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."
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."
Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 35 and no. 860.Contains astronomical tables: jadwal al-Ḥalabī, jadwal al-Farghānī; colophon mentions work of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr al-Farghānī and Nūr al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Naqqāsh.Text and tables rubricated; marginal corrections in hand of copyist.Dates of exemplar and this copy, and names of both copyists in colophon: wa-tammat al-kitābah ʻalá yad aḥwaj al-khalq ilá ʻafw rabbihi al-karīm Muṣṭafá ʻAbd al-Ṣamad ibn al-shaykh ʻAbd al-Jawwād al-Danīṭī[?] ... fī yawm al-thulāthāʾ rābiʻ al-Muḥarram sanat 805 [4 August 1402] ... fī yawm al-jumʻah 25 Abrīl sanat 1919 ʻAbd al-Raḥmān.For other copies of this work, see Mich. Isl. Mss. 736,1, 795,14, and 803,2.Pp. [37-48]. Bound with: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-ʻAṭṭār, Kashf al-qināʻ fī maʻrifat ṣināʻat al-arbāʻ, pp. [1-35]."A treatise on different kinds of quadrants in 2 qisms of 10 + 9 faṣls, mentioning those who invented them.... Ibn al-ʻAṭṭār's work merits publication and analysis." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 74.
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.
Written A.H. 1169 A.D. 1756 by the author.Fols. 6; 17 x 10.2 cm.; written surface 11.5 x 5 cm.; 17 lines to page; on glazed European paper; in Fārisi; with catchwords.A treatise on an astronomical apparatus for measuring time.Beg.: بسم الله ... بحمده حسن الاهتداء الى الطرىق المعدلColophon: وبهذا طلع صبح الاختتام والحمد لله على التمام وصلى الله على سىدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم على ىدراقمها الفقىر حسن الجبرتي في لىلة السبت المبارکة المسفر صبحها عن الىوم الخامس عشر من شهر ربىع الثاني سنة تسع وستىن ومائة والف. تمMarginal notes and glosses. On the title page is a note on the death of the author. MS in good condition. Rare.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.Jabartī, ʻAjāʼib al-Āthār (1297 AH), I, p. 398.
Jaghmīnī's treatise on astronomy and geography with a preface and dedication to Ulugh Beg on the first 5 pages. Includes many diagrams and some empty spaces left for illustrations that were never completed.
Abstract: Collection of a compendium on astronomy, with two commentaries.Binding note: Quarter bound with flap (paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, and envelope flap ; dark brown leather spine and fore-edge flap). Paper pastedowns.Contents: 1. fol. 1b-19a: al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah / Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar al-Jaghmīnī.Contents: 2. fol. 20a-89b: Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah / li-Kamāl al-Dīn al-Tūrākānī sic, fol. 20a: actually al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī, see colophon, fol. 89b.Contents: 3. fol. 90a-139a: Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah aceph. / Kamāl al-Tūrākānī.Ms. codex.Title provided by cataloger.Physical description: 17-18 lines per page. Written in medium small taʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Contains diagrams in red and black ink. Light biscuit paper, glossy, with laid lines and chain lines, and pulp visible. Marginal annotations. Several inscriptions and short texts on pastedowns and on fol. 1a, in Arabic and Persian, including a mention of astronomical signs related to events dating to the years 1022 H. and 1073 H., from the margins of a majmūʻah. Kabīkaj on fol. 20a. Last word of verso repeated on next recto. Waqf (see inscription on upper margin of fol. 114a). Margins worm-eaten.Origin: Text 1 and 2 copied in 884 H. 1479 or 1480 (colophons, fol. 19a and 89b). Text 3 ends on a colophon stating that it was written by the author, Kamāl al-Tūrākānī, in Gulistān, on 26 Ramaḍān 755 Oct. 14, 1354 (fol. 139a). This appears to be the colophon of the exemplar, since the text seems to be written by the same hand and on the same paper as the two first text in the volume. See also Princeton University Library. Islamic mss. Garrett no. 505H.
