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67 works by 38 authors

MS. Thurston 3

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67 works by 38 authors

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MS. Thurston 3

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Arabic

Contents

1. ff. (i)v, (ii)r Author: Anonymous Title: Short general astronomical work in 16 faṣls beginning “al-Faṣl al-awwal fī rusūm al-kurah.”
2. ff. 1v-52r Author: Shīrāzī, Abū al-Ḥusain ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad, fl. late 12th cent. Title: Kitāb Taṣaffuḥ al-Makhrūṭāt, a compendium of the Conica of Apollonius of Perga.
3. ff. 52v, 53r Author: Kamāl al-Dīn Mūsá ibn Yūnus 1156-1242. Title: Risālah fī bayān al-muqaddimatain muhmalatai al-bayān istaʻmalahā Abūlūniyūs fī awākhir al-maqālat al-ūlá min Kitāb al-Makhrūṭāt.
4. ff. 53r, v Author: Abū al-Wafāʼ al-Būzajānī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 940-997 or 998. Title: Jawāb Abī al-Wafāʼ ... ʻammā saʼalahu al-faqīh Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Ḥārith ... [fī] misāḥat al-muthallathāt.
5. ff. 53v-55r Author: Karābisī, Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar, fl. late 9th cent. Title: Kitāb fī Miaāḥat al-ḥalaq.
6. f. 55r, v Author: Anonymous Title: Geometrical problem entitled “Masʼalah handasīyah”, beginning “Kull muthallath musāwī al-aḍlāʻ maʻlūm al-misāḥah ...”
7. ff. 55v-56v Author: Abū al-Wafāʼ al-Būzajānī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 940-997 or 998. Title: Masʼalah li-Arshimīdis fī misāḥat al-muthallath.
8. f. 56v Author: Anonymous Title: Geometrical problem entitled “Faṣl fī burhān masqaṭ al-ḥajar fī al-muthallathāt al-ḥāddat al-zawāyā.”
9. ff. 56v-58r Author: Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ*, Abū al-Futūḥ Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, d. 1153. Title: Two geometrical problems.
10. ff. 59v-69v Author: Shīrāzī, Quṭb al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Masʻūd, d. 1311. Title: Multaqaṭāt min Kitāb al-Majisṭī ʻalá ḥasab iṣlāh baʻḍ al-mutaʼakhkhirīn. A compendium of Ptolemyʼs Almagest in Ṭūsīʼs recension.
11. ff. 69v-71v Author: Abharī, Athīr al-Dīn Mufaḍḍal ibn ʻUmar, d. 1264. Title: Fawāʼid multaqaṭah min K. ʻInāyat al-idrāk fī dirāyat al-aflāk.
12. ff. 71v-74r Title: Three short works relating to the Almagest (? in Ṭūsīʼs recension) entitled (i) Muʼāmarat aʻmāl dhakarahā fī hadhā al-Majisṭī (ii) Muqaddimah fī taʻyīn nuqṭatai al-wuqūf ʻalá kull wāḥid min al-aṣlain (iii) Min al-maqālat al-thālithah ʻashar min al-Majisṭī.
13. f. 74v Author: Kūshyār ibn Labbān fl. c. 966. Title: Faṣl fī taʻdīl azmān al-khusūf, apparently from al-Zīj al-jāmiʻ.
14. f. 75r Author: Anonymous Title: Masʼalah fī maʻná ayyām al-ʻālam.
15. f. 75r Author: Anonymous Title: Two problema on the circle.
16. ff. 75v-92v Author: Shīrāzī, Quṭb al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Masʻūd, d. 1311. Title: Fawāʼid min al-kitāb. al-mausūm bil-Majisṭī li-Ibn Aflaḥ. A compendium of Jābir ibn Aflaḥʼs astronomical work known as Kitāb al-Haiʼah or Iṣlāḥ al-Majisṭī.
