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11. Add MS 7484

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Title:
Kitāb al-ta‘dīl fī al-hay’ah كتاب التعديل في الهيئة Maḥbūbī, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Masʿūd محبوبي، عبيد الله بن مسعود
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Commentary by ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Masʿūd al-Maḥbūbī al-Bukhārī al-Ḥanafī (عبيد الله بن مسعود المحبوبي البخاري الحنفي, d. 1346 or 47) known as Ṣadr al-Sharīʿa al-Thānī (صدر الشريعة الثاني) on his own treatise on astronomy. The treatise, without commentary, formed the third and final part of his ency...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
mid-Rajab 823
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+70+ii

12. Add MS 7489

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Title:
Maqṣad al-ṭālib wa-muntahá al-maṭālib مقصد الطالب ومنتهى المطالب Sharīf, ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Muḥammad Sharīf شريف، عبد الرحيم بن محمد شريف
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the use of the astrolabe by ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Muḥammad Sharīf al-Sharīf (عبد الرحيم بن محمد شريف الشريف, see f. 1v, line 9). The text was composed in or shortly after 1114/1702 as indicated by the table of star coordinates (ff. 85v-87v) correct for the beginning of the month of Muḥar...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1 Rabī‘ I 1165
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+95+ii

13. Add MS 7492

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Title:
Four treatises on astronomy and calendrics
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Contents: (1) Sharḥ mukhtaṣar fī maʿrifat al-taqāwīm (شرح مختصر في معرفة التقاويم, ff. 1r-48r); (2) Dar yāftan-i avval-i sāl-i suryāni (در يافتن أول سال سرياني, f. 48v); (3) Anonymous treatise on the calculation of days and months (ff. 49v-52r); (4) al-Abharī (الأبهري), al-Zīj al-shāmil (الزيج ا...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
25 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 912
Extent:

Codex; ii+1+i+47+iii+20+iii

14. Add MS 9598

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Title:
A collection of treatises on astronomical instruments and their use
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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

15. 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

16. 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

17. Add MS 9599, ff 14v-18r

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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

18. 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

19. 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
Scope & Content:
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

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

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Title:
Fragment of text on planetary equations
Scope & Content:
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
Extent:

Ff. 40v-41r