2 anonymous untitled works

عنوان:

2 anonymous untitled works

المساهم:

Annotator: Greaves, John, 1602-1652

تاريخ المصدر:

c. 1618?

الوصف:

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."

اللغة:

اللاتينية
الإنجليزية
العربية

النوع (Raw):

المخطوطات

(EDM) النوع:

نص

المكان:

Aleppo?

المنشأ:

No information is available on the provenance of the volume.

مادة الأثر:

Paper with traces of small watermarks (a letter B; a trefoil)

المدى الزمني:

17 folios plus 3 preliminary leaves and 2 endpapers (i–iii + 17 + iv–v).

حقوق معيار دبلن كور:

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المُعرِّف:

"St John's College MS 155"

جزء من:

Arabic Manuscripts and Maps

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