Astronomy Manuscripts 339 items

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.

Contains tables and geometrical diagrams.

In Maghribī script.

Text and title rubricated; marginal notes in hand of copyist and others; vol. has edge title.

Date in colophon: bi-tārīkh ʻashar ayyām khalū min shahr Rajab al-fard al-aḥabb sanat 1152 [13 October 1739].

[11] Qāla al-shaykh al-misāḥah tajzīyat al-shayʾ al-majhūl bi-shayʾ maʻlūm, pp. [206-220]; [12] ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Aḥmad al-Dimishqī, Nukhbat al-tuffāḥah ḥāwiyat qawāʻid al-misāḥah, pp. [226-268].

[7] al-Wafāʾī, Risālah ʻalá al-ālah al-musammāh bi-dāʾirat al-muʻaddal, pp. [154-160]; [8] Fāʾidah fī dhikr manāzil al-qamar, pp. [161-166]; [9] Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Mizzī, al-Rawḍāt al-muzhirāt fī al-ʻamal bi-rubʻ al-muqanṭarāt, pp. [174-188]; [10] Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Hidāyat al-sāʾil ilá al-rubʻ al-kāmil, pp. [189-202];

[5] al-Ḥasan ibn Masʻūd al-Yūsī, Iʻlam innahu lā budda lil-nisbah al-ḥukmīyah bayn al-ṭarfayn al-mawḍūʻ wa-al-maḥmūl an tatakayyaf bi-kayfīyat ḍarūrīyah aw dawām aw iṭlāq aw imkān, pp. [141-147]; [6] ʻIzz al-Dīn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Muḥammad al-Wafāʾī, Hādhihi fawāʾid fī al-ʻamal bi-dāʾirat al-muʻaddal, pp. [150-153];

Pp. [2-19]. Bound with: [2] Khulāṣat al-maʻālim ʻalá manẓūmat Ibn Ghānim, pp. [22-97]; [3] Abū Jaʻfar ʻUmar ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Tūnisī al-Tūzarī, Maḥṣalat al-maṭlūb fī al-ʻamal bi-rubʻ al-juyūb, pp. [101-132]; [4] Hādhihi risālah fī maʻrifat waḍʻ al-basīṭah wa-waḍʻ qaws al-ʻaṣr fīhā, pp. [133-139];

A treatise on the sine quadrant.

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.