Abstract: "A manuscript commentary on the AlmagestAbstract: the classical 2nd-century mathematical and astronomical treatise on the apparent motions of the stars and planetary pathsAbstract: probably prepared by Mirza Qazi bin Kashif al-Din al-Yazdi (d. 1664/5 CE)Abstract: Sheikh al-Islam and son of a physician to Shah 'Abbas I."
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldRecord origin: "Description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team. Image descriptions based in part on CarboniRecord origin: S. (1988)Record origin: Il Kitab al-bulhan di Oxford."
Binding: The volume is bound in a European binding of pasteboards covered with brown leather. The covers have frames formed of two gold fillets. There are five cords on the spine, with two gold fillets either side of each cord. The pastedowns are modern and are blank except for annotations of the manuscript number and a bookplate for St John’s College and E Libris Coll. Di. Jo. Bapt. Oxon. on the back pastedown.Contents note: Annotations by John Greaves (1602-1652), Savilian Professor of Astronomy (1643-8), fols. 12a/b, 13a, 15a.Contents note: Contents described on fol. iii b: Collatio Mensium Arabicorum, Cophticorum, Græcorum, & Judaicorum. Vide pag. 1. ubi habes hunc titulum doctissimi ipsius Pocockij a later hand has crossed out the last two words, and written in pencil: Gul. Laudi manuscriptum. Nec non Tabulæ quædam Astronomicæ. Omnia imperfecta. In margine passim occurrunt Notæ Viri eruditissimi Joan. Grauij, Prof. Astronom. Sauil.Contents note: In item 1, it is evident from numbers placed on each table that there were originally 23, though tables 5–6, 14–15, and 20–1 are now missing and two tables carry the number ‘9’. Ff. 10a/b, 11a and 17b are blank except for frames formed of two black-inked lines.Dimensions: 21.3 × 13.9 (text area 17 × 10.2) cm.Hand: Both items written in a variable (small to medium) Arabic naskh using black and red inks. The text area has not been ruled, but the tables are divided into rows and columns. The texts are written in tables whose cells are delineated by red- and black-inked lines; occasionally there is writing around the perimeter of the table.Layout: The text area has not been ruled, but the tables are divided into rows and columns. The texts are written in tables whose cells are delineated by red and black inked lines; occasionally there is writing around the perimeter of the table. Lines per page vary.Origin note: "No copyist's signature or date(s) or place(s) of copying."Record origin: "Descriptions abbreviated from Emilie Savage-SmithRecord origin: A descriptive Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts at St John's CollegeRecord origin: Oxford (Oxford: Oxford University PressRecord origin: 2005)Record origin: Entries. Nos. 4 and 10Record origin: pp. 19-22Record origin: 41-2."
A collection of anonymous astrological and magical treatises. Also bound together with this manuscript is a lithographed copy of Kitāb fī al-tamām wa-al-kamāl by Abū Maʻshar. This book is in two parts, the first dealing with horoscopes of men and their signs the second with women. Each part has 12 sections.
Computation of solar, lunar and planetary positions for two dates in 1299 CE (midnight between the 14th and 15th of June and 6 pm on June 29th), with some Coptic numerals.Condition: torn, holesLayout: various lines in 3 columns + marginalia
Watermark: Three crescents. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.Tables rubricated.Date from owner's mark on p. [1].Tables for sexagesimal multiplication and for astronomical observations.
Watermarks: Three crescents; initials PP/FVF in roman. For the first see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.Calculations rubricated.Date in headings of pages.Described inside cover as a "first draft of a calendar," this piece includes calculations for the visibility of the lunar crescent at the beginning of each of the Islamic months for the year 1209 [i.e. 1794-5] and for a lunar eclipse on 15 Rajab of that year [i.e. 5 February 1795].
Astrological tables written for the reign of Fatḥ-ʻAlī Shāh of the Qajar dynasty. The text has been rebound and is missing the end; flyleaves have been remounted and are covered in pen tests.
