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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9599, ff 186r-193v
Title:: Commentary on a didactic poem on calendrical computations
Scope & Content:: Fragment of an anonymous commentary on an anonymous didactic poem on calendrical computations, perhaps by the astronomer ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Dādasī al-Maghribī (علي بن محمد الدادسي المغربي, d. 1683; see note in upper edge margin of f. 186r: مأخذ من كتاب الدادسي مغربي). The commentary was compos...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 186r-193v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9599, ff 194v-203r
Title:: al-Qawl fī maʿrifat awqāt al-tahajjud al-thalāthah al-madhkūrah fī al-Qurʼān القول في معرفة أوقات التهجد الثلاثة المذكورة في القرآن
Scope & Content:: Unattributed treatise on astronomical methods for determining the times of the three night prayers (تهجّد) mentioned in the Qurʼān (17:79, 25:64 and 73:20). The treatise is followed by a brief, unattributed text On the Reason for the Increase and Decrease of the Moon's Light (في سبب زيادة نور ا...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 194v-203r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9599, ff 204r-227v
Title:: al-Durrah al-nūrānīyah fī istikhrāj yawāqīt al-qaṣīdah al-Buṣīrīyah الدرة النورانية في استخراج يواقيت القصيدة البصيرية Anṭākī, ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm أنطاكي، علي بن إبراهيم
Scope & Content:: Treatise in eighteen chapters (باب) written in 760/1358-9 by Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Idrīs ibn Yaʻqūb al-Yaʻqūbī al-Anṭākī (أبو الحسن علي بن إبراهيم بن إدريس بن يعقوب اليعقوبي الأنطاكي, see ff. 204r, lines 2-3 and 204v, lines 11-12) on interpreting the portents of celestial and meteoro...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 204r-227v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9599, ff 228r-239r
Title:: al-Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-hayʼah المختصر في علم الهيئة Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Treatise on celestial and meterological phenomena falsely attributed to Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037), but actually extracted from the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity (رسائل إخوان الصفاء, see Dimitr...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17 Rabīʻ I 1221
Extent:: Ff. 228r-239r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9599, ff 239v-254v
Title:: al-Risālah fī aḥkām al-nujūmīyah min kitāb shaykh Dāwud الرسالة في أحكام النجومية من كتاب شيخ داود Anṭākī, Dāwūd ibn ‘Umar أنطاكي، داوود بن عمر
Scope & Content:: Discussion of astrological judgements (أحكام) with reference to medicine extracted from the fourth chapter (الباب الرابع) of the medical encyclopaedia Tadhkirat ūlī al-albāb wa-al-jāmi‘ lil-‘ajab al-‘ujāb (تذكرة أولي الألباب والجامع للعجب العجاب; see Dāwūd ibn ʻUmar al-Anṭākī, Tadhkirat ūlī al-a...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1 Rabīʻ II 1222
Extent:: Ff. 239v-254v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9599, ff 255r-312r
Title:: Commentary on al-Urjūzah fī aḥkām al-nujūm (أرجوزة في أحكام النجوم) by ʻAlī Ibn Abī al-Rijāl (علي ابن أبي الرجال) Ibn al-Qunfudh, Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn ابن القنفذ، أحمد ابن حسين
Scope & Content:: Commentary by the scholar and judge (قاضي) of Constantine (قسنطينة, in mod. Algeria) Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī ibn al-Khaṭīb (أبو العباس أحمد بن الحسن بن علي بن الخطيب, d. 1407), known as Ibn Qunfudh (ابن قنفذ) on the Didactic Poem on Astrological Judgments (أرجوزة في أحكام النجو...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 17 Rabīʻ II 1222
Extent:: Ff. 255r-312r

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9599, ff 322r-329v
Title:: Astrological fragments
Scope & Content:: Collection of astrological fragments from one or more texts. This item begins (f. 322r) with the basmala indicating a text separate to those in item 31 (ff. 313r-321v) and a title announcing that the subject is astrological elections (اختيارات), all written by a hand not seen elsewhere in the vo...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 322r-329v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9599, ff 330r-372r
Title:: Kitāb al-falak al-dāʾir min tuḥaf al-jawāhir كتاب الفلك الدائر من تحف الجواهر Khalīlī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, Shams al-Dīn خليلي، محمد بن محمد، شمس الدين
Scope & Content:: Set of sixty-two auxilliary tables for astrological time-keeping (ميقات) at all latitudes, with an introduction in ten chapters (باب) and a conclusion (خاتمة) explaining their use, by Shams al-Dīn Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Khalīlī (شمس الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن محمد الخليلي, fl. c...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 330r-372r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9602
Title:: Two treatises on astrolabes
Scope & Content:: Two technical treatises on the 'use of the flat northern astrolabe (العمل بالأسطرلاب المسطح الشمالي)' (see f. 1r). The title page (f. 1r) reads: كتاب فيه رسالة بن النطاح ورسالة بن السمح رحمهما الله تعلى (!) ورضي عنهما والقصد فيهما معرفة العمل بالأسطرلاب المسطح الشمالي This is followed by a...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+55+i

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