Abstract: Compendium on astronomy, comprising an introduction and two parts (maqālah).Binding note: Marbled paper pasted on brown leather for upper and lower covers.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 2a).13 lines per page. Contains diagrams. The ms. can be divided in three parts in different scripts (and paper?): fol. 2-10; 11-22; 23-30. Fol. 1 and 31 and later fly-leaves of glazed European paper with watermark. Catchword on the verso of most leaves.Inscription in Arabic on a label pasted on the upper cover: "47 Riyāḍīyāt". Inscription in Arabic on a label pasted on the interior of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 65".According to R. Mach, this copy dates from the 10th century H.Incipit: الحمد للّه كفآء افضاله والصلاة ... يقول ... محمود بن محمد بن عمر الجغمينيّ الخوارزمي ... انّى الفت هذا الكتاب فى هيئة العالم تذكرة مني لكل عالم منحريا التلخيص مع البيان وايجاز الالفاظ الى بسط المعانيExplicit: و لعل هذا المقدار الذى اورد كاف لتحصيل ما اردت فليكن هذا اخر الكتاب تم كتاب الملخص فى هيئة الافلاك
Abstract: Compendium on astronomy, comprising an introduction and two parts (maqālah).Binding note: Limp binding. Brown leather with colored paper pastedown. Blind tooled mandorla on both covers.Ms. codex.Title from beginning of text (fol. 3a).13 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Contains diagrams in red and black ink. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. European glazed paper with watermark. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Inscription in Arabic on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Riyāḍiyāt 46". Inscription in Arabic on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 1056/6".According to R. Mach, this copy dates from the 10th or 11th century H.Incipit: الحمد للّه كفآء افضاله والصلوة ... قال الامام الاجلّ ... محمود بن عمر الجغمينى الخوارزمى ان نقل اعزّة الاحباب ... محمد بن بهرام القلانسي ... اشار ان اجمع فى علم الهيئة كتابا يقرن بين الاختصار والبيان ويجمع ايجاز اللفظ الى بسط المعانىExplicit: و لعل هذا المقدار الذى اورد كاف لتحصيل ما ارادوا و ... الاشارة اليه فالاولى ان اقتصر عليه وليكن هذا خاتمة الكتاب والله اعلم بالصواب تم
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 506Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.346b (p.692), copied by ("katabahu...") ʻAbd al-Faqīr. Date of transcription is not specified.Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 366" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip) ; on tail-edge "١٦٤".Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather with patches of light brown leather at edges of upper and lower covers and in repairs to spine ; Type II binding (with flap) ; paper pastedowns and flyleaves in rough brown paper ; interior of flap in yellow paper and the same red-brown leather leather ; upper and lower covers each carry a blind-stamped, scalloped (17 lobes) mandorla 52 mm. high (compare Déroche class. NSd 9) accompanied by pendants and a double border consisting of a series of fillets ; three pendants appear on the envelope flap and two on the fore-edge flap ; sewn in red thread, four stations ; worked chevron endbands in red and yellow, immaculate condition ; threads broken in table of contents and final bifolium ; in fair condition with abrasion and typical wear ; repairs.Support: A number of papers appear in the various parts of the codex ; [1] primary paper is an Oriental laid paper (possibly 15th century Egyptian or Persian paper?) with 3/3/2 chainlines, 8-11 mm. between chainlines, 46 mm. between the sets of 3 and 43 between the sets of 3 and 2 ; the laidlines are very closely set and not very distinct ; [2] table of contents supplied in a European laid paper with horizontal chainlines approx. 25 mm. apart and watermark, namely a 6-pointed star approx. 32 mm. high, centered on a chainline, with the letters C and S (?) beneath, each aprrox. 