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Language Arabic Subject Navigation, Early works to 1800

1. Or 2920

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2920
Title:
Nautical almanac
Scope & Content:
Nautical almanac containing tables, diagrams and short texts useful for navigation in the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, and Red Sea. A concise overview of the navigational methods discussed, without reference to this manuscript, can be found in Yacoub Yusuf al-Hijji, 'Arab Navigational Methods aft...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1260
Extent:
Codex; ff. ii+17+i+60+ix+1+i+21+vi+2+iv+23+i+1+i

2. Or 8086

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8086
Title:
Three nautical handbooks
Scope & Content:
Three handbooks containing a mixture of tables, geographical coordinates, and short texts on astronomy, calculations, wayfinding, and instruments useful for navigation in the Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, and Red Sea, bound into one volume. The colophon to the second text provides th...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
2 Jumādá II 1287
Extent:
Codex; ff. i+104+iii+2+ii

3. Or 15643

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15643
Title:
Tuḥfat al-Fuḥūl fī tamhīd al-uṣūl fī ‘ilm al-biḥār تحفة الفحول في تمهيد الأصول في علم البحار Mahrī, Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad مهري، سليمان بن أحمد
Scope & Content:
A manual on the principles of navigational theory by Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān al-Mahrī (سليمان بن أحمد بن سليمان المهري, fl. 16th century), here called al-Muḥammadī (المحمدي), an Indian Ocean navigator from the city of al-Shiḥr (الشحر), Yemen. The treatise is arranged in seven parts (أبوا...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
15 Jumādá II 1153
Extent:

Codex; ff. 5+i