مجموعه رسائل نادرة في العلوم الفلكية

Title:

مجموعه رسائل نادرة في العلوم الفلكية

Alternative title:

Majmūʻat al-rasāʾil al-nādirah fī ʻulūm al-falakīyah

Date:

1650-1651

Description:

Abstract: Collection of treatises in Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish, on geometry, astronomy, astronomical instruments, mathematics, and divination, with illustrations, tables and figures.Contents: 1. fol. Aa-Ba: Table of contents.Contents: 2. fol. 1b-57a: Faṣl fī maʻrifat ẓill al-mayl al-awwal ... etc..Contents: 3. fol. 57a-b: Risālah fī ʻilm al-sāʻah fī al-nahār al-jayyidah min al-radīyah.Contents: 4. fol. 57b-63a: Several short excerpts, some from Kifāyat al-Taʻlīm, and tables.Contents: 5. fol. 63b-65b: Risālah fī bayān umūr lā takhtalif bi-ḥasab al-ʻurūḍ mimmā yataʻallaqu bi-rasm arbāʻ al-muqanṭarāt.Contents: 6. fol. 66a-b: Risālah fī bayān umūr tanfaʻu maʻrifatuhā li-man yarsam al-rubʻ al-mujayyab.Contents: 7. fol. 66b: Fāʾidah fī maʻrifat fatḥ parkār qaws al-ʻaṣr al-awwal al-ufāqī.Contents: 8. fol. 66b-67a: Fāʾidah fī maʻrifat waḍʻ murabbaʻ al-ẓill al-mabsūṭ wa-al-mankūs.Contents: 9. fol. 67a-67b: Tables.Contents: 10. fol. 68a-72a: Risālah fī maʻrifat ḥisāb anṣāf al-aqṭār.Contents: 11. fol. 72b-73b: Risālah fī istikhrāj anṣāf al-aqṭār / ʻAbd al-Wahhāb Afandī.Contents: 12. fol. 74a-82b: Tables.Contents: 13. fol. 83a-b: Blank.Contents: 14. fol. 84a: ʻAlāmāt al-kawākib fī taqwīm al-Farangī.Contents: 15. fol. 84b-95b: Kitāb fī ṣināʻat al-sāʻāt bi-qiyās al-ẓill.Contents: 16. fol. 96a-100b: Blank.Contents: 17. fol. 101a: Irtifāʻ al-ʻaṣrayn li-ʻarḍ lām-ḥāʾ lām ... etc..Contents: 18. fol. 101b-105a: Risālah dar ṣanʻat-i asṭurlāb.Contents: 19. fol. 105b: Faṣl fī rasm al-muqanṭarāt wa-al-minṭaqah.Contents: 20. fol. 106a: Table.Contents: 21. fol. 106b: Faṣl fī maʻrifat al-aṣl alladhī yastakhriju min-hu al-aʻmāl.Contents: 22. fol. 107a: Blank.Contents: 23. fol. 107b-109a: Faṣl fī maʻrifat istikhrāj al-sumūt -- Faṣl fī maʻrifat istikhrāj abʻād marākiz al-muqanṭarāt wa-anṣāf aqṭārihā ʻalá kull wāḥid min quṭbay muʻaddil al-nahār -- Faṣl fī rasm al-mudārāt al-thalāth -- Faṣl fī maʻrifat ʻamal al-sāʻāt al-zamānīyah wa-al-mustawīyah -- Faṣl fī ʻamal minṭaqat al-burūj wa-niṣf qaṭrihā.Contents: 24. fol. 109b-111a: Blank.Contents: 25. fol. 111b-113b: Fāʾidah fī maʻrifat waḍʻ al-dastūr wa-kayfīyat tawahhumihi wa-rasmihi / Aḥmad ibn al-Majdī.Contents: 26. fol. 114a-117b: Qāʻidah dar waḍʻ ʻAṣay Mūsá with tables.Contents: 27. fol. 118a-121a: Blank, except title of next text on fol. 120a.Contents: 28. fol. 121b-126b: ʻIlm al-kaff wa-al- katif wa-al-lawḥ wa-al-yad.Contents: 29. fol. 126b-127b: Dar bayān-i maʻrifat-i shānah-i gūsfand.Contents: 30. fol. 128a-130b: Blank.Contents: 31. fol. 131a-135a: Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-basīṭah al-ẓillīyah / Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad al-Khalīlī.Contents: 32. fol. 135a-144a: Risālat al-asṭurlāb al-tāmm / ʻIzz al-Dīn al-Wafāʾī.Contents: 33. fol. 144b-145b: al-Ishārāt fī al-ʻamal bi-al-jayb al-mawḍūʻ ʻalayhi al-madārāt / ʻIzz al-Dīn al-Wafāʾī.Contents: 34. fol. 146b-148b: Risālah fī al-asṭurlāb al-mughnī al-afāqī.Contents: 35. fol. 149a-157b: Risālah-yi muqanṭarāt khaṭṭ al-istiwāʾ / Ṭībughā Ṭubayq al-Baklamīshī.Contents: 