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Add MS 9599, ff 62v-79v
- Record Id:
- 040-004368922
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003464769
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100166202098.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 9599, ff 62v-79v
- Title:
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Zīj for Algiers
- Scope & Content:
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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 calculating the equation of what is between the two lines (فصل في استخراج تعديل ما بين السطرين, ff. 62v-63r);
- (2) Chapter of the revolution of the radices of the eastern and western lands from the land of Algiers (باب تحويل الأصول [!] البلدان الشرقية والغربية عن بلد الجزائر, f. 63r).
This explanatory material is followed by a collection of astronomical tables (ff. 64r-79v) for the latitude of Algiers (الجزائر), containing astronomical data set out in thirty-year periods for the years 1110/1698-99 to 1320/1902-03 (ff. 66r-70v) and 1070/1669-70 to 1350/1931-32 (f. 72v).
The tables on ff. 64v and 75v have been laid out but no data has been entered, f. 79r. is entirely blank, and the table on f. 79v seems to have been laid out with the others but partially filled in with data by another, perhaps later, hand.
Begins (f. 62v, lines 1-4):
فصل في استخراج تعديل ما بين السطرين مثال ذالك عندنا حصة الشمس برج
واحد وتسعة درجات هكذا ٠٩-٠١- وأردنا تعديل للشمس فأخذنا
التعديل الذي يقابل برج واحد وستة درجات وطرحنا من التعديل الذي
يقابل برج واحد وإثنا عشر درجة وحفظنا الباقي ...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003464769
040-004368922 - Is part of:
- Add MS 9599 : Collection of Arabic texts on astronomy, astrology and related subjects
Add MS 9599, ff 62v-79v : Zīj for Algiers - Hierarchy:
- 032-003464769[0015]/040-004368922
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 9599
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Ff. 62v-79v
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1800
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- 19th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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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 977, p. 445
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)