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1. Add MS 9599, f 54v

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Add MS 9599, f 54v
Title:
Astrological table
Scope & Content:
Table for determining the zodiacal sign (برج) in which the Moon will rise during the European months (شهور العجم) preceded by brief explanatory text. 　 Begins (f. 54v, lines 2-4): الحمد لله ومبيت القمر على البروج في هذا الجدول وهو أن تجعل سبابتك في البيت الذي فيه عدد الأيام العربية وتجعل أيا...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

F. 54v

2. Add MS 9599, ff 31r-33v

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Add MS 9599, ff 31r-33v
Title:
Fragment of a commentary on a poem about the Night of Qadr
Scope & Content:
Fragment of an anonymous commentary on a didactic poem (أرجوزة) about the Night of Qadr (ليلة القدر). One or more folios is missing from the beginning of the commentary. Begins (f. 31r, lines 1-2): بمعناه زيادة تأمين وطيب تحية وإكرام بالانتقال أحزم وهل في رمضان أو في جميع العام 　 Ends (f. 3...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
Ff. 31r-33v

3. Add MS 9599, ff 53r-54r

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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

4. Add MS 9599, ff 119v-127v

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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

5. Add MS 9599, ff 131v and 137r-145v

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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

6. Add MS 9599, ff 132r-132v

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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

7. Add MS 9599, ff 176v-183v

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Add MS 9599, ff 176v-183v
Title:
Madkhal yanayir wa-al-shuhūr مدخل ينير والشهور
Scope & Content:
Anonymous commentary on a didactic poem on calendrical computations. The commentary was composed in 1040/1631 (عامنا هذا وهو أربعون وألف ... السبت فيه دخل ينير هذا العام, f. 177v, lines 8 and 17) and the poem commented upon was composed in 1025/1616 (see f. 178v, lines 9-11). The text ends abrup...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 176v-183v

8. Add MS 9599, ff 186r-193v

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Add MS 9599, ff 186r-193v
Title:
Commentary on a didactic poem on calendrical computations
Scope & Content:
Fragment of an anonymous commentary on an anonymous didactic poem on calendrical computations, perhaps by the astronomer ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Dādasī al-Maghribī (علي بن محمد الدادسي المغربي, d. 1683; see note in upper edge margin of f. 186r: مأخذ من كتاب الدادسي مغربي). The commentary was compos...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 186r-193v