25 mm. high ; [3] initial replacement folia (quire following the table of contents) on a European laid paper with indistinct chainlines and no apparent watermark ; [4] other replacement folia (fourth quire and final three quires) in a European laid paper with chainlines approx. 24 mm. apart and watermark, namely a lion rampant in a shield with a trefoil above and writing beneath, "T O S C O L A N O".Decoration: Text rubricated with mainly overlining appearing in red ; a number of small diagrams appear in the margins of the book ; those on pp.332, 366, and 376 are extremely rudimentary and seem to deal with simple geometrical concepts ; two sets of circles on p.415 and p.416 occupy a section on astronomy, and the somewhat more elaborate and partially rubricated geometrical diagrams on p.458 and p.459 accompany a discussion of optics ; another oblong figure appears on p.466.Script: Naskh ; three Persianate hands ; [1] primary hand is a rather small, neat Persianate naskh, quite casually pointed and unvowelled ; alifs are almost vertical and sans serif ; The dot of the nūn is incorporated to the point of being non-existent ; ʻAlá written with a rightward-pointing descender ; [2] table of contents is in a very casual Persianate naskh, largely unpointed and totally unvowelled ; [3] replacement hand is a late Persianate naskh, pointed, unvowelled, with nūn having the incorporated dot.Layout: Written in 21-25 lines per page (main in 25, replacement folia at beginning in 24, replacement folia close in 21-23) ; frame-ruled (impression of misṭarah evident).Collation: III(6), 1+I (9), 1+II (14), III-1 (19), 16 V(179), VI(191), VII(205), 11 V(315), VI(327), V(337), IV+I (347) ; foliated in red Hindu-Arabic numerals, generally in the top left corner of each recto, begins with ١ on p.17 and ends with ۳۳۸ on p.691 ; obviously done sometime after the glossing and trimming of the ms. ; catchwords present, though many lost to trimming ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during cataloguing).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب كتبه عبد الفقير"Explicit: "ولكن هذا اخر الكلام من كتاب المواقف ونسأل الله تعالى أن يثبت قلبنا على دينه ولا بزيغه بعد الهداية ويعصمنا عن الغواية ويوقفنا للاقتداء برسول الله واصحابه والتابعين لهم باحسان ويعفو عن طغيان القلم وما لا يخلق [كذا] عنه البشر من السهو والذلل وان يعاملنا بفضله ورحمته انه هو العفو الرحيم قد تمت"Incipit: "ضمن خطبة كتابه الإشارة إلى مقاصد علم الكلام رعاية لبراعة الإستهلال فبسمل اولا يتمنا ثم قال الحمد لله العلى شانه إلى أخره وحاله في ذاته وصفاته وأقعاله فانه جامع لجهات علو الشان "Title from inscription on fol.1a (p.1).Ms. codex.Fine early copy of the commentary (completed in Shawwāl 807 in Samarqand) on Kitāb al-mawāqif fī ʻilm al-kalām, the renowned work on theology by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ʻAḍūḍ al-Dīn al-Ījī (d. 756/1355). Description provided by Noah Gardiner.
Abstract: Aceph. copy of a commentary on al-Tadhkirah al-Naṣīrīyah, a work on astronomy by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 1274). According to the original colophon copied at the end of the text, the commentary was completed on Tuesday, Dhū al-Ḥijjah 14, 811 April 30, 1409 (see end of text, fol. 86a). The copy starts with the tenth quire (see inscription on the corner of fol. 5a). Before the beginning of the text, 4 leaves with inscriptions in Ottoman Turkish and Arabic, including verses of poetry attributed to Ibn Fāriḍ and Ibn Abī Ṭālib, and excerpted from al-Qaṣīdah al-Tāʼīyah al-Farīḍīyah fī al-tawḥīd wa-al-sulūk by Ibn Fāriḍ.Binding note: Paper pasted on brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Brown leather spine. paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.'19 lines per page. Written in unpointed medium small naskh in black ink with red overlinings. Light cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Contains diagrams and tables. Table on fol. 87b. Inscription in black ink in Western numerals on the upper cover: "510" (corresponds to no. in Brill\'s list ; see HoutsmaM. Th. Catalogue d\'une collection de manuscrits arabes et turcsno. 