11 works by 5 authors on the subjects of Astronomy, Natural Ventilation, Chronology, Sundials, Mathematics, Astronomical instruments, Calendars, Direction of prayer, and Qiblah — 16th cent.? | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Title

11 works by 5 authors on the subjects of Astronomy, Natural Ventilation, Chronology, Sundials, Mathematics, Astronomical instruments, Calendars, Direction of prayer, and Qiblah — 16th cent.?

Shelfmark

MS. Marsh 601

Date

16th cent.?

Language

Arabic

1. ff. 2v-24v Author: Ibn al-Majdī, Aḥmad ibn Rajab, 1366-1447 ابن المجدي، أحمد بن رجب، 767-850 هـ Title: Kashf al-ḥaqāʼiq fī ḥisāb al-daraj wa-al-daqāʼiq Title: كشف الحقائق في حساب الدرج والدقائق

2. ff. 24v-31v Author: Ibn al-Majdī, Aḥmad ibn Rajab, 1366-1447 ابن المجدي، أحمد بن رجب، 767-850 هـ Title: Tuḥfat al-aḥbāb fī naṣb al-bādhahanj wa-al-miḥrāb Title: تحفة الأحباب في نصب الباذهنج والمحراب

3. ff. 32r-39v Author: Ibn al-Majdī, Aḥmad ibn Rajab, 1366-1447 ابن المجدي، أحمد بن رجب، 767-850 هـ Title: al-Rawḍ al-azhar fī al-ʻamal bil-rubʻ al-musattar* Title: الروض الأزهر في العمل بالربع المستر

4. ff. 39v-46r Author: Ibn al-Majdī, Aḥmad ibn Rajab, 1366-1447 ابن المجدي، أحمد بن رجب، 767-850 هـ Title: Khulāṣat al-aqwāl fī maʻrifat al-waqt wa ruʼyat al-hilāl Title: خلاصة الأقوال في معرفة الوقت ورؤية الهلال

5. ff. 46v-57v Author: Ibn al-Majdī, Aḥmad ibn Rajab, 1366-1447 ابن المجدي، أحمد بن رجب، 767-850 هـ Title: Zād al-musāfir fī maʻrifat rasm faḍl al-dāʼir Title: زاد المسافر في معرفة رسم فضل الدائر

6. ff*. 61v-81v Author: Baḥāniqī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 14th cent. البخانقي، أحمد بن محمد، ق. 8 هـ Title: [A handbook* of astronomy, without title, in 44 short bābs with 2 appendices of 6 and 20 bābs]

7. ff. 82r-91r Author: Mizzī, Zayn al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad المزي، زين الدين محمد بن أحمد Title: al-Rawḍāt al-muzhirāt fī al-ʻamal bi-rubʻ al-muqanṭarāt Title: الروضات المزهرات في العمل بربع المقنطرات

8. ff. 92v-96v Author: Ibn al-Majdī, Aḥmad ibn Rajab, 1366-1447 ابن المجدي، أحمد بن رجب، 767-850 هـ Title: Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-rubʻ al-muqanṭarāt al-maqṭūʻ Title: رسالة في العمل بربع المقنطرات المقطوع

9. ff. 96v-123r Author: Mizzī, Zayn al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad المزي، زين الدين محمد بن أحمد Title: Kashf al-rayb fī al-ʻamal bil-jayb Title: كشف الريب في العمل بالجيب

10. ff. 123v-128v Author: Anonymous Title: Several faṣl [perhaps extracts from a larger work ?] on calendars

11. ff. 129v-150r Author: Khalīlī, Sharaf al-Dīn Abū ʻImrān Mūsá ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻUthmān, fl. c. 1402 الخليلي، شرف الدين أبو عمران موسى بن محمد بن عثمان Title: Talkhīṣ fī maʻrifat awqāt al-ṣalāt wa-jihat al-qiblah ʻinda ʻadam al-ālāt Title: تلخيص في معرفة أوقات الصلاة وجهة القبلة عند عدم الآلات

Form

codex

Physical extent

23 ff. 8 ff. 8 ff. 8 ff. 12 ff. 22 ff. 10 ff. 5 ff. 28 ff. 6 ff. 22 ff. [incomplete (lacking 7th maqālah)]

Acquisition

The Marsh bequest entered the Bodleian Library in 1714.

Provenance

The collections of Jacob Golius [see Golius Sale Catalogue, Libri Mathematici in quarto &c. no. 15].

The Library of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, d. 1713.

Subject

Sundials--Early works to 1800

Astronomy

Qiblah

Mathematics

Chronology

Direction of prayer (Islam)

Natural Ventilation

Calendars

Astronomical instruments

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