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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
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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