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Name Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy), Claudius, astronomer, c 90-c 168

1. Add MS 7473, ff 81v-102v

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Add MS 7473, ff 81v-102v
Title:
Kitāb fī al-hay’ah al-musammá al-iqtiṣāṣ كتاب في الهيئة المسمى بالاقتصاص Ptolemy بطلميوس
Scope & Content:
Arabic translation of the Planetary Hypotheses (Ὑποθέσεις τῶν πλανωμένων, كتاب الاقتصاص) of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168). The work is divided into two books: Book One (المقالة الأولى, ff. 81v-92v); Book Two (المقالة الثانية, ff. ). The original Greek text of Book Two is lost. B...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
639
Extent:

Ff. 81v-102v

2. Add MS 7474

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Title:
Kitāb al-Majisṭī كتاب المجسطي Ptolemy بطلميوس
Scope & Content:
Books One to Six of the Almagest (كتاب المجسطي), an Arabic version of the Μαθηματικῆς σύνταξις of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168), thought to have been translated by al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar (786-830). This was the most influential and enduring astronomical text to have survived f...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
686
Extent:
Codex; ff. i+183+ii

3. Add MS 7475

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Title:
Kitāb Baṭlamyūs fī al-ta‘līm al-ma‘rūf bi-l-Majisṭī naqala Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn كتاب بطلميوس في التعليم المعروف بالمجسطي نقل إسحق بن حنين Ptolemy بطلميوس
Scope & Content:
Books Seven to Thirteen of the Almagest (كتاب المجسطي), an Arabic version of the Μαθηματικῆς σύνταξις of of Ptolemy (بطلميوس, Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168). The book title on f. 199v names the translator as Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn (d. c 910), the son of Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (d. 873). This manuscript cal...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
615
Extent:
Codex; ff. iii+239+iii

4. Add MS 7476

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Add MS 7476
Title:
Sharḥ sharḥ al-Majisṭī شرح شرح المجسطي Nīsāpūrī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad نيسابوري، الحسن بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Supercommentary by al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn Niẓām al-Dīn al-Aʿraj al-Nīsābūrī (الحسن بن محمد بن الحسين نظام الدين الأعرج النيسابوري; d. 1328 or 9) on Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274) Taḥrīr kitāb al-Majisṭī (تحرير كتاب المجسطي), an...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+343+ii

5. 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

6. Add MS 10755

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Add MS 10755
Title:
LIBRO D'ORO; fatto l'anno 1722. Quarto. [10,755.]
Scope & Content:
Venice: "Libro d'Oro," ossia enumerazione delle famiglie nobili Venete; various copies: compiled between 1550 and 1714. 'Libro d'Oro': ossia enumerazione delle famiglie nobili Venete; various copies: from 1550 to 1722.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1722
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 19391, ff 14-17

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Add MS 19391, ff 14-17
Title:
Ptolemy, Geographia VII-VIII, 1-4, with tables.
Scope & Content:
Geographia VII-VIII, 1-4, with tables.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

4 folios

8. Add MS 20751

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Add MS 20751
Title:
NOTES on the Geography of Ptolemy, by John Holmes, F.S.A., Assistant-keeper of MSS. in the British Museum; with notices of MS. copies and printed editions of the work. Paper; XIXth cent. Folio.
Scope & Content:
Claudius Ptolemaeus, astronomer: Notes on his geography, by J. Holmes: 19th cent. John Holmes, Assistant Keeper at the British Museum: Notes on Ptolemy's Geography: 19th cent. Geography: Notes on Ptolemy's Geography by J. Holmes: 19th cent. Bibliography: Collections by J. Holmes: 19th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 22772

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JOHANNIS Campani Novariensis liber astronomicus de erroribus Ptolemæi. Dedicated to Pope Urban IV. Paper; in double columns; XVth cent. Folio. Urban IV; Pope: was dedicated to him. Claudius Ptolemaeus, astronomer: Liber astronomictus de ejus erroribus, per J. Campanum: 15th cent. Giovanni Cam...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 22790

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Scope & Content:
1. HERMANNI Contracti liber de Compositione Astrolabii, f. 1. 2. "Rithmachia," liber de arithmeticâ, f. 4 b. 3. Almagesti Ptolomæi Philudensis libri abbreviatio, f. 6. 4. Fragmentum tractatus grammatici, f. 7. 5. Synonyma quædam Græca et Latina, f. 8 b. 6. Fragmentum tractatus logici, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 item

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