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Title

7 works by 5 authors on the subjects of Astronomy, Astronomical instruments, Chronology, and Calendars — Multiple dates

Shelfmark

MS. Marsh 39

Date

c. 1590 [autograph of reviser]

1588

c. 1590?

c. 1588?

Language

Arabic

1. ff. 4v-6v* Author: Ibn al-Kayyāl, ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Ibrāhīm, fl. c. 1543 Title: Preface only (without the tables themselves) to the astronomical tables

2. ff. 61v-69v Author: Abū al-Barakāt, Zayn al-Dīn, chief muezzin and muwaqqit in the Umayyad mosque 16th cent. Title: Astronomical tables of the distances, magnitudes, risings and directions of the fixed stars, calculated for 962/1554-5 and now revised for 1000/1591-2 by ʻAlī ibn Barakāt, sharābdār of the Dār al-Shifāʼ al-Nūrī

3. fols. 7v-52v* Author: Māridīnī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Khalīl, d. 1406 Title: al-Durr al-manthūr fī al-ʻamal bi-rubʻ al-dastūr

4. fols. 73v-91v* Author: Māridīnī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Khalīl, d. 1406 Title: al-Durr al-manthūr fī al-ʻamal bi-rubʻ al-dastūr

5. fols. 93v-112r Author: Miṣrī, Abū al-Fatḥ Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Title: Nihāyat al-rutbah fī al-ʻamal bi-jadwal al-nisbah

6. ff. 113v-142v Author: Anonymous Title: A collection of astronomical tables, without title or text

7. ff. 144v-150v* Author: Anonymous Title: A popular calendar

Form

codex

Physical extent

3 ff. 9 ff. 46 fols. 19 fols. 20 fols. 30 ff. 7 ff.

Acquisition

The Marsh bequest entered the Bodleian Library in 1714.

Provenance

The Library of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, d. 1713.

Subject

Calendars

Astronomy--Tables

Astronomical instruments

Chronology

Astronomy

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