MS. Marsh 39 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Oriental Manuscripts Marsh Collection

Summary of Contents: 7 works by 5 authors on the subjects of Astronomy, Astronomical instruments, Chronology, and Calendars

1. ff. 4v-6v*

Author: Ibn al-Kayyāl, ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Ibrāhīm, fl. c. 1543

Title: Preface only (without the tables themselves) to the astronomical tables

As in Berl. 5758

*ff. 1-3 are only irrelevant notes.

Language(s): Arabic

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GAL II 357

[UAM. 1042 [(1) as revd. by Beeston - not in Uri]]

2. ff. 61v-69v

Author: Abū al-Barakāt, Zayn al-Dīn, chief muezzin and muwaqqit in the Umayyad mosque 16th cent.

Title: Astronomical tables of the distances, magnitudes, risings and directions of the fixed stars, calculated for 962/1554-5 and now revised for 1000/1591-2 by ʻAlī ibn Barakāt, sharābdār of the Dār al-Shifāʼ al-Nūrī

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Astronomy

[UAM. 1042 (2), with corrig. Nicoll p. 607 [(3) as revd. by Beeston]]

3. fols. 7v-52v*

Author: Māridīnī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Khalīl, d. 1406

Title: al-Durr al-manthūr fī al-ʻamal bi-rubʻ al-dastūr

*fols. 53-57 are odd astronomical notes, 58-60 blank.

Language(s): Arabic

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GAL II 169

[UAM. 1042 (1), with corrig. Nicoll p. 607; [(2) as revd. by Beeston]]

4. fols. 73v-91v*

Author: Māridīnī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Khalīl, d. 1406

Title: al-Durr al-manthūr fī al-ʻamal bi-rubʻ al-dastūr

A repetition, incomplete

* fol. 92 blank.

Language(s): Arabic

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GAL II 169

[UAM. 1042 [(4) as revd. by Beeston; not in Uri]]

5. fols. 93v-112r

Author: Miṣrī, Abū al-Fatḥ Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad

Title: Nihāyat al-rutbah fī al-ʻamal bi-jadwal al-nisbah

A compendium of the Daqāʼiq al-ḥaqāʼiq of Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, b. 1423

Language(s): Arabic

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GAL II 168

[UAM. 1042 (3), with corrig. Nicoll p. 607; [(5J as revd. by Beeston]]

6. ff. 113v-142v

Author: Anonymous

Title: A collection of astronomical tables, without title or text

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Astronomy

[UAM. 1042 (4[i]) [(6) as revd. by Beeston]]

7. ff. 144v-150v*

Author: Anonymous

Title: A popular calendar

Incomplete

*ff. 151r-153r blank; 153v table of risings and settings of constellations; 154r blank; 154v scribblings

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Calendar

[UAM. 1042 (4[ii]) [(7) as revised by Beeston]]

Physical Description

Form: codex

3 ff. 9 ff. 46 fols. 19 fols. 20 fols. 30 ff. 7 ff.

History

Origin: c. 1588? CE c. 1590 [autograph of reviser] CE 1588 CE c. 1588? CE n.d. c. 1590? CE c. 1590? CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The Library of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, d. 1713.

The Marsh bequest entered the Bodleian Library in 1714.

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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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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

MS. Marsh 39 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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