Commentary on the 1501 Astronomical Tables by Abraham Zacut (Zacuto b. Salamanca; 1452) written by Abraham Gascon (16th century) and adapted to the geographical position of Cairo.Condition: tornLayout: 20-23 lines
An astronomical treatise by Abraham b. ʿAnzar(?) on the seven planets and the model of the Universe. Mentions Hipparchus, Ptolemy, Abraham bar Ḥayya, Copernicus and the philosopher Abū Bakr b. al-Ṣāyiḡ (ibn Bajja), whose book the author read with a Muslim.Condition: Torn, holes, slightly rubbed, slightly stainedLayout: 15–27 lines (2v is blank)
A collection of anonymous astrological and magical treatises. Also bound together with this manuscript is a lithographed copy of Kitāb fī al-tamām wa-al-kamāl by Abū Maʻshar. This book is in two parts, the first dealing with horoscopes of men and their signs the second with women. Each part has 12 sections.
Watermark: Anchor in circle. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), nos. 1-8.Text rubricated; marginal notes in hand of copyist (?) and others.Date in colophon: taḥrīran fī awākhir shahr Dhī al-Qaʻdah ʻām sabʻah wa-ʻishrīn wa-alf min hijrat al-nabawī [i.e. November 1618].Pp. [5-19]. Bound with: [2] Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Bannāʾ, Abwāb yastadillu bi-hā ʻalá al-awqāt wa-al-sāʻāt wa-yuʻlam bi-hā awqāt al-ṣalāh, pp. [20-47]; [3] Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Qalaṣādī, Kashf al-asrār ʻan ʻilm ḥurūf al-ghubār, pp. [48-116].On timekeeping and the conversion of calendars.
Watermarks: Three crescents; initials W+W. For the first see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.Contains star tables and astronomical diagrams.Rubrication on first 5 pp. only; marginal corrections in another hand."A treatise dealing mainly with astrology.... This work merits investigation." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 42.
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldRecord origin: "Description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team. Image descriptions based in part on CarboniRecord origin: S. (1988)Record origin: Il Kitab al-bulhan di Oxford."
Binding: Late 16th or early 17th century calf over wooden boards, with blind-tooled panels and rolls and centrepiece ornaments on both boards; sewn onto four supports, with raised bands; remains of metal clasps; text block edges sprinkled red.Contents note: Includes vocalised text of Five Scrolls. Some marginal manuscript annotations in Hebrew in Sephardi cursive script.Decoration: Title page decorated with simple floral motifs.Dimensions: 200mm (height) x 158mm (width) x 48mm (depth).Layout: Biblical text in a larger square script and vocalised; Almosnino’s commentary that surrounds it is in a semi-cursive script. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.
Binding: European binding (repaired) of pasteboards covered with mottled brown leather. The covers have a central frame of four fillets with scallops interspersed with palmettes; at each corner of the central frame are large blind-stamped flower-heads. The covers also have narrow outer frames of two fillets. The spine (five cords) is undecorated. The pastedowns and endpapers (fols. ii–ii, iii–iv) are modern. The numeral 91 has been inked on the fore-edge of the manuscript.Contents note: Ff. 10a-12a are incomplete; f. 12b is blank; some of the tables ff. 48a-49a are incomplete; f.50a has been added by a later hand. Ff. 4b-5a, 12b and 93b-94a contain pencilled notes in several languages by John Greaves (1602-1652), Savilian Professor of Astronomy (1643-8).Dimensions: 26.4 × 18.0 (17.2 × 11.0) cm; the pages have been trimmed.Hand: Main text in Arabic naskh; notes in several other Arabic and Persian hands in addition to three European hands: Greaves, Bernard and unidentified.Layout: 21 lines per page, blank ink with red rubrics; from f. 50a, the text is enclosed in red-inked frames. Tables are laid out in grids using red and black ink.Record origin: "Description abbreviated from Emilie Savage-SmithRecord origin: A descriptive Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts at St John's CollegeRecord origin: Oxford (Oxford: Oxford University PressRecord origin: 2005)Record origin: Entry No. 6Record origin: pp. 26-30."
Watermarks: initials AG in roman; stars in shield with crown. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 36 and nos. 860 and 3886.Text rubricated; copy incomplete.Date of mid-19th century based on author's death date."A commentary on Wasīlat al-mubtadiʾīn li ʻilm ghurrat al-shuhūr wa 'l-sinīn, a poem in 48 verses on the calendar by the same author." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.
Set of works on mathematics and astronomy copied together in what appears to be the same hand. The second work has a supercommentary copied in the margins. Several leaves of calculations and notations tipped or laid in; two tipped in pages have been foliated along with the leaves (f. 26, 33). Also includes one page in Ottoman Turkish (f.94v).
