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1. Add MS 9598, ff 101v-122r

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Add MS 9598, ff 101v-122r
Title:
Ikhlāṣ al-naṣāʾiḥ fī takhṭīṭ al-ṣafāʾiḥ اخلاص النصائح في تخطيط الصفائح Tūzarī, ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān توزري، عمر بن عبد الرحمن
Scope & Content:
Treatise in ten fuṣūl (فصل) grouped into three bābs (أبواب) discussing the geometrical and mathematical skills needed to inscribe lines onto horizontal (رخائم) and vertical (منحرفات) sundials. It was written by Abū Jaʿfar ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Qu...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
9 Muḥarram 903
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Ff. 101v-122r

2. Add MS 9598, ff 94v-100v

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Add MS 9598, ff 94v-100v
Title:
Muqarrib al-maṭālib fī taʿdīl al-kawākib مقرب المطالب في تعديل الكواكب Ghiyāthī al-Tāzī, Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, غياثي التازي، جابر بن عبد الله
Scope & Content:
A poem on planetary astronomy compiled by Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥājj Jābir al-Ghiyāthī al-Tāzī (جابر بن عبد الله بن الحاج جابر الغياثي التازي, ca 16th century, see f. 94v, lines 14-16). The text is followed by the beginning of another poem on the Arab and ʿAjam (lunar and solar) calendars...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 1650-1750
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Ff. 94v-100v

3. Add MS 9598, ff 47v-50r

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Add MS 9598, ff 47v-50r
Title:
Nubdhah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ bi-muqanṭarāt نبذة في العمل بالربع بمقنطرات 'Umar Ḥamad al-Mazalī عمر حمد المزلي
Scope & Content:
Versified abbreviation of a text on timekeeping (توقيت) using an astrolabe quadrant (الربع بمقنطرات) centred on the Mosque of al-Hākim (presumably in Cairo). The introduction to the text mentions that it consists of ten bābs (أبواب) and a conclusion (خاتمة), a division found in the present copy ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 1650-1750
Extent:
Ff. 47v-50r

4. Add MS 9598, ff 41r-47v

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Add MS 9598, ff 41r-47v
Title:
Taḥṣīl al-maṭlab fī al-rubʿ al-mujayyab تحصيل المطلب في الربع المجيب Ibn ʿAṣr, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ابن عصر، عبد الرحمن
Scope & Content:
A versification by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAṣr (عبد الرحمن ابن عصر, fl. 16th century) of al-Maṭlab fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-mujayyab (المطلب في العمل بالربع المجيب) in twenty chapters (باب) by Badr al-Dīn Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shāfi‘ī al-Miṣrī al-Dimashqī (بدر الدين أبو ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 1650-1750
Extent:

Ff. 41r-47v

5. Add MS 9598, ff 73r-94v

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Add MS 9598, ff 73r-94v
Title:
Taʿlīq ʿalá Sharḥ al-risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-mujayyab تعليق على شرح الرسالة في العمل بالربع المجيب
Scope & Content:
Anonymous gloss (تعليق, see f. 73v, line 2) on the commentary by Badr al-Dīn Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shāfi‘ī al-Miṣrī al-Dimashqī (بدر الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن محمد بن أحمد الشافعي المصري الدمشقي, b. 1423, d. 1490), known as Sibṭ al-Māridīnī (سبط المارديني), timekeepe...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 1650-1750
Extent:

Ff. 73r-94v

6. Add MS 9598, ff 52r-57r

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Add MS 9598, ff 52r-57r
Title:
al-Nasamah al-nafḥīyah النسمة النفحية Maqdisī, ʿAlī ibn Ghānim مقدسي، علي بن غانم
Scope & Content:
A versified commentary by ʿAlī ibn Ghānim al-Maqdisī (علي بن غانم المقدسي, d. 1596), of the Fatḥīyah Treatise on the Use of the Sine Quadrant (الرسالة الفتحية في العمل بالربع المجيب, see f. 52r, line 10) in twenty chapters (باب) by Badr al-Dīn Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Sh...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 1650-1700
Extent:
Ff. 52r-57r

7. Add MS 9598, ff 57v-73r

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Add MS 9598, ff 57v-73r
Title:
Tawḍīḥ al-Nasamah al-nafḥīyah توضيح النسمة النفحية Maqdisī, ʿAlī ibn Ghānim مقدسي، علي بن غانم
Scope & Content:
Author's self-commentary on al-Nasamah al-nafḥīyah, a versification by ʿAlī ibn Ghānim al-Maqdisī (علي بن غانم المقدسي, d. 1596) of the Fatḥīyah Treatise on the Use of the Sine Quadrant (الرسالة الفتحية في العمل بالربع المجيب) in twenty chapters (باب) by Badr al-Dīn Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn M...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 1650-1700
Extent:

Ff. 57v-73r

8. Add MS 9598, ff 1r-4r

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Add MS 9598, ff 1r-4r
Title:
Takhbīr al-aḥbāb fī al-ḍarūrī fī ʿilm al-asṭurlāb تخبير الأحباب في الضروري في علم الأسطرلاب Ibn al-Shāṭir, ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm, ابن الشاطر، علي بن إبراهيم
Scope & Content:
A treatise in ten chapters (أبواب) on the uses of the astrolabe, one of numerous works on astronomical instruments authored by ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Shāṭir (علاء الدين أبو الحسن علي بن إبراهيم ابن الشاطر, d. 1360). Begins (f. 1r, lines 2-4): قال الشيخ العلامة الحيسو...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 1650-1750
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Ff. 1r-4r

9. Add MS 9598, ff 50r-52r

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Add MS 9598, ff 50r-52r
Title:
Manẓūmah Wāfīyat al-Maṭlūb fī al-rubʿ al-juyūb منظومة وافية المطلوب في ربع الجيوب
Scope & Content:
Anonymous versified abbreviation of a treatise on the sine quadrant (الربع الجيوب), probably Wāfīyat al-maṭlūb fī rubʿ al-juyūb (وافية المطلوب في ربع الجيوب), by Abū Zayd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī al-Maḥāsin Yūsuf al-Fāsi (أبو زيد عبد الرحمن بن أبي محمد عبد ا...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 1685-1750
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Ff. 50r-52r

10. Add MS 9598, ff 139v-157v

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Add MS 9598, ff 139v-157v
Title:
Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-al-kūrah al-falakīyah كتاب العمل بالكرة الفلكية Qusṭā ibn Lūqā قسطا بن لوقا
Scope & Content:
A treatise on the use of the celestial globe by Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا; ca 820-912). This work, in 65 short bābs (باب), was widely disseminated through at least two Arabic recensions. The present version of the text is dedicated to Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yaḥyá (أبو الحسن عبد الله بن...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Late 17th century
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Ff. 139v-157v