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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Islamic astronomy Level [40] File

1. Or 2411/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2411/2
Title:
Quadrant ربع
Scope & Content:
Quadrant (رُبْع), comprising an astrolabe quadrant (ربع المُقَنْطَرَات, Side A), and a sine quadrant (ربع المُجَيَّب, Side B). The quadrant is signed by its maker, Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Sharbatlī (أحمد ابن إبراهيم الشربتلي, Side A), and dated 1256/1840-1 (Side B).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1256
Extent:

Instrument

2. Royal MS 16 A VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 16 A VIII
Title:
Taḥrīr kitāb al-majisṭī تحرير كتاب المجسطي Ptolemy بطلميوس Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
The Almagest (كتاب المجسطي), an Arabic version of the Μαθηματικῆς σύνταξις of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168), in the annotated edition (تحرير) of Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). This was the most influential and enduring astronomic...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
15th-16th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+192+iv