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032-003463237

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Add MS 9598

Title:

A collection of treatises on astronomical instruments and their use

Scope & Content:

Composite volume containing fourteen texts on astronomy and the construction and use of astronomical instruments.

All the texts are copied in various Maghribī hands, and a number are by Maghribī authors. The volume itself is assembled from sections dating to over a 300-year period between 9 Muḥarram 903/7 September 1497 (ff. 101v-122r) and 1199/1784-85 (ff. 158v-181r), although most of the texts are undated.

Seven of the texts in the present volume are copies, commentaries, and super-commentaries/glosses on works by Badr al-Dīn Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shāfi‘ī al-Miṣrī al-Dimashqī (بدر الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن محمد بن أحمد الشافعي المصري الدمشقي, b. 1423, d. 1490), known as Sibṭ al-Māridīnī (سبط المارديني), timekeeper (موقّت) of the al-Azhar Mosque at Cairo, on the operation of the sine quadrant. The other seven texts concern the construction and operation of other observational devices such as the astrolabe, celestial globe, and sundials.

Contents:

(1) Ibn al-Shāṭir (ابن الشاطر), Takhbīr al-aḥbāb fī al-ḍarūrī fī ʿilm al-asṭurlāb (تخبير الأحباب في الضروري في علم الأسطرلاب, ff. 1r-4r);
(2) al-Sanbāṭī (السنباطي), Sharḥ al-Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-mujayyab (شرح الرسالة في العمل بالربع المجيب, ff. 4v-17r);
(3) Anonymous, Taʿlīq ʿalá Sharḥ al-risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-mujayyab (تعليق على شرح الرسالة في العمل بالربع المجيب, ff. 17v-39r);
(4) Ibn ʿAṣr (ابن عصر), Taḥṣīl al-maṭlab fī al-rubʿ al-mujayyab (تحصيل المطلب في الربع المجيب, ff. 41r-47v);
(5) al-Mazalī (المزلي), Nubdhah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubaʿ bi-muqanṭarāt (نبذة في العمل بالربع بمقنطرات , ff. 47v-50r);
(6) Anonymous, Manẓūmah Wāfīyat al-Maṭlūb fī al-rubaʿ al-juyūb (منظومة وافية المطلوب في ربع الجيوب, ff. 50r-52r);
(7) al-Maqdisī (المقدسي), al-Nasamah al-nafḥīyah (النسمة النفحية, ff. 52r-57r);
(8) al-Maqdisī (المقدسي), Tawḍīḥ al-Nasamah al-nafḥīyah (توضيح النسمة النفحية, ff. 57v-73r);
(9) Anonymous, Taʿlīq ʿalá Sharḥ al-risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-mujayyab (تعليق على شرح الرسالة في العمل بالربع المجيب, ff. 73r-94v);
(10) al-Ghiyāthī al-Tāzī (الغياثي التازي), Muqarrib al-maṭālib fī taʿdīl al-kawākib (مقرب المطالب في تعديل الكواكب, ff. 94v-100v);
(11) al-Tūzarī (التوزري), Ikhlāṣ al-naṣāʾiḥ fī takhṭīṭ al-ṣafāʾiḥ (اخلاص النصائح في تخطيط الصفائح, ff. 101v-122r);
(12) al-Sanbāṭī (السنباطي), Sharḥ al-Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-mujayyab (شرح الرسالة في العمل بالربع المجيب, ff. 123v-138v);
(13) Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (قسطا بن لوقا), Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-al-kūrah al-falakīyah (كتاب العمل بالكرة الفلكية, ff. 139v-157v);
(14) al-Jazāʾirī (الجزائري), Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-kūrah al-falakīyah (رسالة في العمل بالكورة الفلكية, ff. 158v-181r).

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

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Additional Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):

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Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+158+i+24+ii

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Languages:

Arabic

Scripts:

Arabic

Start Date:

1497

End Date:

1785

Date Range:

903-1199

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Hijri qamari

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: A mixture of different Western papers with watermarks

Dimensions: 212 x 158mm leaf [170 x 108mm written]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil. F. 40a added by cataloguer

Ruling: Misṭarah; varies between 20-26 lines per page; vertical spacing varies, average 15 lines per 10 cm

Script: Maghribī in various hands (changes of hand at ff. 40r, 41r, 57v, 94v, 100v, 122r, 123r, 138v and 157v). The scribes of two texts give their names: ʿUbayd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣakhrī (عبيد محمد بن أحمد الصخري, f. 100v, fore edge margin [ff. 94v-100v]) and Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd al-Murādī, known as al-Barrī (سليمن بن أحمد بن سعيد المرادي شهر البري, f. 122r, lines 6-10 [ff. 101v-122r])

Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red, some headings in yellow, blue and green ink

Decoration: Diagrams (ff. 75r, 109r and 121r-121v), spaces left for diagrams (ff. 31r, 31v, 88v and 89r)

Binding: Half leather binding with envelope flap, the boards covered in blue, yellow and grey marbled paper. Doublure of envelope flap is of white, yellow, red, green and black marbled paper

Condition: Good, a few smudges; F. 135 is a replacement

Marginalia: Few

Seals: British Museum stamp (ff. 1r, 14r, 33r, 57r, 79r, 95r, 122v, 123r, 138r, 157r and 181v)

Custodial History:

al-Sayyid Aḥmad ibn Mūsá al-Suwaysī ( السيد أحمد بن موسى السويسي): note naming him (f. 40r, upper margin)

Finding Aids:

Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum, 1846-71), Item 407, pp. 192-94

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Archives and Manuscripts

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Subjects:

Astronomical instruments
Astronomy--Early works to 1800