Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-marsūm bi-al-qanṭarāt رسالة في العمل بالربع المرسوم بالقنطرات
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Anonymous treatise on the use of the astrolabe quadrant. This short manual was written for beginners and consists of an introduction and ten chapters (faṣl). The copy was completed on 22 Jumādá I 1070/4 February 1660 by the scribe ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-ʿĀmilī (علي بن...
Hidāyat al-sāʾil ilá al-rubʿ al-kāmil هداية السائل إلى الربع الكامل Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad سبط المارديني، بدر الدين محمد بن محمد
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Treatise, also known under the title Hidāyat al-ʿāmil ilá al-rubʿ al-kāmil (هداية العامل إلى الربع الكامل) on the workings of the quadrant, consisting of an introduction and fifteen chapters (bābs). The copy was completed on 24 Jumādá I 1070/6 February 1660 (see colophon, f. 138v, lines 14-16, ...
al-Nujūm al-zāhirāt fī al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-muqanṭarāt النجوم الزاهرات في العمل بربع المقنطرات Wafāʿī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad وفائي، عبد العزيز بن محمد
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A short treatise in 25 bābs on the astrolabe quadrant, written by ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad al-Wafāʿī (عبد العزيز بن محمد الوفائي, active 15th century) in 843/1439 and based on the works of the muwaqqits (official timekeepers) Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd Allāh al-Māridīnī (جمال الدين عبد الله المارديني, ...
Four treatises on astrolabes and a bibliography of the works of Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرازي)
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Collection of four early treatises on astrolabes and associated astronomical instruments, bound together with a bibliography of the works of Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرازي). A table of contents appears on f. 1v. The scribe (of at least Item 5 [see colopho...
Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-aṣṭurlāb رسالة في العمل بالأصطرلاب Abū al-Ṣalt, Umayyah ibn ‘Abd al-Azīz أبو الصلت، أميّة بن عبد العزيز
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Treatise on the use of the astrolabe 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). The treatise is divided into 90 short chapters (أبواب). There is a table of yearly loc...
al-Kāmil fī ṣan‘at al-asṭurlāb al-shimālī wa-al-junūbī wa-‘ilalihumā bi-l-handasah wa-al-ḥisab الكامل في صنعة الأسطرلاب الشمالي والجنوبي وعللهما بالهندسة والحساب Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr فرغاني، أحمد بن محمد بن كثير
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Earliest known Arabic treatise on the construction of the astrolabe, by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Farghānī (أحمد بن محمد الفرغاني; fl. ca 820-860). This manuscript was erroneously dated to the 12th/19th century by Lorch (Al-Farghānī On the Astrolabe [Munich: Franz Steiner, 2005], p. 17) perhaps on t...
Kitāb ‘aṣāh al-Ṭūsī wa-hūwa al-asṭurlāb al-khaṭṭī كتاب عصاة الطوسي وهو الأسطرلاب الخطّي
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Anonymous treatise on the construction and use of the linear astrolabe (أسطرلاب خطّي), an instrument also known as 'al-Ṭūsī's Rod' (عصاة الطوسي), named after its inventor Sharaf al-Dīn al-Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (شرف الدين المظفر بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1213). The comprehensive guide to practi...
al-‘Amal bi-al-ṣafīḥah al-jāmi‘ah al-ma‘rūfah bi-al-āfāqīyah العمل بالصفيحة الجامعة المعروفة بالآفاقية Asṭurlābī, ‘Alī ibn ‘Īsá أسطرلابي، علي بن عيسى
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Treatise on the use of the horizon plate (الآفاقية) by ‘Alī ibn ‘Īsá al-Asṭurlābī (علي بن عيسى الأسطرلابي; fl. 829-833). Text is defective at the end. Begins (f. 105r, lines 3-6): ... أوّل ذلك معرفة الميل إذا أردت ذلك ومعرفة الميل فهذه الصفيحة فاقلب الصفيحة وانظر الدرجة التي تريد ميلها فإن ...
Fihrist kutub Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī al-mutaṭabbib wa-aghrāḍiha فهرست كتب محمد بن زكريا الرازي المتطبب وأغراضها
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Unattributed bibliography of 173 texts by the physician and philosopher Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرأزي; d. ca 925) with brief synopses of their contents. The bibliography differs from that produced by Abū al-Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī (أبو الريحان م...
Collection of Arabic astrological and divinatory texts, and a fragment of a Persian manuscript
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Collection of astrological and divinatory texts and diagrams drawn from sources both ancient and contemporary with the scribe, ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Ṣāḥib Nūr al-Dīn al-Jazarī al-Masīḥī (عبد الله بن الصاحب نور الدين الجزري المسيحي), who copied it for his own use in 867/1462-3 (see colophon, f. 19r, ...
