9 works by 6 authors on the subjects of Sundials, Mathematics, Dates, Astronomy, Nile River, and Geometry — Multiple dates | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Title

9 works by 6 authors on the subjects of Sundials, Mathematics, Dates, Astronomy, Nile River, and Geometry — Multiple dates

Shelfmark

MS. Bodl. Or. 434

Date

1453*

1453

Language

Arabic

1. ff. 2v-16v Author: Ibn al-Majdī, Aḥmad ibn Rajab, 1366-1447 Title: Zād al-musāfir fī maʻrifat rasm faḍl al-dāʼir

2. ff. 17v-24r Author: Wafāʼī, ʻIzz al-Dīn ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz, d. 1469 Title: Tuḥfat al-ṭullāb fï kayfīyat istikhrāj al-aʻmāl bil-ḥisāb

3. fols. 24v-65v Author: Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, b. 1423 Title: Jadāwil fī rasm al-munḥarifāt ʻalá al-ḥītān

4. fols. 66v-75v Author: Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, b. 1423 Title: Wasīlat al-ṭullāb ilá maʻrifat al-awqāt bil-ḥisāb

5. f. 75v Author: Anonymous. Title: A note (fāʼidah) de Horologiis Declinantibus [?]

6. fols. 76v-79 Author: Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, b. 1423 Title: Muqaddimah fī ḥudūd* al-masāʼil al-falakīyah

7. 79v-80v Author: Anonymous Title: A short treatise on the jayb al-thumn (sine of the octant ?)

8. f. 81 Author: Anonymous Title: Two short notes on (i) measurement of the Nile in cubits (ii) a geometrical question

9. ff. 82v-138v Author: Ibn al-Muhallabī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad, fl. c. 1432 Title: ʻUmdat al-dhākir li-waḍʻ khuṭūṭ faḍl al-dāʼir

Form

codex

Physical extent

15 ff. 8 ff. 42 fols. 10 fols. 1 f. 4 fols. 2 ff. 1 f. 57 ff.

Subject

Sundials--Early works to 1800

Dates (Chronology)

Geometry

Mathematics

Astronomy

Nile River

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