MS. Huntington 483 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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2 works by 2 authors on the subjects of Astronomy and Astrolabes

1. ff. 1v-538r
Author: Khafarī* [or Ḥafarī] d., Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 16th cent.
Title: al-Takmilah

Commentary (compd. 1525) on al-Tadhkirah al-Naṣīrīyah of Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274

*This MS. and 1. 0. 747 d. H. Khalf. Beeston rejects Brockʼs Khiḍrī and his identification with the glossator of Qūshjīʼs commentary on Tūsīʼs Tajrīd al-kalām

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 511
[UAM. 1018, with corrig. Nicoll p. 606; [(1) as revd. by Beeston]]
2. ff. 538v-541r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Risālah mukhtaṣarah fī bayān mā ishtamala ʻalayhi al-asṭurlāb
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Astronomy
[UAM. 1018, with corr. Nicoll p. 606; (2) as revised by Beeston]

Physical Description

Form: codex
541 ff. 4 ff.

History

Origin: not before 1525, not after 1557 [ownerʼs date] CE 1614 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Robert Huntington, d. 1701.

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1693.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team.

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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