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.
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; borders drawn in pencil.Text (not this copy) published.A summary of Ptolemy's Almagest, "Al-Farghānī's best-known and most influential work ... a comprehensive account of the elements of Ptolemaic astronomy that is entirely descriptive and nonmathematical." A. I. Sabra, "Al-Farghānī," Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York, 1971), v. 4, pp. 541a-545a.
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; copyist same as that of Mich. Isl. Mss. 806,2-3.Pp. [1-5]. Bound with: [2] Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Murshidī, Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-ghayr ālah fī awqāt al-ṣalawāt al-khams, pp. [5-19]; [3] Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Muqaddimah fī ḥisāb al-masāʾil al-jaybīyah wa-al-aʻmāl al-falakīyah, pp. [20-23].On the description and use of the equatorial semicircle.
Summary of the branches of knowledge, including the Qurʼān, ḥadīth, and history of Islam; grammar, rhetoric, and logic; medicine, anatomy, and pharmacology; gems and talismans; agriculture and veterinary science; geometry, geodesy, weight, arithmetic, and algebra; music; astronomy, astrology, and magic; theology, ethics, and political science. Marginal notes in a later hand. Pages missing at beginning and end.