Watermarks: Praying figure; hillock with initials FT in roman. For the latter see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), nos. 2610-2616.Contains brief astronomical tables.Text rubricated; text enclosed in red or black borders; copyist same as that of Mich. Isl. Ms. 813,2; corrections and marginal notes in other hands.Pp. [1-5]. Bound with: [2] Tashīl al-ʻibārah fī takmīl mā naqaṣa min al-yasārah, pp. [6-41]; [3] Astronomical treatise, pp. [43-62]; [4] Calendrical work, pp. [66-84]; [5] Fragments in Turkish, pp. [85-90].Fragments on calendar conversion and star observation, including a short calendrical table for Islamic years 1122-1126 [i.e. 1710-1714].
Text rubricated and overlined in red; marginal commentary in Turkish in hand of copyist (same as that of Mich. Isl. Mss. 750,2-4).Date based on that in colophons of Mich. Isl. Mss. 750,2-3.Pp. [1-5]. Bound with: [2] Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Kifāyat al-qanūʻ fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-maqṭūʻ, pp. [6-24]; [3] Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab, pp. [25-38]; [4] Fāʾidah fī maʻrifat waqt al-imsāk fī ḥiṣṣat al-fajr, pp. [39-44].Assorted material on timekeeping and the Coptic calendar.
Watermarks: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone; eagle with letters A and FNF in roman. For the first see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 36 and 860.Tables rubricated.Possible date of late 15th cent.-early 16th cent. based on coverage of calendrical tables.Astronomical tables for the latitude of Cairo based on the Raṣd of Ulugh Beg (1349-1449), including calendrical tables for the years 871-931 [1466-1525].
In Maghribī script.Tables rubricated in red and green.Date in heading for tables on pp. [1-3]: ... rasama fī Rajab sanat 1167 [April-May 1754].Astronomical tables made in the year 1754 for latitude 36,40⁰ (Tunis); includes tables for timekeeping on each day of the 12 months of the Gregorian calendar and a table of latitudes and longitudes for cities in North Africa, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, and Arabia.
Watermarks: Three crescents; Andrea Galvani of Pordenone. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum ,1950), pp. 24 and 36.Tables rubricated; some foliation in pencil.Probable 18th-cent. date based on start date of tables.Entirely tables: astronomical tables, star catalogs, and geographical tables based on those of Ulugh Beg. Calendrical table for Islamic years 1110 [1698] to 2100 [2658].
Watermarks: Britannia (?); initials CIS in sans serif caps.Contains tables of zodiacal signs and latitudes and longitudes of cities in many different countries.Text rubricated; two copyists: pp. 7-17 (anonymous) and pp. 18-27 (named above).ʻudhran li-annahu jalla man la yasʾhū lā siyyamā fī hādhihi al-azmān allatī kādat al-ʻulūm an tandarasa wa-kathara fīhā al-jahl wa-maʻ iʻtirāfī bi-annī lastu min ahl hādhā al-shaʾn wa-lākin al-ṭamaʻ fī al-ajr ajraʾanī ʻalayhi wa-al-rijāʾ fī thawābihi awdamanī ilayhi wa-bi-Allāh al-iʻtimād wa-bihi thiqatī tamma....Date and author/copyist's name in colophon: wa-aqūl wa-anā al-faqīr ... Aḥmad al-Khaṭīb ibn ʻAbd al-Laṭīf al-Khaṭīb ... qad tamma tabyīḍ hādhihi al-waraqāt fī yawm al-ithnayn yawm al-thāmin wa-al-ʻishrūn min Dhī al-Ḥijjah min sanat 1303 min hijrat al-nabī ... fa-al-marjūw miman aṭlaʻa ʻalá zallah aw ʻathar fīhā ʻalá hafwah an yuṣalliḥahā baʻd imʻān al-naẓr fīhi idh qīlakum muzayyiq ṣaḥīḥan li-ajl kawn fahmuhu qabiḥan fa-idhā taḥaqqaqa al-khaṭaʾ iltamas lī fīhāPp. 7-27. Bound with: [2] Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab, pp. [28-33]; [3] Astronomical tables, 1 leaf.Title unidentified, in 20 bābs and a khātimah; copy defective: text begins at end of bāb 2.
