Watermarks: Face-in-the-Moon in double-bordered shield; Carbera De Mori Vittorio in script. For the former see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 19th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 35 and no. 860.Contains geometrical diagrams.Text rubricated; marginal corrections and numbering of each kurrāsah in hand of copyist.Date in colophon: 5 Jumādá al-ūlá sanat 1312 hijrīyah [4 November 1894].For the sharḥ of Qāḍī Zādah on this work see Mich. Isl. Mss. 726 and 727.Text (not this copy) published."This work ... summarizes with their abridged demonstrations thirty-five fundamental propositions of Euclid's geometry." Hâmit Dilgan, "al-Samarqandī," in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, v. 12, p. 91a.
Abstract: Collection of texts on inheritance law, mathematics, and astrology.Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-tooled central star and fillets.Contents: 1. leaves 1a: Persian verses.Contents: 2. leaves 1b-10a: al-Bāb al-thālith min al-manhaj al-rābiʻ min Ḥabl al-matīn fī al-mawārīth / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī.Contents: 3. leaves 10b-12b: Persian verses.Contents: 4. leaves 13a-21a: Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī.Contents: 5. leaf 21b: Persian verses.Contents: 6. leaves 22a-49b: Risālah fī al-ḥisāb.Contents: 7. leaves 50a-89b: Ghunyat al-anām fī maʻrifat al-sāʻah wa-al-ayyām / al-Fayḍ al-Kāshī.Contents: 8. leaf 90a: Notes.Contents: 9. leaves 90b-122b: Farāʼiḍ / Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī.Contents: 10. leaves 123a-124b: Notes concerning ḥisāb abjad and other topics.Ms. codex.Title from text 2.On spine: Label reading "Manhaj al-rābiʻ az Ḥabl al-matīn fī al-mawārīth" in Arabic script.Physical description: 11 lines per page; written in small nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Text 9 on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Marginal damp-staining and some repairs.Origin: Text 4, middle of Ṣafar 1110 H August 1698 (leaf 21a). Text 9, 6 Shaʻbān 1111 H 27 January 1700. Remaining texts likely completed around the same time.
Compostite manuscript written in at least three hands and on more than one type of paper containing eight treatises on astronomy and arithmetic with an introduction; diagrams within and between the works. Some of the works are dedicated to Muḥammad Valī Mīrzā, the third son of Fatḥ ʻAlī Shāh Qajar (see for example, f. 171v, 279r).
Recto: beginning of Kitāb Istidrāk al-Sahw al-Mawjūd fī Kutub Raʾs al-Mathība [al-Fayyūmī] (‘The Book of the Correction of the Negligence Found in the Books of the Head of the Yeshiva, al-Fayyūmī’) by Mubaššir ha-Levi b. Nissi. Verso: note of possession with the name Ezekiel ha-Kohen b. ʿEli ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver. At the bottom of verso there are two lines in Arabic script that contain a short title of the book.Condition: Torn, holes, slightly rubbedLayout: 19 lines (recto); 3 lines (verso)
Bible commentary, dealing with mourning. Includes a discussion on whether the yešivot are closed during the period of mourning for a sage, for the Av Bet Din, for the Nasi, or for the Rayyīs al-Mathība. Quotes from Yehudai b. Naḥman Gaʿon that one does not recite the blessing for the mourners on a Sabbath; and also from Saʿadya that a mourner recites the Grace after meals to himself and recites the blessing אל אמת דיין אמת in place of the blessing הטוב והמטיב.Condition: Torn, stained, rubbedLayout: 23 lines
On p. [1], illuminated ʻunwān; text rubricated with overlining in gold; enclosed in gold borders; pages dyed pink (?); marginal commentary in hand of copyist.Date and copyist's name in colophon: waqaʻa al-farāgh min kitābatihi ... ʻalá yad al-faqīr ... ʻAbd al-Karīm ... fī yawm al-sādis wa-al-ʻishrīn min shahr Jumādá al-awwal ... min shuhūr sanat thamān wa-thamānīn wa-tisʻumiʾah [i.e. 9 July 1580].On the laws of inheritance and descent (ʻilm al-farāʾiḍ).
