Abstract: Commentary on a work on astronomy by Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar al-Jighmīnī (d. after 1221) entitled al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī ʻilm al-hayʼah.Binding note: Marbled paper pasted on golden brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from note on fol. 1a.25 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Thin dark cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible. Fol. 42 and 52-56 (blank): glazed European paper with watermark. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Several inscriptions and ownership statements on fol. 1a. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Riyāḍiyāt 54". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 242".Copied from an autograph on 24 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 817 by ʻAbd Allāh ---? (colophon, fol. 51b, with hardly legible mention of the name of the copyist).Incipit: سبحانك اللهم يا مدير اطباق السماوات بلا عمد واوتاد على القطب ... وبعد فقد دلت البراهين العقلية والشواهد النقلية على ان اقصى ما يترجى للانسان من معارج الكمالات ... 2أ ... قوله وجعلته يشتمل على مقدمة ومقالتين وذلك لانّ 2ب ما ذكر فيه اما ان يكون مقصوداً بالذاتExplicit: وهذه السنة القمرية ناقصة عن السنة الشمسية بعشرة ايام وعشرين ساعة ونصف ساعة بالتقريب وليكن هذا اخر كلامنا فى شرح الكتاب والله سبحانه مفيض الخير و ...؟ الصواب والمرجو من اولى البصاير النقّادة ان يعمضوا(؟) عن الضرار(؟) وان لا يوخذوا بالهفوات
Physical description: Material: PaperDimensions: 335 x 240 mm leaf [260 x 200 mm written]Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; Arabic foliation in in faded brown ink along with what are perhaps quire marks although extensive damage to and replacement of margins makes this difficult to determine.Ruling: none visible; an average of 26 lines per page on pages without illustrations or tables; vertical spacing 11 lines per 10 cmScript: NaskhInk: Black ink, with rubricated headings, labels and text stops in red. Some tables and illustrations in ink that has faded to brown. Stars in illustrations are outlined in red and fill in goldDecoration:Binding: British Museum bindingCondition: Defective at beginning and missing a number of leaves (see notes bound into front of volume); waterstains and foxing towards tail fore-edge margin; all margins have been replaced but this rarely affects text, tables or illustrationsMarginalia: Very few marginal corrections and notes by more than one hand
Abstract: Collection of two texts on time reckoning and astronomical matters. Two dates are mentioned in the text as "hādhihi al-sanah allatī naḥnu fīhā": 607 H. (fol. 45a, l. 3) and 612 H. (fol. 69b, l. 5).Binding note: Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards with orange, green and brown marbled paper pasted on both covers. Leather over cloth for the spine. Paper pastedowns. Disbound.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-41a: Kitāb fī al-shuhūr al-rūmīyah.Contents: 2. fol. 41b-80a: Mukhtaṣar al-hayʼah wa-al-mafātīḥ fī ʻilm al-awqāt wa-al-maṣābīḥ lil-Sarrāj.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.14 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink, with use of red for headings and ornementation. The final letters of a line are often written in the margin (see fol. 31a). Light cream paper, glossy, with laid (and chain?) lines visible. Fol. 31-40, 33-38, 35-36, and 44-47 darker (tending towards orange). The paper has been ruled with a sharp tool (particularly visible on fol. 17b-20b). On fol. 65b-66a: Map. Incomplete at the beginning. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (starts with 41 on fol. 1). Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Collation: Paper, fol. 81 ; 1-7¹⁰ 8¹⁰ (+1, fol. 81) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
Abstract: Collection of treatises on astrology/nomy and arithmetics.Binding note: Paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Brown leather spine and edges. Paper pastedowns.Contents: 1. fol. 1b-45b: Kitāb Madkhal Kūshyār.Contents: 2. fol. 46a: Faṣl fī maʻrifat ṭulūʻ al-Shiʻrá.Contents: 3. fol. 46a-51a: Risālah laṭīfah fī ḥisāb / Sharaf al-millah wa-al-dīn Abū ʻAlī Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Jaghmīnī.Ms. codex.Title from inscription on fol. 1a.Physical description: Written in black ink with use of red (see records for each text). Contains tables. Dark cream paper with thick laid lines and pulp visible. Magical(?) square on fol. 1a."Inscription in Western numerals in black ink on the upper left corner of the upper cover (corresponds to Brill's list. See HoutsmaM. Th. Catalogue d'une collection de manuscrits arabes et turcsno. 502)."'Origin: Last text apparently completed at the end of Shawwāl 661 Sept. 1263 in Khwārazm (see end of textfol. 51a). It is not clear whether this date applies to the redaction of the text or to the copy. Several dated inscriptions on fol. 1a and 51bthe earliest dated Shawwāl 988 H. 1580 (fol. 1a).'