506).'Copy completed on 6 Shaʻbān 834 April 1431 in Bursa, by ---? ibn Ḥasan al-Sanbūlī(?) (colophon, fol. 86a).Collation: Paper, fol. 88 ; 1⁴ + 2-9¹⁰ (quires 10-17 of the complete ms.) 10² (+1) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf; the quires are numbered using Arabic numerals in the form "10" (see fol. 5a).Beginning as extant (fol. 5a): عظمه لئلا تسعل مكانا كبير بل يكون تحتها(؟) بمقدارExplicit:الابعاد المعلومة المقادير واما بعد محدث الفلك الاعظم فلا يعلمه الا الله سبحانه وفي بعض النسخ ولنختم الكتاب ههنا حامدين لله تعالى ... وقع الفراغ عن بسط الكتاب ... يوم الثلثاء من اواسط ذى الحجه سنه احدى عشره وثمانمائه بمحروسه شيراز ... الاعواز
Abstract: "Commentary on Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī's Treatise on Astronomy entitled al-Tadhkirah fī ʻilm al-hayʾah."Binding note: Upper and lower covers and envelope flap made of dark brown leather over pasteboards. The upper and lower covers have a central blind-stamped mandorla panel, connected to an outer frame by two blind-tooled lines, one vertical and the other horizontal. The outer frame is formed of blind-tooled lines and a row of s-stamps. The envelope flap has a portion of the same blind-stamped pattern. Worm-eaten.Ms. codex.Title from title page in a later hand (fol. (i)a, later paper).25 long lines per page. Written in black ink, and illustrated with diagrams. The commented text is overlined in red (stops after fol. 59b). On some pages, the text is enclosed within a frame of one red line (see fol. 46b-47a). Glazed paper with laid and chain lines visible (the latter horizontal and grouped by three and four; vertical from fol. 58). Some leaves are later replacements (fol. 4; 6; 7; 9; 11; 16; 17; these later leaves are European glazed paper with watermark). It seems that part of the original pages aged differently than others (these pages are dark brown and very fragile, most of them are badly damaged with loss of text); some of these pages are placed between the original leaves wrapped in modern paper on which the text is copied (see between ff. 25 and 26). Contains marginal notes (some in Hebrew, see fol. 38b-39a), reading statement and recipe on fol. 98b. Worm-eaten.Collation: Paper, fol. i (later paper) + 96 + i (later paper) ; 1-2¹⁰ 3-4⁸ 5¹² 6⁸ 7¹² 8⁸ 9¹² 10⁸ ; catchwords on the verso of each leaf starting fol. 57b.Ends with the original colophon, where it is stated that this book was completed in Shīrāz in the middle of Dhū al-Ḥijjah 811 H. 1409.Copied in Bursa in the middle of Dhū al-Ḥijjah 895 H. (colophon, fol. 97b: "yawm al-thulathā fī waqt al-ḍaḥḥī min awāsiṭ Dhī al-Ḥijjah")Opening: و عليه نتوكل وبه نستعين تبارك الذي ... وصحابته الاخيار تسليماً كثيراًIncipit: فان علم الهيئة مرقات منصوبة الى معارج السموات العلي ومدارك ما اودع الله فيهاExplicit: الف الف واربعمائه واثتى عشر الفا وثمانمائه وتسعه وتسعين فراسخا هذا منتهى الابعاد الم... المقادير واما بعد الفلك الاعظم فلا يعلم الا الله سبحانه وتعالى وفي بعض النسخ ولنختم الكتاب ههنا حامدين لله ... وقع الفراغ عن بسط الكتاب ... يوم الثلثا من اواسط دى الحجه سنه احدى عشر وثمانمائه بمحروسه شيراز ... الاعواز تم
Abstract: Commentary on a work on astronomy by Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar al-Jighmīnī (d. after 1221) entitled al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī ʻilm al-hayʼah.Binding note: Marbled paper pasted on golden brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from note on fol. 1a.25 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Thin dark cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible. Fol. 42 and 52-56 (blank): glazed European paper with watermark. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Several inscriptions and ownership statements on fol. 1a. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Riyāḍiyāt 54". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 242".Copied from an autograph on 24 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 817 by ʻAbd Allāh ---? (colophon, fol. 51b, with hardly legible mention of the name of the copyist).Incipit: سبحانك اللهم يا مدير اطباق السماوات بلا عمد واوتاد على القطب ... وبعد فقد دلت البراهين العقلية والشواهد النقلية على ان اقصى ما يترجى للانسان من معارج الكمالات ... 2أ ... قوله وجعلته يشتمل على مقدمة ومقالتين وذلك لانّ 2ب ما ذكر فيه اما ان يكون مقصوداً بالذاتExplicit: وهذه السنة القمرية ناقصة عن السنة الشمسية بعشرة ايام وعشرين ساعة ونصف ساعة بالتقريب وليكن هذا اخر كلامنا فى شرح الكتاب والله سبحانه مفيض الخير و ...؟ الصواب والمرجو من اولى البصاير النقّادة ان يعمضوا(؟) عن الضرار(؟) وان لا يوخذوا بالهفوات
