MS. Marsh 636 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Summary of Contents: 5 works by 4 authors on the subjects of Moon, Mathematics, Algebra, Arabic alphabet, Gematria, and Mysticism
1. ff. 1v-24r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Mawḍiʻ al-adillah li-maʻrifat ruʼyat al-ahillah

On the phases of the moon, with tables of the motion of the sun and moon

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Astronomy
[UAM. 1034 (1), with corrig. Nicoll p. 606]
2. ff. 25v-43r
Author: Wafāʼī, ʻIzz al-Dīn ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz, d. 1469
Title: al-Luʼluʼah al-muḍīʼah fī al-ʻamal bil-nisbah al-sittīnīyah
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 129
[UAM. 1034 (2)]
3. ff. 44r-46v
Author: Ibn al-Yāsamīn, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ḥajjāj, d. 1204
Title: al-Muqaddimah
Title: al-Urjūzah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 471
[UAM. 1034 (3), with corrig. Nicoll p. 606]
4. ff. 47v-71v
Author: Sajāwandī, Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 12th cent.
Title: Commentary [by Sajāwandī himself?] on his Kitāb al-Jabr wa-al-muqābalah
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 379
[UAM. 1034 (4), with corrig. Nicoll p. 607]
5. ff. 72v-83r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Kitāb al-Natāʼij li-qaḍāʼ al-ḥawāʼij

On the mystical properties of the Arabic letters

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Mysticism
[UAM. 1034 (5)]

Physical Description

Form: codex
24 ff. 19 ff. 3 ff. 25 ff. 12 ff.

History

Origin: 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. 16].

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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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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