Watermarks: Scrollwork, three hats. For the latter, see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), nos. 2593 and 2597.Rubrication absent; marginal corrections in hand of copyist.Date, name of copyist, place of employment and employer's name, and provenance in colophon: qad waqaʻa al-farāgh ʻan taḥrīrihi wa-taswīd fī yawm al-ithnayn min ākhir shahr Muḥarram al-ḥarām li-sanat sitt wa-ʻishrīn wa-miʻah wa-alf [15 February 1714] tamma ʻalá yad afqar al-wará Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ... fī al-madrasah Sayf Bulandī fī madīnat Anqarah fī khidmat al-Qāsim Afandī.For another copy of this text see Mich. Isl. Ms. 817,2."Ḥāshīyah on the commentary of Qāḍī Zādah on al-Jighmīnī's Mulakhkhaṣ," a treatise on theoretical astronomy (hayʼah). David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (winona Lake, 1986), pp. 158-9.
Commentary on the Zīj-i jadīd-i Sulṭānī, which comprised tables of calendar calculations, trigonometry, planets, and stars compiled from observations made at the observatory in Samarqand, completed in 1447. Includes some tables, marginal commentary attributed to Mullah Muẓaffar (f. 239v), 7 generally contemporary diagrams tipped in, and 1 diagram and 1 small note laid in.
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله الذي خلق السموات والارض ... :IncipitWritten in one column, 25 lines per page, in black rubricated in red.According to colophon, copied in the hand of Darwīsh ʻAlī ibn Yūsuf al-Ṭāliqānī. The date of copy in the colophon is erased.The original writing of the book is finished in Rabīʻ al-Awwal 913 AH [August 1507 AD].MS Arab SM4285. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
Abstract: Treatise on astrology, composed probably in, or not long after 690/1291 (Storey and beginning of text, fol. 1b), comprising two parts (maqālah): Dar kayfīyat-i aʻmāl-i tasyīrāt (4 bāb) and Dar aḥkām-i ṭāliʻ-i taḥvīl (8 bāb), with tables. See description of contents in the preamble of the text (fol. 2a-3b). For a more detailed description of contents and a longer incipit, see David King, Fihris.Binding note: Quarter bound with flap in marbled paper and brown leather. Paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from tail of text block. The same title appears in the preamble of the text as "Aḥkām al-aʻwām" (fol. 2a, l. 18).Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in black ink with use of red. The text is framed within a single red line. European paper with watermark; frame-ruled. Note mentioning the number of pages in the volume on the margin of the colophon (fol. 133b).Collation: Paper, fol. iii, 133, iii; iii (fly-leaves, with inscription on the first recto) 1-13¹⁰ 14² (+1 at beginning of quire) iii (fly-leaves); the last word of the verso is repeated on the next recto.Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Raqm 17".Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on Wednesday 27 Ramaḍān 1156 Nov. 14, 1743 by Ibn al-Ḥājj Ḥusayn Ṣabīḥ al-shahīr bi-al-Qusṭanṭinīyah.Incipit: بسم ... الحمد لله العليم الحكيم والصلوة على نبينا محمد المصطفى الحليم العظيم وعلى اله واصحابه وسلم تسليما كثيرا عظيما مولف اين كلام ومصنف اين احكام العبد الفقير عليشاء بن محمد بن قاسم الخوارزمى المعروف بعلاء المنجم البخارى خرسه الله عن النوائيب چنين مى نمايد كه از شهر همدان در اواسط شهر مبارك رمضان سنه 688 باميد زيارت كعبه اسلام
Collection of astronomical treatises, the main text of which is al-Bīrūnī's Kitāb fī istīʻāb al-wujūh al-mumkinah fī ṣanʻat al-asṭurlāb. This is followed by a short work on crab and drum astrolabes; a treatise on instruments, including one for finding the direction to Mecca; a treatise on the ecliptic; and a treatise on the compass, all copied in the same hand.
Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; decoration, hand, date among tables, etc. would suggest late 18th century or early 19th century.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1056Binding: Wrapped in a short length of brown leather (unlined, limp) attached to opening of roll ; rolled around narrow wooden dowel (with finials of wood), not affixed to roll ; roll comprised of two lengths of parchment joined together ; overall in fair condition with minor pest damage and abrasion of leather.Support: Parchment ; two sturdy pieces joined with adhesive (seams and overlap visible) ; writing seemingly on hair side ; pale yellow in color ; opening piece 570 mm. long, ; second piece 380 mm. long ; some warping, creasing and cracking, loss of ink.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of roll consisting of scalloped w-shaped piece filled with large, swirling floral vegetal motifs mainly in dark pink, white and light blue on a gold ground, set in a well of red-orange and gold and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) ; keywords and numerals and alternating columns or rows of headings and numerals rubricated ; tables framed in heavy gold bands outlined with black fillets ; narrower gold bands set apart headings and define margins ; rows and columns of tables defined by black fillets.Script: Naskh ; chiefly a clear Ottoman hand in a medium line, small and compact ; mainly serifless with very slight effect of inclination to the left, pointing (for two and three dots) in strokes rather than distinct dots, curvilinear though somewhat flattened descenders, etc.Layout: Single column consisting of a series of tables (thirteen in total) with notes addressing occasions, etc. in the margins framing the tables along the length of the roll.Explicit: "بو روزنامه ده تحرير اولنان سمت قبله نك قاعدسى املا مولده واسلامبولك طولنه وعرضنه مساوى اولان زمينلرده صحيح ساعت لر ايله بو جدولده كى مقداره كلدكده بر كمسنه كونشه قرشودوره تمام قبل توجه اتمش اولور بو روزنامه ده امساك اتمك ايچون ... كمسته اون بش دقيقه ... كرك ..."Incipit: "بو غر نامده محرم كلدكده شهور عربينك تحتنده اولان ارقاملرى سكز خانه ده اولان ارقامك سنه ده هر برينه ضم ايده ديز وهفته كونلرينك تحتندن ..."Title from closing text (at end of roll) describing contents.Ms. roll.Elegant copy of what appears to be a version of the almanac or calendar attributed to Darendeli Mehmet Efendi (Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar ibn ʻUthmān al-Dārandalī, d.1739) addressing qiblah direction, times of prayer, times of imsāk (15 minutes before time given which corresponds to dawn), etc. in rotulus format (i.e. scroll opening vertically). See King, "Part II. A Survey of Tables for Regulating the Times of Prayer," pp.442 (Fig. 14.4 b-c), 444-445 and Osmanlı astronomi literatürü tarihi (İhsanoğlu, Ed.), vol.1, no.271, pp.406-410.
Origin: As appears in colophon at close of roll, copied by Mehmet Zuhuri in the medrese (madrasah) of Mahmut Paşa Veli. Date of transcription not specified. Date with notes on paper lining leather wrap and added between month and day tables provides a terminus ante quem of 1868. Table of years covers 1261 [1845 or 6] through 1349 [ca. 1933]. Rubricated date between tables (1194 [1780 or 81]) may reflect date of transcription of the exemplar or date of composition of this recension.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1055Binding: Wrapped in a length of dark red-brown leather (lined with paper) attached to opening of roll ; rolled around narrow wooden dowel affixed to end of roll, finials of ivory or bone with inlaid wood and metal ; roll comprised of two lengths of parchment ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion and tears.Support: Parchment ; two pieces of slightly different thicknesses joined with adhesive (seams and overlap visible) ; writing seemingly on hair side ; opening piece 610 mm. long, thin, but thicker and sturdier than second piece ; second piece 322 mm. long, quite thin and even transluscent ; some abrasion and tears, minor pigment burn.Decoration: Opening rectangular panel may have once contained a horiscope, now effaced with traces of blank and orange ink (elsewhere orange ink has been used to apply writing over effaced contents of مدخل اذر columns) ; keywords and alternating columns or rows of headings and numerals rubricated ; jadwals surrounded by "gold" frames, gone to green ; outer margin defined by a narrower rule of the same.Script: Naskh ; chiefly a clear Ottoman hand in a medium line, small and compact ; mainly serifless with very slight effect of inclination to the left, pointing (for