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1. Add MS 7492, f 48v

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Title:
Dar yāftan-i avval-i sāl-i suryāni در يافتن أول سال سرياني
Scope & Content:
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 content (par...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

F. 48v

2. 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 finding ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Ff. 48v-52r

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

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Add MS 7492, ff 1r-48r
Title:
Sharḥ mukhtaṣar fī maʿrifat al-taqāwīm شرح مختصر في معرفة التقاويم
Scope & Content:
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 on T...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
25 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 912
Extent:

Ff. 2v-48r

4. Add MS 7492

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Title:
Four treatises on astronomy and calendrics
Scope & Content:
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 الشام...
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

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

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Add MS 7492, ff 52v-66v
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 calip...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Ff. 52v-67v