Watermark: Anchor in circle. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), nos. 1-8.Text and table rubricated; marginal corrections in hand of copyist; marginal notes in another hand.Possible 17th-cent. date based on table showing correspondence of Islamic years 990-1500 [i.e. 5 February 1582-16 November 2077] with Coptic years 1299-1794.Deals with the conversion of calendars in the Coptic and Islamic systems, making astronomical observations, and a very brief treatment of numerology. Text unidentified; copy defective (introduction missing), text begins with faṣl 1 and consists of 3 faṣls followed by 7 bābs and a khātimah. Colophon missing.
An astronomical treatise by Abraham b. ʿAnzar(?) on the seven planets and the model of the Universe. Mentions Hipparchus, Ptolemy, Abraham bar Ḥayya, Copernicus and the philosopher Abū Bakr b. al-Ṣāyiḡ (ibn Bajja), whose book the author read with a Muslim.Condition: Torn, holes, slightly rubbed, slightly stainedLayout: 15–27 lines (2v is blank)
On the creation of heavenly bodies (the sun, the moon and the starts), quoting Genesis 1:14-16, and Psalms 136:7-8.Condition: torn, holes, stainedLayout: 10 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Table of contents, describing the chapters in a large astrological or astronomical book.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: 14 lines + marginalia (recto); 16 lines (verso)
Description of the astral configuration for the days between the 24th and the 29th of the month Ḏū l-Ḥijja of 535 AH (= 30 July - 4 August 1141 CE). Mentions the position of the Moon in respect to the constellations of the zodiac and its astrological bearings.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 15 lines (recto); 14 lines (verso)
Commentary on the 1501 Astronomical Tables by Abraham Zacut (Zacuto b. Salamanca; 1452) written by Abraham Gascon (16th century) and adapted to the geographical position of Cairo.Condition: tornLayout: 20-23 lines
Recto: astronomical text. Verso: letter in Arabic script, in which the writer says that the addressee is like a father to him.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 39 lines (recto); 10 lines (verso)
Watermark: Three crescents. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.Text rubricated; finding aids and marginal corrections in hand of copyist.Discusses three different calendrical systems: Arabic, Byzantine, and Coptic, and the astrological significance of their days and months for harvests, the rising and falling of the Nile, and historical events."A treatise on astrology arranged in 2 bābs." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 100.
One of two known manuscripts of the Arabic original of the Book on the configuration of the orb, otherwise known through its use by Maimonides and through Latin translations, which are often attributed to the Abbasid court astrologer Māshāʼallāh. 14th-century copy of a 10th-century cosmological treatise with discussion of the theory of the four elements, meterology, geology, and astronomy, with the material on natural philosophy presented from an Aristotelian perspective. Manuscript is incomplete (25 chapters and parts of 4 additional chapters out of 39 in the complete work) and misbound; the correct order of pages is: p. 21–23, 1–2, 27–30, 23–26, 35–48, 11–12, 9–10, 13–14, 17–19, 7–8, 3–6, 15–16, 19–20, 31–34, and 49–50 (Taro Mimura).
A fragment of a calendar for the year 5571 of Creation (= 1810-1811 CE). In the Hebrew part of each entry astronomical and astrological details on the month are given and dates of holidays and special Šabbats are given. In the following Judaeo-Arabic part of each entry the relationship between the length of day and night during the particular month and the name of the corresponding month of the Muslim year are given.Condition: torn, stainedLayout: various lines (recto: verso is blank)
Calendrical/astronomical work, mentioning the festivals Passover, Yom Kippur and Sukkot, the Moon and the planets Saturn, Jupiter and Mars, including a list of numerals in gematria and Judaeo-Arabic translation.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: 18 lines (recto); 15 lines (verso)
Compostite manuscript written in at least three hands and on more than one type of paper containing eight treatises on astronomy and arithmetic with an introduction; diagrams within and between the works. Some of the works are dedicated to Muḥammad Valī Mīrzā, the third son of Fatḥ ʻAlī Shāh Qajar (see for example, f. 171v, 279r).
