Three treatises in different hands, bound together. The first is an abridgement of Ibn al-Bannāʼ's Talkhīṣ by Ibn al-Hāʼim. The second is a short work on astrolabe terminology and use. The third appears to be an autograph of Sharḥ mukhtaṣar al-Tuffāḥah fī ʻilm al-misāḥah by ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Aḥmad al-Dimashqī.
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 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.
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.
Watermark: Crown with roman lettering(?).Contains tables.In Maghribī script.Text and tables rubricated and enclosed within red borders; marginal corrections in hand of copyist.For other copies of this text see Mich. Isl. Mss. 708 and 799,4.Nubdhah fī maʻrifat waḍʻ rubʻ al-muqanṭarāt, pp. [222-231].handasīyah, pp. [76-104]; [6] Muqaddimah mukhtaṣirah fī ʻilm al-mīqāt, pp. [106-117]; [7] Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Khayr al-Ḥusnī, Rāḥat al-fuʾād, pp. [120-161]; [8] Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Jadāwil fī rasm al-munḥarifāt, pp. [163-197]; [9] Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Fatḥ al-Ṣūfū al-Miṣrī, Nuzhat al-nāẓir fī waḍʻ khuṭūṭ faḍl al-dāʾir, pp. [202-210]; [10] Hidāyat al-ḥāʾir ilá maʻrifat waḍʻ faḍl al-dāʾir, pp. [210-220]; [11]bi-al-ṭarīq al-Pp. [1-18]. Bound with: [2] ʻIzz al-Dīn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Muḥammad al-Wafāʾī, Zahr al-qaṭāʾif fī maʻrifat istikhrāj al-inḥirāf, pp. [20-37]; [3] ʻAlī al-Malāqī al-Andalusī, al-Waḍʻ ʻalá al-jihāt fī al-basāʾiṭ wa-al-munḥarifāt, pp. [40-51]; [4] Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Rajab al-Qāhirī ibn al-Majdī, Zād al-musāfir li-maʻrifat rasm faḍl al-dāʾir, pp. [52-74]; [5] Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Shabrāmallisī, al-Durrah al-bahīyah fī waḍʻ basāʾiṭ faḍl al-dāʾir"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.
Text and title rubricated, with red borders; in margin on p. [2], fī al-ṣūratayn lā yazīdu wa-hādhā khāṣṣ bi-hādhihi al-nuskhah lā bi-ghayrihā.End date found in owner's mark on p. [1]."A faṣl on the use of the solar tables" in Ibn al-Majdī's Kitāb al-durr al-yatīm fī tashīl al-taqwīm "for compiling annual ephemerides of the sun." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 72.
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.
Watermark: Large circle with GB(?) in roman.Contains tables and astrological diagrams.In Maghribī script.Text rubricated; marginal corrections in other hands; vol. has edge title.End date from owners' marks on p. [1].For another commentary on this poem by this author, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 714.Pp. [2-102]. Bound with: Abū Maʻshar, Kitab qirānāt al-kawākib, pp. [107-123].Commentary on the Urjūzat al-qawāʻid fī al-qaḍāyā al-nujūmīyah, a poem on astrology by ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Rijāl al-Shaybānī. Begins with a long dedication to the wazīr Abū Yaḥyá Abī Bakr.
Watermarks: Two crescents; three crescents with star.Contains tables.Text rubricated; marginal notes and corrections in hand of copyist and others; on p. [1], fāydah fī maʻrifat awj al-kawākib al-sabʻah[?] ʻalá raṣad Ulūgh Bik.End date based on earliest dated owner's mark on p. [1]."Also called Manẓūma al-ḥāsibīya fī 'l-ḳadāyā al-nujūmīya." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.Commentary on the Urjūzat al-qawāʻid fī al-qaḍāyā al-nujūmīyah, a poem on astrology by ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Rijāl al-Shaybānī. The commentary is not the same as that in Mich. Isl. Ms. 819,1.
In Maghribī script.Text and title rubricated; marginal corrections in hand of copyist (same as that of Mich. Isl. Mss. 797,2-5).Date and copyist's name in colophon: kamala ... ʻalá yad kātibihi li-nafsihi thumma li-man shāʾa Allāh min baʻdihi al-muḥtāj ilá luṭf rabbihi al-khafī Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá al-Azharī al-Ḥanafī fī sanat 1045.[88-91].[5] Arithmetical treatise, pp. [50-54]; [6] Wa-fī al-Maʻūnah li-Ibn al-Hāyim ..., p. [55]; [7] ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ḥajjāj ibn al-Yāsamīn, Lammā badat lī al-judhūr mughlaqah naẓamtu fī ajnāsatihā al-muḥaqqaqah urjūzah ..., pp. [56-57]; [8] ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad, Fa-qad saʾalanī ... al-sayyid ʻAbd Allāh ibn Saʻīd ... ʻalá kayfīyat ikhtiṣār al-ʻadad al-marsūm bi-al-ḥaṭṭ al-jasīm, pp. [58-65]; [9] Hādhā sharḥ qaṣīdat al-Ṭughrāʾī, pp. [66-88]; [10] Abū al-Suʻūd, Mīmīyah, pp.Pp. [1-24]. Bound with: [2] Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Qāḍī, Iẓhār al-kunūz fī ḥall al-rumūz, pp. [24-31]; [3] ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī al-Tarīkī, Istikhrāj al-suʾāl min al-wafq al-murabbaʻ al-kāmil al-aqṭār, pp. [32-40]; [4] ʻAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf ibn Hishām, Mūqidh al-adhhān wa-mūqiḍ al-wasnān, pp. [41-49];Commentary on Rawḍat al-azhār fī ʻilm waqt al-layl wa-al-nahār, "a poem on timekeeping compiled in 794 H [i.e. 1391 or 2]" by Abū Zayd ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ghālib al-Jādarī. See David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 139.
Composite manuscript of works related to al-Mufaḍḍal al-Abharī. The first is an abridgment and commentary on his philosophical work Hidāyat al-ḥikmah and the second is his astronomical treatise Risālah fī ʻilm al-hayʼah. If a third work was included, as the table of contents written on the first flyleaf suggests, it is no longer present. A short poem by Ibn Daqīq al-ʻĪd al-Qushayrī is copied onto a blank page between the two works.
Fols. 133; 26.1 x 17.9 cm.; written surface 19.3-21.6 x 13.1-14.7 cm.; 29 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with vowel signs; with catchwords; entries in red.A compendium of astronomy together with an almanac. The MS contains chapters 33-99; chapters 1-31 and part of 32 are missing.Beg.: التي بىن العاشر واقرب الاعتدالىنEnding: کح کو لومهA few marginal notes and glosses; with charts and tables. Beginning and end are missing. MS in good condition; Arabic binding.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900."ḥājjī KhalīfahKashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58)IIIp. 557; Bibliothecae Bodleianae codicum MSS orientaliumI876II275278; Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae1113/4; RosenLes manuscrits arabes de l'Institut des langues orientales189; Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale2522."