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al-Zīj [al-mufīd] ʿalá uṣūl al-raṣd al-jadīd الزيج [المفيد] على أصول الرصد الجديد Razzāz, Riḍwān ibn ʻAbd Allāh رزاز، رضوان بن عبد الله
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Astronomical handbook with tables (زيج) by the Ottoman Egyptian astronomer Riḍwān Efendi ibn ʿAbdallāh al-Razzāz al-Falakī (رضوان أفندي بن عبد الله الرزاز الفلكي, d. 1711). The text, also known as the al-Zīj al-Riḍwānī (الزيج الرضواني), is a revision of the Samarqand observatory's Zīj-i Ulugh Be...
Yatīmat al-ʿaṣr fī al-madd wa-al-jazr يتيمة العصر في المد والجزر Ibn Mīmī, ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ابن مِيمي، عبد القادر بن أحمد بن علي
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A wide-ranging treatise on natural phenomena relating to the seas, by ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Mīmī al-Baṣrī (عبد القادر بن أحمد بن علي بن مِيمي البصري, d. 1674). The text, also known as Wary al-zand bi-al-jazr wa-al-madd (وري الزند بالجزر والمد), was composed in 1084/1673 and the pr...
A vellum scroll containing an Ottoman illuminated calligraphic almanac. Manuscripts on vellum from Turkey are relatively rare. The almanac contains a Ġurrẹnāmẹ, indicating the first day of each lunar month, and tables indicating the times of the five daily prayers as calculated for the Istanbul ...
Kitāb fī ʿilm al-zardaqah كتاب في علم الزردقة Bayṭār, Abū Bakr ibn Mundhir بيطار، أبو بكر بن المنذر
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Veterinary manual on the medical treatment of horses, consisting of a summary of the fifth and sixth chapters (مقالات) of the Kitāb kāmil al-ṣināʻatayn fī al-bayṭarah wa-al-zardaqah (كتاب كامل الصناعتين في البيطرة والزردقة), also known as Kāshif hamm al-wayl fī maʻrifat amrāḍ al-khayl (كاشف هم ...
Three treatises on the prediction of future events based on astronomical, meteorological and other natural phenomena. The contents of the volume are: (1) Fihrist Arisṭā[ṭā]līs (ff 1v-37r); (2) Treatise on meteorological divination attributed to the prophet Daniel (ff 37r-64r); (3) Ramādī, Ibn M...
A treatise on meteorological divination attributed to Aristotle and perhaps related to the tradition of his Meteorologica (كتاب الأثار العلوية). Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-7): الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على أثر و [!] المرسلين سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وأصحابه أجمعين وبعد فهذا كتاب فهرست أرس...
Treatise on meteorological divination attributed to the prophet Daniel
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A treatise on meteorological divination attributed to the prophet Daniel, divided into two parts: Part 1 (ff. 37r-48v); Part 2 ( فصل آخر على حكمة دانيال عليه السلام; ff. 48v-64r). Begins (f. 37r, lines 3-6) قال دانيال عليه السلام إذا أردت أنْ تعلم أحوال السنة من أولها إلى آخرها وما يحدث بها من...
ترصيد شهر المحرم المبارك Tarṣīd shaḥr al-Muḥarram al-mubārrak رمادي، ابن مراد Ramādī, Ibn Murād
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A treatise on meteorological divination by Ibn Murād al-Ramādī. The manuscript was copied on 19 Ṣafar 1295 (22 February 1878) by an anonymous scribe from an autograph copy, dated 4 Muḥarram 1041 (2 August 1631; see colophon on f. 69v). Begins (f. 64v, lines 2-5): ... نبتدي بعون الله وتوفيقه ب...
Kitāb al-Sayyid al-jalīl al-mu‘aẓẓam al-faḍīl allādhī shayyada arkān al-Islām wa-daḥaḍa min al-kufr al-a‘lām wa-ḥallal wa-shar‘a al-ḥallāl wa-ḥarama al-ḥarām كتاب السيد الجليل المعظم الفصيل الذي شيّد أركان الإسلام ودحض من الكفر الأعلام وحلّل وشرع الحلال وحرم الحرام al-Tanūkhī, Jamāl al-Dīn ‘Abd Allāh التنوخي، جمال الدين عبد الله
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Druze treatise by the Druze Shaykh Amīr Jamāl al-Dīn ‘Abd Allāh al-Tanūkhī (الأمير جمال الدين عبد الله التنوخي; d. 1479).
al-Qānūn al-waḍīḥ fī ‘ilm al-bayzarah القانون الواضح في علم البيزرة Waṭwāṭ, وطواط
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Treatise on falconry focussing on the health and treatment of birds of prey attributed on the cover page (f. 1r) to al-Waṭwāṭ (الوطواط), presumably Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyá (محمد بن إبراهيم بن يحى, d. 1318) the Mamluk bookseller and author of the encyclopedia of natural history Mab...