Contains diagrams.Text rubricated in red and gold; triple borders throughout in red, black, and gold; 1 loose sheet bound in; marginal corrections and commentary in hand of copyist (said inside cover to be author himself); finding aids and other notes in another(?) hand; couplets in Persian on endpapers and first flyfleaf.Date and provenance in colophon: qad tamma wa-kamala taʾlīf hādhihi al-nuskhah al-sharīfah fī Qusṭanṭīnīyah fī dār al-ḥadīth li-Ḥusayn Pāshā ... yawm al-aḥad al-thāmin wa-al-ʻishrīn min shahr Rabīʻ al-ākhir min shuhūr sanat sitt wa-ʻishrīn wa-miʾah wa-alf min al-hijrah al-nabawīyah wa-qad badaʾa ...[?]... al-musammá bi-al-turkīyah Qazalṭāgh[?] fī shahr Rajab al-mubārak min shuhūr sanat khams wa-ʻishrīn wa-miʾah wa-alf [July-August 1713].Commentary on Bahjat al-albāb fī ʻilm al-asṭurlāb, "a treatise on the use of the astrolabe in 18 bābs" by ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm al-Qayṣarī Suwaylim Zādah. David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), pp. 165 and 174. On p. [59] is a discussion in a different hand of the origin of the word "astrolabe."
Calendar dated 1226 A.H. showing lunar and solar month concordance; length of day and night in Istanbul; astronomical and chronological tables; marginal notes with comments and computational instructions; rules for finding the direction of the qiblah in Istanbul and surrounding areas.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Manuscript. Persian. Title from title page (Folio 1a). Scribe not identified. Date of acquisition by former owner on fol. 1a: 18 shahr-i Ṣafar al-khayr 1335 [14 December 1916] Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. Written in Iran? Paper: bluish, polished laid paper with horizontal chain line and visible watermarks; some pages have Russian countermark SUTF; floral unwan in gold, blue, green, red and pink; paper water damage to foredge; minor worm damage with no loss of text; black ink with rubrication and overlining in red; no catchwords. Naskh; 18 lines in written area 16 x 10 cm. Painted floral design on folios 1b and 170a; tabular charts in red and black ink on fol. 113b-114b and 140a-141a. Folio 1a-192b. Library of Congress. Manuscript, [unnumbered]. Binding: black leather binding with embossed frame lines, many gatherings loose.Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Watermarks: Three crescents; Andrea Galvani of Pordenone; BLACON(?) in roman; AFFE(?) in roman. For the first two see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), pp. 24 and 36 and no. 860.Text and tables rubricated.Date in pencil on back flyleaf in a different hand: 1210 hijrī fī yawm al-khamīs.Astronomical tables for the latitude of 41⁰ (Istanbul), with brief instructions for their use.
Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 36 and no. 860.Text rubricated; marginal corrections and notes in hand of copyist.Date and copyist's name in colophon: tamma al-kitābah bi-ʻawn al-malik al-wahhāb ʻalá yad al-faqīr ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ Aḥmad Ṣiwān al-Liqāʾī[?] fī yawm al-thulāthā li-sabʻ ...[?]... min shahr al-Muḥarram sanat 1259 [7? February 1843].In a muqaddimah and 20 bābs, on the "complete" quadrant. Text almost identical with that of Mich. Isl. Ms. 748 through the second bāb, after which the texts diverge; also similar, but not identical, to the text of Mich. Isl. Mss. 796,10 and 835,10, although they share similar titles.
Watermark: Three crescents. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.Text rubricated and vocalized; lines of each section beginning on p. [8] numbered; text enclosed in red borders; marginal notes in another (?) hand.Date based on owner's mark on p. [1].On the characteristics of calendars in the Coptic, Byzantine, and Islamic systems, the astrological import of their days, and weather conditions for crops on those days.
Watermarks: Three crescents; crown surmounted by 6-pointed star and crescent. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24 and no. 1132.Contains astronomical tables.Text and tables rubricated and ruled in red; text partially vocalized; copyist's name in colophon: min kitābat al-ʻabd al-faqīr ... Muṣṭafá al-Ābār; marginal corrections in a different hand; on verso of f. 7 a sheet containing tables in a modern hand has been pasted over the original text, some tables apparently missing (description by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945).For an earlier (?), more complete (?) copy of this work see Mich. Isl. Ms. 734.Text (not this copy) published.Includes tables for Islamic years 1189 [1775 or 6] to 1219 [1804 or 5], upon which the 18th-cent. date for this item is based."Prayer-tables for Cairo taken from the main corpus [compiled by Ibn Yūnus] ... preceded by a short introduction in 8 or 10 faṣls, simple calendrical tables, and a solar longitude table, and followed by a star catalog." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 91.
Three treatises in different hands, bound together. The first is an abridgement of Ibn al-Bannāʼ's Talkhīṣ by Ibn al-Hāʼim. The second is a short work on astrolabe terminology and use. The third appears to be an autograph of Sharḥ mukhtaṣar al-Tuffāḥah fī ʻilm al-misāḥah by ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Aḥmad al-Dimashqī.
Watermark: Anchor in circle. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), nos. 2 and 4.Text rubricated; marginal corrections and notes in hand of copyist; copy defective, text missing from end of bāb 15 on.On the "complete" quadrant in 25 bābs. Text almost identical to that of Mich. Isl. Ms. 742 through bāb 2, then diverges.
Watermark: Scrollwork.Text rubricated."An Arabic treatise on the astrolabe short enough to be written on the ṣafīḥah of an astrolabe." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 161.