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Subject Astronomical instruments Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Add MS 9598

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Add MS 9598
Title:
A collection of treatises on astronomical instruments and their use
Scope & Content:
Composite volume containing fourteen texts on astronomy and the construction and use of astronomical instruments. All the texts are copied in various Maghribī hands, and a number are by Maghribī authors. The volume itself is assembled from sections dating to over a 300-year period between 9 Mu...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
903-1199
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+158+i+24+ii

2. Add MS 9599, ff 1r-7r

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Add MS 9599, ff 1r-7r
Title:
Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-asṭurlāb رسالة في العمل بالأسطرلاب Mizzī, Shams [Zayn] al-Dīn Muḥammad مزي، شمس [زين] الدين محمد
Scope & Content:
Treatise in ten parts (فصل) and a conclusion (خاتمة) on using the astrolabe by Zayn al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Mizzī (زين الدين محمد المزي, d. 1349). A title page (f. 1r) reads as follows: هذه رسالة الأسطرلاب للشيخ الإمام العلامة زين الدين عبد الرحمن المزي الحنفي رحمه الله تعلى (!) A note in the mu...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
Ff. 1r-7r

3. Add MS 9599, ff 7v-13r

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Add MS 9599, ff 7v-13r
Title:
Mukhtaṣar fī al-ʻamal bi-al-asṭurlāb wa-rubʻ al-muqanṭarāt wa-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab مختصر في عمل بالأسطرلاب وربع المقنطرات والربع المجيبIbn al-Shāṭir, ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ابن الشاطر، علي بن إبراهيم
Scope & Content:
Introductory text in three sections (فصول) on the use of the astrolabe, the astrolabe quadrant (رُبْع المُقَنْطَرات), and the sine quadrant (الرُبْع المجَيَّب) by ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Shāṭir (علاء الدين أبو الحسن علي بن إبراهيم ابن الشاطر, d. 1360), timekeeper (مُوَق...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
Ff. 7v-13r

4. Add MS 9599, ff 14v-18r

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Add MS 9599, ff 14v-18r
Title:
Six chapters from a text on using the astrolabe
Scope & Content:
Fragment, comprising six chapters (أبواب), from a text on the use of the astrolabe. Contents: Chapter ninety-five: Knowing the qiblah in your land when the astrolabe is sine rather than azimuth (الباب ضه في معرفة القبلة في بلدك إذا كان الأسطرلاب مجيبًا غير مسمت, ff. 14v-15v); Chapter ninety-six...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
Ff. 14v-18r

5. Add MS 9599, ff 18r-30v

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Add MS 9599, ff 18r-30v
Title:
al-Qawl fī imtiḥān al-asṭurlāb wa-maʻrifat ṣiḥḥatihi min khaṭāʼ fīhi القول في امتحان الأصطرلاب ومعرفة صحته من خطاء فيه
Scope & Content:
Short text presenting twenty-one methods for testing the accuracy of an astrolabe. 　 Begins (f. 18r, lines 5-6): إن أول ما يحتاج إليه من الامتحان (!) الأ صطرلاب أن يمتحن الصفائح والعنكبوت 　 Ends (f. 30v, lines 1-4): ... فإن وقع رأس الكواكب والأول الذي أخذت ارتفاعه أرفع ما يكون على خط وس...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
Ff. 18r-30v

6. Add MS 22672

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Add MS 22672
Title:
[Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb wa-dhikr ālātihi wa-ajzāʾih كتاب العمل بالأسطرلاب وذكر آلآته و أجزائه] Ibn al-Ṣaffār, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ابن الصفار، أحمد بن عبد الله
Scope & Content:
A treatise in 42 short sections (باب) on the construction and use of the astrolabe, by Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Ṣaffār al-Ghāfiqī al-Andalusī (أبو القاسم أحمد بن عبد الله بن عمر بن الصفار الغافقي الأندلسي, d. 426/1035). The author’s name is given in the present copy as ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
Codex; ff. 27+ii

7. IO Islamic 1514, ff 2v-9r

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IO Islamic 1514, ff 2v-9r
Title:
Anonymous treatise on the construction of the astrolabe [رساله در صنعت اسطرلاب]
Scope & Content:
A short anonymous treatise (مختصر) in Persian on the construction and operation of the astrolabe, in twenty sections (bābs). The copy is extensively provided with diagrams and tables illustrating the instrument's stages of manufacture. The text was copied in the middle of Jumādá I 1056 (end of ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
Mid Jumādá I 1056
Extent:

Ff. 2v-9r

8. IO Islamic 4419

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IO Islamic 4419
Title:
Mukhtaṣar fī ṣanʿat baʿḍ al-ālāt al-raṣadīyah wa-al-ʿamal bihā مختصر في صنعة بعض الآلات الرصدية والعمل بها Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn برجندي، عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين and Risālat mukhtaṣarah shāmilah kayfīyat inshāʾ al-jadwal wa-istikhrāj aʿmālihi رسالة مختصرة شاملة كيفية إنشاء الجدول واستخراج أعماله
Scope & Content:
Two treatises on the construction and use of astronomical instruments. The manuscript was copied at Hyderabad Deccan in 1066/1656 for Qubād ibn ‘Abd al-Jalīl al-Ḥārithī al-Badakhshī (قباد بن عبد الجليل الحارثي البدخشي, d. 1083/1672-3), later known by the honorific title Diyānat Khān (ديانت خان,...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
18 Ramadan 1066-2 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1066
Extent:

Codex; ff. iii+106+ii

9. Or 5408, ff 138r-147r

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Or 5408, ff 138r-147r
Title:
Hidāyat al-sāʾil ilá al-rubʿ al-kāmil هداية السائل إلى الربع الكامل Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad سبط المارديني، بدر الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Treatise, also known under the title Hidāyat al-ʿāmil ilá al-rubʿ al-kāmil (هداية العامل إلى الربع الكامل) on the workings of the quadrant, consisting of an introduction and fifteen chapters (bābs). The copy was completed on 24 Jumādá I 1070/6 February 1660 (see colophon, f. 138v, lines 14-16, ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
24 Jumādá I 1070
Extent:

Ff. 138r-147r

10. Or 5408, ff 147v-165v

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Or 5408, ff 147v-165v
Title:
al-Nujūm al-zāhirāt fī al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-muqanṭarāt النجوم الزاهرات في العمل بربع المقنطرات Wafāʿī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad وفائي، عبد العزيز بن محمد
Scope & Content:
A short treatise in 25 bābs on the astrolabe quadrant, written by ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad al-Wafāʿī (عبد العزيز بن محمد الوفائي, active 15th century) in 843/1439 and based on the works of the muwaqqits (official timekeepers) Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd Allāh al-Māridīnī (جمال الدين عبد الله المارديني, ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1070
Extent:

Ff. 147v-165v