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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Astronomy, Greek Level [32] Fonds

1. Add MS 7474

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Title:
Kitāb al-Majisṭī كتاب المجسطي Ptolemy بطلميوس
Scope & Content:
Books One to Six of the Almagest (كتاب المجسطي), an Arabic version of the Μαθηματικῆς σύνταξις of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168), thought to have been translated by al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar (786-830). This was the most influential and enduring astronomical text to have survived f...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
686
Extent:
Codex; ff. i+183+ii

2. Add MS 7475

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Title:
Kitāb Baṭlamyūs fī al-ta‘līm al-ma‘rūf bi-l-Majisṭī naqala Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn كتاب بطلميوس في التعليم المعروف بالمجسطي نقل إسحق بن حنين Ptolemy بطلميوس
Scope & Content:
Books Seven to Thirteen of the Almagest (كتاب المجسطي), an Arabic version of the Μαθηματικῆς σύνταξις of of Ptolemy (بطلميوس, Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168). The book title on f. 199v names the translator as Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn (d. c 910), the son of Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (d. 873). This manuscript cal...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
615
Extent:
Codex; ff. iii+239+iii

3. Add MS 7476

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Title:
Sharḥ sharḥ al-Majisṭī شرح شرح المجسطي Nīsāpūrī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad نيسابوري، الحسن بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Supercommentary by al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn Niẓām al-Dīn al-Aʿraj al-Nīsābūrī (الحسن بن محمد بن الحسين نظام الدين الأعرج النيسابوري; d. 1328 or 9) on Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274) Taḥrīr kitāb al-Majisṭī (تحرير كتاب المجسطي), an...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+343+ii

4. Or 5323

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Or 5323
Title:
Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thābitah كتاب صور الكواكب الثابتة Ṣūfī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar صوفى، عبد الرحمن ابن عمر
Scope & Content:
An illustrated description by ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣūfī (عبد الرحمن الصوفي; d. 986) of the 48 classical constellations discussed by Ptolemy in his Almagest. The text contains labelled illustrations of the 48 constellations as viewed on a celestial globe and as viewed in the sky, along with supporti...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1260-1280
Extent:
Codex; ff. iii+86+ii