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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9599, ff 31r-33v
Title:: Fragment of a commentary on a poem about the Night of Qadr
Scope & Content:: Fragment of an anonymous commentary on a didactic poem (أرجوزة) about the Night of Qadr (ليلة القدر). One or more folios is missing from the beginning of the commentary. Begins (f. 31r, lines 1-2): بمعناه زيادة تأمين وطيب تحية وإكرام بالانتقال أحزم وهل في رمضان أو في جميع العام 　 Ends (f. 3...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 31r-33v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9599, ff 34r-36r
Title:: Fragment of Kitāb al-raḥmah fī al-ṭibb wa-al-ḥikmah كتاب الرحمة في الطب والحكمة Ṣanawbarī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī صنوبري، محمد بن علي
Scope & Content:: Fragment of a treatise on prophetic medicine (الطب النبوي) in five chapters (أبواب) by Muḥammad al-Mahdawī ibn ‘Alī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṣanawbarī (محمد المهدوي بن علي بن إبراهيم الصنوبري, d. 1412). The treatise is often falsely ascribed to Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī (جلال الدين السيوطي, d. 1505). This c...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 34r-36r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9599, ff 38v-40r
Title:: al-Risālah al-musammāh bi-al-yasārah fī taqwīm al-kawākib al-sayyārah الرسالة المسماة باليسارة في تقويم الكواكب السيارة Ibn al-Bannāʼ, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ابن البناء، أحمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Summary in eleven short chapters (باب) of his own astronomical handbook with tables (زيج), the Student's Method on Planetary Equations (منهاج الطالب في تعديل الكواكب), by the mathematician and astronomer Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Marrākushī (أبو العباس أحمد بن محمد المراكشي, d. 1321), ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 38v-40r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9599, ff 40v-41r
Title:: Fragment of text on planetary equations
Scope & Content:: Section (فصل) of text on equations with subjections on the equation of the Sun (تعديل الشمس), equation of the Moon (تعديل القمر), equation of the lunar nodes (تعديل الجوزهر), and equation of the five planets (تعديل الكواكب الخمسة). This material is taken from the Student's Method on Planetary Eq...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 40v-41r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9599, ff 41v-51r
Title:: Sabk al-ʿibārah bi-alfāẓ al-yasārah سبك العبارة بألفاظ اليسارة
Scope & Content:: Anonymous commentary in eleven chapters (باب) 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-40...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 41v-51r

Reference (shelfmark):: 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
Extent:: Ff. 51v-52v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9599, ff 53r-54r
Title:: al-Munākh المناخ Ibn al-Bannāʾ, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ابن البناء، أحمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: An almanac for determining dates in the Arabic (i.e., hijrī) year (السنة العربية) by Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Marrākushī (أبو العباس أحمد بن محمد المراكشي, d. 1321), known as Ibn al-Bannā’ (ابن البناء). After a brief introduction (f. 53r), the text consists of two tables (ff. 53v-54r)...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 53r-54r

Reference (shelfmark):: 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
Extent:: Ff. 55v-60r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9599, ff 60v-61v
Title:: Anonymous text on the lunar stations
Scope & Content:: Anonymous text on the twenty-eight lunar stations (منازل القمر). The text begins with a didactic poem, unusually laid out in three rather than two columns (f. 60v), followed by prose descriptions and rough diagrams of the asterisms (أنواء) that mark the lunar stations (ff. 61r-61v). Begins (f. ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 60v-61v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9599, ff 62v-79v
Title:: Zīj for Algiers
Scope & Content:: Anonymous astronomical handbook with tables (زيج). The brief introductory text (ff. 62v-63r), which mentions calculations based on the latitudes of Algiers (الجزائر) and Istanbul (إستنبول) and the year 1221/1806-07, is apparently fragmentary and comprises only two sections: (1) Section on calcul...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 62v-79v

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