Abstract: Collection of two treatises on astronomy and astrology.Binding note: Dark brown leather over cardboards. Blind-tooled border.Contents: 1. fol. 2b-141a : Kifāyat al-taʻlīm dar ṣināʻat-i tanjīm / Muḥammad ibn Masʻūd al-Ghaznawī.Contents: 2. fol. 142b-181b : Kitāb-i S̲amarah-ʾi Baṭlamiyūs dar aḥkām-i nujūm / Muḥammad ibn Masʻūd al-Ghaznawī?.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger, from the title of the first text in the collection.Physical description: European paper with watermark. Fol. 1 and 182 are later additions.Origin: According to colophons, copied in Shaʻbān 1232 June-July 1817 (fol. 141a, 181b)
Abstract: Collection of texts on time-keeping and the use of various astronomical instruments. The volume consists of two distinct parts. The first part (fol. 1-20) contains a text in Ottoman Turkish copied in Edirne in Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1077 1667. The second part (fol. 21-124) contains several texts in Arabic copied by ʻAlī ibn Maḥmūd al-Jīlānī al-Miṣrī, Egypt ("al-Diyār al-Miṣrīyah"), from Dhū al-Qaʻdah 939 to Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 940 Oct.-Nov. 1533, except Zād al-masāfir fī maʻrifat rasm faḍl al-dāʾir, copied by Muḥammad al-Hunaydī, Saturday 16 Ṣafar 940 Sept. 6, 1533.Binding note: Quarter bound in brown leather and marbled paper.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-18b: Teshil ül-mikât Tasʹhīl al-mīqāt / Muṣṭafá ibn ʻAlī al-muwaqqit.Contents: 2. fol. 19a-20b: Several inscriptions and tables.Contents: 3. fol. 21a-25a : Muqaddimah fī maʻrifat al-ḥudūd / Sibṭ al-Māridīnī.Contents: 4. fol. 25b-34b: Risālat laqṭ al-jawāhir fī maʻrifat al-dawāʾir / Sibṭ al-Māridīnī.Contents: 5. fol. 35a-43a: al-Risālah al-gharbanīyah(?) fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab / Sibṭ al-Māridīnī.Contents: 6. fol. 43b-44a: Fāʾidah fī maʻrifat istikhrāj al-taqwīm bi-ṭarīq al-ḥisāb.Contents: 7. fol. 45b-51b: Muqaddimah ʻalá al-rubʻ al-shamālī al-kāmil / Sibṭ al-Māridīnī.Contents: 8. fol. 52a-61a: ʻUmdat dhawī al-albāb fī maʻrifat istikhrāj al-aʻmāl al-falakīyah bi-al-ḥisāb wa-Allāh aʻlam bi-al-ṣawāb / Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Fatḥ al-Ṣūfī al-Miṣrī.Contents: 9. fol. 62b-65a: Risālah āfāqīyah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-nisbah al-sittīnīyah.Contents: 10. fol. 65b-66b: Faṣl fī maʻrifat ṭūl al-balad.Contents: 11. fol. 67a-73a: Risālat Niṣf dāʾirat al-muʻaddil / ʻIzz al-Dīn al-Wafāʾī.Contents: 12. fol. 73b-75b: Fāʾidah Hādhihi al-thalāthah al-abwāb min ākhir al-Risālah al-sittīnīyah alladhī ilá al-Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn al-Māridīnī.Contents: 13. fol. 75b-76a: Dāʾirah of "mā taṣādaqa min al-burūj wa-mā tabāghaḍa wa-mā taṣādaqa min al-nujūm wa-mā tabāghaḍa", with introduction.Contents: 14. fol. 76b: Table: "Sharḥ ittiṣālāt al-qamar bi-al-kawākib al-ʻulwīyah".Contents: 15. fol. 77a: Table: "Sharḥ ittiṣālāt al-qamar bi-al-kawākib al-suflīyah".Contents: 16. fol. 78b-96a: Zād al-masāfir fī maʻrifat rasm faḍl al-dāʾir / Aḥmad ibn al-Majdī.Contents: 17. fol. 97a-112b: Kitāb al-Luʾluʾ al-manthūr fī al-ʻamal bi-rubʻ al-dastūr / Sibṭ al-Māridīnī.Contents: 18. al-Waḍʻ ʻalá al-jihāt fī al-basāʾiṭ wa-al-munḥarifāt.Contents: 19. fol. 125b: Verses of poetry in Ottoman Turkish and other inscriptions.Ms. codex.Title from table of contents on fol. (i)a (later hand).Physical description: First text written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red, with 12 lines per page (147 x 80 mm.). Laid European paper with watermark (distance between laid lines: 300 mm.). The other texts written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red for entries, with 13 lines per page (140 x 100 mm.). Yāʾ for alif maqṣūrah ; final yāʾ dotted. Zād al-masāfir has 15 lines per page (fol. 78b-96a). European paper with watermark (distance between laid lines: 400 mm.). Contains tables and a circular diagram (fol. 76a). Fol. i is a later addition with a table of contents. Fol. 125 is a later addition with inscriptions. Stained with water.Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "ʻUlūm riyāḍīyah 32". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 1019".Origin: According to colophons, Text 1 copied in Edirne, Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1077 1667 (fol. 18b). The other texts are copied by ʻAlī ibn Maḥmūd al-Jīlānī al-Miṣrī (ʻAlī ibn Maḥmūd al-Barisī Kū(?) on fol. 66b), Egypt ("bi-al-Diyār al-Miṣrīyah"), from Dhū al-Qaʻdah 939 1533 to Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 940 Oct.-Nov. 1533 (fol. 34b, 66b, 73a, 112b, 113b), except Zād al-masāfir fī maʻrifat rasm faḍl al-dāʾir, copied by Muḥammad al-Hunaydī, Saturday 16 Ṣafar 940 Sept. 6, 1533 (fol. 94b).