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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9599, ff 51v-52v
Title:: Fragment of an astrological commentary
Scope & Content:: Fragment of a commentary on an astrological work or works by Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Marrākushī (أبو العباس أحمد بن محمد المراكشي, d. 1321), known as Ibn al-Bannā’ (ابن البناء). The fragment begins with a didactic poem on astrology (ff. 51v, line 2-52r, line 2) before moving to the ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 51v-52v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9599, ff 53r-54r
Title:: al-Munākh المناخ Ibn al-Bannāʾ, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ابن البناء، أحمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: An almanac for determining dates in the Arabic (i.e., hijrī) year (السنة العربية) by Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Marrākushī (أبو العباس أحمد بن محمد المراكشي, d. 1321), known as Ibn al-Bannā’ (ابن البناء). After a brief introduction (f. 53r), the text consists of two tables (ff. 53v-54r)...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 53r-54r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9599, ff 55v-60r
Title:: Tashīl al-ʿibārah fī takmīl mā naqaṣa min al-yasārah تسهيل العبارة في تكميل ما نقص من اليسارة
Scope & Content:: Anonymous commentary on Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Marrākushī (أبو العباس أحمد بن محمد المراكشي, d. 1321), known as Ibn al-Bannā’'s (ابن البناء) Risālat al-yasārah fī taqwīm al-kawākib al-sayyārah (رسالة اليسارة في تقويم الكواكب السيارة). See items 7 (ff. 38v-40r) and 9 (ff. 41v-51r) in...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 55v-60r

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

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