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5 works by 4 authors on the subjects of Moon, Mathematics, Algebra, Arabic alphabet, Gematria, and Mysticism

MS. Marsh 636

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For the main catalogue entry, see: Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

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Title

5 works by 4 authors on the subjects of Moon, Mathematics, Algebra, Arabic alphabet, Gematria, and Mysticism

Shelfmark

MS. Marsh 636

Language

Arabic

Contents

1. ff. 1v-24r Author: Anonymous Title: Mawḍiʻ al-adillah li-maʻrifat ruʼyat al-ahillah
2. ff. 25v-43r Author: Wafāʼī, ʻIzz al-Dīn ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz, d. 1469 Title: al-Luʼluʼah al-muḍīʼah fī al-ʻamal bil-nisbah al-sittīnīyah
3. ff. 44r-46v Author: Ibn al-Yāsamīn, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ḥajjāj, d. 1204 Title: al-Muqaddimah Title: al-Urjūzah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah
4. ff. 47v-71v Author: Sajāwandī, Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 12th cent. Title: Commentary [by Sajāwandī himself?] on his Kitāb al-Jabr wa-al-muqābalah
5. ff. 72v-83r Author: Anonymous Title: Kitāb al-Natāʼij li-qaḍāʼ al-ḥawāʼij

Form

codex

Physical extent

24 ff. 19 ff. 3 ff. 25 ff. 12 ff.

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. 16].

The Library of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, d. 1713.

Subject

Gematria

Algebra--Early works to 1800

Arabic alphabet

Moon--Early works to 1800

Moon--Tables

Mysticism

Mathematics

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  • Anonymous
  • Sajāwandī, Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 12th cent.

  • Wafāʼī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Muḥammad, 15th cent.

  • Golius, Jacobus, 1596-1667

  • Ibn al-Yāsamīn, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ḥajjāj, d. 1204

  • Marsh, Narcissus, 1638-1713

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