36. fol. 158a-164a: Kayfīyat al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-mansūb lil-musātarah / Muḥammad ibn al-Ghazūlī.Contents: 37. fol. 164b-171b: Risālah-yi Rubʻ al-awtār / Ibn al-Shāṭir.Contents: 38. fol. 172a-180a: al-Zand al-murī fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab bi-ghayr murʾī / Ibn al-Shāṭir.Contents: 39. fol. 181a-194a: Risālat al-Rubʻ al-kāmil / Ibn al-Shāṭir.Contents: 40. fol. 194b-198b: Blank.Contents: 41. fol. 199a-205b: al-Lafẓ al-muḥarrar fī al-rubʻ al-musattar / Aḥmad al-Bakhāniqī.Contents: 42. fol. 206a-227b: al-Amtiʻah al-lāmiʻah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-jāmah sic, for al-jāmiʻah / Ibn al-Shāṭir.Contents: 43. fol. 229b-230a: Fāʾidah fī tashbīhāt al-kawākib wa-al-burūj.Contents: 44. fol. 230b-232a: Nubdhah laṭīfah min Kitāb al-Tarshīḥāt fī tawārīkh mukhtalifah fī aʻmār al-dunyā. -- In Ottoman Turkish.Contents: 45. fol. 232b-233a: Qāʻidah-yi Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn wa-hiya aʻẓam al-malāḥim / Aḥmad al-Bakhāniqī?.Contents: 46. fol. 233b-236b: Blank.Contents: 47. fol. 237a-248b: Kitāb al-Nayāzik / Arisṭāṭālīs.Contents: 48. fol. 249b-256b: Kitāb Fuṣūl Arṭūsūs / Arṭūsūs Eutocius of Ascalon.Contents: 49. fol. 257b-269a: Aḥkām al-shiʻrá al-Yamanīyah.Contents: 50. fol. 269b-274b: Blank.Contents: 51. fol. 275a-277a: Nubdhah fī ʻamal al-sihām allatī taqaʻu fī ṭāliʻ al-sanah lil-ʻālam.Contents: 52. fol. 277b-279b: Kitāb-i Shaykh ... Abū al-Faḍl Ḥubaysh ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Munajjim al-Taghlīsī(?) Excerpts. -- In Persian.Contents: 53. fol. 280a: Excerpts from the same book.Contents: 54. fol. 280b-284a: Blank.Contents: 55. fol. 284b-292a: Several short texts and tables: Fāʾidah fī taḥqīq al-tawārīkh -- Maʻrifat ḥāl al-marīḍ -- Fāʾidah fī maʻrifat istikhrāj ṭulūʻ al-shiʻrá al-Yamānīyah -- Fāʾidah fī dalāʾil al-barūdah wa-al-yabūsah -- Names of the hours of the day in Arabic -- Fāʾidah from a manuscript by Luṭf Allāh al-Munajjim -- Fāʾidah dar maʻrifat-i ṭāliʻ-i wilādat-i Ḥaḍrat-i Nabī -- Fāʾidah fī maʻrifat mawḍūʻ al-qamar min al-burūj wa-mawāḍiʻ al-kawākib al-sayyārah ... -- Fāʾidah fī maʻrifat mā tajhlhu min kawākib al-samā al-mawḍūʻah fī al-shabakah min qibali mā taʻlmhu -- ... etc..Contents: 56. fol. 292b-297b: Muqaddimah mukhtaṣarah fī maʻrifat al-kawākib al-thābitah wa-ṣuwarihā.Contents: 57. fol. 298a: Fāʾidah dar ikhtiyār haft chīz -- Fāʾidah dar maʻrifat ruʾyat al-ahillah.Contents: 58. fol. 298b-301b: Risālah fī maʻrifat sihām al-kawākib.Contents: 59. fol. 301b-302a: Fāʾidah (in Persian) -- Table.Contents: 60. fol. 302b-304b: Fāʾidah dar maʻrifat-i baʻz̤ī az kawākib thawābit kih bar asṭurlābhā-yi shamālī wa-junūbī naqsh mīkunand / Muḥammad Taqī al-Fārisī.Contents: 61. fol. 305a-306a: Risālat manāzil al-qamar Selections / ʻAbd Allāh al-Bayḍawī.Contents: 62. fol. 306b-311a: Risālat dhawāt al-dhawāʾib Excerpt drom Kitāb al-Mughnī fī al-kawākib / Ibn Hibintá.Contents: "63. fol. 311b-314b: Fāʾidah min al-ḥikāyāt Excerpt from al-Wāqidī's al-Nayāzik -- Fāʾidah on astronomical events in the years 425Contents: 619Contents: 905Contents: 938Contents: 939Contents: 963Contents: 965Contents: 1027 -- Faṣl ḥarakat jūzhar al-qamar -- Fāʾidah fī hayʾāt dhawāt al-adhnāb