two and three dots) in strokes rather than distinct dots, free assimilation of some letters (hāʼ joined to preceding dāl, etc.), point of nūn often assimilated with abbreviated bowl, etc.Layout: Single column consisting of a series of tables (twelve in total) with notes addressing occasions, etc. in the margins framing the tables along the length of the roll.Colophon: "Scribal," reads "سوده محمد ظهورى بمدرسۀ محمود پاشا ولى"Explicit: "بو روزنامه ده تحرير اولان سمت قبلنك فائده سى بودر كه دائما صحيح ساعتلر بو جدولده كى مقداره كلدكده برادم كونشه قرشودورسه تمام قبليه توجه اتمش اولور وبو ضحوۀ كبرانك فائده سى قلبه كبى صحيح ساعتلر بو جدولده كى مقداره كلدكده ضحوۀ كبرى اولور وصوم ايچون امساك كمنه اون بش دقيقه مقدم اتمك كركدر م"Incipit: "بو غره نماده محرم كلدكده شهور عربينك تحتنده اولان ارقاملرى سكز خانه ده اولان ارقامك سنه ده هر برينه ضم ايده دز هفته كونلرينك تحتنده ..."Title from closing text (at end of roll) describing contents.Ms. roll.Carefully executed copy of what appears to be a version of the almanac or calendar attributed to Darendeli Mehmet Efendi (Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar ibn ʻUthmān al-Dārandalī, d.1739) addressing qiblah direction, times of prayer, times of imsāk (15 minutes before time given which corresponds to dawn), etc. in rotulus format (i.e. scroll opening vertically). See King, "Part II. A Survey of Tables for Regulating the Times of Prayer," pp.442 (Fig. 14.4 b-c), 444-445 and Osmanlı astronomi literatürü tarihi (İhsanoğlu, Ed.), vol.1, no.271, pp.406-410.
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).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 825Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; circumstances of composition, paper, etc. suggest late 19th century (see p.88 in Walz, "The paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries").Binding: Boards faced in a streaked or veined paper resembling effect of tree marbling (tree calf, marble calf, marbled leather), mainly in dark blue, with printed 'waste' visible beneath and red leather over spine ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in untinted paper ; paper labels on spine ; sewn in white thread, four stations ; overall in quite poor condition with much abrasion, staining, losses of paper and board, lifting of leather, detached at spine, etc.Support: European laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 30 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of crescent (with human profile) in shield (see p.10, 11, etc.) and "Andrea Galvani" (see p.6, etc. and compare nos.1159 and 1161 dated 1871 and 1874 respectively in Nikolaev, Watermarks of the Ottoman Empire, vol.1 as well as p.89 in Walz, "The paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries"), cream in color, quite thick and well-burnished ; minor pest damage, some moisture damage (tide lines and staining).Decoration: Keywords, table headings and numerals rubricated ; written area surrounded by red rule-border, table divisions also in red rules.Script: Naskh approaching ruqʻah ; clear, compact Egyptian [?] hand ; serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct dots, some free assimilation of letters.Layout: Opening matter (pp.2-4) mainly in 28 and 31 lines per page, followed by several pages of sample calculations (pp.4-9), then the tables of varying dimensions.Collation: 3 V(30) ; exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "محفوظ زحل ... مح مشترى ... مح مريخ ... محفوظ زهره ... محفوظ عطارد ... تم بعناية الله وتوفيقه"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي خلق العرش والكرسى والاكوان والصلاة والسلام على النبى المبعوث في اخر الزمان ... اما بعد عرفاى اولى الابصار ذوى الاستبصاره معلوم اوله كه علم حساب علوم جزئيه نك اشرفى اولمغله عند المحاسبين مشهور ومتعارف اولان رصد جديد قسينى نك زبان افرنجيدن لسان تركى يه ترجمه سنه فضيلتلو خليفه زاده اسماعيل افندى موفق الوب لكن بو انه قدر تسهيلنه ... بو قليل البضاعه طوراق باشا زاده مير ابراهيم الاستانبولى جعل الله التقوى زاده نك ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from opening matter on p.2.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the set of astronomical tables for the period beginning with the opening of the year 1237 [September 1821] and concluding with Shawwāl 1240 [May-June 1825] (see opening matter on p.2) and covering a large geographical area, executed by Durak Paşazade Mir İbrahim el-İstanbulî from the translation from French to Turkish by Halîfezâde İsmail Çınarî of the tables by César-François Cassini de Thury (d.1784).
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.
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.