Abstract: Collection of two texts on time reckoning and astronomical matters. Two dates are mentioned in the text as "hādhihi al-sanah allatī naḥnu fīhā": 607 H. (fol. 45a, l. 3) and 612 H. (fol. 69b, l. 5).Binding note: Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards with orange, green and brown marbled paper pasted on both covers. Leather over cloth for the spine. Paper pastedowns. Disbound.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-41a: Kitāb fī al-shuhūr al-rūmīyah.Contents: 2. fol. 41b-80a: Mukhtaṣar al-hayʼah wa-al-mafātīḥ fī ʻilm al-awqāt wa-al-maṣābīḥ lil-Sarrāj.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.14 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink, with use of red for headings and ornementation. The final letters of a line are often written in the margin (see fol. 31a). Light cream paper, glossy, with laid (and chain?) lines visible. Fol. 31-40, 33-38, 35-36, and 44-47 darker (tending towards orange). The paper has been ruled with a sharp tool (particularly visible on fol. 17b-20b). On fol. 65b-66a: Map. Incomplete at the beginning. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (starts with 41 on fol. 1). Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Collation: Paper, fol. 81 ; 1-7¹⁰ 8¹⁰ (+1, fol. 81) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
Arabic translation of the
Planetary Hypotheses(Ὑποθέσεις τῶν πλανωμένων, كتاب الاقتصاص) of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168).The work is divided into two books:Book One (المقالة الأولى, ff. 81v-92v);Book Two (المقالة الثانية, ff. ).The original Greek text of Book Two is lost.Book One begins (f. 81v, lines 4-6):المقالة الأولى من كتاب بطلميوس فس الهيئة المسمى بالاقتصاصقال بطلميوس إنا وصفنا يا سوري في الأقاويل التي وصفناها في الأمور التعليميةوأثبتنا ذلك بقياس برهاني ...Book one colophon (f. 92v, lines 10-13):تمت المقالة الأولى من الاقتصاصلبطلميوس الفلوذي ولواهبالعقل الحمد دائمًا لا رب غيرهولا معبود سواهBook Two begins (f. 93r, lines 2-4):المقالة الثاني من كتاب بطلميوس في الهيئة المسمى بالاقتصاصقال تطلميوس أما ما يدرك من نسب الحركات الفلكية بالإرصاد التيكانت إلى وقتنا هذا ...Book Two ends (f. 102v, lines 15-17):... والذييجتمع من الحذاول الرابعة هو بعد مركز الكوكب من منتهى شمال الفلك المائل عن فلكالتدوير اني ما يتلوا من القوس العلياBook Two colophon (f. 102v, lines 18-21):تمت المقالة الثانية من كتاب بطلميوسفي الهيئة المسمى بالاقتصاص وتم الكتاببتمامها ولواهب العقل الحمد والشكر دائمًالا رب غيرهFf. 81v-102v
Astronomical treatise on calcualating the appearance of the new moon by Thābit ibn Qurrah (ثابت ابن قرة; d. 901).Contents:Begins (f. 108r, lines 4-6):قال ثابت قوم الشمس لوقت مغيبها من اليوم الذي تريد أن تعلم إن كان الهلال يرىفيه إذا كان قد جاوز الاجتماع تقويمًا تعرف به موضتها بالتقريب إذ كانلا يمكنك معرفة ذلك باستقصاء إلا من بعد أن تعدل الساعات ...Ends (f. 113r, lines 21-22):... وكذلك اختلاف بصر الناظرين وغير ذلك وإنما يمكن أنتقضي وتحكم مع ثقة ويقين ما كان بينه وبين الحد نفسه صالحهColophon (f. 113r, lines 23-24):تمت المقالة في رؤية الأهلّةوالحمد لله شكرًا مبدل العسر يسرًاFf. 108r-113r
Astronomical treatise on the solar year by Abū al-Ḥasan Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī (أبو الحسن ثابت بن قرّة الحرّاني; d. 901).The treatise contains eleven diagrams. The first leaf is mutilated.Begins (f. 1v, lines 4-5):إن الأوائل قد اختلفوا في سنة الشمس ولم يكن اختلافهم في مقدمينزمانها (!) فقط ...Ff. 1v-9v
An early copy of Muḥyī al-Dīn Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Shukr al-Maghribī's (محيي الدين يحيى بن محمد بن أبي الشكر المغربي; d. between 680/1281 and 690-1291) revised edition of the Arabic translation of Menelaus of Alexandria's (fl. ca AD 100) Greek treatise on spherical trigonometry known as
