MS. Huntington 547 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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2 works by 2 authors on the subject of Astronomy

1. ff. 1v-19v
Author: Ḥāzimī, Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, al-Saʻīdī
Title: Mukhtaṣar min kitāb al-Mijisṭī

Abridgement of the Almajest of Ptolemy, 2nd cent. , with marginal corrections

SAUG §114, PP. 205 (197) and 206 (198) [in the latter wrongly as "Uri 910"]

Language(s): Arabic

References

Supp. II. Anhang, p. 1022
[UAM. 920 (1), revised by Beeston]
2. ff. 21v-65v
Author: Ibn al-Shāṭir, ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm, 1304-1375
Title: Nihāyat al-suʼūl fī taṣḥīḥ* al-uṣūl

*Brock. wrongly "tashīl"

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 127
[UAM. 920 (2), revd. by Beeston]

Physical Description

Form: codex
19 ff. 45 ff.

History

Origin: 1642 CE 16th or 17th cent.? 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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