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.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 833Origin: As appears at close on p.281, dated 28 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1279 [ca. 17 May 1863].Binding: Boards covered in textured, coated black paper with red leather over spine and corners of boards (barely, not quite half-binding) ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in printed 'marbled' paper (mainly in dark blue, pink and yellow) ; spine gold-stamped with vegetal designs and lines along ridges ; sewn in yellow thread, five stations, over cords ; stuck-on endbands ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of paper and leather, etc.Support: Machine laid paper (faux laid wove) with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 22 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of "L J D," thin, transluscent, and quite well-burnished, tinted blue.Decoration: Headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.2 consisting of rural scene with canon on rolling hills set in a crescent flanked by assorted arms / weapons ; keywords, section headings, numerals and other symbols rubricated ; numerous line-drawings and diagrams (in pencil and black and red inks) illustrating text.Script: Ruqʻah ; clear Turkish hand ; serifless with slight effect of inclination to the left and of words descending to baseline, freely ligatured, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in as many as 23 lines per page, though varies considerably depending on number of diagrams, mathematical problems, etc. ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 14 V(140), I (142), i ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Incipit: "مقدمه علم حكمت طبيعيه علوم طبيعيه نك ..."Title from rubricated heading at opening (p.2).Ms. codex.Careful copy of an Ottoman physics (physical science or natural sciences, i.e. hikmet-i tabiiye) textbook of uncertain authorship.
Text rubricated; copyist same as that of Mich. Isl. Ms. 691,2; diagrams and marginal notes in a different hand.Date in colophon: alf wa-miyah wa-ithnayn wa-thalāthīn Dhū al-Ḥijjah [October-November 1720].Pp. [1-47]. Bound with: ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Aḥmad al-Dimishqī, Sharḥ urjūzah fī ḥall al-ʻadad, pp. [48-53].Dimishqī's commentary on his own poem Nukhbat al-tuffāḥah, based on Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ashʻarī's poem al-Tuffāḥah fī ʻilm al-misāḥah, on surveying. For a later copy of this text, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 796,12.
Watermarks: Three crescents; hillock. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24 and nos. 2610-2616.Contains mathematical tables.Text rubricated; marginal notes and corrections by copyist and others.For another copy of this text, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 795,2.Pp. [31-33] contain Risālah āfāqīyah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-nisbah al-sittīnīyah.Ibn al-Majdī's Kashf al-ḥaqāʾiq deals with sexagesimal arithmetic, sexagesimal multiplication tables, and linear interpolation. David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 74."A treatise on the computation of degrees and minutes, based on the Kashf al-ḥaḳāʾiḳ of Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn al-Majdī. In a muḳaddima, ten bābs, and a khātima." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.
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: Scrollwork.Text rubricated."An Arabic treatise on the astrolabe short enough to be written on the ṣafīḥah of an astrolabe." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 161.
Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 35 and no. 860.Contains short mathematical tables.Text rubricated; marginal notes and corrections in hand of copyist and others.Date and name of owner/copyist in colophon: ʻalá yad al-faqīr Aḥmad Kharās ...[?]... Rajab sanat 1291 [August-September 1874].For an earlier copy of this text see Mich. Isl. Ms. 801,3.al-Qalaṣādī (Carthage, 1988).Text (not this copy) published."An abridgement of the author's Kashf al-jilbāb ʻan ʻilm al-ḥisāb, in an introduction, four parts, and a conclusion.... Each part contains 8 chapters. This copy is defective; part 2, chapter 1 (end) to part 3, chapter 1 (beginning) is wanting (between ff. 11 and 12)." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.
Watermark: Andrea Galvani in script with Face-in-the-Moon in double-bordered shield. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 36 and no. 860.Tables rubricated; foliation added in hand of copyist.Sexagesimal multiplication tables.
Watermarks: Eagle with FAG in roman; one crescent; three crescents. For the latter see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.Contains mathematical tables and diagrams.Text rubricated; overlining in black and red; marginal notes, diagrams, and corrections in hand of copyist (same as that of Mich. Isl. Ms. 802,2); kurrāsahs 3-10 numbered.Date and copyist's name in colophon: wa-qad wāfaqa al-farāgh min naql hādhihi al-nusakh yawm al-aḥad al-mubārak thānī yawm maḍá min shahr Shaʻbān ʻām khamsah wa-thalāthīn wa-miʾatayn baʻd al-alf [i.e. 15 May 1820] ʻalá yad al-ʻabd al-faqīr al-fānī Muṣṭafá Muḥammad ʻArafah al-Dissūqī al-Burhānī.Text (not this copy) published.Pp. [1-185]. Bound with: Sālim ibn Sālim al-Qayrawānī, Hādiyat al-bādī li-kitāb al-Qalaṣādī, pp. [189-262].Ibn Ghāzī's Munyat al-ḥussāb is based on the Kitāb talkhīṣ aʻmāl al-ḥisāb of Ibn al-Bannāʾ. See David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), pp. 139 and 141-142."The author's commentary on his own poem on arithmetic entitled Munyat al-ḥussāb." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.
Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone, name spelled out in roman. Cf. Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 35 and no. 860.Contains rough geometrical diagrams.Egypt, where it remained unfinished for a long while until its completion was facilitated."Text not rubricated, has overlinings in black; marginal corrections in hand of copyist; each kurrāsah numbered with notation: ʻAṭṭār/Ashkāl/K. [X]; colophon describes author's travels in compiling this work: "I compiled it during many travels, without stopping at what had already been written. I began to compose it in Cairo, Egypt, then traveled to Constantinople where I compiled some more, then I moved to Alexandria ...[?]... where I compiled even more. It was not completed until I returned toDate of 19th cent. based on author's death date."A short treatise on the commentary on the Ashkāl al-taʼsīs of Samarḳandī by Mūsá ibn Maḥmūd al-Rūmī Ḳāḍīzāda." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.
Incomplete abridgment in Arabic of Euclid's Elements, written on paper. The first 6 leaves (f. i-5) are replacements, written on different paper in a later hand. The replacement title page gives the incorrect title Taḥrīr Uqlīdis kāmil (Complete edition of Euclid, usually used to refer to the version edited by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, which this is not).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 870Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. suggest mid to late 16th or early 18th century dating ; dated ownership statement (see p.15, 184, etc.) provides terminus ante quem of 1750.Accompanying materials: a. Slip with description (in hand of E. Husselman ?) "Hari-Karana, son of Mathurā-dāsa, Multānī. | Inshā. | Cat. of Pers. Bks. in BM Cat. several editions | n. f. in Mich. MSS." and (in hand of G. Meredith-Owens ?) "A work on epistolary style." -- b. Slip with note "Counted for 1968/69 Annual Report" -- c. Slip with note "Persian MSS (Heyworth-Dunne?) Husselman notes"Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 19Binding: Boards covered in shell 'marbled' paper (mainly in pink, blue and yellow) with orange-brown leather over spine and board corners (approaching half-binding) ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in grey paper ; spine gold-stamped with "HER | KERN" and decorative bands ; edges of text block flecked with red ; sewn in white thread over three recessed cords ; stuck-on endbands ; overall in somewhat poor condition with much abrasion, deterioration of leather, lifting and losses of spine leather, etc.Support: European and non-European (likely Indian or Persian) laid paper ; opening gathering in a paper with roughly 7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, fairly distinct, curving) and no laid lines clearly visible, cloudy formation, thin and transluscent though sturdy, burnished, grayish tint ; thereafter (from p.31) in a European laid paper with 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal or vertical), chain lines spaced 24 mm. apart (vertical or horizontal), and watermarks of three crescents (roughly 72 mm. long, parallel to chains, see p.40, 78, 112, etc.) and mount of six coupeaux with star above (see p.102, 126, 154, etc.), sturdy, medium cream in color, well-burnished.Decoration: Keywords and headings rubricated (text to be entered in red entered in inner margins) ; overlining in red ; occasional textual dividers in the form of red hāʼ.Script: Shikastah-taʻlīq (taʻlīq with elements of shikastah) ; bold, elegant Indian [?] chancery hand in a heavy line ; partially seriffed with left-sloping head-serifs and highly ligatured with effect of words descending to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, occasional reversed or recurved final descenders, etc.Layout: Written in roughly 10 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 6 (6), IV (14), 11 III(80), III-1 (85), 6 (91), ii ; almost exclusively ternions ; middle of the quire marks in the form of black strokes, lower outer corner of right-hand leaf, upper outer corner of left-hand leaf ; some added leaves (six each at the opening and close of the codex) bound in upside down ; catchwords present ; pagination initially in black ink, continued in pencil, Western numerals (every other leaf) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inner flyleaves and added leaves).Incipit: "بعد از حمد وثنای مر حضرت ایزد متعال ذو الحلال والافضال ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.15).Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the collection of model letters of appointment and other official documents compiled (certainly after 1625, possibly after 1645) by Harkarn [Harkaran] ibn Mathurādās of Multān, secretary (munshī) of Iʻtibār Khān (d.1625). Contribution to the cataloguing from Hossein Mottaghi.