Kitāb fī al-ashkāl al-kurīyah(كتاب في الأشكال الكرية) or simply as
Kitāb al-ukar(كتاب الأكر;
Sphaericorum), based on an earlier translation by Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ‘Īsá al-Māhānī (أبو عبد الله محمد بن عيسى الماهاني; d. ca 888).Contents:Chapter 1 (ff. 63v-65v);Chapter 2 (المقالة 2; ff. 65v-67r);Chapter 3 (المقالة 3; ff. 67r-v)The text appears to be defective at its end.Begins (f. 63b, lines 1-2):... هذا كتاب مانالاوس في الأشكال الكرية تهذيب العبد الفقير إلى الله محمد بن أبي الشكر المغربي الشكل الأولThe script is so small and hastily written as to be almost illegible at the end.There are 117 diagrams of triangles projected on spheres.Folio 68r contains a diagram apparently unrelated to the texts before or after it.ff. 63v-67v
Abstract: Collection of treatises on astrology/nomy and arithmetics.Binding note: Paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Brown leather spine and edges. Paper pastedowns.Contents: 1. fol. 1b-45b: Kitāb Madkhal Kūshyār.Contents: 2. fol. 46a: Faṣl fī maʻrifat ṭulūʻ al-Shiʻrá.Contents: 3. fol. 46a-51a: Risālah laṭīfah fī ḥisāb / Sharaf al-millah wa-al-dīn Abū ʻAlī Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Jaghmīnī.Ms. codex.Title from inscription on fol. 1a.Physical description: Written in black ink with use of red (see records for each text). Contains tables. Dark cream paper with thick laid lines and pulp visible. Magical(?) square on fol. 1a."Inscription in Western numerals in black ink on the upper left corner of the upper cover (corresponds to Brill's list. See HoutsmaM. Th. Catalogue d'une collection de manuscrits arabes et turcsno. 502)."'Origin: Last text apparently completed at the end of Shawwāl 661 Sept. 1263 in Khwārazm (see end of textfol. 51a). It is not clear whether this date applies to the redaction of the text or to the copy. Several dated inscriptions on fol. 1a and 51bthe earliest dated Shawwāl 988 H. 1580 (fol. 1a).'
Abstract: Collection of two treatises on astronomy and astrology.Binding note: Dark brown leather over cardboards. Blind-tooled border.Contents: 1. fol. 2b-141a : Kifāyat al-taʻlīm dar ṣināʻat-i tanjīm / Muḥammad ibn Masʻūd al-Ghaznawī.Contents: 2. fol. 142b-181b : Kitāb-i S̲amarah-ʾi Baṭlamiyūs dar aḥkām-i nujūm / Muḥammad ibn Masʻūd al-Ghaznawī?.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger, from the title of the first text in the collection.Physical description: European paper with watermark. Fol. 1 and 182 are later additions.Origin: According to colophons, copied in Shaʻbān 1232 June-July 1817 (fol. 141a, 181b)
Fols. 55; 23.6 x 16.7 cm.; written surface 17.1 x 9.1 cm.; 23 lines to page; on glazed European paper; in Fārisi; with catchwords; entries and headings in red.A work on astronomy and astrology dealing with the sun, the moon, the planets and constellations, the signs of the Zodiac and the astrological characteristics of the days of the week.Beg.: بسم الله ... لك الحمد ىا من جعلت الشمس ضىاءًEnding : وتأمل لما هنالك لترشد الى الاعمال على وجه الکمال بقدرة الملك المتعالA few marginal notes. MS contains a number of charts and diagrams. MS in good condition; Arabic binding.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Abstract: Collection of texts on time-keeping and the use of various astronomical instruments. The volume consists of two distinct parts. The first part (fol. 1-20) contains a text in Ottoman Turkish copied in Edirne in Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1077 1667. The second part (fol. 21-124) contains several texts in Arabic copied by ʻAlī ibn Maḥmūd al-Jīlānī al-Miṣrī, Egypt ("al-Diyār al-Miṣrīyah"), from Dhū al-Qaʻdah 939 to Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 940 Oct.