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1. Add MS 9598

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Add MS 9598
Title:
A collection of treatises on astronomical instruments and their use
Scope & Content:
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

2. Add MS 9598, ff 1r-4r

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Title:
Takhbīr al-aḥbāb fī al-ḍarūrī fī ʿilm al-asṭurlāb تخبير الأحباب في الضروري في علم الأسطرلاب Ibn al-Shāṭir, ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm, ابن الشاطر، علي بن إبراهيم
Scope & Content:
A treatise in ten chapters (أبواب) on the uses of the astrolabe, one of numerous works on astronomical instruments authored by ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Shāṭir (علاء الدين أبو الحسن علي بن إبراهيم ابن الشاطر, d. 1360). Begins (f. 1r, lines 2-4): قال الشيخ العلامة الحيسو...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 1650-1750
Extent:

Ff. 1r-4r

3. Add MS 9598, ff 4v-17r

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Add MS 9598, ff 4v-17r
Title:
Sharḥ al-Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-mujayyab شرح الرسالة في العمل بالربع المجيب Sanbāṭī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq سنباطي، أحمد بن عبد الحق
Scope & Content:
A commentary by Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Sanbāṭī (أحمد بن أحمد بن عبد الحق السنباطي, fl. 16th century) on the Treatise on the Use of the Sine Quadrant (الرسالة في العمل بالربع المجيب) in twenty chapters (باب) by Badr al-Dīn Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shāfi‘ī al-...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 1650-1750
Extent:

Ff. 4v-17r

4. Add MS 9598, ff 17v-39r

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Add MS 9598, ff 17v-39r
Title:
Taʿlīq ʿalá Sharḥ al-risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-mujayyab تعليق على شرح الرسالة في العمل بالربع المجيب
Scope & Content:
Anonymous gloss (تعليق, see f. 17v, line 12) on a commentary by Badr al-Dīn Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shāfi‘ī al-Miṣrī al-Dimashqī (بدر الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن محمد بن أحمد الشافعي المصري الدمشقي, b. 1423, d. 1490), known as Sibṭ al-Māridīnī (سبط المارديني), timekeeper...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 1650-1750
Extent:

Ff. 17v-39r

5. Add MS 9598, ff 41r-47v

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Title:
Taḥṣīl al-maṭlab fī al-rubʿ al-mujayyab تحصيل المطلب في الربع المجيب Ibn ʿAṣr, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ابن عصر، عبد الرحمن
Scope & Content:
A versification by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAṣr (عبد الرحمن ابن عصر, fl. 16th century) of al-Maṭlab fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-mujayyab (المطلب في العمل بالربع المجيب) in twenty chapters (باب) by Badr al-Dīn Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shāfi‘ī al-Miṣrī al-Dimashqī (بدر الدين أبو ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 1650-1750
Extent:

Ff. 41r-47v

6. Add MS 9598, ff 47v-50r

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Add MS 9598, ff 47v-50r
Title:
Nubdhah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ bi-muqanṭarāt نبذة في العمل بالربع بمقنطرات 'Umar Ḥamad al-Mazalī عمر حمد المزلي
Scope & Content:
Versified abbreviation of a text on timekeeping (توقيت) using an astrolabe quadrant (الربع بمقنطرات) centred on the Mosque of al-Hākim (presumably in Cairo). The introduction to the text mentions that it consists of ten bābs (أبواب) and a conclusion (خاتمة), a division found in the present copy ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 1650-1750
Extent:
Ff. 47v-50r

7. Add MS 9598, ff 50r-52r

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Add MS 9598, ff 50r-52r
Title:
Manẓūmah Wāfīyat al-Maṭlūb fī al-rubʿ al-juyūb منظومة وافية المطلوب في ربع الجيوب
Scope & Content:
Anonymous versified abbreviation of a treatise on the sine quadrant (الربع الجيوب), probably Wāfīyat al-maṭlūb fī rubʿ al-juyūb (وافية المطلوب في ربع الجيوب), by Abū Zayd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī al-Maḥāsin Yūsuf al-Fāsi (أبو زيد عبد الرحمن بن أبي محمد عبد ا...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 1685-1750
Extent:

Ff. 50r-52r

8. Add MS 9598, ff 52r-57r

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Title:
al-Nasamah al-nafḥīyah النسمة النفحية Maqdisī, ʿAlī ibn Ghānim مقدسي، علي بن غانم
Scope & Content:
A versified commentary by ʿAlī ibn Ghānim al-Maqdisī (علي بن غانم المقدسي, d. 1596), of the Fatḥīyah Treatise on the Use of the Sine Quadrant (الرسالة الفتحية في العمل بالربع المجيب, see f. 52r, line 10) in twenty chapters (باب) by Badr al-Dīn Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Sh...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 1650-1700
Extent:
Ff. 52r-57r

9. Add MS 9598, ff 57v-73r

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Add MS 9598, ff 57v-73r
Title:
Tawḍīḥ al-Nasamah al-nafḥīyah توضيح النسمة النفحية Maqdisī, ʿAlī ibn Ghānim مقدسي، علي بن غانم
Scope & Content:
Author's self-commentary on al-Nasamah al-nafḥīyah, a versification by ʿAlī ibn Ghānim al-Maqdisī (علي بن غانم المقدسي, d. 1596) of the Fatḥīyah Treatise on the Use of the Sine Quadrant (الرسالة الفتحية في العمل بالربع المجيب) in twenty chapters (باب) by Badr al-Dīn Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn M...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 1650-1700
Extent:

Ff. 57v-73r

10. Add MS 9598, ff 73r-94v

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Add MS 9598, ff 73r-94v
Title:
Taʿlīq ʿalá Sharḥ al-risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-mujayyab تعليق على شرح الرسالة في العمل بالربع المجيب
Scope & Content:
Anonymous gloss (تعليق, see f. 73v, line 2) on the commentary by Badr al-Dīn Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shāfi‘ī al-Miṣrī al-Dimashqī (بدر الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن محمد بن أحمد الشافعي المصري الدمشقي, b. 1423, d. 1490), known as Sibṭ al-Māridīnī (سبط المارديني), timekeepe...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 1650-1750
Extent:

Ff. 73r-94v