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.
Watermark: Crown with grapes.Text rubricated; marginal corrections in hand of copyist.Date in colophon: qad intahá mā utīḥa jamʻuhu fī ghurrat al-awwal min al-akhīr min al-thānī ʻashar min al-hijrah al-nabawīyah [25 September 1786?]."A treatise on number theory." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 114.
Abstract: "Collection of sixteen texts of the Druze communityAbstract: comprising texts 41-55 in Sylvestre de Sacy's description of Druze writings in Exposé de la religion des Druzes (1838)."Binding note: Acquired from Brill, leyden, 1925, from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut).Contents: 1. fol. 2a: Table of contents, written in black, red, and yellow.Contents: 2. fol. 2b-21b: al-Juzʼ al-awwal min al-sabʻah ajzāʼ.Contents: 3. fol. 21b-35b: al-Risālah al-mawsūmah bi-al-Tanbīh wa-al-taʼnīb wa-al-tawbīkh wa-al-tawfīq.Contents: 4. fol. 35b-39a: Mathalan ḍarabahu baʻḍ ḥukamāʼ al-diyānah tawbīkhan liman qaṣura ʻan ḥafẓ al-imānah.Contents: 5. fol. 39a-44b: Risālah Banī Abī Ḥammār(?).Contents: 6. fol. 44b-49a: Taqlīd lāḥiq al-taqlīd al-awwal ilá al-Shaykh al-mukhtār.Contents: 7. fol. 49a-53b: Taqlīd al-Sikkīn.Contents: 8. fol. 53b-55b:Taqlīd al-Shaykh Abī al-Katāyib.Contents: 9. fol. 55b-58a: Taqlīd al-Amīr Dhī al-maḥāmid kafīl al-Muwaḥḥidīn Abī al-Fawāris Muʻḍad Ibn Yūsuf al-sākin bi-Fallajīn.Contents: 10. fol. 58a-60b: Taqlīd Banī Jarrāḥ.Contents: 11. fol. 60b-66a: al-Risālah al-mawsūmah bi-al-Jumayharīyah.Contents: 12. fol. 66b-69b: al-Risālah al-mawsūmah bi-al-Taʻnīf wa-al-tahjīn li-Jamāʻat man bi-Sunhūr min Katāmat al-kātimīn al-ʻajīsiyīn.Contents: 13. fol. 69b-74a: al-Mawsūmah bi-Risālat al-Wādī.Contents: 14. fol. 74a-91a: al-Mawsūmah bi-Risālat al-Qusṭanṭinīyah al-munfadhah ilá Qusṭanṭīn mutamallik al-Naṣrānīyah.Contents: 15. fol. 91b-104b: al-Risālah al-mawsūmah bi-al-Masīḥīyah wa-Umm al-qalāʼid al-niskīyah wa-qāmiʻat al-ʻaqāʼid al-shirkīyah.Contents: 16. fol. 104b-116b: al-Risālah al-mawsūmah bi-al-Taʻaqqub wa-al-iftiqād li-idāʼ mā baqiya ʻalaynā min hadm sharīʻat al-Naṣārá.Ms. codex.Title from first text (fol. 2b).Physical description: 13 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is vocalized. Red dots text-stops. Title written in red ink with black vocalization and fillings. Change in paper and script from fol. 50 to fol. 76, and from fol. 87 to fol. 116 (later replacement?, see fol. 76b-77a). Inscriptions on pastedowns and fol. 1a-b. Seriously worm damaged. Extremely fragile.
Watermark: GiorMagnani Almasso with scrollwork. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), no. 3748.Contains geometrical diagrams and tables.Text rubricated; borders in blue and red; marginal notes in hand of copyist.For other copies of this text see Mich. Isl. Mss. 731 and 815,2."A compendium of arithmetic." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.
