Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 40B

Metadata

DS ID:

DS28793

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 40B

Title:

Collection of Arabic astronomical texts

Arabic texts

Astronomical texts

Date:

1700-1799

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Note:

Fols. 250; 19.5-21.5 x 15.4-16 cm.; written surface 14-16 x 5-9 cm.; 19 lines to page; on glazed European paper; in naskhi and Fārisi; with catchwords; entries in red.
A collection containing:
1. Astronomical tables.
2. An astronomical treatise in Turkish entitled Risālat aqālīm.
3. A general work on astronomy abridged from the works of Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad al-Māridīnī.
4. A work on the astrolabe. Copied in ʻAyntāb, A.H. 1144 [A.D. 1731], by Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Muṣṭafá al-Marʻashī.
5. Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-marsūm bi-rubʻ al-muqanṭarāt, an astronomical treatise by Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Majdī, A.H. 850 [A.D. 1447]. See Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 5846.
6. A treatise on determining the hours of the day and the night by means of al-rubʻ al-mujayyab, by Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad Khaṭṭāb, fl. ca. A.H. 1060 [A.D. 1650]. See Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 5826. The copy was made A.H. 1133 [A.D. 1721].
7. Kifāyat al-qunūʻ fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-maqṭūʻ, a manual of astronomy by Badr al-Dīn Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, d. after A.H. 891 [A.D. 1486]. Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 5848. The copy was made in A.H. 1134 [A.D. 1722] by Muḥammad al-Marʻashī.
8. Another astronomical treatise on al-rubʻ al-mujayyab. Copied A.H. 1134 [A.D. 1722] by the same al-Marʻashī.
9. Another treatise on the same subject. Copied in the same year and by the same copyist.
10. A treatise on the astrolabe. Copied A.H. 1143 [A.D. 1731] by the same al-Marʻashī.
11. Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab by the same al-Māridīnī. See Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 5818. Copy made in A.H. 1133 [A.D. 1721] by the same al-Marʻashī.
12. A treatise on the twenty-eight homes of the moon and on determining the hours of the night. Copied A.H. 1134 [A.D. 1722] by the same copyist.
13. A short treatise on astronomy. Copied A.H. 1139 [A.D. 1726] by the same al-Marʻashī.
14. Mūḍiḥ al-awqāt, an astronomical manual by Muḥammad ibn Kātib Sinān al-Muwaqqit. Copied A.H. 1144 [A.D. 1731] by the same copyist.
15. Hidāyat al-ʻāmil, another treatise on astronomy by the same al-Māridīnī. See Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 5853. Copied A.H. 1151 [A.D. 1738/9].
16. Another astronomical work on al-rubʻ al-mujayyab. Copied A.H. 1145 [A.D. 1732].
17. An explanatory note on al-dāʼirah al-Hindīyah.
18. Another gloss on the same subject by Ṣadr al-Dīn ibn Rūḥ al-Dīn ibn Ṣadr al-Dīn of Sharwān.
19. Bahjat al-albāb fī ʻilm al-asṭurlāb, a treatise on the astrolabe. Incomplete at the end.
20. Risālat al-jayb al-jāmiʻah, an astronomical treatise by Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad Mīram Chalabī, A.H. 931 [A.D. 1525]. See Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 5855.
21. Same as text 14.
22. Kitāb al-ʻAmal bi-al-kurah, an essay on the use of the instrument dhāt al-kursī, by Qusṭā ibn Lūqā. See Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 5836.
Marginal notes; ruled marginal notes in red in some of the works. MS in fair condition; Arabic binding with flap. XVIIIth century.
Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Eighteenth century

Almucantar

Early works

Timekeeping

Astrolabes

Astronomy

Turkey

Astronomy, Arab

Quadrants (Astronomical instruments)

Tables

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963584013506421

Holding Institution:

Princeton University