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.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 826Accompanying materials: Scrap from a printed page between pp.62-63.Origin: As appears in colophon on p.728, copied by Mustafa bin Abdullah ( مصطفى بن عبد الله ), resident of Erzurum, with transcription completed Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1220 [February-March 1806]. As appears in preceding authorial colophon, composition completed 1170 [1756 or 7].Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red-brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in blue wove paper ; upper and lower covers carry stamped, scalloped mandorla (filled with vegetal composition) and pendants (lower cover retains onlays), as well as blind-tooled border ; sewn in black thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in purple and yellow, good condition ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, lifting of leather, negative draw in upper cover, fore edge flap small and ill-fitting, etc. ; repairs to spine in dark brown leather.Support: European laid paper ; mainly with 9-10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 25-28 mm. apart (vertical), watermark of three hats (see p.7, 32, 420, 730, etc.) ; another type with 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (vertical), and watermark of large griffin (see p.24) ; all sturdy and well-burnished ; minor pigment burn at gold frames.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of text on p.26 consisting of rectangular piece with empty cartouche defined by gold flanking pieces, surmounted by scalloped w-shaped piece filled with swirling floral vegetal decoration in white, green, red, yellow, and pink on a gold ground, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in black and set in a well of orange, yellow and gold bands ; simple illuminated headpieces appear at opening of table of contents (p.4) and other sections throughout ; written area throughout surrounded by gold frame defined by black fillets ; keywords and section headings rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas ; occasional overlining in red ; illustrations of cosmic maps with Kaʻbah and Ḥaram at Jerusalem on pp.52-53 (compare British Library Or. 12964, fol.23b-23a, reproduced in Milstein, "The evolution of a visual motif: the Temple and the Kaʻba," pp.37-38), charts and diagrams of the different levels of being, celestial spheres, earth, lunar cycles, eclipses, fixed stars, and other astronomical topics mainly in pink, yellow, orange, lavender, light blue, green, gold and black with some tables in red and black (see p.62, 80, 81, 88, 92, 130, 133, 134, 135, 136, 150, 154, 155, 156, 157, 167, 169, 172, 181, 182, 182, 184, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 209, 217).Script: Naskh ; clear, compact hand in a bold line ; serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, pointing (for two and three dots) often in strokes rather than distinct dots, curvilinear but somewhat angular descenders.Layout: Written in 35 lines per page, occasionally divided to two columns to set off verses ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, V+1 (11), 21 V(221), V+1 (232), 4 V(272), IV (280), 8 V(360), III (366), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and skips two pages between pp.47-48).Colophon: "Authorial," reads "تأليف هذا الكتاب وقع فى تاريخ غقع ١١٧۰ نفع من به انفع" ; "Scribal," triangular, reads "قد تم تحرير هذا الكتاب المستطاب ... بعناية الملك الوهاب المسمى بمعرفتنامه الذى فوائده كثيرة للخلايق عامه من تأليف العالم العامل ... السيد الحاج ابراهيم الحقى الفقير الحليم السليم رحمة الله الرؤف الرحيم خليفة حضرت الشيخ سيدنا فقير الله قدس الله اسرارهم ... على يد الحقير الذليل الفقير المحتاج الى عناية الله الكريم مصطفى بن عبد الله الساكن في بلده ارزن الروم صان الله تعالى اهلها عن الافات والهموم ... فى شهر ى ذ [ذى] الحجة من سنة عشرون [كذا] ومائتين بعد الالف من هجرة من له العز والسعادة والشرف ... انك سميع قريب مجيب الدعوات ارحم بفضلك يا رب العالمين م م م"Explicit: "ختمت هذا الكتاب بمناجات العارفين نظم حقى يه اولمز اوغلدر بو كتاب ... بو كتاب اوقيانى يازانى معرفت كنجيله باى ايت يا غنى تأليف هذا الكتاب وقع فى تاريخ غقع نفع من به انفع"Incipit: "حمد بى حد وشكر بى عد وثناى مؤيد بر واحد فرد احد حضرتلرينه اولسونكه هر شان اكوانى علم ازليسيله مقدر ومبين قلوب ... بو حقير فقير حقيقى ابراهيم حقى اول عزيز شريف مخدومى السيد احمد نعيمى ايچون ... چونكه بو كتاب شريفك نظامى بو اسلوب لطيف اوزره تمام اولوب نظر قبولله مطالعه ايدنلرى حقيقت معرفت مولايه مطلع ايتمشدر پس بوكا معرفتنامه نام اولوب تاريخ اختتام بيك يوز يتمشه يتمشدر بيت دير بو تأليفنه حقى تاريخ معرفتنامه ده بيل ربكى هو"Title from opening matter on p.27 and colophon on p.728.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the classical encyclopedic work by Erzurumlu (Erzurumî) İbrâhim Hakkı (d.1780) addressing topics chosen from geography, astronomy and the natural sciences, as well as theology and Sufism. Table of contents at opening (pp.4-23). Followed by a copy of brief letter from İbrâhim Hakkı to one of his brethren (pp.729-730).
