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032-003464769 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Astronomy--Early works to 1800

1. Add MS 9599, ff 313r-321v

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Add MS 9599, ff 313r-321v
Title:
Astrological fragments
Scope & Content:
Collection of fragments on astrology taken from one or more texts. There are many rubrications, some of which seem to indicate section breaks. The following divisions in the text are clearly marked as such by the use of relevant terminology: (1) Chapter of the division and states of the stars (...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 313r-321v

2. Add MS 9599, ff 176v-183v

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Add MS 9599, ff 176v-183v
Title:
Madkhal yanayir wa-al-shuhūr مدخل ينير والشهور
Scope & Content:
Anonymous commentary on a didactic poem on calendrical computations. The commentary was composed in 1040/1631 (عامنا هذا وهو أربعون وألف ... السبت فيه دخل ينير هذا العام, f. 177v, lines 8 and 17) and the poem commented upon was composed in 1025/1616 (see f. 178v, lines 9-11). The text ends abrup...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 176v-183v

3. Add MS 9599, ff 119v-127v

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Add MS 9599, ff 119v-127v
Title:
Fragment of an astrological treatise
Scope & Content:
Fragment of a treatise on astrology dealing with ascendants (طوالع), exaltations (أشراف), horoscopes, and calendrical calculations. The text contains three horoscope diagrams (ff. 122v-124r). The text mentions the dates 16 May 1808 (f. 121v, line 23) and 1223/1808-9 (f. 122v, line 3), the dates...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1223
Extent:

Ff. 119v-127v

4. Add MS 9599, ff 131v and 137r-145v

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Add MS 9599, ff 131v and 137r-145v
Title:
Seventeen chapters on astrology
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Collection of seventeen short chapters on various astrological subjects. (1) Section on knowing the house of the wandering [stars] by the power of the Mighty, the Omnipotent in the twelve months (فصل في معرفة مبيت [؟] السيارة بقدرة العزيز الجبار في الشهور اثنى عشر العربية, f. 137r; instructions...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1223
Extent:

Ff. 131v and 137r-145v

5. 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

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

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Add MS 9599, ff 51v-52v
Title:
Fragment of an astrological commentary
Scope & Content:
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
Extent:

Ff. 51v-52v

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

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Add MS 9599, ff 41v-51r
Title:
Sabk al-ʿibārah bi-alfāẓ al-yasārah سبك العبارة بألفاظ اليسارة
Scope & Content:
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
Extent:

Ff. 41v-51r

8. Add MS 9599, ff 132r-132v

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Add MS 9599, ff 132r-132v
Title:
Bāb yuʻraf minhā manāzil al-qamar باب يعرف منها منازل القمر
Scope & Content:
Brief chapter explaining how to use a table to discover which station the moon is in on any given day of the year. See the 'Section of the circle from which can be known which station and which sign of the zodiac the new moon of each month will be in and the method for each of them' (فصل دائرة ي...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1223
Extent:

Ff. 132r-132v

9. 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

10. 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