Watermark: Three hats. Cf. Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), nos. 2593 and 2597.Contains geometrical diagrams and tables.Text rubricated; substantial marginal notes in hand of copyist.Date, copyist's name, and provenance in colophon: qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min taḥrīr al-risālah al-ḥisāb ʻalá yad ... ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yaʻqūb al-Muftī Bayburd Arḍurūm sābiqan fī yawm al-khāmis ʻashar min shahr Muḥarram al-ḥarām fī waqt qarīb ghurūb zakāʾ fī madrasat Sulṭān Sulaymān al-marḥūm ... sanat 1112 [2 July 1700].For other copies of this text see Mich. Isl. Mss. 732 and 815,2."Treatise on arithmetic, in a muḳaddima and 10 bābs, with glosses and marginal commentary (unidentified) through the eighth bāb, and a number of loose leaves and slips laid in." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 119Origin: As appears in colophon on p.224, copied by ʻAlī ibn Muṣṭafá. Transcription of second work completed 12 Muḥarram 1129 [ca. 17 December 1716]. As appears in colophon on p.248, transcription of third work completed 28 Muḥarram 1129 [ca. 12 January 1717]. As appears in colophon on p.262, transcription of fourth work completed 23 Muḥarram 1129 [ca. 7 January 1717]. As appears in colophon on p.285, transcription of fifth work completed 15 Ṣafar 1126 [ca. 2 March 1714]. As appears in colophon on p.354, transcription of final work completed 20 Muḥarram 1129 [ca. 4 January 1717].Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 141. Risalah fi 'l-hisab."Binding: Pasteboards covered in laid paper with spine, fore-edge flap, and edges/turn-ins in dark red-brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in laid paper ; sewn in pink thread, two stations ; worked endbands in pink and green, poor condition ; overall in poor condition with significant abrasion, staining, severe lifting and losses of paper and leather (especially upper cover), delamination of boards, etc.Support: European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26-27 mm. apart (horizontal), and three hats watermark ; well-burnished.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, numerals, and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; occasional textual divders in the form of red discs ; some geometric diagrams in red.Script: Naskh ; clear, bold Turkish hand ; seriffed with right-sloping head-serif on nearly all vertical shafts ; effect of tilt to left ; many closed counters ; tapered descenders ; portion of text on p.300 supplied in a different hand.Layout: Written in 17 and 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 2 V(20), IV (28), 7 V(98), 2 VI(122), V (132), IV+1 (141), 2 V(161), IV (169), III (175), ii ; chiefly quinions ; lacks proper catchwords, but last word of final line on the verso of each leaf is usually repeated at the beginning of the first line on the following recto ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and skips two pages between pp.355-356).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تم الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب في سنة ۱۱۲۹ في الشهر المحرم في يوم ۱ ۲ على يد علي بن مصطفى غفر الله لهما ولوالديهما امين تم" ; "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تمت في سنة ۱۱۲۹ في شهر محرم في يوم ۲٨" ; "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تم تم تم في سنة ۱۱۲۹ في شهر محرم في يوم ۲۳" ; "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تم تم تم سنة ۱۱۲٦ في ص ۱٥" ; "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب سنة ۱۱۲۹ في شهر م في يوم ۲۰"Incipit: [Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb] "نحمدك يا من لا يحيط بجميع نعمه عدد ... وبعد فهذه رسالة في الحساب مرتبة على مقدمة وعشرة ابواب" ; [Sharḥ Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb] "يا من عجز عن جميع تضاعف نعمه اقلام افهام العقلاء ... اما بعد فيقول الفقير الى الله الغني عمر بن احمد الشهير بالمائي والچلي رسمت فيما مضى في ايام التحصيل واثناء التدريس والتعطيل تعليقات على المواضع المشكلة وتنبيهات على رموز المباحث المفصلة في الرسالة البهائية في الحساب المشهور فيما بين اولى الالباب ..." ; [Risālah fī fī asmāʼ al-rusūm al-marsūmah ...] "الحمد لله حمدا يليق بجلاله والصلوة والسلام على خير خلقه محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين وبعد فهذه رسالة مختصرة اذكر فيها اسماء الرسوم المرسومة على الالة المسماة بالاسطرلاب الشمالي ذات الصفائح وبعض اعمالها ..." ; [Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-marsūm bi-al-qanṭarāt] "قال الشيخ ...