Contents: 1. fol. 1b-12a: Persian treatise on the quadrant. Begins with faṣl dar alqāb-i khuṭūṭ-i rubʻ; dated 1096 H.Contents: 2. fol. 13b-31a: Risālat Kashf al-rayb fī al-ʻamal bi-al-jayb.Contents: 3. fol. 32b-40a: Risālah fī al-rubʻ al-mujayyab.Contents: 4. fol. 40b-51a: Mukhtaṣar dar maʻrifat-i asṭurlāb. A Persian treatise on the astrolabe compiled from the works of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭusī; in 20 bāb.Contents: 5. fol. 51b-53b: Ikhtiṣār mā yataʻallaqu bi-abwāb ʻamal al-layl wa-al-nahār bi-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab.Contents: 6. fol. 54b-61b: Risālah fī al-rubʻ al-mujayyab.Contents: 7. fol. 62b-67a: Bu risale amal-ı nücumu beyanindadir rub-i daire. Turkish treatise on the quadrant in 14 faṣl.Contents: 8. fol. 67b-77b: Işbu risale rub-i dair vaz edip cüzüsünün tarikindadir. Turkish treatise on the quadrant.Contents: 9. fol. 77b-81a: Risālah fī maʻrifat al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-muqanṭarāt.Contents: 10. fol. 81a-82a: Definitions of astronomical terms. In Arabic; followed by an extract on the astrolabe in Ottoman Turkish on fol. 82a.Contents: 11. fol. 84b-99b: Ahval-ı sahife-yi ceyb. Turkish treatise on the sine quadrant in 21 faṣl.Contents: 12. fol. 100b-131b: Risālat al-kurah.Contents: 13. fol. 132a-136a: Risālah fī al-kurah dhāt al-kursī.Ms. composite codex.
Collection of astronomical works by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, which include material on sunset and sunrise, the size of the earth, the moon, the distance to the moon, the distance between the sun and the planets, movement of the spheres, and eclipses. Some marginal notes in another hand, affected by trimming.
Collection of works on astronomy and astronomical instruments in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish copied in the same hand and bound together; the Turkish work (3) is missing the first leaf; f. 84v-98v are all excerpts from (naqala min) the same book with no attribution, Miṣbāḥ al-ẓalām.
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 notes and corrections in hand of copyist.Date and copyist's name in colophon: wa-kāna al-farāgh min kitābat hādhihi al-nuskhah yawm al-sabt muwāfiq arbaʻah ayyām khalat min Dhī al-Ḥijjah alladhī huwa min shuhūr sanat 1300 [6 October 1883] muwāfiq 26 Tūt sanat 1600 qibṭīyah ʻalá yad kātibihi Aḥmad Saʻd Luqbā[?] al-Marṣafī baladan al-Shāfiʻī madhhaban.Commentary by unidentified author on Tuḥfat al-ikhwān, a poem on timekeeping by Aḥmad ibn Qāsim.
Copy of a treatise on different calendars and how to convert them one to another and the revolution of heavenly bodies and their impact on different days of the year.
Watermarks: horn in scrollwork; ALMASSO in roman. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), nos. 2772 and 3748.Contains astronomical tables.Text rubricated and ruled in red.Date of composition, name of copyist, and date of copying in colophon: qāla al-muʾallif ... kātibuhu Riḍwān fī yawm al-khāmis wa-ʻishrīn min shahr Ramaḍān sanat 1105 [20 May 1694] ... wa-qad nasakhahā min nuskhah nusikhat min nuskhat al-muʾallif ... fī shahr Ṣafar sanat 1239 [October-November 1823] tisʻah wa-thalāthīn wa-miyatayn wa-alf hijrīyah ʻalá yad al-faqīr Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Sharbatlī."An extensive treatise on timekeeping consisting of an introduction and tables lifted from the main Cairo corpus." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 107. Contains astronomical tables, star catalogs, and tables giving correspondences of the Islamic and Coptic calendars from 1819 to 1987.
