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21. Add MS 9599, ff 255r-312r

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Add MS 9599, ff 255r-312r
Title:
Commentary on al-Urjūzah fī aḥkām al-nujūm (أرجوزة في أحكام النجوم) by ʻAlī Ibn Abī al-Rijāl (علي ابن أبي الرجال) Ibn al-Qunfudh, Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn ابن القنفذ، أحمد ابن حسين
Scope & Content:
Commentary by the scholar and judge (قاضي) of Constantine (قسنطينة, in mod. Algeria) Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī ibn al-Khaṭīb (أبو العباس أحمد بن الحسن بن علي بن الخطيب, d. 1407), known as Ibn Qunfudh (ابن قنفذ) on the Didactic Poem on Astrological Judgments (أرجوزة في أحكام النجو...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17 Rabīʻ II 1222
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Ff. 255r-312r

22. 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
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Ff. 313r-321v

23. Add MS 23403, ff 106v-118r

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Add MS 23403, ff 106v-118r
Title:
[al-Ishārah ilá ʻilm fasād aḥkām al-nujūm الإشارة إلى علم فساد أحكام النجوم] Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:
Polemical treatise attacking the false premises of astrology, by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037), ascribed in the present volume the title Risālah fī ibṭāl aḥkām al-nujūm (رسالة في إبطال أحكام النجوم, ff...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1019
Extent:
Ff. 106v-118r

24. Add MS 23403, ff 128r-133r

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Add MS 23403, ff 128r-133r
Title:
[Risālah fī ʿillat qiyām al-arḍ fī ḥayyizihā رسالة في علة قيام الأرض في حيزها] Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:
A treatise in ten chapters (فصول), by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037), discussing the causes of the Earth’s remaining in its position in the middle of the heavens. In the introduction, the author states...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1019
Extent:
Ff. 128r-133r

25. Add MS 23569, ff 1v-46r

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Add MS 23569, ff 1v-46r
Title:
Risālah dar ‘ilm-i hay’ah رسالة در علم هيئة Qūshjī, ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad قوشجي، علي بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Popular textbook of astronomy written in Samarqand in 1458 by Abū al-Qāsim ‘Alā’ al-Dīn ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad al-Qūshjī (أبو القاسم علاء الدين علي بن محمد القوشجي; d. 1474). The text contains 22 diagrams in red and black ink (ff. 2r, 2v, 3r, 5r, 11r, 14r, 15v, 17r, 21v, 23r, 26v, 32v, 33r, 34r, 34v...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1646-47
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Ff. 1v-46r

26. Add MS 23569, ff 46v-56v

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Add MS 23569, ff 46v-56v
Title:
Tashrīḥ al-aflāk تشريح الأفلاك ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين
Scope & Content:
Summary of theoretical astronomy (علم الهيئة) by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621) in which he argues that the earth rotates around its axis. Contents: Begins (f. 46v, lines 2-5): ربّنا ما خلقت هذا باطلًا سبحانك فقنا عذاب النار واجعلني من ا...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1646-47
Extent:

Ff. 46v-56v

27. Add MS 23569, ff 56v-77r

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Add MS 23569, ff 56v-77r
Title:
Risālah sī faṣl رساله سي فصل Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Treatise on practical astronomy (تقويم) divided into thirty sections (سي فصل) composed in 658/1260 (see Amīn, Mustadrakāt a‘yān al-shī‘ah, p. 233) by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين الطوسي, d. 1274). The full title of the work is Sī faṣl dar ma‘rifat-i taqvīm (سي فصل در معرفت تقويم). The text ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
25 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1055
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Ff. 56v-77r

28. Add MS 23569, ff 78v-103r

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Add MS 23569, ff 78v-103r
Title:
Bīst bāb dar ma‘rifat asṭurlāb بيست باب در معرفت اسطرلاب Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the use of the astrolabe in twenty chapters (بيست باب) by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين الطوسي, d. 1274). This copy was completed on 29 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 1057/26 December 1647 (see colophon, f. 103r, lines 9-11, transcribed below). Begins (f. 78v, lines 4-6): اين مختصر يست در معرفت...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
29 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 1057
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Ff. 78v-103r

29. Add MS 23570, ff 70r-75r

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Add MS 23570, ff 70r-75r
Title:
Kitāb Thāwudhūsīyus fī al-layl wa-al-nahār كتاب ثاوذوسيوس في الليل والنهار Theodosius ثاودوسيوس
Scope & Content:
Arabic version of the De diebus et noctibus (Περὶ ἡμερῶν καὶ νυκτῶν; كتاب في الليل والنهار) a work on astronomy by Theodosius of Bithynia (ثاوذوسيوس; Θεοδόσιος; c 160-c 100 BC). The translator is said to be Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn (إسحق بن حنين, d. c 910; see f. 70v, line 2, transcribed below), the son...
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Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1605-1610
Extent:

Ff. 70r-75r

30. Add MS 23570, ff 76r-82r

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Add MS 23570, ff 76r-82r
Title:
Kitāb Thāwudhūsīyus fī al-masākin كتاب ثاوذوسيوس في المساكن Theodosius ثاودوسيوس
Scope & Content:
Arabic version of the De habitationibus (Περὶ οἰκήσεων; كتاب المساكن), a work on astronomy by Theodosius of Bithynia (ثاودوسيوس; Θεοδοìσιος; c 160-c 100 BC), translated from the Greek by Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا; c 820-912). The text contains twelve diagrams. The copy was completed at Yazd ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Rajab 1014
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Ff. 76r-82r