17. f. 92v Author: Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ**, Abū al-Futūḥ Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, f. 1153. Title: Masʼalah fī al-alwān allatī taḥduthu fī ʻain qaus quzaḥ.
18. f. 93r Author: Abū Saʻd al-ʻAlāʼ ibn Sahl fl. late 10th cent. Title: al-Burhān ʻalá anna al-falak laisa huwa fī ghāyat al-ṣafāʼ ... ʻind taṣaffuḥihi li-K. Baṭlamiyūs fī al-manāẓir.
19. f. 93r Author: Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʻfar al- ?. Title: Risālah fī simt al-qiblah.
20. f. 93v Author: Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Bāmshād, ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh, fl. 10th cent. Title: Risālah fī istikhrāj sāʻāt mā bain ṭulūʻ al-fajr wa-ṭulūʻ al- shams . . ., extract only.
21. ff. 93v-94r Author: Anonymous Title: Risālah fī istikhrāj daqāʼiq ḥudūd ikhtilāf manẓar al-qamar al-mustaʻmalah fī al-Majisṭī.
22. f. 94r, v Author: Battānī, Muḥammad ibn Jābir, d. 929. Title: Problem based on the 9th bāb of his Zīj.
23. f. 94v Author: Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ**, Abū al-Futūh Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, d. 1153. Title: al-Maʻná dhakarahu Baṭlamiyūs fī al-bāb al-thānī min al-maqālah al-thāniyah ʻashar fī maʻrifah miqdār rujūʻ Zuḥal wa-fī al-abwāb al-arbaʻah allatī baʻdahu li-rujūʻ bāqī al-kawākib.
24. f. 94v Author: Ṣaghānī, Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, d. 990. Title: Istikhrāj khaṭṭ niṣf al-nahār.
25. ff. 95r-99v Author: Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ**, Abū al-Futūḥ Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, d. 1153. Title: Qaul fī sabab al-khaṭaʼ wa-al-taṣḥīf al-ʻāriḍain fī jadāwil al-maqālatain al-sābi ʻah wa-al-thāminah min Kitāb al-Majiaṭī wa-taṣḥīḥ mā amkana taṣḥīḥuhu min dhalika.
26. ff. 100r-101r Title: Questions and answers relating to the Almagest (? in Ṭūsīʼs recension).
27. f. 101r, v Author: Anonymous Title: Jawāb shakk fī ikhtilāf manẓar al-qamar min shukūk Abī al-Qāsim ibn Maʻdān.
28. ff. 101v, 102r Author: Thābit ibn Qurrah, Abū al-Ḥasan, al-Ṣābī c. 834-901 [attrib.]. Title: Faṣl fī al-ṭarīq alladhī bihi ʻalima Baṭlamiyūs anna markaz al-ḥāmil fī kull wāḥid min al-kawākib al-ʻalawīyah ʻalá muntaṣaf mā bain markazai al-burūj wa-muʻaddal al-masīr.
29. ff. 102r-103v Author: Thābit ibn Qurrah, Abū al-Ḥasan, al-Ṣābī c. 834-901. Title: Risālah fī ḥarakat al-nayyirain.
30. ff. 103v, 104r Author: ?Simyāṭī. Title: Three short geometrical problems, two relating to arcs.
31. f. 104r Author: Ibn al-Haitham, Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan, 965-1038. Title: Min kalām Ibn al-Haitham fī risālah fī anna al-ẓāhir min al-samāʼ akthar min niṣfihi.
32. ff. 104v-107r Author: Jābir ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṣābī fl. 10th cent. Title: Maqālah fī haiʼah aflāk ʻUṭārid wa-ikhtilāf marākizihā wa-masīrihā, followed by (ff. 105r-107r) various muqaddimāt relating to figures in the Almagest.
