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58 works by 31 authors

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MS. Marsh 720

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1. ff. 1r-57v 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, bks. 5-7 only. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 30v l.xxv-f. 52r.]

2. f. 58 Title: Note by the scribe of MS. Thurston 3 on the figure found in other MSS. after the 52nd figure of the 3rd bk. of [?Shīrāzīʼs compendium of] the Conica of Apollonius of Perga. [Transcribed from the margin of MS. Thurston 3, f. 25r.]

3. ff. 59r-77v Title: Marginalia relating to Shīrāzīʼs compendium of the Conica of Apollonius of Perga, bks. 5-7. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, ff. 31r-52r (margins).]

4. ff. 78r-79r Author: Kamāl al-Dīn Mūsá ibn Yūnus 1156-1242. Title: Risālah fī bayān al-muqaddimatain muhmalatai al-bayān istaʻmalahā Abulūniyūs fī awākhir al-maqālat al-ūlá min Kitāb al-Makhrūṭāt. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 52v-53r l. v.]

5. ff. 79r-80v Author: Abū al-Wafāʼ al-Būzajāni, 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. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 53r l. vi - f. 53v l. iii.]

6. ff. 81r-84v Author: Karābisī, Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar, fl. late 9th cent. Title: Kitāb fī Misāḥat al-ḥalak. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 53v l. iv - f. 55r l. xvii.]

7. ff. 85v-86r Author: Anonymous Title: Geometrical problem entitled “Masʼalah handasīyah”, beginning “Kull muthallath musāwī al-aḍlāʼ maʻlūm al-misāḥah”. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 55r l. xviii - f. 55v l. xvii.]

8. ff. 86r-87v Author: Abū al-Wafāʼ al-Būzajānī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 940-997 or 998. Title: Masʼalah li-Arshimīdis fī misāḥat al-muthallath. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 55v - l. xviii - f. 56v l. v.]

9. ff. 87v-88v Author: Anonymous Title: Geometrical problem entitled “Faṣl fī burhān masqaṭ al-ḥajar fī al-muthallathāt al-ḥāddat al-zawāyā.” [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 56v ll.vi-xxxii.]

10. ff. 88v-90v Author: Ibn al-Ṣalāh, Abū al-Futūḥ Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, d. 1153. Title: Two geometrical problems. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 56v l. xxxiii - f. 58r.]

11. ff. 91r-122v Author: Shīrāzī, Qūṭb al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Masʻūd, d. 1311. Title: Multaqaṭāt min Kitāb al-Majisṭī ʻalá ḥasab iṣlāḥ baʻḍ al-mutaʼakhkhirīn. A compendium of Ptolemyʼs Almagest in Tūsīʼs recension. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, ff. 59v-69v l. xvi.]

12. ff. 123r-127r Author: Abharī, Athīr al-Dīn al-Mufaḍḍal ibn ʻUmar, d. 1264. Title: Fawāʼid multaqaṭah min K. ʻInāyat al-idrāk fī dirāyat al-aflāk. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 69v l. xvii - f. 71v l. xxxi.]

13. ff. 127r-133v Title: Three short works relating to the Almagest (? in Ṭūsīʼs recension) entitled Muʼāmarat aʻmāl dhakarahā fī hadhā al-Majisṭī, Muqaddimah fī taʻyīn nuqṭatai al-wuqūf ʻalá kull wāḥid min al-aṣlain, and Min al-maqālat al-thālithah ʻashar min al-Majisṭī. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 71v l. xxxii - f. 74r.]

14. ff. 133v-134r Author: Kūshyār ibn Labbān fl. c. 966. Title: Faṣl fī taʻdīl azmān al-khusūf, apparently from al-Zīj al-jāmiʻ. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 74v.]

15. f. 134r, v Author: Anonymous Title: Two problems on the circle. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 75r l. xx - bottom.]

16. ff. 134v-135r Author: Anonymous Title: Masʼalah fī maʻná ayyām al-ʻālam. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 75r ll.i-xix.]

17. ff. 136r-173v 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 K. al-Haiʼah or Iṣlāḥ al-Majisṭī. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 75v - f. 92v l. x.]

18. f. 174 Author: Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ, Abū al-Futūḥ Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, d. 1153. Title: Masʼalah fī al-alwān allatī taḥduthu fī ʻain qaus quzaḥ. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 92v ll.xi-xxxiii.]

