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21. Add MS 9599, ff 7v-13r

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Title:
Mukhtaṣar fī al-ʻamal bi-al-asṭurlāb wa-rubʻ al-muqanṭarāt wa-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab مختصر في عمل بالأسطرلاب وربع المقنطرات والربع المجيبIbn al-Shāṭir, ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ابن الشاطر، علي بن إبراهيم
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Introductory text in three sections (فصول) on the use of the astrolabe, the astrolabe quadrant (رُبْع المُقَنْطَرات), and the sine quadrant (الرُبْع المجَيَّب) by ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Shāṭir (علاء الدين أبو الحسن علي بن إبراهيم ابن الشاطر, d. 1360), timekeeper (مُوَق...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
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Ff. 7v-13r

22. Add MS 9599, ff 194v-203r

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Title:
al-Qawl fī maʿrifat awqāt al-tahajjud al-thalāthah al-madhkūrah fī al-Qurʼān القول في معرفة أوقات التهجد الثلاثة المذكورة في القرآن
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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
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Ff. 194v-203r

23. Add MS 9599, ff 38v-40r

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Title:
al-Risālah al-musammāh bi-al-yasārah fī taqwīm al-kawākib al-sayyārah الرسالة المسماة باليسارة في تقويم الكواكب السيارة Ibn al-Bannāʼ, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ابن البناء، أحمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Summary in eleven short chapters (باب) of his own astronomical handbook with tables (زيج), the Student's Method on Planetary Equations (منهاج الطالب في تعديل الكواكب), by the mathematician and astronomer Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Marrākushī (أبو العباس أحمد بن محمد المراكشي, d. 1321), ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
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Ff. 38v-40r

24. Add MS 9599, ff 34r-36r

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Title:
Fragment of Kitāb al-raḥmah fī al-ṭibb wa-al-ḥikmah كتاب الرحمة في الطب والحكمة Ṣanawbarī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī صنوبري، محمد بن علي
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Fragment of a treatise on prophetic medicine (الطب النبوي) in five chapters (أبواب) by Muḥammad al-Mahdawī ibn ‘Alī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṣanawbarī (محمد المهدوي بن علي بن إبراهيم الصنوبري, d. 1412). The treatise is often falsely ascribed to Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī (جلال الدين السيوطي, d. 1505). This c...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
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Ff. 34r-36r

25. Add MS 9599, ff 330r-372r

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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
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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
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Ff. 330r-372r

26. Add MS 9599, ff 40v-41r

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Title:
Fragment of text on planetary equations
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Section (فصل) of text on equations with subjections on the equation of the Sun (تعديل الشمس), equation of the Moon (تعديل القمر), equation of the lunar nodes (تعديل الجوزهر), and equation of the five planets (تعديل الكواكب الخمسة). This material is taken from the Student's Method on Planetary Eq...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
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Ff. 40v-41r

27. Add MS 9599, ff 128r-131r and 133r-136v

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Title:
[Kitāb al-tadbīr كتاب التدبير] Zarqālī, Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyá زرقالي، إبراهيم بن يحيى
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the production and use of magic square talismans of the seven planets by the Andalusian astronomer Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyá al-Ṭulayṭilī al-Zarqālī (أبو إسحق إبرهيم بن يحيى الطليطلي الزرقالي; d. 1100), also known as Walad al-Zarqīyāl (ولد الزرقيال), Ibn al-Zarqālluh (ابن الزرقاله)...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1223
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Ff. 128r-131r and 133r-136v

28. Add MS 9599, ff 239v-254v

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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
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Ff. 239v-254v

29. Add MS 9599, ff 80v-118v

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Title:
Commentary on a poem on calendrical calculations
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Anonymous commentary on an anonymous didactic poem on calendrical calculations. The commentary was composed in 911/1505-06 (see f. 86v, line 17). The author of the commentary frequently refers to the Student's Method on Planetary Equations (منهاج الطالب في تعديل الكواكب), by the mathematician an...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
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Ff. 80v-118v

30. Add MS 9599, ff 186r-193v

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Title:
Commentary on a didactic poem on calendrical computations
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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
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Ff. 186r-193v