MS. Marsh 663 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
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Summary of Contents: 22 works by 13 authors on the subjects of Astrology, Astronomy, Astrolabes, Calendars, Astronomical instruments, Celestial globes, Sundials, Music, Medicine, and Mathematics1. ff. 2-47Title: المدخل إلى صناعة النجوم* So Brock., but this is the death-date of his patron Sayf al-Dawlah the Hamdanid; Qabīṣīʼs d.-d. is unknown
Language(s): ArabicReferences
GAL I 223UAM. 941 (1), revised by Beeston2. ff. 48-66Author: AnonymousLanguage(s): ArabicReferences
Appendix AstronomyUAM. 941 (2), with corrig. Nicoll p. 602; revised by Beeston3. ff. 68-114Title: كتاب في المسائل والأحكامLanguage(s): ArabicReferences
GAL I 222UAM. 941 (3), with corrig. Nicoll p. 602; revised by Beeston4. ff. 115-126Author: *Anonymous*So Beeston; ? - I. 221 (S1, p. 394, para. 4b, no. 2 [B. M. Or. 54794 (DL 39)].
On the astrolabe, in 64 very short bābs
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Appendix AstronomyUAM. 941 (4), with corrig. Nicoll p. 602; revised by Beeston5. ff. 127-131*Beeston omits al-nujūmīyah
On astrology
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Appendix AstrologyUAM. 941 (5) with corrig. Nicoll p. 602; revised by Beeston6. ff. 132-157*Author: Anonymous*[p. 158 contains a frag. of biography in a much later hand]
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Appendix AstronomyUAM. 941 (6), revised by Beeston7. ff. 159-162Author: AnonymousLanguage(s): ArabicReferences
Appendix AstronomyUAM. 941; (7) as revised by Beeston; not in Uri8. ff. 164-189Author: AnonymousTitle: Kitāb al-ʻAmal bi-al-kurahTitle: كتاب العمل بالكرةIn 40 short bābs with a lengthy introduction
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Appendix AstronomyUAM. 941 (7 [i]), with corrig. Nicoll p. 602; (8) as revised by Beeston9. ff. 190-195Title: Risālah fī ʻamal al-saʻātTitle: رسالة في عمل الساعاتOn the construction of gnomic sundials
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GAL I 209UAM. 941 (7 [ii, part]) with corr. Nic. p. 602; [(9) as revised by Beeston10. ff. 196, 197Language(s): ArabicReferences
GAL I 209UAM. 941 (7 [ii, part]) [(10) as revised by Beeston; not in Uri11. ff. 197-202Author: AnonymousLanguage(s): ArabicReferences
Appendix AstronomyUAM. 941 (7 [ii, part]); (11) as revised by Beeston; not in Uri12. ff. 202, 207-213Title: Risālah fī taqwīm al-kawākibTitle: رسالة في تقويم الكواكبLanguage(s): ArabicReferences
Appendix AstronomyUAM. 941 (7 [ii, part])]; (12) as revised by Beeston; not in Uri13. ff. 214-222Title: رسالة في القسي المتشابهةLanguage(s): ArabicReferences
GAL I 149UAM. 941 (7 [ii] part) with corr. Nic. p. 602; (14) as revised by Beeston14. ff. 222, 223Author: AnonymousLanguage(s): ArabicReferences
Appendix AstronomyUAM. 941 (7 [ii, part])]; (15) as revised by Beeston; not in Uri15. ff. 224, 225Author: AnonymousLanguage(s): ArabicReferences
Appendix AstronomyUAM. 941 (7 [ii, part])]; (16) as revised by Beeston; not in Uri16. ff. 236-238, 203, 204, [lacuna?], 239-247)On stringed musical instruments
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GAL I 209UAM. 941 (7 [ii, part]), with corr. by Nic. p. 602; (17, 13) as revised by Beeston17. ff. 248-265Title: في الأدوية المركبةNot, as Uri and Brock., on potions only
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GAL I 484UAM. 941 (8 [1]), with corrig. Nicoll p. 602; (18) as revised by Beeston18. ff. 265-271Extracts from Galenʼs work on the reducing diet, selected by “al-Ḥasan”
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GAL I 206UAM. 941 (8 [ii]); (19) as revised by Beeston19. ff. 271-274Author: AnonymousOn diagnosis by the urine, in 17 short bābs, by “the two Alexandrians” (al-Iskandarānīyayn)
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Appendix MedicineUAM. 941 (8 [iii]), with corr. Nic. p. 602; (20) as revised by Beeston20. ff. 276-307Title: al-Dastūr al-bīmāristānīTitle: دستور الأدوية المركبةTitle: الدستور البيمارستانيSALJ § 154 (1), p. 196
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GAL I 491UAM. 941 (9), with corrig. Nicoll p. 602; (21) as revised by Beeston21. ff. 308-337Title: al-Lubāb fī al-ḥisābTitle: اللباب في الحسابAccording to authorʼs introduction, this work was composed during the reign of the Artuqid ruler Nāṣir al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn Qara Arslān, reigned 1201-22; author then not to be identified with al-Khāzin, author of a Kitāb al-Ṭīb, as Sezgin proposes (vol. 5, p. 355)
Unique; but MS. Aya Sofya 4857, ff. 278v - 286v (Krause p. 520) is apparently a compendium of it. f. 338 contains arithmetical table
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Appendix MathematicsUAM. 941 (10 [i]), with corrig. Nicoll p. 602; (22) as revised by Beeston22. ff. 339-362Author: Isrāʼīlī الإسرائيليFrom a work dedicated to the Fāṭimid Caliph al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh (reg. 996-1020)
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Appendix AstrologyUAM. 941 (10 [ii]), with corr. Nic. p. 602; (23) as revised by BeestonPhysical Description
Form: codex46 ff. 19 ff. 47 ff. 12 ff. 5 ff. 26 ff. 4 ff. 26 ff. 6 ff. 2 ff. 6 ff. 8 ff. [with lacuna?] 9 ff. 2 ff. 2 ff. 14 ff. 18 ff. 7 ff. 4 ff. 34 ff. 30 ff. 34 ff.History
Origin: 1242 CE 1242 CE 1242 CE 1242 CE 1242 CE 1242 CE 1242 CE 1242 CE 1242 CE 1242 CE 1242 CE 1242 CE 1242 CE 1242 CE 1242 CE 1242 CE 1242 CE 1242 CE 1242 CE 1242 CE 1242 CE 1242 CEProvenance and Acquisition
The collections of Jacob Golius [see Golius Sale Catalogue, Libri Mathematici in folio, no. 2].
The Library of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, d. 1713.
The Marsh bequest entered the Bodleian Library in 1714.
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