Majmūʻ fī al-falak

Title:

Majmūʻ fī al-falak

Date:

1533-1667

Description:

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).

Language:

Arabic

Type:

Early works to 1800

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Time measurements—Early works to 1800

Provenance:

Ownership statement in the name of ʻAlī ibn Ḥasan al-Amadī al-shahīr bi-... Zādah on fol. 1a (green ink). Ownership statement by the same, here named ʻAlī ibn Ḥasan ibn Zayn al-Dīn, on fol. 18b (red ink). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Extent:

i + 125 leaves : paper, ill. ; 210 x 152 mm. bound to 210 x 152 mm.

Publisher:

Cairo; Edirne, 1533-1667

Rights:

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

Identifier:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3442Y
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