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.