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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7492, ff 49v-52r
Title:: Anonymous treatise on the calculation of days and months
Scope & Content:: Brief anonymous treatise on the calculation of days and months. An instruction for calculating hijrī years indicates the date of the text's composition as 849/1445-46, during the second reign of the Ottoman sultan Murād II (مراد الثاني, reg. 1446-51, see f. 50v, lines 6-9). Instructions for fi...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Ff. 48v-52r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7492, ff 52v-66v
Title:: al-Zīj al-Shāmil الزيج الشامل [Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī, al-Mufaḍḍal ibn ʿUmar أثير الدين الأبهري، المفضّل بن عمر]
Scope & Content:: Astronomical handbook in ten bābs (أبواب), each subdivided into fuṣūl (فصول) in the tradition of Abū al-Wafāʾ al-Būzjānī and his colleagues at the Bāb al-Tibn Observatory in Baghdad (أبو الوفاء البوزجاني, d. 998, see f. 52v, line 3). The incipit also mentions the earlier work carried out under c...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Ff. 52v-67v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7527, ff 2v-170r
Title:: Tafsīr kitāb al-ʿilal تفسير كتاب العلل Sākhīyūs al-Qass ساخيوس القس
Scope & Content:: Compendium of natural philosophy attributed to the Greek Pythagorean sage Apollonius of Tyana (Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Τυανεύς, here transliterated بلينوس, fl. 1st century). The text is presented as a translation and commentary by a certain priest Sākhīyūs resident at Nablus (ساخيوس القس الذي منزل بنابلس; ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Rabī‘ II 1097
Extent:: Ff. 2v-170r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7527, ff 171v-185v
Title:: Risālah fī tadbīr safar al-ḥajj رسالة في تدبير سفر الحج Qusṭā ibn Lūqā قسطا بن لوقا
Scope & Content:: Treatise on hygiene and diet for pilgrims by Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا; ca 820-912) written for the vizier Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Makhlad ibn al-Jarrāḥ (أبو محمد الحسن بن مخلد بن الجراح, d. 882). The treatise is also known by the title Treatise on the Regimen of Bodies During Travel for Sa...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Jumādá I 1097
Extent:: Ff. 171v-185v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7527, ff 186v-194r
Title:: Kitāb fī ʿilal al-shaʿr كتاب في علل الشعر Qusṭā ibn Lūqā قسطا بن لوقا
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the causes of the growth, lack and diseases of hair by Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا; ca 820-912) written for the vizier Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Makhlad ibn al-Jarrāḥ (أبو محمد الحسن بن مخلد بن الجراح, d. 882). The treatise is divided into twelve chapters (باب), which are listed on...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1097
Extent:: Ff. 186v-194r

Reference (shelfmark):: 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
Extent:: Ff. 1r-4r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9598, ff 4v-17r
Title:: Sharḥ al-Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-mujayyab شرح الرسالة في العمل بالربع المجيب Sanbāṭī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq سنباطي، أحمد بن عبد الحق
Scope & Content:: A commentary by Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Sanbāṭī (أحمد بن أحمد بن عبد الحق السنباطي, fl. 16th century) on the Treatise on the Use of the Sine Quadrant (الرسالة في العمل بالربع المجيب) in twenty chapters (باب) by Badr al-Dīn Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shāfi‘ī al-...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: ca 1650-1750
Extent:: Ff. 4v-17r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9598, ff 17v-39r
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. 17v, line 12) on a 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), timekeeper...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: ca 1650-1750
Extent:: Ff. 17v-39r

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

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