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1. Add MS 9599, f 54v

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Title:
Astrological table
Scope & Content:
Table for determining the zodiacal sign (برج) in which the Moon will rise during the European months (شهور العجم) preceded by brief explanatory text. 　 Begins (f. 54v, lines 2-4): الحمد لله ومبيت القمر على البروج في هذا الجدول وهو أن تجعل سبابتك في البيت الذي فيه عدد الأيام العربية وتجعل أيامك في ال...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

F. 54v

2. 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 يعلم ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1223
Extent:

Ff. 132r-132v

3. Add MS 9599, ff 18r-30v

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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 وسط السماء فصحي...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
Ff. 18r-30v

4. 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. 33v, lines...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
Ff. 31r-33v

5. Add MS 9599, ff 60v-61v

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Add MS 9599, ff 60v-61v
Title:
Anonymous text on the lunar stations
Scope & Content:
Anonymous text on the twenty-eight lunar stations (منازل القمر). The text begins with a didactic poem, unusually laid out in three rather than two columns (f. 60v), followed by prose descriptions and rough diagrams of the asterisms (أنواء) that mark the lunar stations (ff. 61r-61v). Begins (f. 60v, ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 60v-61v

6. Add MS 9599, ff 119v-127v

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Title:
Fragment of an astrological treatise
Scope & Content:
Fragment of a treatise on astrology dealing with ascendants (طوالع), exaltations (أشراف), horoscopes, and calendrical calculations. The text contains three horoscope diagrams (ff. 122v-124r). The text mentions the dates 16 May 1808 (f. 121v, line 23) and 1223/1808-9 (f. 122v, line 3), the dates 17 M...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1223
Extent:

Ff. 119v-127v

7. 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 المقتدر...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 183v-185r

8. 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). Be...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 53r-54r

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

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Add MS 9599, ff 194v-203r
Title:
al-Qawl fī maʿrifat awqāt al-tahajjud al-thalāthah al-madhkūrah fī al-Qurʼān القول في معرفة أوقات التهجد الثلاثة المذكورة في القرآن
Scope & Content:
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 القمر ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 194v-203r

10. Add MS 9599, ff 62v-79v

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Add MS 9599, ff 62v-79v
Title:
Zīj for Algiers
Scope & Content:
Anonymous astronomical handbook with tables (زيج). The brief introductory text (ff. 62v-63r), which mentions calculations based on the latitudes of Algiers (الجزائر) and Istanbul (إستنبول) and the year 1221/1806-07, is apparently fragmentary and comprises only two sections: (1) Section on calculatin...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 62v-79v