Watermarks: Crown with shield and 3 stars; initials OA/C in roman with crown; lion.Contains diagrams.Text rubricated; marginal commentary in hand of copyist.Date and name of copyist in colophon: Muṣṭafá ... sanat 1211 fī Ramaḍān [February-March 1797]."A treatise on the use of the sine quadrant in 17 marṣads." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 176.
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 geometrical diagrams.Text lightly rubricated, has overlining in red; marginal notes and corrections in hand of copyist.Text (not this copy) published."A treatise on the use of the Indian circle (a geometrical construction for determining the meridian), compiled in 1006 H [1597]." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 161.
Title and text rubricated; marginal corrections in hand of copyist.Pp. [1-20]. Pp. [21-24] contain an unidentified text.times of prayer."A treatise on the sine quadrant and almuqantar quadrant in three risālahs, the first two comprising 5 maqālahs and dealing with the two quadrants together and the third comprising 7 faṣls and dealing with the determination of the prayer-times and qibla with a sine quadrant." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 65. This copy contains the third risālah only, in 6 faṣls, about the use of the almucantar to find the qiblah and
Watermark: Three crescents. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.Contains astronomical tables.Title and text rubricated; text and corrections in margins enclosed by thin red lines.Possible date of early to mid-18th cent. based on death date of author.al-Khawānikī's commentary on Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Fatḥ al-Ṣūfī al-Miṣrī's Nubdhat al-isʻāf fī maʻrifat qaws al-khilāf, "a short treatise on a technique used in the compilation of ephemerides." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 83.
Watermark: Scrollwork.Text and marginal notes rubricated; marginal notes and corrections in hand of copyist; foliation added by copyist (?).Possible early to mid-18th cent. date based on author's death date."A treatise on timekeeping in 23 bābs." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 111. Marginal note on p. [1] refers to works of Ḥasan al-Jabartī on timekeeping.
Watermarks: Britannia (?); initials CIS in sans serif caps.Contains tables of zodiacal signs and latitudes and longitudes of cities in many different countries.Text rubricated; two copyists: pp. 7-17 (anonymous) and pp. 18-27 (named above).ʻudhran li-annahu jalla man la yasʾhū lā siyyamā fī hādhihi al-azmān allatī kādat al-ʻulūm an tandarasa wa-kathara fīhā al-jahl wa-maʻ iʻtirāfī bi-annī lastu min ahl hādhā al-shaʾn wa-lākin al-ṭamaʻ fī al-ajr ajraʾanī ʻalayhi wa-al-rijāʾ fī thawābihi awdamanī ilayhi wa-bi-Allāh al-iʻtimād wa-bihi thiqatī tamma....Date and author/copyist's name in colophon: wa-aqūl wa-anā al-faqīr ... Aḥmad al-Khaṭīb ibn ʻAbd al-Laṭīf al-Khaṭīb ... qad tamma tabyīḍ hādhihi al-waraqāt fī yawm al-ithnayn yawm al-thāmin wa-al-ʻishrūn min Dhī al-Ḥijjah min sanat 1303 min hijrat al-nabī ... fa-al-marjūw miman aṭlaʻa ʻalá zallah aw ʻathar fīhā ʻalá hafwah an yuṣalliḥahā baʻd imʻān al-naẓr fīhi idh qīlakum muzayyiq ṣaḥīḥan li-ajl kawn fahmuhu qabiḥan fa-idhā taḥaqqaqa al-khaṭaʾ iltamas lī fīhāPp. 7-27. Bound with: [2] Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab, pp. [28-33]; [3] Astronomical tables, 1 leaf.Title unidentified, in 20 bābs and a khātimah; copy defective: text begins at end of bāb 2.
