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12. Add MS 9599, ff 183v-185r
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- Add MS 9599, ff 183v-185r
- Title:
- Bāb fī dhikr al-burūj al-muttafiqah fī al-maṭāliʻ wa-al-burūj al-muqtadirah باب في ذكر البروج المتفقة في المطالع والبروج المقتدرة
- Scope & Content:
- Short, perhaps fragmentary, astrological text on the qualities of the signs of the zodiac. The text begins abruptly, without basmala, after the defective end of the previous text but does not appear to continue it. Begins (f. 183v, lines 12-15): باب في ذكر البروج المتفقة في المطالع والبروج ...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Date Range:
- 19th century
- Extent:
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Ff. 183v-185r
13. Add MS 9599, ff 31r-33v
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- Add MS 9599, ff 31r-33v
- Title:
- Fragment of a commentary on a poem about the Night of Qadr
- Scope & Content:
- Fragment of an anonymous commentary on a didactic poem (أرجوزة) about the Night of Qadr (ليلة القدر). One or more folios is missing from the beginning of the commentary. Begins (f. 31r, lines 1-2): بمعناه زيادة تأمين وطيب تحية وإكرام بالانتقال أحزم وهل في رمضان أو في جميع العام Ends (f. 3...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Date Range:
- 19th century
- Extent:
- Ff. 31r-33v
14. 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
15. 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
16. Add MS 9599, ff 53r-54r
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- Add MS 9599, ff 53r-54r
- Title:
- al-Munākh المناخ Ibn al-Bannāʾ, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ابن البناء، أحمد بن محمد
- Scope & Content:
- An almanac for determining dates in the Arabic (i.e., hijrī) year (السنة العربية) by Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Marrākushī (أبو العباس أحمد بن محمد المراكشي, d. 1321), known as Ibn al-Bannā’ (ابن البناء). After a brief introduction (f. 53r), the text consists of two tables (ff. 53v-54r)...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Date Range:
- 19th century
- Extent:
-
Ff. 53r-54r
17. Add MS 9599, ff 172r-176r
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- Add MS 9599, ff 172r-176r
- Title:
- Mufīd al-muḥtāj fī sharḥ al-sirāj مفيد المحتاج في شرح السراج Wansharīsī, Saḥnūn ibn ʻUthmān ونشريسي، سحنون بن عثمان
- Scope & Content:
- Fragment of the Help for the Needy: Commentary on the Lamp (مفيد المحتاج في شرح السراج) by the Algerian jurisconsult (فقيه) Saḥnūn ibn ʻUthmān bin Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad bin Abī Bakr al-Wansharīsī (سحنون بن عثمان بن سليمان بن أحمد بن أبي بكر الونشريسي), who completed the work in 1016/1607. The text ...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Date Range:
- 19th century
- Extent:
-
Ff. 172r-176r
18. 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
19. 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
20. Add MS 9599, ff 18r-30v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 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
- Scope & Content:
- 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