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101. Or 11209

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11209
Title:
Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
A treatise on astronomy which summarises, rationalises and improves upon the system presented in the Almagest of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168). The text was composed after 1256 by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). The text is divid...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
11 Shawwāl 688
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+74+i

102. Or 11313, ff 137r-142v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11313, ff 137r-142v
Title:
al-Muqaddimah fī ʻilm al-hayʼah المقدمة في علم الهيئة Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad سبط المارديني، بدر الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Introduction to astronomy for beginners in the science of time keeping (علم الميقات). The title page (f. 137r) attributes the text to the astronomer and timekeeper (مُوَقِّت) at the al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad (بدر الدين محمد بن محمد, d. after 1497), known as Sibṭ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
Ff. 137r-142v

103. Or 11857

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11857
Title:
Qānūn al-idrāk fī tashrīḥ al-aflāk قانون الإدراك في تشريح الأفلاك Tankābunī, Muḥammad Kāẓim تنكابني، محمد كاظم
Scope & Content:
Commentary by Muḥammad Kāẓim ibn ‘Abd al-‘Alī al-Tankābunī (محمد كاظم عبد العلي التنكابني, d. after 1623-4, see al-Amīn, Mustadrakāt a‘yān al-shī‘ah, vol 2, p. 308) on the Anatomy of the Spheres (تشريح الأفلاك) by al-Tankābunī''s teacher Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محم...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
8 Rajab 1033
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+160+i

104. Or 11864

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11864
Title:
Kitāb al-Tashīl wa-al-taqrīb fī al-ḥall wa-al-tarkīb كتاب التسهيل والتقريب في الحل والتركيب Majdī, Aḥmad ibn Rajab مجدي، أحمد بن رجب
Scope & Content:
Astronomical handbook also known more fully as Simplification and Clarification Concerning Analysis and Compilation (التسهيل والتقريب في بيان طرق الحل والتركيب) on the calculation of planetary trajectories, by the Cairene astronomer and muwaqqit (timekeeper) Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
10 Jumādá II 886
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+47

105. Or 13060

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13060
Title:
Sharḥ al-tadhkirah شرح التذكرة Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn برجندي، عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين
Scope & Content:
Commentary by ‘Abd al-‘Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Birjandī (عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين البرجندي, d. 923/1525 or 26) on the Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah (كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة; see British Library, MS Or. 11209) a treatise on the astronomical system presented in the Almagest of Ptolemy (Cl...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
30 Sha‘bān 1097
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+394+ii

106. Or 14293

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14293
Title:
Yatīmat al-ʿaṣr fī al-madd wa-al-jazr يتيمة العصر في المد والجزر Ibn Mīmī, ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ابن مِيمي، عبد القادر بن أحمد بن علي
Scope & Content:
A wide-ranging treatise on natural phenomena relating to the seas, by ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Mīmī al-Baṣrī (عبد القادر بن أحمد بن علي بن مِيمي البصري, d. 1674). The text, also known as Wary al-zand bi-al-jazr wa-al-madd (وري الزند بالجزر والمد), was composed in 1084/1673 and the pr...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
14 Jumādá II 1085
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+125

107. Royal MS 16 A VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 16 A VIII
Title:
Taḥrīr kitāb al-majisṭī تحرير كتاب المجسطي Ptolemy بطلميوس Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
The Almagest (كتاب المجسطي), an Arabic version of the Μαθηματικῆς σύνταξις of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168), in the annotated edition (تحرير) of Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). This was the most influential and enduring astronomic...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
15th-16th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+192+iv