Watermark: Anchor in circle. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), nos. 1-8.Text rubricated; marginal notes in hand of copyist (?) and others.Date in colophon: taḥrīran fī awākhir shahr Dhī al-Qaʻdah ʻām sabʻah wa-ʻishrīn wa-alf min hijrat al-nabawī [i.e. November 1618].Pp. [5-19]. Bound with: [2] Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Bannāʾ, Abwāb yastadillu bi-hā ʻalá al-awqāt wa-al-sāʻāt wa-yuʻlam bi-hā awqāt al-ṣalāh, pp. [20-47]; [3] Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Qalaṣādī, Kashf al-asrār ʻan ʻilm ḥurūf al-ghubār, pp. [48-116].On timekeeping and the conversion of calendars.
Watermarks: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone; initials EAN in roman; three Face-in-the-moons arranged horizontally. For the first two, see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), nos. 860 and 2595.In Maghribī script.Text rubricated; marginal notes and corrections by copyist.Date and provenance in colophon: yawm al-jumʻah sabʻah Shawwāl fī ʻām sabʻah wa-sabʻīn wa-alf [2 April 1667] bi-madīnat Fās al-maḥrūsah.Author's commentary on his al-Yawāqīt li-mubtaghī maʻrifat al-mawāqīt, a poem on timekeeping.
Four treatises on astrolabes and astronomy, the first and fourth treatise are incomplete; the first treatise skips from chapter 22 to chapter 30 (f. 5-6) and the fourth treatise is missing some amount of the beginning, the first complete section is "taṣtīḥ dāʼirat al-ufuq" (f. 14r).
Text rubricated; many marginal and interlinear corrections and assorted doodlings in the hand of the copyist.[1] consists of at least 7 bābs, missing the beginning and end, and is on timekeeping by solar methods; [2] consists of 15 bābs, missing the beginning and the last page(s) of the khātimah, and is on timekeeping by night using the stars and the characteristics of the Byzantine and Coptic calendars. The item in hand seems to have been used for practice in copying.
Collection of treatises, copied in the same hand, on mathematical sciences. Topics include calculating heights, distances, areas, solving geometrical and algebraic problems, music theory. At the back of the work are three additions: 1) pages of notes, probably by the copyist, about some of the works in the collection (f. 129r-137v), 2) an added commentary on Apollonius' Conics copied in a different hand (f. 139v-143r), 3) further notes. One folio in Persian (f. 71) is misplaced and should follow folio 78.
Watermark: Three crescents. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.Contains astronomical tables and diagrams and a map of the northern hemisphere from Spain to China enhanced with blue sand.In Maghribī script.Text rubricated, with silver flecks and blue sand clinging to red ink ; marginal corrections in hand of copyist (?).Date in colophon: wa-wāfaqat nihāyatuhu yawm al-sabt min awākhir shahr Jumādá al-ūlá min ʻām thamāniyah wa-tisʻīn wa-miʼatayn wa-alf min al-hijrah al-nabawīyah [ca. April 1881].Title from opening matter (author's preface) on p.2.A compendium on theoretical astronomy, apparently an Arabic translation of the Persian, Gayhānʹshinākht by ʻAyn al-Zamān Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad Abū ʻAlī Qaṭṭān Marvazī (d. 1153 or 4).
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.
Watermark: Three crescents. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.Contains tables.Text rubricated.For other copies of this text see Mich. Isl. Mss. 799,1 and 799,4."Abridgement by the author" of "Irshād al-ḥāʾir ... a treatise on sundial theory with tables for latitude 30⁰, Cairo." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 73.
Contains a diagram of the precession of the equinoxes.Text and tables rubricated; marginal finding aids in another hand.Six tables for determining the times of prayer for the latitude of Cairo and a brief text explaining their use.
Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 35 and no. 860.Text and title rubricated, some rubrication absent; corrections and extensive marginal notes in hand of copyist; kurrāsahs marked "àdad 1" and "àdad 2.""A treatise on the astrological significance of various kinds of comets and pseudocomets, with some illustrations.... Merits study." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 105 and plate LXXXIV."Apparently not the same as [Mich. Isl. Ms.] 815,1." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.
Watermarks: initials AG in roman; stars in shield with crown. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 36 and nos. 860 and 3886.Text rubricated; copy incomplete.Date of mid-19th century based on author's death date."A commentary on Wasīlat al-mubtadiʾīn li ʻilm ghurrat al-shuhūr wa 'l-sinīn, a poem in 48 verses on the calendar by the same author." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.
