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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9598, ff 73r-94v
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. 73v, line 2) on the 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), timekeepe...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: ca 1650-1750
Extent:: Ff. 73r-94v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9598, ff 94v-100v
Title:: Muqarrib al-maṭālib fī taʿdīl al-kawākib مقرب المطالب في تعديل الكواكب Ghiyāthī al-Tāzī, Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, غياثي التازي، جابر بن عبد الله
Scope & Content:: A poem on planetary astronomy compiled by Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥājj Jābir al-Ghiyāthī al-Tāzī (جابر بن عبد الله بن الحاج جابر الغياثي التازي, ca 16th century, see f. 94v, lines 14-16). The text is followed by the beginning of another poem on the Arab and ʿAjam (lunar and solar) calendars...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: ca 1650-1750
Extent:: Ff. 94v-100v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9598, ff 101v-122r
Title:: Ikhlāṣ al-naṣāʾiḥ fī takhṭīṭ al-ṣafāʾiḥ اخلاص النصائح في تخطيط الصفائح Tūzarī, ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān توزري، عمر بن عبد الرحمن
Scope & Content:: Treatise in ten fuṣūl (فصل) grouped into three bābs (أبواب) discussing the geometrical and mathematical skills needed to inscribe lines onto horizontal (رخائم) and vertical (منحرفات) sundials. It was written by Abū Jaʿfar ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Qu...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 9 Muḥarram 903
Extent:: Ff. 101v-122r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9598, ff 123v-138v
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. 123v-138v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9598, ff 139v-157v
Title:: Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-al-kūrah al-falakīyah كتاب العمل بالكرة الفلكية Qusṭā ibn Lūqā قسطا بن لوقا
Scope & Content:: A treatise on the use of the celestial globe by Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا; ca 820-912). This work, in 65 short bābs (باب), was widely disseminated through at least two Arabic recensions. The present version of the text is dedicated to Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yaḥyá (أبو الحسن عبد الله بن...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Late 17th century
Extent:: Ff. 139v-157v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9598, ff 158v-181r
Title:: Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-kūrah al-falakīyah رسالة في العمل بالكورة الفلكية Jazāʾirī, ʿAbd al-Razzāq ibn Muḥammad, جزائري، عبد الرزاق بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Treatise on using the celestial globe by ʿAbd al-Razzāq ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥammādūsh al-Jazāʾirī (عبد الرزاق بن محمد بن محمد بن حمادوش الجزائري, b. 1695), consisting of an introduction and 90 sections (فصل). The present copy was completed in 1199/1784-5 by an unnamed scribe (see f. 1...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1199
Extent:: Ff. 158v-181r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9602
Title:: Two treatises on astrolabes
Scope & Content:: Two technical treatises on the 'use of the flat northern astrolabe (العمل بالأسطرلاب المسطح الشمالي)' (see f. 1r). The title page (f. 1r) reads: كتاب فيه رسالة بن النطاح ورسالة بن السمح رحمهما الله تعلى (!) ورضي عنهما والقصد فيهما معرفة العمل بالأسطرلاب المسطح الشمالي This is followed by a...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+55+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9602, ff 1v-24v
Title:: Treatise on the use of the astrolabe Ibn al-Naṭṭāḥ, Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn Yaḥyá ابن النطاح، محمد بن علي بن يحيى
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the use of the astrolabe by Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn Yaḥyá ibn al-Naṭṭāḥ (محمد بن علي بن يحيى بن النطاح). The text is divided into fifty-one sections (أبواب). Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-4): قال محمد بن علي بن يحيى بن النطاح رحمه لله الحمد لله الذي خلق الإنسان جاء على الشمس والقمر بحسبان...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: Ff. 1v-24v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9602, ff 25v-55v
Title:: Kitāb al-‘amal bi-l-asṭurlāb كتاب العمل بالأسطرلاب Ibn al-Samḥ, Aṣbagh ibn Muḥammad ابن السمح، أصبغ بن محمد
Scope & Content:: A treatise on the use of the astrolabe by the Andalusian astronomer and mathematician Abū al-Qāsim Aṣbagh ibn Muḥammad al-Gharnāṭī Ibn al-Samḥ (أبو القاسم أسبغ بن محمد الغرناطي بن السمح, 979-1035). The text is divided into 130 sections (أبواب). A list of the sections and their titles is found on...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: Ff. 25v-55v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9604
Title:: Itḥāf dhawī al-albāb fī sharḥ Bidāyat al-ṭullāb اتحاف ذوي الألباب في شرح بداية الطلاب Dādasī, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad دادسي، علي بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Commentary by ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Qāsim ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dādasī (علي بن محمد بن أبي القاسم بن إبراهيم الدادسي, d. 1683) on his own didactic poem on astronomical timekeeping, Bidāyat al-ṭullāb fī ‘ilm waqt al-yawm bi-al-ḥisāb (بداية الطلاب في علم وقت بالحساب, The Students' Beginning in the...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 16 Ramaḍān 1057
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+58+ii

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