Tashrīḥ al-aflāk تشريح الأفلاك ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين
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Summary of theoretical astronomy (علم الهيئة) by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621) in which he argues that the earth rotates around its axis. The treatise contains numerous diagrams. The copy was completed on the evening of Friday 20 Jumādá I...
Contents: (1) al-Ghazzī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad (الغزي، أحمد بن محمد), Sharḥ nuzhat al-nuẓẓār fī ʿilm al-ghubār (شرح نزهة النظار في علم الغبار; ff. 2r-129r); (2) al-Qabāqibī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad (القباقبي، إبراهيم ابن محمد), ʿUmdat al-ṭullāb fī ʿilm al-ḥisāb (عمدة الطلاب في علم الحساب; ff. 129v-2...
Sharḥ nuzhat al-nuẓẓār fī ʿilm al-ghubār شرح نزهة النظار في علم الغبار Ghazzī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad غزي، أحمد بن محمد
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Commentary by Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jibrīl al-Ghazzī al-Maghribī (شهاب الدين أحمد بن محمد بن محمد بن جبريل الغزي المغربي, d. 1575) on the arithmetical treatise The Observers' Delight Concerning the Science of Ghubār (شرح نزهة النظار في علم الغبار) by Shihāb al-Dīn Abū...
‘Umdat al-ṭullāb fī ‘ilm al-ḥisāb عمدة الطلاب في علم الحساب Qabāqibī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad قباقبي، إبراهيم بن محمد
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Treatise on arithmetic by Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Qabāqibī al-Ḥalabī (إبراهيم ابن محمد القباقبي الحلبي, d. 851/1447-8). Begins (f. 129v, lines 2-4): الحمد لله المنفرد بالديمومية (!) والقدم المحيط بأنواع الأعداد وكمية ضلع الأصم الذي علم بالقلم الإنسان ما لم يعلم ... Ends (270r, lines 7-13...
Kitāb al-lumaʿ al- yasīrah fī ʿilm al-ḥisāb كتاب اللمع اليسيرة في علم الحساب Ibn al-Hāʾim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ابن الهائم، أحمد بن محمد
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Treatise on arithmetic by Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Faraḍī (شهاب الدين أبو العباس أحمد بن محمد الفرضي), known as Ibn al-Hā’im (ابن الهائم, d. 1412, see f. 2v). The copy was completed on Monday 3 Rabī‘ I 1023/14 April 1614 (see colophon, f. 283r, transcribed below). B...
This work is a section of the Qur'an copied in West Africa (probably Nigeria) running from Sūra 16 (al-Naḥal) to partway through Sūra 21 (al-ʾAnbiyāʾ). The hand is regular but not ornate. Only two colours - black and red - are used. Verse endings are represented by a single black circle, not a ye...
Five quires (quires 5-9) of a miscellany produced in a monastic context containing Christian prayers, recipes for incenses, calendrical, astronomical, astrological, agricultural, medical and weather lore along with information about Christian feast days. Contents: 1) Fragment of a Christian pra...
Fragment of a Christian prayer. The text is defective at the beginning, and is found on the first folio of quire five of the original manuscript (f. 37r of the Coptic foliation). Begins (f. 18r, lines 1-5, defective at beginning [37r Coptic foliation]): يا ربي وإلاهي خاضعًا [first 6 or 7 le...
Fragment from the beginning of an anonymous astrological text. This text is on ff. 70v-71v of the Coptic foliation. Contents: Method for deriving a person's ascendant through a numerological analysis of the querent's name and that of his or her mother (f. 1v [70v Coptic foliation]); The numeric...
Duʿā mustakhraj min Kitāb Dāwūd al-nabī دعا مستخرج من كتاب داود النبي
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Prayer based on Psalm 6. This text is on ff. 37v-41r of the Coptic foliation. Contents: Begins (f. 18v, line 13-19r, line 2 [37v-38r Coptic foliation]): يا رب لا بغضبك توبخني ولا جزك (؟) تؤدبني ارحمني يا رب فإن عظامي قد عطفًا علي يا رب نجني نفسي وح [first 6 or 7 letters illegible] خلصني...