Watermarks: Grapes with crown; eagle with initials GFA in roman. For the latter see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), nos. 1261 and 1262.Text and tables rubricated; foliation in hand of copyist; extensive notes and calculations in another hand inside covers and on flyleaves.Date in title on p. [1].Text (not this copy) published.Almost entirely tables for timekeeping, perhaps for Istanbul (latitude 41⁰)?; short sharḥ in Turkish on sine of horizon on p. [73]; cf. David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 175.
Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 36 and no. 860.Contains tables and diagrams.Text rubricated; marginal corrections in hand of copyist; a few pp. are missing.For another copy of this text see Mich. Isl. Ms. 739. For the Muqniʻ itself, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 795,11.Appended to this work beginning on p. [194], several other faṣls, beginning with one entitled faṣl fī maʻrifat istikhrāj darajat al-shams... and including several on different writing-systems (aqlām) for numbers.Commentary by the author on "a poem on the methods of timekeeping used by Abī Miqraʻ." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 143.
Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 36 and no. 860.Title, text and tables rubricated; at top of p. [2]: yā kabīkaj.Date and name of copyist in colophon: waqafa itmāmahu fī yawm al-sabt al-mubārak al-muwāfiq li-tisʻah wa-ʻishrūn min shahr Rabīʻ al-ākhir sanat alf wa-miʾatayn thalāthah wa-sabʻūn min al-hijrah al-nabawīyah [i.e. December 1856] ... ʻalá yad al-faqīr ... ʻAbduh Riḍwān ibn Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān.Pp. [1-76]. Bound with: [2] ʻAbd Allāh Fikrī, Risālah fī muqāranat baʻḍ mabāḥith al-hayʾah bi-al-wārid fī al-nuṣūṣ al-sharʻīyah, pp. 1-32; [3] Ḥusayn Zāʾid, Kitāb al-maṭlaʻ al-saʻīd fī ḥisābāt al-kawākib ʻalá al-raṣad al-jadīd, pp. 1-89.Astronomical tables and instructions for using them to set pocket watches; also contains schedules entitled Mawqiʻ al-sāʻāt ʻalá ḥasab awqāt al-ṣalawāt by Ramaḍān ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Safaṭī al-Khawānikī, on determining the times for the five daily prayers.
Watermarks: Initials AG in roman; stars in shield with crown. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 36 and nos. 860 and 3886.Text and title rubricated; marginal corrections, notes, finding aids, and foliation in hand of copyist (same as that of Mich. Isl. Ms. 814,2).Date and name of owner/copyist in colophon: wa-kāna al-farāgh min kitābat hādhā al-kitāb yawm al-ithnayn al-mubārak li-khamsah wa-ʻishrīn khalat min shahr Muḥarram al-ḥarām iftitāḥ sanat 1266 [i.e. 11 December 1849] ʻalá yad ... ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd Bīk Nāfiʻ bi-ḥall al-marḥūm Khalīl Afandī mudīr al-Daqahlīyah.For an earlier copy of this work, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 696.Pp. [1-54]. Bound with: [2] Risālah fī ʻilm aḥkām al-shiʻrah al-yamānīyah wa-ḥulūl al-qamar fī al-ithnay ʻashar burjan, pp. [56-89]; [3] Astronomical tables, pp. [97-189].Also contains the text of the manẓūmah (treatise in verse) on timekeeping by ʻAyyād al-Maḥallī on which the commentary is based (pp. 51-52)."A commentary on a poem on timekeeping by Aḥmad ʻAyyād." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 113.
Text rubricated; corrections and marginal notes in hand of copyist and others.Date and name of copyist in colophon: wāfaqa al-farāgh min taʻlīq hādhihi al-risālah fī ʻashar shahr Shawwāl sanat 1220 ʻalá yad al-faqīr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm [1 January 1806].For a later copy of this text, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 814,1."A commentary on a poem on timekeeping by Aḥmad ʻAyyād." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 113.
