر الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن محمد بن أحمد الشافعي المصري الدمشقي, b. 1423, d. 1490), known as Sibṭ al-Māridīnī (سبط المارديني), timekeepe...
Muqarrib al-maṭālib fī taʿdīl al-kawākib مقرب المطالب في تعديل الكواكب Ghiyāthī al-Tāzī, Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, غياثي التازي، جابر بن عبد الله
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A poem on planetary astronomy compiled by Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥājj Jābir al-Ghiyāthī al-Tāzī (جابر بن عبد الله بن الحاج جابر الغياثي التازي, ca 16th century, see f. 94v, lines 14-16). The text is followed by the beginning of another poem on the Arab and ʿAjam (lunar and solar) calendars...
Ikhlāṣ al-naṣāʾiḥ fī takhṭīṭ al-ṣafāʾiḥ اخلاص النصائح في تخطيط الصفائح Tūzarī, ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān توزري، عمر بن عبد الرحمن
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Treatise in ten fuṣūl (فصل) grouped into three bābs (أبواب) discussing the geometrical and mathematical skills needed to inscribe lines onto horizontal (رخائم) and vertical (منحرفات) sundials. It was written by Abū Jaʿfar ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Qu...
Sharḥ al-Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-mujayyab شرح الرسالة في العمل بالربع المجيب Sanbāṭī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq سنباطي، أحمد بن عبد الحق
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A commentary by Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Sanbāṭī (أحمد بن أحمد بن عبد الحق السنباطي, fl. 16th century) on the Treatise on the Use of the Sine Quadrant (الرسالة في العمل بالربع المجيب) in twenty chapters (باب) by Badr al-Dīn Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shāfi‘ī al-...
Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-al-kūrah al-falakīyah كتاب العمل بالكرة الفلكية Qusṭā ibn Lūqā قسطا بن لوقا
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A treatise on the use of the celestial globe by Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا; ca 820-912). This work, in 65 short bābs (باب), was widely disseminated through at least two Arabic recensions. The present version of the text is dedicated to Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yaḥyá (أبو الحسن عبد الله بن...
Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-kūrah al-falakīyah رسالة في العمل بالكورة الفلكية Jazāʾirī, ʿAbd al-Razzāq ibn Muḥammad, جزائري، عبد الرزاق بن محمد
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Treatise on using the celestial globe by ʿAbd al-Razzāq ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥammādūsh al-Jazāʾirī (عبد الرزاق بن محمد بن محمد بن حمادوش الجزائري, b. 1695), consisting of an introduction and 90 sections (فصل). The present copy was completed in 1199/1784-5 by an unnamed scribe (see f. 1...
Collection of Arabic texts on astronomy, astrology and related subjects
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A collection of texts, fragments and notes on astronomy, astrology andrelated subjects, mostly by Maghribī authors. The manuscript was probablyassembled in Algeria or Tunisia (see note mentioning the Sūq al-Balāṭ [سوقالبلاط] in Tunis on f. 1r and astronomical texts calculated for Tunis andAlgier...