17 works, chiefly Arabic translations of Greek treatises and responses to them concerning geometry and astronomy, given a collective title that signifies that these works were to be read after Euclid's Elements in preparation for Ptolemy's Almagest (note on flyleaf 3r, at front of book). Four works (12, 13, 16, 17) are not translations, one (9) is qualified as revised by al-Kindī, one (16) is copied in a different style, and one (17) is on music. A table of contents is included (flyleaf 1 verso, at front of book), and the colophon of work 15 (f. 160v) says that Kitāb al-mutawassiṭāt is complete before listing the next two works that will follow.
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.
Abstract: Treatise on astronomy in thirty chapters. The volume also contains portions of a work on astronomy by Kushyār ibn Labbān (Maqālah 3, bāb 9-11 and 3).Binding note: Covers and envelope flap made of brown leather over paper pasteboards. The covers are similarly decorated, with a central blind-stamped mandorla and a border of two double blind fillets. The envelope flap has the same border and a blind stamped roundel on the point. Paper pastedowns.Contents: 1. fol. 2a-96a : Kitāb al-Majisṭī / Farghānī.Contents: 2. fol. 96b-116b : Excerpts from al-Zīj al-jāmiʻ / Kūshyār, d. ca. 961 (Maqālah 3, Bāb 9 : Fī ʻilm al-hayʼah ; Bāb 10 : Fī al-ṭarīq ilá masāḥat al-arḍ ; Bāb 11 : Fī maqādīr al-abʻād wa-al-ajrām ; Bāb 3 : Fī ṣifat azmān mā bayna al-kusūfāt).Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).The name of the author appears in the opening of the text as Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr al-Farghānī (fol. 2b).The title also appears on the lower edge (hardly legible).11 long lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink, with red for headings, numbers and overlining. Glazed European paper with watermark. A few corrections in the margin. On fol. 1a: inscription "L135 (Ga.II.29)". On the pastedown on the upper cover: Arabic number "139".Collation: Paper, fol. 116 ; 1¹⁰ (-1 with no loss of text) 2-11¹⁰ 12⁶ (+1) ; quires numbered using Arabic numerals (quire 3 and 4 only, fol. 20a and 30a) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Copied by Khalīl ibn Aḥmad al-Tūnisī in 22 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1068 (colophon, fol. 116b, with the seal of the copyist).Incipit : بسم ... هذا كتاب الفه احمد بن محمد بن كثير الفرغاني الحاسب في جوامع علم النجوم واصول الهيئةِ وحركات الاشخاص السماوية وهي ثلاثون فصلا الفصل الاول في سني العرب و العجم ... الفصل الثاني في ان السماءExplicit : والاخر في الناحية الجنوبية فقد بينا من كشوف الشمس والقمر ما فيه كفاية ان شآء الله تعالي تم الكتاب
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)
Commentary on Birjandī's Bīst bāb dar taqvīm, a short treatise on chronology and the computation of almanacs; some tables have been ruled, but left unfilled.
Spell to alleviate illness written on p. [1]: Yā rabb in kāna tamrīḍī yuqirrunī/zulfá ilayk fa-bāb al-faḍl awsaʻ lī/aw kāna min ajli takfiyat al-adhnāb fa-mā/yuḥtāju ʻafwak lil-aqsām wa-al-ʻilal/hādhihi al-abyāt idhā talāhā al-marīḍ yushfá.Two pages of text followed by 128 pp. of tables; colored decoration on p. [1].Date based on presence of calendrical tables for Islamic years 902-931 [1496-1524]."Planetary tables for the longitude of Damascus, with an introduction in unnumbered bābs." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 78."Brief astronomical tables after Ulūgh Beg." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.
Collection of works bound together and copied in the same hand. The first six works discuss Arabic grammar and composition. The 7th and 8th works relate to reading and recitation of the Qurʼān. The final work deals with the rising and settings of the moon and planets and astronomy.
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.
Watermark: Three crescents. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.Contains diagrams and tables.Text rubricated; marginal corrections in hand of copyist (same as that of Mich. Isl. Ms. 723,2).Date and name of copyist in colophon: tammat hādhihi risālah ... ʻalá yad kātibihā al-faqīr ilá Allāh ... Muḥammad ʻIrāqī al-Shiblanjī[?] ... wa-kāna dhālik fī 24 Rabīʻ al-awwal sanat 98[0?] [4 August 1572?].For another copy of this text see Mich. Isl. Ms. 835,11.Pp. [4-24]. Bound with: Risālah mukhtaṣarah fī al-rubʻ al-mashhūr bi-al-muqanṭarāt, pp. [24-30]."A treatise on the use of the sinuated quadrant."