Contains tables and astronomical diagrams.Text rubricated.Date of compilation in title: 14 June 1884. Date of copy and editor/copyist's name in colophon: tammat wa-bi-al-miskah ʻammat wa-kāna al-farāgh min naql hādhihi al-nuskhah al-ʻaẓīmah alladhī laysa la-hā wujūd fī yawm al-sabt al-muwāfiq ʻasharah khalat min shahr Ṣafar sanat 1302 [29 November 1884] ʻalá yad nāsikhihā al-faqīr ilá Allāh al-qadīr Aḥmad Maḥmūd Rāghib.A compendium of astronomical lore.
Watermarks: Initials PP in roman; lion.Contains astronomical diagrams.Text overlined in red; substantial marginal notes in hand of copyist (same as that of Mich. Isl. Mss. 816,2-4).Date in colophon: tammat fī 17 m[in] b[=Rajab?] sanat 1207 [i.e. 28 February? 1793].For other copies of this text, see Mich. Isl. Mss. 754, 755, 805,4, and 817,1.Pp. [1-98]. Bound with: [2] Short philosophical text, p. [99]; [3] Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Fāzābādī, Commentary on a work on philosophical debate, p. [100]; [4] Treatise on astronomical measurements and surveying, pp. [102-226].Commentary on al-Jighmīnī's Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah, "a treatise on theoretical astronomy ... compiled in 618 H [i.e. 1221 or 2]." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 158.
Work on the use of astronomical observations to predict weather changes in order to determine the best times to sow and harvest in northern Africa. The text is divided into 12 chapters describing weather variations for each of the 12 months, using their European names.
Contains astronomical tables and diagrams.Text and tables rubricated in red, brown, green, purple, and blue; corrections in hand of copyist.Date and name of copyist in colophon: tamma nashkhihi ʻalayad al-faqīr li-raḥmat rabb al-nās ʻAbduh Khalīl al-Naḥḥās ... fī Jumād awwal sanat 1306 [January 1889]."Commentary [on a zīj for Cairo] compiled in 1239 H [1823]." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 116."Commentary on al-Lumʻa fī ḥall al-sabʻa, an abridgment by Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Ghulām Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Kūm al-Rīshī, (d. 838/1432) of his own Nuzhat al-nāẓir fī talkhīs zīj ibn al-Shāṭir, which is in turn an abridgement of al-Zīj, the astronomical tables of ʻAlāʾ al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Shāṭir (d. 777/1375)...." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.
Watermarks: Anchor in circle; hand; hand(?) in circle. For the first see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), nos. 5-8.Contains astronomical tables and sundial diagrams.Text rubricated; pp. [7-14] supplied on different paper in different hand; vol. has edge title; on p. [1], note in handwriting of an owner: khaṭṭ Fariskūrī tilmīdh Taqī al-Dīn al-Rāṣid."A treatise on sundial theory with extensive tables for Cairo, compiled in 829 H [1425].... Merits investigation." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 75. Said in introduction to be based on Shifāʾ al-asqām fī waḍʻ al-sāʻāt ʻalá al-rukhām by Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar al-Ṣūfī.
Watermarks: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone; three crescents; cursive initials TMC. For the first two see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), pp. 24 and 36 and no. 860.Contains geometrical diagrams.Text rubricated; copy incomplete, diagrams for last two signatures not present; dealer's (?) note in pencil on front of manuscript: Irshād al-sāʾil ilá uṣūl al-masāʾil sharḥ risālat Sibṭ al-Māridīnī fī ʻilm al-mīqāt sumiya al-Durr al-manthūr fī al-ʻamal bi-rubʻ al-dustūr.On sundials and the quadrant."A commentary on al-Durr al-manthūr fī al-ʻamal bi-rubʻ al-dustūr of ʻAbd Allāh ibn Khalīl ibn Yūsuf, al-Māridīnī (see [Mich. Isl. Ms.] 689).... The last two quires in the manuscript do not appear to belong to it.... Whether the text is the same has not been determined." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.