-Nov. 1533, except Zād al-masāfir fī maʻrifat rasm faḍl al-dāʾir, copied by Muḥammad al-Hunaydī, Saturday 16 Ṣafar 940 Sept. 6, 1533.Binding note: Quarter bound in brown leather and marbled paper.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-18b: Teshil ül-mikât Tasʹhīl al-mīqāt / Muṣṭafá ibn ʻAlī al-muwaqqit.Contents: 2. fol. 19a-20b: Several inscriptions and tables.Contents: 3. fol. 21a-25a : Muqaddimah fī maʻrifat al-ḥudūd / Sibṭ al-Māridīnī.Contents: 4. fol. 25b-34b: Risālat laqṭ al-jawāhir fī maʻrifat al-dawāʾir / Sibṭ al-Māridīnī.Contents: 5. fol. 35a-43a: al-Risālah al-gharbanīyah(?) fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab / Sibṭ al-Māridīnī.Contents: 6. fol. 43b-44a: Fāʾidah fī maʻrifat istikhrāj al-taqwīm bi-ṭarīq al-ḥisāb.Contents: 7. fol. 45b-51b: Muqaddimah ʻalá al-rubʻ al-shamālī al-kāmil / Sibṭ al-Māridīnī.Contents: 8. fol. 52a-61a: ʻUmdat dhawī al-albāb fī maʻrifat istikhrāj al-aʻmāl al-falakīyah bi-al-ḥisāb wa-Allāh aʻlam bi-al-ṣawāb / Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Fatḥ al-Ṣūfī al-Miṣrī.Contents: 9. fol. 62b-65a: Risālah āfāqīyah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-nisbah al-sittīnīyah.Contents: 10. fol. 65b-66b: Faṣl fī maʻrifat ṭūl al-balad.Contents: 11. fol. 67a-73a: Risālat Niṣf dāʾirat al-muʻaddil / ʻIzz al-Dīn al-Wafāʾī.Contents: 12. fol. 73b-75b: Fāʾidah Hādhihi al-thalāthah al-abwāb min ākhir al-Risālah al-sittīnīyah alladhī ilá al-Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn al-Māridīnī.Contents: 13. fol. 75b-76a: Dāʾirah of "mā taṣādaqa min al-burūj wa-mā tabāghaḍa wa-mā taṣādaqa min al-nujūm wa-mā tabāghaḍa", with introduction.Contents: 14. fol. 76b: Table: "Sharḥ ittiṣālāt al-qamar bi-al-kawākib al-ʻulwīyah".Contents: 15. fol. 77a: Table: "Sharḥ ittiṣālāt al-qamar bi-al-kawākib al-suflīyah".Contents: 16. fol. 78b-96a: Zād al-masāfir fī maʻrifat rasm faḍl al-dāʾir / Aḥmad ibn al-Majdī.Contents: 17. fol. 97a-112b: Kitāb al-Luʾluʾ al-manthūr fī al-ʻamal bi-rubʻ al-dastūr / Sibṭ al-Māridīnī.Contents: 18. al-Waḍʻ ʻalá al-jihāt fī al-basāʾiṭ wa-al-munḥarifāt.Contents: 19. fol. 125b: Verses of poetry in Ottoman Turkish and other inscriptions.Ms. codex.Title from table of contents on fol. (i)a (later hand).Physical description: First text written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red, with 12 lines per page (147 x 80 mm.). Laid European paper with watermark (distance between laid lines: 300 mm.). The other texts written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red for entries, with 13 lines per page (140 x 100 mm.). Yāʾ for alif maqṣūrah ; final yāʾ dotted. Zād al-masāfir has 15 lines per page (fol. 78b-96a). European paper with watermark (distance between laid lines: 400 mm.). Contains tables and a circular diagram (fol. 76a). Fol. i is a later addition with a table of contents. Fol. 125 is a later addition with inscriptions. Stained with water.Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "ʻUlūm riyāḍīyah 32". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 1019".Origin: According to colophons, Text 1 copied in Edirne, Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1077 1667 (fol. 18b). The other texts are copied by ʻAlī ibn Maḥmūd al-Jīlānī al-Miṣrī (ʻAlī ibn Maḥmūd al-Barisī Kū(?) on fol. 66b), Egypt ("bi-al-Diyār al-Miṣrīyah"), from Dhū al-Qaʻdah 939 1533 to Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 940 Oct.-Nov. 1533 (fol. 34b, 66b, 73a, 112b, 113b), except Zād al-masāfir fī maʻrifat rasm faḍl al-dāʾir, copied by Muḥammad al-Hunaydī, Saturday 16 Ṣafar 940 Sept. 6, 1533 (fol. 94b).