19. ff. 175r-176r Author: Anonymous Title: Risālah fī istikhrāj daqāʼiq ḥudūd ikhtilāf manẓar al-qamar al-mustaʻmalah fī al-Majisṭī. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 93v l. xviii - f. 94r l. xii.]

20. f. 176r, v 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. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 93r ll.xvii-xxxviii.]

21. ff. 177r-193v 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-sābiʻah wa-al-thāminah min Kitāb al-Majisṭī wa-taṣḥīḥ mā amkana taṣhīḥuhu min dhalika. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, ff. 95r-99v.]

22. ff. 194r-198v Title: Questions and answers relating to the Almagest (? in Ṭūsīʼs recension). [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 100r-101r l. xxxi.]

23. ff. 199 Author: Anonymous Title: Jawāb shakk fī ikhtilāf manẓar al-qamar min shukūk Abī al-Qāsim ibn Maʻdān. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 101r l. xxxii - f. 101v l. xvii.]

24. ff. 200r-203v Author: Thābit ibn Qurrah, Abū al-Ḥasan, al-Ṣābī c. 834-901. Title: Risālah fī ḥarakat al-nayyirain. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 102r l. xiv - f. 103v l. xviii.]

25. ff. 205r-206r Author: ?Simyāṭī. Title: Three short geometrical problems, two relating to arcs. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 103v l. xix - f. 104r l. xxvii.]

26. ff. 207r-211v Author: Jābir ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṣābī fl. 10th cent. Title: Maqālah fī haiʼah aflāk ʻUṭārid wa-ikhtilāf marākizihā wa-masīrihā, followed by various (ff. 208r-211v) muqaddimahs relating to figures in the Almagest. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 104v-f. 107r l. x.]

27. f. 212r Author: Anonymous Title: Burhān mā kālahu Baṭlamiyūs fī al-shakl al-rābiʻ min al-maqālah al-thāniyah ʻashar [of the Almagest]. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 107r ll.xi-xxii.]

28. ff. 212r-215v Author: Anonymous Title: Two astronomical works on the sun, the first entitled “Faṣl fī kaifīyah raṣd al-shams”, the second on “Mauḍiʻ al-auj al-shams” [sic]. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 107r l. xxiii - f. 108v l. xvi.]

29. f. 216r Author: Anonymous Title: ʻAlá al-shakl al-rābiʻ min tāsiʻah [sic] al-Majisṭī. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 108v ll.xvii-xxxiii.]

30. ff. 216r-219r Author: Anonymous Title: Two astronomical works, the first being several muqaddimahs on rujūʼ, the second entitled “Masʼalah fī al-rujūʻ wa-al-istiqāmah”. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, ff. 109r-110r.]

31. ff. 219v, 220r Author: Anonymous Title: Three muqaddimahs on the circle. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 110v.]

32. ff. 221r-232r Author: Ibn ʻIrāq, Abū Naṣr Manṣūr ibn ʻAlī, d.>1036. Title: Risālah jadwal al-dakāʼiq. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 111r - f. 116r l. xv.]

33. f. 232 Author: Ibn al-Haitham, Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan, 965-1039. 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 ... [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 116r ll.xvi-xxix.]

34. ff. 232v-233v Author: Anonymous Title: A fāʼidah purporting to have been transmitted by Ṭūsī, who discovered it written on a copy of ?al-Zīj al-ʻalāʼī, followed by a note from ?Zīj al-iqbāl. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, ff. 116r l. xxx - 116v (bottom).]

35. ff. 233v-235v Author: Anonymous Title: Several fāʼidahs on Kūshyār ibn Labbānʼs al-Zīj al-jāmiʻ. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 117r, v.]

36. ff. 238v-239v Author: Ṣaghānī, Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, d. 990. Title: Risālah fī sāʻāt al-maʻmūlah ʻalá ṣafāʼiḥ al-asṭurlāb, faṣl 1 only. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 119v.]

37. ff. 239v-243v 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-janūbi.* [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 120r l. i - f. 122r l. xxxi.]

38. 243v-246v Author: Ibn ʻIrāq, Abū Naṣr Manṣūr ibn ʻAlī, d.>1036. Title: Risālah fī ṣanʻat al-asṭurlāb bil-ṭarīq al-ṣināʻī. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 122v l. i - f. 124r l. xvi.]

