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1. Add MS 9599

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Title:
Collection of Arabic texts on astronomy, astrology and related subjects
Scope & Content:
A collection of texts, fragments and notes on astronomy, astrology andrelated subjects, mostly by Maghribī authors. The manuscript was probablyassembled in Algeria or Tunisia (see note mentioning the Sūq al-Balāṭ [سوقالبلاط] in Tunis on f. 1r and astronomical texts calculated for Tunis andAlgier...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
Codex; ff. ii+374+vi

2. Add MS 9599, ff 322r-329v

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Title:
Astrological fragments
Scope & Content:
Collection of astrological fragments from one or more texts. This item begins (f. 322r) with the basmala indicating a text separate to those in item 31 (ff. 313r-321v) and a title announcing that the subject is astrological elections (اختيارات), all written by a hand not seen elsewhere in the vo...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 322r-329v

3. Add MS 9599, ff 62v-79v

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Title:
Zīj for Algiers
Scope & Content:
Anonymous astronomical handbook with tables (زيج). The brief introductory text (ff. 62v-63r), which mentions calculations based on the latitudes of Algiers (الجزائر) and Istanbul (إستنبول) and the year 1221/1806-07, is apparently fragmentary and comprises only two sections: (1) Section on calcul...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 62v-79v

4. Add MS 9599, f 54v

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Title:
Astrological table
Scope & Content:
Table for determining the zodiacal sign (برج) in which the Moon will rise during the European months (شهور العجم) preceded by brief explanatory text. 　 Begins (f. 54v, lines 2-4): الحمد لله ومبيت القمر على البروج في هذا الجدول وهو أن تجعل سبابتك في البيت الذي فيه عدد الأيام العربية وتجعل أيا...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

F. 54v

5. Add MS 9599, ff 313r-321v

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Add MS 9599, ff 313r-321v
Title:
Astrological fragments
Scope & Content:
Collection of fragments on astrology taken from one or more texts. There are many rubrications, some of which seem to indicate section breaks. The following divisions in the text are clearly marked as such by the use of relevant terminology: (1) Chapter of the division and states of the stars (...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 313r-321v

6. Add MS 9599, ff 146v-149r

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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

7. Add MS 9599, ff 60v-61v

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Title:
Anonymous text on the lunar stations
Scope & Content:
Anonymous text on the twenty-eight lunar stations (منازل القمر). The text begins with a didactic poem, unusually laid out in three rather than two columns (f. 60v), followed by prose descriptions and rough diagrams of the asterisms (أنواء) that mark the lunar stations (ff. 61r-61v). Begins (f. ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 60v-61v

8. Add MS 9599, ff 228r-239r

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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

9. Add MS 9599, ff 176v-183v

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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

10. Add MS 9599, ff 119v-127v

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Title:
Fragment of an astrological treatise
Scope & Content:
Fragment of a treatise on astrology dealing with ascendants (طوالع), exaltations (أشراف), horoscopes, and calendrical calculations. The text contains three horoscope diagrams (ff. 122v-124r). The text mentions the dates 16 May 1808 (f. 121v, line 23) and 1223/1808-9 (f. 122v, line 3), the dates...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1223
Extent:

Ff. 119v-127v