Collected works of Arabic literature, poetry, sermons, Islamic fik-h interpretation, fatwas, astronomy and biographies. |If you would like to view the Arabic language description in the AUB catalogue, please go to : https://libcat.aub.edu.lb/record=b2623492Condition: The first and end pages are missing.
Abstract: Collection of two treatises on astronomical instruments, one in 65 short chapters (see table of contents at the beginning of the text, fol. 2b-3a and in Ahlwardt, W. Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, no. 5836) attributed to Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, the other comprising an introduction and 33 chapters (bāb) on an astronomical instrument called the celestial globe (same as Ahlwardt, W. Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, no. 5869 and King, D. Fihrist al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʻilmīyah, 4/2/7.2). The text is followed on fol. 17a by a Faṣl fī al-dāʼir bayna al-ẓuhr wa-al-ʻaṣr wa-al-dāʼir bayna al-ʻaṣr wa-al-ghurūb.Binding note: Purple paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers.Contents: 1. fol. 2b-12b: Maqālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-kurah al-falakīyah / Qusṭā ibn Lūqā.Contents: 2. fol. 12b-17a: Risālah fī al-kurah dhāt al-kursī.Contents: 3. fol. 17a: Faṣl fī al-dāʼir bayna al-ẓuhr wa-al-ʻaṣr wa-al-dāʼir bayna al-ʻaṣr wa-al-ghurūb.Ms. codex.Title from modern note on fol. 2a. The title of Text 1 appears in the beginning of the text as "al-ʻAmal bi-al-kurah al-falakīyah" (fol. 2b).25 lines per page. Written in clear medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. European glazed paper with watermark. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (counts the first fly-leaf as fol. 1). Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "751/2 ḥāʼ". Inscription in pencil in Arabic script on the first fly-leaf (fol. 1a): "Thālith 149".Incipit Text 1 (fol. 2b): مقالة قسطا بن لوقا اليونانى فى العمل بالكرة الفلكية الفها لابى(؟) الحسن عبد الله ابن يحيى كلّ فاضل فمحبته واجبة والفاضل من الناس من كان عند امّه(؟) مفضلا والمفضل عند الله من كان كامل الفضلة فى النفس والبدنExplicit Text 1 (fol. 12b): معرفة عرض البلد من ارتفاع نصف النهار من كواكب الكرة اذا اردنا ذلك زفعنا الكواكب من(؟) اجزاء خلقة نصف النهار والله اعلم تمت هذه الرسالة بعون الله الملك الوهابIncipit Text 2 (fol. 12b): الحمد لله الذي خلق السموات العلي وزينها بمصابيح الذجى والصلوة ... وبعد فان الكرة المسماة بذات الكرسي كرة عجيبة وآلة غريبةExplicit Text 2 (fol. 16b): فى الافق ويرفع عن الافق بقدر ذلك النصف وعلى هذا القياس تم الكتاب بعون الله الوهاب الغفار الستار الذنوب