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11. Add MS 9599, ff 51v-52v

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Add MS 9599, ff 51v-52v
Title:
Fragment of an astrological commentary
Scope & Content:
Fragment of a commentary on an astrological work or works by Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Marrākushī (أبو العباس أحمد بن محمد المراكشي, d. 1321), known as Ibn al-Bannā’ (ابن البناء). The fragment begins with a didactic poem on astrology (ff. 51v, line 2-52r, line 2) before moving to the ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
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Ff. 51v-52v

12. Add MS 9599, ff 55v-60r

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Add MS 9599, ff 55v-60r
Title:
Tashīl al-ʿibārah fī takmīl mā naqaṣa min al-yasārah تسهيل العبارة في تكميل ما نقص من اليسارة
Scope & Content:
Anonymous commentary on Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Marrākushī (أبو العباس أحمد بن محمد المراكشي, d. 1321), known as Ibn al-Bannā’'s (ابن البناء) Risālat al-yasārah fī taqwīm al-kawākib al-sayyārah (رسالة اليسارة في تقويم الكواكب السيارة). See items 7 (ff. 38v-40r) and 9 (ff. 41v-51r) in...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
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Ff. 55v-60r

13. Add MS 9599, ff 80v-118v

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Add MS 9599, ff 80v-118v
Title:
Commentary on a poem on calendrical calculations
Scope & Content:
Anonymous commentary on an anonymous didactic poem on calendrical calculations. The commentary was composed in 911/1505-06 (see f. 86v, line 17). The author of the commentary frequently refers to the Student's Method on Planetary Equations (منهاج الطالب في تعديل الكواكب), by the mathematician an...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
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Ff. 80v-118v

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

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

15. Add MS 9599, ff 131v and 137r-145v

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Add MS 9599, ff 131v and 137r-145v
Title:
Seventeen chapters on astrology
Scope & Content:
Collection of seventeen short chapters on various astrological subjects. (1) Section on knowing the house of the wandering [stars] by the power of the Mighty, the Omnipotent in the twelve months (فصل في معرفة مبيت [؟] السيارة بقدرة العزيز الجبار في الشهور اثنى عشر العربية, f. 137r; instructions...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1223
Extent:

Ff. 131v and 137r-145v

16. Add MS 9599, ff 132r-132v

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Add MS 9599, ff 132r-132v
Title:
Bāb yuʻraf minhā manāzil al-qamar باب يعرف منها منازل القمر
Scope & Content:
Brief chapter explaining how to use a table to discover which station the moon is in on any given day of the year. See the 'Section of the circle from which can be known which station and which sign of the zodiac the new moon of each month will be in and the method for each of them' (فصل دائرة ي...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1223
Extent:

Ff. 132r-132v

17. Add MS 9599, ff 166v-171v

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Add MS 9599, ff 166v-171v
Title:
Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-asṭurlāb رسالة في العمل بالأسطرلاب Abū al-Ṣalt, Umayyah ibn ‘Abd al-Azīz أبو الصلت، أميّة بن عبد العزيز
Scope & Content:
Extract from the Treatise on the Use of the Astrolabe (رسالة في العمل بالأسطرلاب) by the Andalusian polymath Abū al-Ṣalt Umayyah ibn ‘Abd al-‘Azīz ibn Abī al-Ṣalt al-Dānī al-Andalusī (أبو الصلت أميّة بن عبد العزيز بن أبي الصلت الداني الأندلسي, d. 1134; see note in head margin of f. 166v). Of the...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
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Ff. 166v-171v

18. 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

19. Add MS 9599, ff 186r-193v

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Add MS 9599, ff 186r-193v
Title:
Commentary on a didactic poem on calendrical computations
Scope & Content:
Fragment of an anonymous commentary on an anonymous didactic poem on calendrical computations, perhaps by the astronomer ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Dādasī al-Maghribī (علي بن محمد الدادسي المغربي, d. 1683; see note in upper edge margin of f. 186r: مأخذ من كتاب الدادسي مغربي). The commentary was compos...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 186r-193v

20. Add MS 9599, ff 194v-203r

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Add MS 9599, ff 194v-203r
Title:
al-Qawl fī maʿrifat awqāt al-tahajjud al-thalāthah al-madhkūrah fī al-Qurʼān القول في معرفة أوقات التهجد الثلاثة المذكورة في القرآن
Scope & Content:
Unattributed treatise on astronomical methods for determining the times of the three night prayers (تهجّد) mentioned in the Qurʼān (17:79, 25:64 and 73:20). The treatise is followed by a brief, unattributed text On the Reason for the Increase and Decrease of the Moon's Light (في سبب زيادة نور ا...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
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Ff. 194v-203r