Watermarks: Praying figure; hillock with initials FT in roman. For the latter see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), nos. 2610-2616.Contains brief astronomical tables.Text rubricated; text enclosed in red or black borders; copyist same as that of Mich. Isl. Ms. 813,2; corrections and marginal notes in other hands.Pp. [1-5]. Bound with: [2] Tashīl al-ʻibārah fī takmīl mā naqaṣa min al-yasārah, pp. [6-41]; [3] Astronomical treatise, pp. [43-62]; [4] Calendrical work, pp. [66-84]; [5] Fragments in Turkish, pp. [85-90].Fragments on calendar conversion and star observation, including a short calendrical table for Islamic years 1122-1126 [i.e. 1710-1714].
Text rubricated and overlined in red; marginal commentary in Turkish in hand of copyist (same as that of Mich. Isl. Mss. 750,2-4).Date based on that in colophons of Mich. Isl. Mss. 750,2-3.Pp. [1-5]. Bound with: [2] Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Kifāyat al-qanūʻ fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-maqṭūʻ, pp. [6-24]; [3] Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab, pp. [25-38]; [4] Fāʾidah fī maʻrifat waqt al-imsāk fī ḥiṣṣat al-fajr, pp. [39-44].Assorted material on timekeeping and the Coptic calendar.
Watermarks: Three circles with cross.Contains a numerical table.Text not rubricated; marginal corrections in hand of copyist; notes in French on small slips of paper bound into volume.A miscellany of Koranic verses, prayers, and spells, probably numerological and magical spells.
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.
On p. [1], illuminated ʻunwān; text vocalized, rubricated in blue and gold inks, and enclosed in gold borders; illuminated colophon.Date in Turkish colophon: 1269.For another copy of this text see Mich. Isl. Ms. 210.Text (not this copy) published.A biography of the Prophet, one of the author's best-known published works.