39. ff. 247r-251r Author: Ibn ʻIrāq, Abū Naṣr Manṣūr ibn ʻAlī, d.>1036. Title: Risālah fī majāzāt dawāʼir al-sumūt fī al-asṭurlāb. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 124r l. xvii - f. 126v l. xvii.]

40. ff. 251r-253v Author: Ibn ʻIrāq, Abū Naṣr Manṣūr ibn ʻAlī, d.>1036. Title: Risālah fī al-dawāʼir allatī taḥuddu al-sāʻāt al-zamānīyah. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 126v l. xviii - f. 128r l. xxii.]

41. ff. 257r-258v 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. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 128v l. i - f. 129r l. ix.]

42. ff. 259r-260v Author: Ibn al-Haitham, Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan, 965-1038. Title: Min kalām Ibn al-Haitham ʻalá muqaddimah Arshimīdis fī dilʻ al-musabbaʻ. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 132r l. ix - f. 133v.]

43. f. 260v Author: Aḥmad ibn Mūsá ibn Shākir fl. 9th cent. Title: Qaul fī tathlīth al-zāwiyat al-mustaqīmat al-khaṭṭain. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 131v l. xxviii - f. 132r l. viii.]

44. ff. 261r-264v Author: Abū al-Jūd, Muḥammad ibn al-Laith, fl. c. 1009. Title: Risālah ilá Abī Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAli al-Ḥāsib fī ṭarīqai Abī Sahl al-Qūhī wa-shaikhihi Abī Ḥāmid al-Ṣaghānī fī ʻamal al-musabbaʻ al-musāwī al-aḍlāʻ fī al-dāʼirah. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, ff. 133r-134r.]

45. ff. 264v-266r Author: Abū Sahl al-Kūhī, Waijan ibn Rustam, fl. late 10th cent. Title: Maqālah fī tathlīth al-zawāyā wa-ʻamal al-musabbaʻ al-musāwī al-aḍlāʻ fī al-dāʼirah. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 130v l. xiv - f. 131r l. xx.]

46. ff. 266r-267v Author: ʻAzīzī, Naṣr ibn ʻAbd Allāh, fl. late 10th cent. Title: Risālah fī istikhrāj watar al-musabbaʻ. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 131r l. xxi - f. 131v l. xxvii.]

47. ff. 267v-268v 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, second half only. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 129v.]

48. ff. 269r-270v Author: Thābit ibn Qurrah, Abū al-Ḥasan, al-Ṣābī c. 834-901. Title: Muqaddimāt. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, ff. 134v, 135r.]

49. ff. 271r-272v Author: Jābir ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṣābī fl. 10th cent. Title: Īḍāḥ al-burhān ʻalá ḥisāb al-khaṭaʼain, with the glossary of Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 136v-f. 137r l. xi.]

50. f. 273r, v Author: Qusṭā ibn Lūqā d. c. 912. Title: Burhān ʻalá ʻamal ḥisāb al-khaṭaʼain. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 137r ll.xii-xxxv.]

51. ff. 274r-276r Author: Anonymous Title: Masāʼil handasīyah mutarjamah bil-Muhdāt wa-hiya muqaddimāt li-masāʼil jabrīyah ustukhrijat bil-handasah. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, ff. 137v-138r.]

52. ff. 227r-280v 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. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 138v-f. 140r l.xviii.]

53. ff. 280v-281r Author: Abū Jaʻfar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Khāzin d. 961-971. Title: al-Burhān al-khuṭūṭī. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 140r ll.xix-xxxiii.]

54. ff. 281v-282v Author: Thābit ibn Qurrah, Abū al-Ḥasan, al-Ṣābī c. 834-901. Title: Qaul fī taṣḥīḥ masāʼil al-jabr bil-barāhīn al-handasīyah. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 140v ll.vii-xxxvii.]

55. ff. 283r-286v 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 fasls. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 141v-143r l. xxii.]

56. ff. 288r-292r Author: Jūzajānī, 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. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, ff. 144v-146r l. v.]

57. ff. 292r-295v Author: Anonymous Title: Treatise on the apogee and perigee of Mars. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 146r l.vi - f. 147r.]

58. ff. 296r-297v Author: Anonymous Title: Ḥikāyah mā ṣaddarahu ... Naṣīr ... al-Dīn ... al-Ṭūsī li-K. al-Makhrūṭāt li-Abulūniyūs. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 147v-f. 148r l.xiv.]

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