Astronomy Manuscripts 339 items

1. Astronomy; calendrical T-S K2.70

Description:: 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: torn
Layout: 20-23 lines

2. Astronomy T-S K6.143

Description:: 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 stained
Layout: 15–27 lines (2v is blank)

3. Astrological and magical treatises.

Description:: 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.

4. Fa-innī waṣiftu fī hādhā al-kitāb min ʻilm al-awqāt bi-al-ḥisāb mā fīhi kifāyah wa-ghannāhu ʻan jamīʻ al-ālāt al-shuʻāʾīyah wa-al-ẓillīyah

Description:: 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.

5. Kitāb fī ʻilm al-hayʾah

Description:: 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.

6. Hādhihi tuḥfat al-murīdīn

Description:: 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.

7. Kitāb fī sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ ...

Description:: 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).

8. Ḥāshīyah ʻalá sharḥ al-mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah

Description:: 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.

9. Sharḥ-i Zīj-i Ulugh Bēg.

Description:: 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.

10. Sharḥ al-Tadhkirah fī al-hayʼah

Description:: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله الذي خلق السموات والارض ... :Incipit
Written 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).

11. كتاب احكام الاعوام

Description:: 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
Quarter bound with flap in marbled paper and brown leather. Paper pastedowns.

12. Kitāb fī istīʻāb al-wujūh al-mumkinah fī ṣanʻat al-asṭurlāb.

Description:: 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.

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