Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldRecord origin: Description in part based on Savage-Smith, E. and Rapoport, Y. (2013), An Eleventh-Century Egyptian Guide to the Universe, pp. 2-4.Incomplete late 12th or early 13th century copy, probably made in Egypt, of an anonymous work compiled in Egypt between AD 1020 and 1050. Contains a number of unique illustrations and rare texts. Erroneously attributed to ʻArabānī, ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Husām al-Dīn, d. 1450.Contents: Divided into two books, one on celestial matters, one on the Earth.Extent: ff. 48. Size of page: 324 x 245 mm. Size of written area: 291 x 226 mm.Layout: 27 lines per page. Frame-ruled text area.Hand: Medium-large Naskh script in dense black ink, with headings in red.Decoration: 23 maps and diagrams.Binding: Disbound, binding retained. 18th or 19th century Ottoman binding in poor condition.
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldRecord origin: "Description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team. Image descriptions based in part on CarboniRecord origin: S. (1988)Record origin: Il Kitab al-bulhan di Oxford."Composite manuscript in Arabic of divinatory works, dating principally from the late 14th century A.D., containing astrological, astronomical and geomantic texts compiled by Abd al-Ḥasan Al-Iṣfāhānī, with illustrations. Fol. 81a is in Turkish.Extent: 176 leaves (ff. 80 + 13 + 36 + 33 + 7 + 4 + 3). 245 x 160 mm.Layout: Various page formats.Hand: Naskh, with title in Eastern qufic, fol. 1b.Decoration: 83 illustrations, including miniatures.Binding: European calf, 17th century, double blind fillets toward board edges, blind garland rolls on fore-edges of boards, red speckled edges of textblock, numbered on fore-edge in pen, spine title stamped in gilt: Astrolog. Shelfmark on spine stamped in gilt: Bodl. 133. Paper label on spine: Arch. O c.2.
Record origin: Description based in part on Emilie Savage-Smith, A New Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Vol. 1: Medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, p. 794-796, Entry 242.A single folio taken from a copy of Sharḥ al-Qaṣīdah al-Munfarijah lil-Tawzarī on which a painting of a ‘toothworm’ has been over-painted. Underlying text: 18th century CE(?). Over-painting: 20th century CE(?).
Binding: The volume is bound in a European binding of pasteboards covered with brown leather. The covers have frames formed of two gold fillets. There are five cords on the spine, with two gold fillets either side of each cord. The pastedowns are modern and are blank except for annotations of the manuscript number and a bookplate for St John’s College and E Libris Coll. Di. Jo. Bapt. Oxon. on the back pastedown.Contents note: Annotations by John Greaves (1602-1652), Savilian Professor of Astronomy (1643-8), fols. 12a/b, 13a, 15a.Contents note: Contents described on fol. iii b: Collatio Mensium Arabicorum, Cophticorum, Græcorum, & Judaicorum. Vide pag. 1. ubi habes hunc titulum doctissimi ipsius Pocockij a later hand has crossed out the last two words, and written in pencil: Gul. Laudi manuscriptum. Nec non Tabulæ quædam Astronomicæ. Omnia imperfecta. In margine passim occurrunt Notæ Viri eruditissimi Joan. Grauij, Prof. Astronom. Sauil.Contents note: In item 1, it is evident from numbers placed on each table that there were originally 23, though tables 5–6, 14–15, and 20–1 are now missing and two tables carry the number ‘9’. Ff. 10a/b, 11a and 17b are blank except for frames formed of two black-inked lines.Dimensions: 21.3 × 13.9 (text area 17 × 10.2) cm.Hand: Both items written in a variable (small to medium) Arabic naskh using black and red inks. The text area has not been ruled, but the tables are divided into rows and columns. The texts are written in tables whose cells are delineated by red- and black-inked lines; occasionally there is writing around the perimeter of the table.Layout: The text area has not been ruled, but the tables are divided into rows and columns. The texts are written in tables whose cells are delineated by red and black inked lines; occasionally there is writing around the perimeter of the table. Lines per page vary.Origin note: "No copyist's signature or date(s) or place(s) of copying."Record origin: "Descriptions abbreviated from Emilie Savage-SmithRecord origin: A descriptive Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts at St John's CollegeRecord origin: Oxford (Oxford: Oxford University PressRecord origin: 2005)Record origin: Entries. Nos. 4 and 10Record origin: pp. 19-22Record origin: 41-2."Item 1 (ff. 1a–9b) is an incomplete set of Arabic astronomical tables; item 2 (ff. 10a–17b) is a set of calendrical conversion tables for dates in the years 1022 to 1121H (1613 to 1709) followed by tables for the position of the sun in the zodiac for the latitude of Aleppo for the year 1028/1618 "according to recent observations."
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldRecord origin: "Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team."5 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Geography, Tales, and Islamic sermons
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldRecord origin: "Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team."6 works by 2 authors on the subjects of Tales, Medicine, and Islamic magic
Binding: Leather-covered boards with textile overcover; now detatached and housed separately.Contents: Various Prophetic traditions about prayer (ff. 1a–8b). An anonymous exposition in Persian of the 12th juzʾ of the Qurʼān, Q: 11:6 - 12:52, incipit: رب يسر بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وتمم بالخبر وما من دابة ونيست يا هيچ جنبیده في الارض در زمین (ff. 9a–66b).Decoration: None.Dimensions: 220 × 130 mm.Hand: Coarse naskh.Layout: One column of 19 lines per page.Origin note: Thought to originate in the Tirah Valley, now in Pakistan.Record origin: Description based on the catalogue record in Fihrist (2023).A Persian explanation of the 12th portion (juzʾ) of the Qurʼan, preceded by traditions about prayer.
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldHand: In the hand of Beaudin, later French vice-consul at Damascus.Record origin: "Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team."1 copy of Alf laylah wa-laylah.