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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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9599, ff 183v-185r
Title:: Bāb fī dhikr al-burūj al-muttafiqah fī al-maṭāliʻ wa-al-burūj al-muqtadirah باب في ذكر البروج المتفقة في المطالع والبروج المقتدرة
Scope & Content:: Short, perhaps fragmentary, astrological text on the qualities of the signs of the zodiac. The text begins abruptly, without basmala, after the defective end of the previous text but does not appear to continue it. 　 Begins (f. 183v, lines 12-15): باب في ذكر البروج المتفقة في المطالع والبروج ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 183v-185r

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9599, ff 194v-203r
Title:: al-Qawl fī maʿrifat awqāt al-tahajjud al-thalāthah al-madhkūrah fī al-Qurʼān القول في معرفة أوقات التهجد الثلاثة المذكورة في القرآن
Scope & Content:: Unattributed treatise on astronomical methods for determining the times of the three night prayers (تهجّد) mentioned in the Qurʼān (17:79, 25:64 and 73:20). The treatise is followed by a brief, unattributed text On the Reason for the Increase and Decrease of the Moon's Light (في سبب زيادة نور ا...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 194v-203r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9599, ff 204r-227v
Title:: al-Durrah al-nūrānīyah fī istikhrāj yawāqīt al-qaṣīdah al-Buṣīrīyah الدرة النورانية في استخراج يواقيت القصيدة البصيرية Anṭākī, ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm أنطاكي، علي بن إبراهيم
Scope & Content:: Treatise in eighteen chapters (باب) written in 760/1358-9 by Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Idrīs ibn Yaʻqūb al-Yaʻqūbī al-Anṭākī (أبو الحسن علي بن إبراهيم بن إدريس بن يعقوب اليعقوبي الأنطاكي, see ff. 204r, lines 2-3 and 204v, lines 11-12) on interpreting the portents of celestial and meteoro...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 204r-227v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9599, ff 228r-239r
Title:: al-Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-hayʼah المختصر في علم الهيئة Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Treatise on celestial and meterological phenomena falsely attributed to Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037), but actually extracted from the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity (رسائل إخوان الصفاء, see Dimitr...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17 Rabīʻ I 1221
Extent:: Ff. 228r-239r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9599, ff 239v-254v
Title:: al-Risālah fī aḥkām al-nujūmīyah min kitāb shaykh Dāwud الرسالة في أحكام النجومية من كتاب شيخ داود Anṭākī, Dāwūd ibn ‘Umar أنطاكي، داوود بن عمر
Scope & Content:: Discussion of astrological judgements (أحكام) with reference to medicine extracted from the fourth chapter (الباب الرابع) of the medical encyclopaedia Tadhkirat ūlī al-albāb wa-al-jāmi‘ lil-‘ajab al-‘ujāb (تذكرة أولي الألباب والجامع للعجب العجاب; see Dāwūd ibn ʻUmar al-Anṭākī, Tadhkirat ūlī al-a...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1 Rabīʻ II 1222
Extent:: Ff. 239v-254v

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