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.
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).'
Watermarks: Three crescents; crown surmounted by 6-pointed star and crescent. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24 and no. 1132.Contains astronomical tables.Text and tables rubricated and ruled in red; text partially vocalized; copyist's name in colophon: min kitābat al-ʻabd al-faqīr ... Muṣṭafá al-Ābār; marginal corrections in a different hand; on verso of f. 7 a sheet containing tables in a modern hand has been pasted over the original text, some tables apparently missing (description by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945).For an earlier (?), more complete (?) copy of this work see Mich. Isl. Ms. 734.Text (not this copy) published.Includes tables for Islamic years 1189 [1775 or 6] to 1219 [1804 or 5], upon which the 18th-cent. date for this item is based."Prayer-tables for Cairo taken from the main corpus [compiled by Ibn Yūnus] ... preceded by a short introduction in 8 or 10 faṣls, simple calendrical tables, and a solar longitude table, and followed by a star catalog." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 91.
Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 35 and no. 860.Contains astronomical tables and diagrams.Text and tables rubricated; marginal corrections in hand of copyist.Date based on scope of tables.For a later (?) copy of this work see Mich. Isl. Ms. 735.Text (not this copy) published.Includes tables for Islamic years 1149 [1736 or 7] to 1224 [1809 or 10], which is the basis for the 18th-cent. date assigned to this item. This copy does not contain the star catalog mentioned by King. Pp. [29-31] are about the seven climes and about world geography relative to the qiblah."Prayer-tables for Cairo taken from the main corpus [compiled by Ibn Yūnus] ... preceded by a short introduction in 8 or 10 faṣls, simple calendrical tables, and a solar longitude table, and followed by a star catalog." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 91.
Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 35 and no. 860.Text and title rubricated, some rubrication absent; corrections and extensive marginal notes in hand of copyist; kurrāsahs marked "àdad 1" and "àdad 2.""A treatise on the astrological significance of various kinds of comets and pseudocomets, with some illustrations.... Merits study." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 105 and plate LXXXIV."Apparently not the same as [Mich. Isl. Ms.] 815,1." 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.
Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 36 and no. 860.Contains tables and diagrams.Text rubricated; marginal corrections in hand of copyist; a few pp. are missing.For another copy of this text see Mich. Isl. Ms. 739. For the Muqniʻ itself, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 795,11.Appended to this work beginning on p. [194], several other faṣls, beginning with one entitled faṣl fī maʻrifat istikhrāj darajat al-shams... and including several on different writing-systems (aqlām) for numbers.Commentary by the author on "a poem on the methods of timekeeping used by Abī Miqraʻ." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 143.
Watermarks: Grapes with cartouche and crown; initials AG in roman.Contains tables and diagrams.End date based on owner's mark on p. [1].For another copy of this text, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 740. For the Muqniʻ itself, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 795,11.Commentary by the author on "a poem on the methods of timekeeping used by Abū Miqraʻ." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 143.