Excerpt from Kifāyat al-taʻlīm -- Fāʾidah fī ṣifāt thawānī al-nujūm Excerpt from Kifāyat al-taʻlīm."Contents: '64. fol. 314b-316a: Kitāb Shams al-maʻārif al-kubrá Selections / Aḥmad al-Būnī.'Contents: 65. fol. 316a: Short text by another hand.Contents: 66. fol. 316b-318a: Short excerpts, diagram, etc..Contents: 67. fol. 318b: Short excerpts by another hand.Contents: 68. fol. 319a-324a: Risālah fī jawāmiʻ taʻrīfāt ʻilm al-hayʾah / Kūshyār.Contents: 69. fol. 324a-326a: Short text on definitionsContents: 70. fol. 326b-328b: Blank.Contents: 71. fol. 329a-375b: al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah / Maḥmūd al-Jighmīnī.Contents: 72. fol. 376a-b: Fāʾidah fī muṣṭalaḥ al-ḥisāb bi-al-ḥurūf al-hindīyah.Contents: 73. fol. 377a-379b: Blank.Contents: 74. fol. 380a-391a: Ashkāl al-taʾsīs fī ʻilm al-handasah / Muḥammad al-Samarqandī.Contents: 75. fol. 391b-392b: Excerpt from al-Maybudī.Contents: 76. fol. 393a-399b: Blank.Contents: 77. fol. 400a-401a: Sayings attributed to Wālīs al-Yūnānī.Contents: 78. fol. 401b-405a: Dar taʻrīfāt-i uṣūl-i handasah wa-hayʾāt.Contents: 79. fol. 405b-410a: Blank.Contents: 80. fol. 410b-419a: Kifāyat al-taʻlīm wa-al-ṭarīq fī waḍʻ al-taqwīm.Contents: 81. fol. 419b-420a: Blank.Contents: 82. fol. 420b-425b: Kitāb asrār al-nujūm Selections / Arisṭāṭālīs.Contents: 83. fol. 426a-428a: Blank.Contents: 84. fol. 428b-429a: Risālah mukhtaṣarah fī maʻrifat ḥarakāt al-kawākib min ḥarakat al-Shams.Contents: 85. fol. 429b-431b: Blank.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).Physical description: Number of lines per page varies. Written in small to medium small naskh in black ink with ample use of red. European paper with watermark, glossy. Table of contents on fol. Aa-b. Inscription stating the number of leaves in the copy on fol. 431b.Illustrations: Tables, charts, diagrams, and illustrations. See in particular the hand on fol. 125a and the comets on fol. 311a.Origin: Several texts are dated (see fol. 73b, 164a, 171b, 180a, 205b, 227b, fol. 256b), ranging from 19 Jumādá al-Ulá 1060 (fol. 269a) to 20 Shawwāl 1061 (fol. 73b). The place of copy is mentioned in one colophon as being Qusṭanṭinīyah (Constantinople) ( fol. 164a). The name of the copyist, Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá, is mentioned on fol. 171b and 227b.Inscription in red pencil in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover and on a label pasted on the pastedown of the same cover: "SH 158".

Language:

Arabic

Type:

Illustrations (layout features)

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Provenance:

Former owner: 'ṢidqīMuṣṭafád. 1769 or 70.'Several ownership statements on fol. 1a, one in the name of al-Ḥājj Muṣṭafá Ṣidqī dated 15 Ramaḍān 1153 1740, with seal. The same seal appears in Ms. Paris, BNF, suppl. persan 727, see Déroche, F. et al., Manuel de codicologie (Paris, 2000), p. 361, no. 122. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Extent:

434 leaves : paper, ill. ; 200 x 140 mm. bound to 200 x 150 mm.

Publisher:

Istanbul, 1650-1651

Rights:

https://rbsc.princeton.edu/services/imaging-publication-services

Identifier:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 373Y
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