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.