Copied A.H. 1110 A.D. 1698 by Manṣūr al-Shabāsī al-Mālikī al-Azharī.Fols. 12; 22.2 x 15.7 cm.; written surface 14 x 9.3 cm.; 21 lines to page; on glazed European paper; in naskhi; with catchwords; entries in red.An astronomical treatise on the surplus of the dāʼir, the latter being the distance from a star to the horizon measured on its parallel.Beg.: بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم. الحمد لله رب العالمىنColophon: وکان الفراغ من نسخ هذه الرسالة عاشر شهر محرم افتتاح سنة 1110 على ىد کاتبها لنفسه بىده الفانىة الفقىر منصور الشاسي المالکي الازهري عفي عنه وعن والدهA few marginal notes and glosses; with diagrams. MS in good condition but stained with dampness.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 613Origin: As appears on p.257, copied by Bakhshī ibn Muṣṭafá al-Khāghalāʼī [?] [بخشى ابن مصطفى الخاغلائى] with transcription completed in 880 [1475 or 6].Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda. -- Inventory cataloguing slips in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover, "IL 273" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in brown leather (upper cover) and cream colored textile [linen] (lower cover as well as spine and portion of upper cover to complete attachment of this replacement / repair) ; Type III binding (following repair) ; upper board lining in blue-tinted laid paper ; lower board lining in untinted laid paper ; upper cover bears tooled central motif and accents in annular stamps along with a tooled rule-border ; sewn mainly in heavy cream thread, two stations, also blue thread and four stations ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of leather, staining, some spine slant (slightly cocked), etc.Support: non-European (likely Arab) laid paper of perhaps several types ; mainly with with 10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines (vertical) possibly grouped in threes with 8-10 mm. between chains, sturdy though thin, well-burnished ; opening replacement leaves in European laid paper with traces of three crescents and crown-star-crescent watermarks ; later replacement (leaf carrying pp.17-18) in different European laid paper with "E B" visible.Decoration: Overlining in red ; some notabilia (side-heads) rubricated.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; bold, elegant hand ; virtually serifless with very slight effect of words descending to baseline, occasionally more exaggerated, quite rounded with curvilinear descenders, elongation and exaggerated thickness of horizontal strokes ; text of opening replacement folia (pp.6-8) in a different hand, the same as that of the ownership statement for the physician Muṣṭafá ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz on 'title page' (p.5) ; replacement leaf carrying pp.17-18 in still a different hand, though possibly that of one of the later owners.Layout: Written in 9 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: II (4), V-4 (6), 11 V(120), V-1 (129) ; chiefly quinions ; replacement folia (pp.6-8 and pp.17-18) ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads "تمت هذه الرسالة الشريفة على ايدى اضعف العباد وافقرهم واحوج الناس واحقرهم بخشى [؟] ابن مصطفى الخاغلائى [؟] غفر الله له ولوالديه مع جميع من آمن بالله الرؤوف الرحيم تاريخ سنة ٨٨٠"Explicit: "واما الحلواء فالعسلى معين والعجينى غليظ مولد للسدد "Incipit: "الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على رسوله محمد واله اجمعين وبعد فهذا مختصر مشتمل على زبدة ما يجب استحضاره من صناعة الطب انتخبته من كتب الاقدمين ورتبته على عشر مقالات ..."Title from inscription on front flyleaf (p.3).Ms. codex.Fine copy of al-Jaghmīnī's (d.1344) Qānūnchah, a compendium on medicine and an extract from Ibn Sīnā’s Qānūn. Brockelmann treats this author as distinct from an astronomer of the same name who died in 1221.
Collection of treatises, copied in the same hand, on mathematical sciences. Topics include calculating heights, distances, areas, solving geometrical and algebraic problems, music theory. At the back of the work are three additions: 1) pages of notes, probably by the copyist, about some of the works in the collection (f. 129r-137v), 2) an added commentary on Apollonius' Conics copied in a different hand (f. 139v-143r), 3) further notes. One folio in Persian (f. 71) is misplaced and should follow folio 78.
Watermarks: Grapes with crown; eagle with initials GFA in roman. For the latter see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), nos. 1261 and 1262.Text and tables rubricated; foliation in hand of copyist; extensive notes and calculations in another hand inside covers and on flyleaves.Date in title on p. [1].Text (not this copy) published.Almost entirely tables for timekeeping, perhaps for Istanbul (latitude 41⁰)?; short sharḥ in Turkish on sine of horizon on p. [73]; cf. David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 175.
