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

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Title:
Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-asṭurlāb رسالة في العمل بالأسطرلاب Mizzī, Shams [Zayn] al-Dīn Muḥammad مزي، شمس [زين] الدين محمد
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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
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Ff. 1r-7r

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

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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
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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
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Ff. 7v-13r

3. 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
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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

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

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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

5. Add MS 9599, ff 38v-40r

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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
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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

6. Add MS 9599, ff 40v-41r

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Title:
Fragment of text on planetary equations
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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
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Ff. 40v-41r

7. Add MS 9599, ff 41v-51r

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Title:
Sabk al-ʿibārah bi-alfāẓ al-yasārah سبك العبارة بألفاظ اليسارة
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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
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Ff. 41v-51r

8. Add MS 9599, ff 51v-52v

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Add MS 9599, ff 51v-52v
Title:
Fragment of an astrological commentary
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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
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Ff. 51v-52v

9. 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
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Ff. 55v-60r

10. Add MS 9599, ff 80v-118v

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Add MS 9599, ff 80v-118v
Title:
Commentary on a poem on calendrical calculations
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Anonymous commentary on an anonymous didactic poem on calendrical calculations. The commentary was composed in 911/1505-06 (see f. 86v, line 17). The author of the commentary frequently refers to the Student's Method on Planetary Equations (منهاج الطالب في تعديل الكواكب), by the mathematician an...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
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Ff. 80v-118v