شهاب الدين احمد بن المجدي ... الحمد لله حمد الشاكرين وصلوته على سيدنا محمد واله الطيبين الطاهرين وبعد فهذه رسالة في العمل بالربع المرسوم بالقنطرات ..." ; [Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab] "الحمد لله رب العالمين ... وبعد فهذه رسالة في العمل بالربع المجيب مشتملة على مقدمة وعشرين بابا ..." ; [Sharḥ al-Muqaddimah al-mukhtaṣarah ...] "اي الف والاسم مشتق في السمو وهو العلو ..."Title supplied by catloguer.Ms. codex.13. p.288-p.354 : [Sharḥ al-Muqaddimah al-mukhtaṣarah fī maʻrifat istikhrāj aʻmāl al-layl wa-al-nahār min rubʻ al-dāʼirah].12. p.287 : [blank].11. p.286 : ["Jadwal ṭūl al-buldān ..."].10. p.270-p.285 : Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab / Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīnī.9. p.269 : [Excerpt addressing "maʻrifat darajat al-shams bi-al-taqrīb"].8. p.263-p.268 : [blank].7. p.250-p.262 : Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-marsūm bi-al-qanṭarāt / Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Rajab ibn al-Majdī.6. p.249-250 : [Excerpt from "Risālah min rasāʼil al-asṭurlāb," etc.]5. p.226-p.248 : [Risālah fī asmāʼ al-rusūm al-marsūmah ʻalá al-ālah al-musammāh bi-al-asṭurlāb al-shamālī dhāt al-ṣafāʼih].4. p.225 : [blank].3. p.62-p.224 : [Sharḥ al-Risālah al-Bahāʼīyah fī al-ḥisāb] / ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Māʼī al-Chillī.2. p.58-p.61 : [blank].1. p.6-p.57 : Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb / Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī.Fine copy of a collection of treatises pertaining to mathematics and astronomy, including Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī's manual of arithmetic, a commentary on the same by ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Māʼī al-Chillī (fl. 17th cent.), an anonymous treatise on the astrolabe, a treatise on the astrolabic quadrant by Ibn al-Majdī (d.1447), a treatise on the use of the sine quadrant by Sibṭ al-Māridīnī (b. 1423), and an anonymous commentary on a treatise on time reckoning by Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥaṭṭāb (d.1586 or 7). Brief excerpts (as well as a table) on astronomical topics are found between these main works.
Two treatises on mathematics, copied together. The second work, al-Risālah al-Muḥammadīyah, contains only the first maqālah and seems to be the Arabic translation of al-Qūshjī's Persian Risālah fī al-ḥisāb.
Text rubricated; marginal notes in hand of copyist.Date on p. [34]: ithnay ʻashar shahr Jumādī al-awwal sanat 964 arbaʻ wa-sittīn wa-tisʻumiyah [13 March 1557].Text (not this copy) published.Pp. [1-36]. Bound with a list of traditions regarding the relative merit of prayer in the four holiest mosques, pp. [37-40]."A treatise on arithmetic." Cataloging by Elinor M Husselman, 1945.
Watermarks: Anchor in circle; initials HA. For the former see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), nos. 1-8.Text rubricated and enclosed in thin red double border; marginal corrections in hand of copyist; written on p. [1]: min al-majmūʻ/kurrās 5.Date and name of copyist in colophon: [?]... li-nafsihi wa-li-man shāʾa Allāh min baʻdihi Abū Bakr ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUthmān al-Miṣrī thumma al-Buḥayrī thumma al-Kh[?] thumma al-Azharī thumma al-Ḥanafī wa-kāna ibtidāʾ kitābatihi ṣubḥīyat yawm al-Jumʻah thānī shahr Ṣafar sanat sabaʻ wa-alf wa-kāna tamāmuhu yawm al-ithnayn al-ḍuḥá Khamīs al-shahr al-madhkūr [7 September 1598].For other commentaries by Ibn al-Hāʾim on his al-Muqniʻ, see Mich. Isl. Mss. 701 and 703. Another commentary by an unidentified author is Mich. Isl. Ms. 700."A commentary on the poem by Ibn al-Hāʾim entitled Al-Muḳniʻ fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945. The other two works listed on the title page are absent from the item in hand.
Title and text rubricated.For other abridgments of and commentaries on Ibn al-Hāʾim's Muqniʻ, see Mich. Isl. Mss. 700,2, 702, and 703."al-Musriʻ, an abridgement of al-Mumtiʻ, compiled in 810 H [1407]." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 69."A poem on algebra with unidentified commentary [not the same as that of Mich. Isl. Ms. 702]." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.
