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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Astronomy--Early works to 1800

91. Or 6669

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6669
Title:
al-Zīj al-muʿtabir al-Sanjarī الزيج المعتبر السنجري Khāzinī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān خازني، عبد الرحمن
Scope & Content:
Astronomical handbook with tables composed at Merv (مرو) by the astronomer, mathematician and physicist Abū Manṣūr (also known as Abū al-Fatḥ) ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Khāzinī (أبو منصور/أبو الفتح عبد الرحمن الخازني) around 1120 and dedicated to the Seljuk sultan Sanjar ibn Malikshāh (سنجر بن ملكشاه, r...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
20 Jumādá II 620
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+157+ii

92. Or 7368

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7368
Title:
Sharḥ al-Majisṭī شرح المجسطي Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:
Commentary on Ptolemy's (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168) Almagest (كتاب المجسطي), said to be by Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Tarkhān al-Fārābī (أبو نصر محمد بن محمد بن ترخان الفارابي; ca 870-950), but in fact by Avicenna (أبو علي بن سينا; ca 980-1037). Notes on front paper iii verso and ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Ramaḍān 628
Extent:

Codex; ff. iiii+106+ii

93. Or 7716, ff 1r-117r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7716, ff 1r-117r
Title:
Kitāb al-milal wa-al-duwwal كتاب الملل والدوّل Abū Ma‘shar أبو معشر
Scope & Content:
Major treatise on historical astrology by Abū Ma‘shar Ja‘far ibn Muḥammad ibn ‘Umar al-Balkhi (أبو معشر جعفر بن محمد عمر البلخي; d. ca 886). The text is divided into eight parts (مقالات) in sixty-three chapters (فصول), not ninety-three chapters as erroneously stated in this manuscript (f. 1v, l...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
Ff. 1r-117r

94. Or 7716, ff 118v-127r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7716, ff 118v-127r
Title:
al-I‘lām bi-shadd al-minkām الإعلام بشدّ المنكام Muḥammad al-Ṣūfī محمد الصوفي
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the use of sand-clocks (منكام, pl. مناكيم) by the Egyptian mathematician and astronomer Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Fatḥ ibn ‘Īsá ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣūfī al-Miṣrī (شمس الدين محمد بن أبي الفتح بن عيسى بن الصوفي المصري, fl. late 15th-early 16th century; see. f. 125v, lines 2-3). The tex...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
Ff. 118v-127r

95. Or 7716, ff 128r-144v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7716, ff 128r-144v
Title:
Mir’āt al-ayyām wa-al-daraj مرآة الأيام والدرج Najm al-Dīn Muḥammad Ma‘rūf نجم الدين محمد معروف
Scope & Content:
Treatise by Najm al-Dīn Muḥammad Ma‘rūf (نجم الدين محمد معروف; fl. ca 1001/1592) describing and explaining the use of an instrument for making calendrical conversions, and calculating the beginnings of the months in the Islamic (عربي), Syro-Macedonian (رومي), Persian and Coptic calendars, includ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
Ff. 128r-144v

96. Or 8415

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8415
Title:
Four treatises on astronomy
Scope & Content:
Collection of four treatises on astronomy copied between 15 (?) Dhū al-Qa‘dah 1226/1 (?) December 1811 and 20 Jumādá I 1227/29 (?) May 1812 by Muḥammad Muḥsin ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Dawrī (محمد محسن بن محمد صالح بن محي الدين الدوري, see ff. 1r, 235r, 245v, and 255v), Qāḍī at Ūrdá...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1226-1227
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+257+ii

97. Or 8857, ff 30v-33v, 11r-16v, 3r-10v, 17r-17v, 1r and 1v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8857, ff 30v-33v, 11r-16v, 3r-10v, 17r-17v, 1r and 1v
Title:
Kitāb al-azminah كتاب الأزمنة
Scope & Content:
Collection of calendrical, astronomical, meteorological and medical information along with details about Christian feast days and events in the commercial calendar. The material is arranged by month following the order of the Orthodox liturgical calendar, which begins on 1 Aylūl/September. For a...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 1000
Extent:

Ff. 30v-33v, 11r-16v, 3r-10v, 17r-17v, 1r and 1v

98. Or 9011

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9011
Title:
Kitāb Jāmiʻ li-ʻilm aḥkām al-masāʼil
Scope & Content:
Comprehensive treatise on the science of prognostication through astrological interrogations. The manuscript does not state the text's author and the title has been derived from the preface (f. 3v, line 17). Confusion regarding the identity of the text and its author is expressed by a note dated...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Rajab 1200
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+348+ii

99. Or 9116

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9116
Title:
Taysīr al-maṭālib fī tasyīr al-kawākib تيسير المطالب في تسيير الكواكب Kawāshī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr كواشي، محمد بن أبي بكر
Scope & Content:
Astronomical handbook (زيج) by the Yemenī astronomer Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Kawāshī (محمد بن أبي بكر الكواشي, fl. 13th century, see King, Mathematical Astronomy in Medieval Yemen [1982], p. 27). The text is dedicated to the Rasūlid ruler of Yemen al-Malik al-Muẓaffar Yūsuf (I) ibn ‘Umar (الملك...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+139+ii

100. Or 11207

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11207
Title:
Sharḥ al-tadhkirat al-naṣīrīyah fī ʿilm al-hayʾah شرح التذكرة النصيرية في علم الهيئة ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī علي بن محمد بن علي الحسيني الجرجاني
Scope & Content:
Commentary by ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī (علي بن محمد بن علي الحسيني الجرجاني; d. 1413), known as al-Sayyid al-Sharīf (السيد الشريف) on the Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hayʾah (كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة; see British Library, MS Or. 11209) a treatise on the astronomical system pres...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19 Shawwāl 831
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+100+i