33. f. 107r Author: Anonymous Title: Burhān mā qālahu Baṭlamiyūs fī al-shakl al-rābiʻ min al-maqālah al-thāniyah ʻashar [of the Almagest].
34. ff. 107r-108v Author: Anonymous Title: Two astronomical works on the sun, the first entitled “Faṣl fī kaifīyah raṣd al-shams”, the second “Mauḍiʻ al-auj al-shams [sic].”
35. f. 108v Author: Anonymous Title: ʻAlá al-shakl al-rābiʻ min tāsiʻah [sic] al-Majisṭī.
36. ff. 109r-110r Author: Anonymous Title: Two astronomical works, the first being several muqaddimahs on rujūʻ, the second entitled “Masʼalah fī al-rujūʻ wa-al-istiqāmah.”
37. f. 110v Author: Anonymous Title: Three muqaddimahs on the circle.
38. ff. 111r-115r Author: Ibn ʻIrāk, Abū Naṣr Manṣūr ibn ʻAlī, d.> 1036. Title: Risālah jadwal al-daqāʼiq.
39. f. 116r Author: Ibn al-Haitham, Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan, 965-1038. Title: Maqālah fī anna al-ẓāhir min al-samāʼ akthar min niṣfihi, followed by Maqālah ukhrá fī anna al-dāʼirah wa-al-kurah ausaʻ al-ashkāl ...
40. f. 116r, v Author: Anonymous Title: A fāʼidah purporting to have been transmitted by Ṭūsī, who discovered it written on a copy of ?al-Zīj al-ʻalāʼī, with (below) a note from ?Zīj al-iqbāl.
41. f. 117r, v Author: Anonymous Title: Several fāʼidahs on Kūshyār ibn Labbānʼs al-Zīj al-jāmiʻ.
42. ff. 118, 119r Author: ?Ḥāzimī. Title: Maqālah fī ittikhādh kurah tadūru bi-dhātihā bi-ḥarakah musāwiyah li-ḥarakat al-falak.
43. f. 119v Author: Ṣaghānī, Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, d. 990. Title: Risālah fī sāʻāt al-maʻmūlah ʻalá ṣafāʼiḥ al-asṭurlāb, faṣl 1 only.
44. ff. 120r-122r Author: Bīrūnī, Abū al-Raiḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, d. 1048. Title: Kitāb fī Tashīl al-tasṭīḥ al-asṭurlābī wa-al-ʻamal bi-murakkabāt al-shamālī wa-al-janūbī.**
45. ff. 122v-124r Author: Ibn ʻIrāq, Abū Naṣr Manaṣūr ibn ʻAlī, d.> 1036. Title: Risālah fī ṣanʻat al-asṭurlāb bil-ṭarīq al-ṣināʻī.
46. ff. 124r-126v Author: Ibn ʻIrāq, Abū Naṣr Manṣūr ibn ʻAlī, d.> 1036. Title: Risālah fī majāzāt dawāʼir al-sumūt fī al-asṭurlāb.
47. ff. 126v-128r Author: Ibn ʻIrāq, Abū Naṣr Manṣūr ibn ʻAlī, d.> 1036. Title: Risālah fī al-dawāʼir allatī taḥuddu al-sāʻāt al-zamānīyah.
48. ff. 128v, 129r Author: Kamāl al-Dīn Mūsá ibn Yūnus 1156-1242. Title: Risālah fī al-burhān ʻalá ittikhādh al-muqaddimat allatī ahmalahā Arshimīdis fī tasbīʻ al-dāʼirah wa-kaifīyah dhalika.
49. f. 129r, v Author: Sijzī [or Sijazī], Abū Saʻīd Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, fl. late 10th cent. Title: Maqālah fī ʻamal al-musabbaʻ fī al-dāʼirah wa-qismat al-zāwiyat al-mustaqīmat al-khaṭṭain bi-thalāthah aqsām mutasāwiyah.
50. f. 130r, v Author: Abū Sahl al-Kūhī, Waijan ibn Rustam, fl. late 10th cent. Title: Risālah fī ḍilʻ al-musabbaʻ al-mutasāwī al-aḍlāʻ fī al-dāʼirah.
51. ff. 130v-131r Author: Abū Sahl al-Kūhī, Waijan ibn Ruatam, fl. late 10th cent. Title: Maqalah fī tathlīth al-zāwiyah wa-ʻamal al-musabbaʻ al-musāwī al-aḍlāʻ fī al-dāʼirah.