Title and text rubricated; marginal notes and corrections in hand of copyist and others.Origin: As appears in colophon on p.46, copied by ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn [?] Mūsá al-ʻUmarī al-Shāfiʻī with transcription completed 17 [?] Rabīʻ I 932 [ca. 1 January 1526]."An abridgement of the author's Murshidat al-ṭālib. In a muqaddima, two bābs, and a khātima." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.
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.
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).
Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone (f. 1 only). See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 36 and no. 860.Contains astronomical and mathematical tables and geometric diagrams.Text rubricated; marginal corrections and notes in hand of copyist and others; some pp. missing, f. 1 supplied in different paper in different hand."Extended commentary with some tables" on author's Qalāʾid al-laʾālī fī ʻamal al-ayyām wa-al-layālī, "a poem on timekeeping in unnumbered faṣls." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 104.
Watermark: Anchor in circle. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), nos. 1-8.Text rubricated; bayts numbered by copyist; marginal corrections in hand of copyist (same as that of Mich. Isl. Ms. 715,2).Date and name of copyist and client in colophon: kamala al-kitāb wa-tamma ... ʻalá yad mālikihi al-ḥaqīr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ lil-shaykh al-Ḥusaynī al-Mālalī[?] al-Qāsimī al-Jadīdī bi-al-Azhar al-muʻammaq 12 Ramaḍān al-muʻaẓẓam sanat 1032 [10 July 1623].Pp. [1-10]. Bound with: Kitāb fī al-taksīr fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb, pp. [11-14].A poem on arithmetic.
Recto: letter with substandard orthography, dealing with a consignment of clothes. Verso: commentary on BT Qiddušin 26a and a general explanation of mathematical matters.Condition: torn, holes, faded, stainedLayout: 32 lines (recto); 14-15 lines in 2 columns (verso)
Culture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: ink, gold, paperNote: General note: Combines late Timurid and early Safavid styles.Note: General note: 1. Makhzan-alasrar, f. 1b. 2. Khusrau u Shirin, f. 37b. 3. Laila u Majnun, f. 141b. 4. Haft Paikar, f. 212b. 5a. Iskandarama, 1st part, f. 293b. 5b. Iskandarnama, 2nd part, 400b. Seals on f. 1. Illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of ea mathnawi.
Culture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: ink, gold, paperNote: General note: Combines late Timurid and early Safavid styles.Note: General note: 1. Makhzan-alasrar, f. 1b. 2. Khusrau u Shirin, f. 37b. 3. Laila u Majnun, f. 141b. 4. Haft Paikar, f. 212b. 5a. Iskandarama, 1st part, f. 293b. 5b. Iskandarnama, 2nd part, 400b. Seals on f. 1. Illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of ea mathnawi.
Culture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: ink, gold, paperNote: General note: Combines late Timurid and early Safavid styles.Note: General note: 1. Makhzan-alasrar, f. 1b. 2. Khusrau u Shirin, f. 37b. 3. Laila u Majnun, f. 141b. 4. Haft Paikar, f. 212b. 5a. Iskandarama, 1st part, f. 293b. 5b. Iskandarnama, 2nd part, 400b. Seals on f. 1. Illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of ea mathnawi.
Culture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: ink, gold, paperNote: General note: Combines late Timurid and early Safavid styles.Note: General note: 1. Makhzan-alasrar, f. 1b. 2. Khusrau u Shirin, f. 37b. 3. Laila u Majnun, f. 141b. 4. Haft Paikar, f. 212b. 5a. Iskandarama, 1st part, f. 293b. 5b. Iskandarnama, 2nd part, 400b. Seals on f. 1. Illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of ea mathnawi.
Culture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: ink, gold, paperNote: General note: Combines late Timurid and early Safavid styles.Note: General note: 1. Makhzan-alasrar, f. 1b. 2. Khusrau u Shirin, f. 37b. 3. Laila u Majnun, f. 141b. 4. Haft Paikar, f. 212b. 5a. Iskandarama, 1st part, f. 293b. 5b. Iskandarnama, 2nd part, 400b. Seals on f. 1. Illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of ea mathnawi.