Astrological tables written for the reign of Fatḥ-ʻAlī Shāh of the Qajar dynasty. The text has been rebound and is missing the end; flyleaves have been remounted and are covered in pen tests.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 828Origin: As appears in colophon on p.42, transcription of opening work completed 27 Muḥarram 1238 [ca. 14 October 1822]. Transcription of second work and addendum likely completed around the same time.Binding: Pasteboards (very thin, only a few layers) now covered in printed laid paper (in blue-green) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; doublures (board linings) in splendid block-printed paper with floral and fruit motifs (carnations, etc.) in dark blue, red, yellow and green ; sewn in black thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in black and cream, fairly good condition ; overall in somewhat poor condition with signficant abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of paper, etc.Support: European laid paper of two types ; opening type (appears toward close of volume as well) with 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 30 mm. apart (vertical), and watermark of a bird on a pedestal (see p.6, 16, 20, 28, 30, 31, etc.), thin and transluscent though sturdy, well-burnished to glossy ; next type with 7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 32 mm. apart (vertical), and watermarks including crescent (visible in p.54, 58, 62, 64, 86, etc.) and "S" (visible in p.84, 100, etc.).Decoration: Keywords, section headings and symbols rubricated ; written area surrounded by red rule-border.Script: Naskh ; mainly one clear, Turkish hand ; partially but irregularly seriffed with effect of tilt to the left, quite rounded with curvilinear descenders, many open counters, pointing (for two and three dots) in strokes rather than distinct dots ; incipit page of second work (p.44) in a different hand.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 4 V(40), VI (52), IV (60) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (skips two pages between pp.59-60).Colophon: [Kifayetü'l-vakit li-marifeti'd-dair ve fazle ve's-semt] "Scribal," triangular, reads "تمت رسالۀ مقنطره سنه ١٢٣٨ فى ٢٨ م يوم الاثنين"Explicit: [Kifayetü'l-vakit li-marifeti'd-dair ve fazle ve's-semt] "سمت قبله يه مطابق اولدى قبله دخى قوس ارتفاعك طرفنه واقع اولدى" ; [Risale-yi ceyb-i afaki] "صويه وارنجه درنلكى سكزبجق زراع اولدى وقس على هذا تمت م"Incipit: [Kifayetü'l-vakit li-marifeti'd-dair ve fazle ve's-semt] "الحمد لله الذى جعل على البحر الاحضر [الاخضر] الفلك قناطير المقطنراة ... وبعد بو افقر عباد الله مصطفى بن على الموقت بالجامع الحاقانى السليمو ... وبو رسالۀ كفاية الوقت لمعرفت الدائر وفضله والسمت برله تسميه ايلدم ..." ; [Risale-yi ceyb-i afaki] "الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين آلات ارتفاعيه دن ربع الدائرى تصبير ... آلت ارتفاعينك جيب طرفنده اولان دوائر وخطوطك بياننده دير قوس الارتفاع ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from opening matter of first work (p.4) and rubricated heading at opening of second work (p.44).Ms. codex.4. p.115-p.117 : Tarik-i eshel-i ceyb-i irtifa.3. p.44-p.114 : Risale-yi ceyb-i âfakî/ Mustafa bin Ali Muvakkit.2. p.43 : [blank].1. p.4-p.42 : Kifayetü'l-vakit li-marifeti'd-dair ve fazle ve's-semt / Mustafa bin Ali Muvakkit.Careful copy of two treatises by Muvakkit Mustafa b. Ali (d.1571), timekeeper in the mosque of Sultan Selim II (r.1566-1574), the first on the use of the almucantar or bridged quadrant (rubʻ al-muqanṭarāt) in 12 bābs and the second on the use of the sine quadrant (rubʻ mujayyab) in 22 bābs (compare his Vafiyetü’l-evkat and Rub-i müceyyeb).