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9 works by 7 authors on the subjects of Astronomy and Astrology

1. ff. 1r-87v
Author: Ghāfiqī, Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn al-Hāʼim
Title: al-Kāmil fī al-taʻlīm
Title: al-Zīj al-kāmil

A revision of the works of Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf ibn al-Kamād d. ?1195

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 473
[NAM. 285 (1)]
2. ff. 91v-161v
Author: Ibn Qunfūdh, Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn al-Khaṭīb, d. 1407
Title: Commentary on the Manẓūmah fī ʻilm al-nujūm of Ibn Abī al-Rijāl, ʻAlī, 1015 or 16-1062 or 3
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 224
[NAM. 285 (2)]
3. ff. 162v-194v; 222v-225r
Author: Abū Maʻshar, d. 886
Title: Kitāb al-Nukat

Extracts only

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 222
[NAM. 285 (3, i, v)]
4. ff. 221v-222v
Author: Ibn Ṭarkhān al-Ṭabarì
Title: Astronomical and meteorological extracts
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Astronomy
NAM. 285 (3, iv)]
5. ff. 198r-215v
Author: Abū Maʻshar, d. 886
Title: Kitāb al-Sirr

Extracts only, from part 1

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 222
[NAM. 285 (3, ii)]
6. ff. 216r-221v
Author: Abū Maʻshar, d. 886
Title: Kitāb al-Sirr

Extracts only, from part 2

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 222
[NAM. 285 (3, iii)]
7. ff. 225r-229v
Author: Māshā'allāh, 730?-815?
Title: Kitāb al-Asʻar

Extracts only

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 220
[NAM. 285 (3, vi)]
8. ff. 229v-230v
Author: Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-ʻIbādī, 809?-873
Title: Excerpts on comets

SAUG § 123 xxii, p. 218 (210) [with wrong ref. Nic. 2757] suggests that Ḥunayn is merely the translator

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 206
[NAM. 285 (3, vii)]
9. ff. 236r-245v
Author: Ibn al-Bannāʼ, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1256?-1321?
Title: al-Ḥarakāt al-mukhtalifah bil-ayyām
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 255
[NAM. 285 (4)]

Physical Description

Form: codex
87 ff. 71 ff. 37 ff. 2 ff. 18 ff. 6 ff. 5 ff. 2 ff. 10 ff.

History

Origin: 14th cent.? CE 16th cent.? CE n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d.

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Jacob Golius [see Golius Sale Catalogue, Libri Mathematici in quarto &c. no. 10].

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.

Availability

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures contact Bodleian Admissions).

Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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