52. f. 131r, v Author: ʻAzīzī, Naṣr ibn ʻAbd Allāh, fl. late 10th cent. Title: Risālah fī istikhrāj watar al-musabbaʻ.
53. ff. 131v, 132r Author: Aḥmad ibn Mūsá ibn Shākir fl. 9th cent. Title: Qaul fī tathlīth al-zāwiyat al-mustaqīmat al-khaṭṭain.
54. f. 132r, v Author: Ibn al-Haitham, Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan, 965-1038. Title: Min kalām Ibn al-Haitham ʻalá muqaddimah Arshimīdis fī ḍilʻ al-musabbaʻ.
55. ff. 133r-134r Author: Abū al-Jūd, Muḥammad ibn al-Laith, fl. c. 1009. Title: Risālah ilá Abī Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAlī al-Ḥāsib fī ṭarīqai Abī Sahl al-Qūhī wa-shaikhihi Abī Hāmid al-Saghānī fī ʻamal al-musabbaʻ al-musāwī al-aḍlāʻ fī al-dāʼirah.
56. ff. 134v-135r Author: Thābit ibn Qurrah, Abū al-Ḥasan, al-Ṣābī c. 834-901. Title: Muqaddimāt.
57. ff. 136v-137r Author: Jābir ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṣābī fl. 10th cent. Title: Īḍāḥ al-burhān ʻalá ḥisāb al-khaṭaʼain, with the glossary of Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ.
58. f. 137r Author: Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, ca. 820-ca. 912 Title: Burhān ʻalá ʻamal ḥisāb al-khaṭaʼain.
59. ff. 137v, 138r Author: Anonymous Title: Masāʼil handasīyah mutarjamah bil-Muhdāt wa-hiya muqaddimāt li-masāʼil jabrīyah ustukhrijat bil-handasah.
60. ff. 138v-140r Author: Hāshimī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz, fl. 10th cent. Title: [al-] R. al-mausūmah bil-Mūḍiḥah fī ḥisāb al-judhūr al-ṣumm ilá al-amīr Abī al-Faḍl Jaʻfar ibn al-Muktafī billah.
61. f. 140r Author: Abū Jaʻfar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Khāzin d. 961-971. Title: al-Burhān al-khuṭūṭī.
62. f. 140v Author: Thābit ibn Qurrah, Abū al-Ḥasan, al-Ṣābī c. 834-901. Title: Qaul fī taṣḥīḥ masāʼil al-jabr bil-barāhīn al-handasīyah.
63. ff. 141v-143r Author: Ahwāzī, Abū al-Ḥusain Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusain, fl. 10th cent. Title: Kalimāt min Sharḥ al-maqālat al-ʻāshirah min [K.] Uqlīdis, in 8 faṣls.
64. ff. 144v-146r Author: Jūzajāni, Abū ʻUbaid ʻAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad, fl. 11th cent. Title: al-Mukhtaṣar fī maʻná falak muʻaddal al-masīr wa-maʻná al-mail wa-al-iltiwāʼ wa-al-inḥirāf li-aflāk al-tadāwīr. An abstract of his K. Kaifīyah tarkīb al-aflāk.
65. ff. 146r-147r Author: Anonymous Title: Treatise on the apogee and perigee of Mars.
66. ff. 147v, 148r Author: Anonymous Title: Ḥikāyah mā ṣaddarahu ... Naṣīr ... al-Din ... al-Ṭūsī li-Kitāb al-Makhrūṭāt li-Abulūniyūs.
67. f. 148r, v Author: Anonymous Title: Extract from an anonymous Arabic version of Simpliciusʼ commentary on the premises to bk.1 of Euclidʼs Elements.**

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Presented to the Bodleian Library by Thomas Marshall in or before 1672.

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Brought from the East by Christian Ravis, d. 1677.

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