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171. Add MS 7482

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Title:
Nihāyat al-idrāk fī dirāyat al-aflāk نهاية الإدراك في دراية الأفلاك Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Mas‘ūdقطب الدين الشيرازي، محمود بن مسعود
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A text on astronomy and the orbits of the heavenly bodies, by Quṭb al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Mas‘ūd al-Shīrāzī (قطب الدين محمود بن مسعود الشيرازي; c 1236-1310), comprising a commentary on the Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah (كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة) by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الد...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17 Rabī‘ II 872
Extent:
Codex; ff. ii+148+iii

172. Add MS 7484

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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

173. 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...
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Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1 Rabī‘ I 1165
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+95+ii

174. 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

175. Add MS 7492, f 48v

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Title:
Dar yāftan-i avval-i sāl-i suryāni در يافتن أول سال سرياني
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Anonymous short text in Ottoman Turkish on calculating the first day of each month in the Byzantine (rūmī), here called Syriac (suryānī), calendar year, accompanied by a summarising table. The only section in the present volume not written in Arabic, the text nevertheless covers similar conten...
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Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

F. 48v

176. Add MS 7492, ff 1r-48r

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Title:
Sharḥ mukhtaṣar fī maʿrifat al-taqāwīm شرح مختصر في معرفة التقاويم
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An anonymous commentary on an astronomical treatise in thirty sections called al-Mukhtaṣar fī maʿrifat al-taqāwīm (المختصر في معرفة التقاويم), also known as Sī faṣl dar maʿrifat-i taqwīm (سي فصل در معرفة تقويم) by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين الطوسي, d. 1274). The copy was completed at noon ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
25 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 912
Extent:

Ff. 2v-48r

177. Add MS 7492, ff 49v-52r

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Title:
Anonymous treatise on the calculation of days and months
Scope & Content:
Brief anonymous treatise on the calculation of days and months. An instruction for calculating hijrī years indicates the date of the text's composition as 849/1445-46, during the second reign of the Ottoman sultan Murād II (مراد الثاني, reg. 1446-51, see f. 50v, lines 6-9). Instructions for fi...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Ff. 48v-52r

178. Add MS 7492, ff 52v-66v

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Title:
al-Zīj al-Shāmil الزيج الشامل [Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī, al-Mufaḍḍal ibn ʿUmar أثير الدين الأبهري، المفضّل بن عمر]
Scope & Content:
Astronomical handbook in ten bābs (أبواب), each subdivided into fuṣūl (فصول) in the tradition of Abū al-Wafāʾ al-Būzjānī and his colleagues at the Bāb al-Tibn Observatory in Baghdad (أبو الوفاء البوزجاني, d. 998, see f. 52v, line 3). The incipit also mentions the earlier work carried out under c...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Ff. 52v-67v

179. Add MS 7503

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Title:
Ibn Iyās ابن إياس Nashq al-azhār fī ʻajāʼib al-aqṭār نشق الأزهار في عجائب الأقطار
Scope & Content:
A geographical compendium with a particular emphasis on Egypt (see f. 1v, lines 9-13), by Abū al-Barakāt Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Ibn Iyās (أبو البركات محمد ابن أحمد ابن إياس; died c. 1524). The text was completed on 14 Shaʻbān 922/11 September 1516 (see f. 293v, lines 17-20 transcribed below), and t...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
20 Ramaḍān 1065
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+294+ii

180. Add MS 7511

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Title:
Kitāb fī ma‘rifat ṭabā’i‘ al-ḥayawān al-barrī wa-al-baḥrī كتاب في معرفة طبائع الحيوان البري والبحري Aristotle أرسطاطاليس
Scope & Content:
This Arabic work on zoology is in fact a compilation of translations of three treatises by Aristotle (384-322 BC). The Arabic text is arranged into 19 books (أقوال), which divide the Aristotelian treatises as follows: Books 1-10 (Historia animalium), Books 11-14 (De partibus animalium), and Book...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13th-14th century
Extent:
Codex; ff. iv+232+iii

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