MS. Marsh 601 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Summary of Contents: 11 works by 5 authors on the subjects of Astronomy, Natural Ventilation, Chronology, Sundials, Mathematics, Astronomical instruments, Calendars, Direction of prayer, and Qiblah
1. ff. 2v-24v
Author: Ibn al-Majdī, Aḥmad ibn Rajab, 1366-1447 ابن المجدي، أحمد بن رجب، 767-850 هـ
Title: Kashf al-ḥaqāʼiq fī ḥisāb al-daraj wa-al-daqāʼiq
Title: كشف الحقائق في حساب الدرج والدقائق
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 128
UAM. 1023 (1), with corrig. Nicoll p. 606; revised by Beeston
2. ff. 24v-31v
Author: Ibn al-Majdī, Aḥmad ibn Rajab, 1366-1447 ابن المجدي، أحمد بن رجب، 767-850 هـ
Title: Tuḥfat al-aḥbāb fī naṣb al-bādhahanj wa-al-miḥrāb
Title: تحفة الأحباب في نصب الباذهنج والمحراب
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 128
UAM. 1023 (2), revised by Beeston
3. ff. 32r-39v
Author: Ibn al-Majdī, Aḥmad ibn Rajab, 1366-1447 ابن المجدي، أحمد بن رجب، 767-850 هـ
Title: al-Rawḍ al-azhar fī al-ʻamal bil-rubʻ al-musattar*
Title: الروض الأزهر في العمل بالربع المستر

*Not mushattaḥ, as Brock.

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 128
UAM. 1023 (3), revised by Beeston
4. ff. 39v-46r
Author: Ibn al-Majdī, Aḥmad ibn Rajab, 1366-1447 ابن المجدي، أحمد بن رجب، 767-850 هـ
Title: Khulāṣat al-aqwāl fī maʻrifat al-waqt wa ruʼyat al-hilāl
Title: خلاصة الأقوال في معرفة الوقت ورؤية الهلال
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 128
UAM. 1023 (4), revised by Beeston
5. ff. 46v-57v
Author: Ibn al-Majdī, Aḥmad ibn Rajab, 1366-1447 ابن المجدي، أحمد بن رجب، 767-850 هـ
Title: Zād al-musāfir fī maʻrifat rasm faḍl al-dāʼir
Title: زاد المسافر في معرفة رسم فضل الدائر

A compendium of his own Irshād al-ḥāʼir ilá maʻrifat wadʻ khuṭūṭ faḍl al-dāʼir

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 128
UAM. 1023 (5), with corr. Nic. p. 606; revised by Beeston
6. ff*. 61v-81v
Author: Baḥāniqī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 14th cent. البخانقي، أحمد بن محمد، ق. 8 هـ
Title: [A handbook* of astronomy, without title, in 44 short bābs with 2 appendices of 6 and 20 bābs]

*Ff. 58r-61r either blank or filled with later scribblings

*Brock.ʼs “Bajanīqī” [in index Bajāniqī] to be deleted

*Diff. from Brock.ʼs al-Lafẓ al-muḥarrar

Language(s): Arabic

References

Scpp. II. Anhang, p. 1019
UAM. 1023 (6), with corrig. Nicoll p. 606; revised by Beeston
7. ff. 82r-91r
Author: Mizzī, Zayn al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad المزي، زين الدين محمد بن أحمد
Title: al-Rawḍāt al-muzhirāt fī al-ʻamal bi-rubʻ al-muqanṭarāt
Title: الروضات المزهرات في العمل بربع المقنطرات
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 126
UAM. 1023 (7), revised by Beeston
8. ff. 92v-96v
Author: Ibn al-Majdī, Aḥmad ibn Rajab, 1366-1447 ابن المجدي، أحمد بن رجب، 767-850 هـ
Title: Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-rubʻ al-muqanṭarāt al-maqṭūʻ
Title: رسالة في العمل بربع المقنطرات المقطوع
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 128
UAM. 1023 (8, i), with corrig. Nicoll p. 606; (8) as revised by Beeston
9. ff. 96v-123r
Author: Mizzī, Zayn al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad المزي، زين الدين محمد بن أحمد
Title: Kashf al-rayb fī al-ʻamal bil-jayb
Title: كشف الريب في العمل بالجيب
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 126
UAM. 1023 (8 [ii]), with corrig. Nicoll p. 606; (9) as revised by Beeston
10. ff. 123v-128v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Several faṣl [perhaps extracts from a larger work ?] on calendars
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Calendar
UAM. 1023 (9); (10) as revised by Beeston
11. ff. 129v-150r
Author: Khalīlī, Sharaf al-Dīn Abū ʻImrān Mūsá ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻUthmān, fl. c. 1402 الخليلي، شرف الدين أبو عمران موسى بن محمد بن عثمان
Title: Talkhīṣ fī maʻrifat awqāt al-ṣalāt wa-jihat al-qiblah ʻinda ʻadam al-ālāt
Title: تلخيص في معرفة أوقات الصلاة وجهة القبلة عند عدم الآلات
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 127
UAM. 1023 (10), with corrig. Nicoll p. 606; (11) as revised by Beeston

Physical Description

Form: codex
23 ff. 8 ff. 8 ff. 8 ff. 12 ff. 22 ff. 10 ff. 5 ff. 28 ff. 6 ff. 22 ff. [incomplete (lacking 7th maqālah)]

History

Origin: 16th cent.? CE 16th cent.? CE 16th cent.? CE 16th cent.? CE 16th cent.? CE 16th cent.? CE 16th cent.? CE 16th cent.? CE 16th cent.? CE 16th cent.? CE 16th cent.? CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Jacob Golius [see Golius Sale Catalogue, Libri Mathematici in quarto &c. no. 15].

The Library of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, d. 1713.

The Marsh bequest entered the Bodleian Library in 1714.

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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JISC

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