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1. Add MS 9599, f 54v

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Add MS 9599, f 54v
Title:
Astrological table
Scope & Content:
Table for determining the zodiacal sign (برج) in which the Moon will rise during the European months (شهور العجم) preceded by brief explanatory text. 　 Begins (f. 54v, lines 2-4): الحمد لله ومبيت القمر على البروج في هذا الجدول وهو أن تجعل سبابتك في البيت الذي فيه عدد الأيام العربية وتجعل أيا...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
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F. 54v

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 51v-52v

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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

4. Add MS 9599, ff 55v-60r

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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

5. Add MS 9599, ff 119v-127v

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Add MS 9599, ff 119v-127v
Title:
Fragment of an astrological treatise
Scope & Content:
Fragment of a treatise on astrology dealing with ascendants (طوالع), exaltations (أشراف), horoscopes, and calendrical calculations. The text contains three horoscope diagrams (ff. 122v-124r). The text mentions the dates 16 May 1808 (f. 121v, line 23) and 1223/1808-9 (f. 122v, line 3), the dates...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1223
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Ff. 119v-127v

6. Add MS 9599, ff 128r-131r and 133r-136v

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Add MS 9599, ff 128r-131r and 133r-136v
Title:
[Kitāb al-tadbīr كتاب التدبير] Zarqālī, Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyá زرقالي، إبراهيم بن يحيى
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the production and use of magic square talismans of the seven planets by the Andalusian astronomer Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyá al-Ṭulayṭilī al-Zarqālī (أبو إسحق إبرهيم بن يحيى الطليطلي الزرقالي; d. 1100), also known as Walad al-Zarqīyāl (ولد الزرقيال), Ibn al-Zarqālluh (ابن الزرقاله)...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1223
Extent:

Ff. 128r-131r and 133r-136v

7. Add MS 9599, ff 131v and 137r-145v

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Add MS 9599, ff 131v and 137r-145v
Title:
Seventeen chapters on astrology
Scope & Content:
Collection of seventeen short chapters on various astrological subjects. (1) Section on knowing the house of the wandering [stars] by the power of the Mighty, the Omnipotent in the twelve months (فصل في معرفة مبيت [؟] السيارة بقدرة العزيز الجبار في الشهور اثنى عشر العربية, f. 137r; instructions...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1223
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Ff. 131v and 137r-145v

8. Add MS 9599, ff 132r-132v

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Add MS 9599, ff 132r-132v
Title:
Bāb yuʻraf minhā manāzil al-qamar باب يعرف منها منازل القمر
Scope & Content:
Brief chapter explaining how to use a table to discover which station the moon is in on any given day of the year. See the 'Section of the circle from which can be known which station and which sign of the zodiac the new moon of each month will be in and the method for each of them' (فصل دائرة ي...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1223
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Ff. 132r-132v

9. Add MS 9599, ff 146v-149r

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Add MS 9599, ff 146v-149r
Title:
Two chapters on astrology
Scope & Content:
Two chapters (بابان) on astrology taken from one or more texts: (1) Chapter of knowing the years by the stationing of the Moon in the signs of the zodiac (باب في معرفة السنين بنزول القمر في البروج, ff.146v-148v);(2) Chapter of the signs of the crescents in the Arabic [months] (باب علامات الأهلة ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 146v-149r

10. Add MS 9599, ff 166v-171v

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Add MS 9599, ff 166v-171v
Title:
Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-asṭurlāb رسالة في العمل بالأسطرلاب Abū al-Ṣalt, Umayyah ibn ‘Abd al-Azīz أبو الصلت، أميّة بن عبد العزيز
Scope & Content:
Extract from the Treatise on the Use of the Astrolabe (رسالة في العمل بالأسطرلاب) by the Andalusian polymath Abū al-Ṣalt Umayyah ibn ‘Abd al-‘Azīz ibn Abī al-Ṣalt al-Dānī al-Andalusī (أبو الصلت أميّة بن عبد العزيز بن أبي الصلت الداني الأندلسي, d. 1134; see note in head margin of f. 166v). Of the...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
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Ff. 166v-171v