Contains geometrical diagrams and mathematical tables.Text rubricated; extensive marginal commentary in hand of copyist and in another hand in pencil.Date and name of copyist/owner in colophon: tamma ... ʻalá yad kātibihi wa-mālikihi al-faqīr Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh al-Maghribī aṣlan al-Sikindarī waṭanan ... fī shahr Ṣafar al-khayr ... sanat 1174 [September-October 1760].For Zād al-musāfir, the author's extract of this work, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 708."A treatise on sundial theory with tables for latitude 30⁰, Cairo." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 73."A treatise on the construction of hour angles." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.
Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 36 and no. 860.Contains astronomical diagrams.Text and diagrams rubricated; marginal notes and corrections in hand of copyist (same as that of Mich. Isl. Ms. 807,2) and others; kurrāsahs numbered 1-9; copy defective, pp. [43-44] and [57-58] missing.Date and name of copyist in colophon: katabahu al-faqīr ... ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ Aḥmad Ṣiwān al-Mālikī ... fī yawm al-sabt al-mubārak 28 shahr min Dhī al-Ḥijjah khitām sanat 1258 [i.e. 30 January 1843].Pp. [1-163]. Bound with: ʻAlī al-Malāqī al-Andalusī, al-Waḍʻ ʻalá al-jihāt fī al-basāʾiṭ wa-al-munḥarifāt, pp. [166-180]."A commentary on the treatise on the sinuated quadrant of Jamāl al-Dīn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Khalīl ibn Yūsuf, al-Māridīnī." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.
Watermark: Crown surmounted by 6-pointed star and crescent. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), no. 1132.Contains illustrations of types of comets.Title and text rubricated and enclosed in red borders; illumination in color and gold leaf on p. [3]; text partially vocalized.Date and name of copyist in colophon: taḥrīran fī thāmin Rabʻ̄ al-thānī sanat 1107 [i.e. 16 November 1695] ʻalá yad muʾallifihā al-ʻabd al-faqīr ʻAbd Allāh al-Maqdisī al-Ḥanbalī.Pp. [3-23]. Bound with: [2] Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī, Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb, pp. [26-88]; [3] Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, Kitāb al-ʻamal bi-al-kurah al-falakīyah, pp. [89-149]."It does not seem to be the same as his Tuḥfat al-albāb fī bayān ḥukm [dhawāt] al-adhnāb (for which see [Mich. Isl. Ms. 688])." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.A treatise on the astrological significance of various kinds of comets and pseudocomets.
Watermarks: Three crescents; face-in-the-moon in scrollwork; initials PG(?) in roman. For the first see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.Contains trigonometric calculations.Text rubricated; marginal commentary and corrections in hand of copyist (same as that of Mich. Isl. Ms. 752).Commentary on a poem by the same author (unidentified) entitled Tuḥfat al-sādāt, on timekeeping and the use of the sine quadrant. Copy is defective: 1 f. missing between pp. [15-16] and another between pp. [23-24], at least one signature missing at end.
Watermark: Three crescents. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.Contains astronomical tables.Text and tables rubricated; marginal notes and calculations in hand of copyist (same as that of Mich. Isl. Ms. 769) and others.Tables for astronomical observations by day and night for Jerusalem (latitude 31⁰,50'). Copy defective (1+ leaf missing from first signature).
Watermarks: large letters G(?).C.C.Contains a table of star locations.In Maghribī script.Text rubricated in four colors; marginal corrections, notes, and finding aids in hand of copyist and others (some in pencil).Date of composition and copying in colophon: qāla muʾallifuhā ... intahá taʾlīf hādhihi al-risālah fī sanat 875 [i.e. 1470 or 1] ... wa-kāna al-farāgh min nashkhihā fī laylat al-tāsiʻ min shahr Dhī al-Ḥijjah ʻām 1258 thamāniyah wa-khamsūn wa-miʾatayn wa-alf [i.e. 11 January 1843].Pp. [1-175]. Bound with: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-ʻAṭṭār, Kashf al-qināʻ fī rasm al-arbāʻ, pp. [182-208].Commentary and elaboration upon the author's Kashf al-qināʻ fī rasm al-arbāʻ, "a treatise on different kinds of quadrants in 2 qisms of 10 + 9 faṣls, mentioning those who invented them." No other copies of this work are known. David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), pp. 74-75.