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MS. Marsh 720 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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58 works by 31 authors

3. ff. 59r-77v
Title: Marginalia relating to Shīrāzīʼs compendium of the Conica of Apollonius of Perga, bks. 5-7. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, ff. 31r-52r (margins).]
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 471
[UAM. 988, with corrig. Nicoll p. 605]
6. ff. 81r-84v
Author: Karābisī, Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar, fl. late 9th cent.
Title: Kitāb fī Misāḥat al-ḥalak. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 53v l. iv - f. 55r l. xvii.]

* though not individually mentioned

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 219
[UAM. 988,* with corrig. Nicoll. p. 605]
7. ff. 85v-86r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Geometrical problem entitled “Masʼalah handasīyah”, beginning “Kull muthallath musāwī al-aḍlāʼ maʻlūm al-misāḥah”. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 55r l. xviii - f. 55v l. xvii.]

* though not individually mentioned

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Mathematics
[UAM. 988,* with corrig. Nicoll p. 605]
8. ff. 86r-87v
Author: Abū al-Wafāʼ al-Būzajānī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 940-997 or 998.
Title: Masʼalah li-Arshimīdis fī misāḥat al-muthallath. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 55v - l. xviii - f. 56v l. v.]

* though not individually mentioned

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 223
[UAM. 988,* with corrig. Nicoll p. 605]
9. ff. 87v-88v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Geometrical problem entitled “Faṣl fī burhān masqaṭ al-ḥajar fī al-muthallathāt al-ḥāddat al-zawāyā.” [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 56v ll.vi-xxxii.]

* though not individually mentioned

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Mathematics
[UAM. 988,* with corrig. Nicoll p. 605]
10. ff. 88v-90v
Author: Ibn al-Ṣalāh, Abū al-Futūḥ Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, d. 1153.
Title: Two geometrical problems. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 56v l. xxxiii - f. 58r.]

* though not individually mentioned

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 471
[UAM. 998,* with corrig. Nicoll p. 605]
14. ff. 133v-134r
Author: Kūshyār ibn Labbān fl. c. 966.
Title: Faṣl fī taʻdīl azmān al-khusūf, apparently from al-Zīj al-jāmiʻ. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 74v.]

* though not individually mentioned

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 223
[UAM. 988,* with corrig. Nicoll p. 605]
15. f. 134r, v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Two problems on the circle. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 75r l. xx - bottom.]

* though not individually mentioned

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Mathematics
[UAM. 988,* with corrig. Nicoll p. 605]
16. ff. 134v-135r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Masʼalah fī maʻná ayyām al-ʻālam. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 75r ll.i-xix.]

* though not individually mentioned

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Astronomy
[UAM. 988,* with corrig. Nicoll p. 605]
19. ff. 175r-176r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Risālah fī istikhrāj daqāʼiq ḥudūd ikhtilāf manẓar al-qamar al-mustaʻmalah fī al-Majisṭī. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 93v l. xviii - f. 94r l. xii.]
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Astronomy
[UAM. 940, 987, 988, with corrig. Nicoll pp. 602, 605]
22. ff. 194r-198v
Title: Questions and answers relating to the Almagest (? in Ṭūsīʼs recension). [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 100r-101r l. xxxi.]
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 511
[UAM. 940, 987, 988, with corrig. Nicoll pp. 602, 605]
23. ff. 199
Author: Anonymous
Title: Jawāb shakk fī ikhtilāf manẓar al-qamar min shukūk Abī al-Qāsim ibn Maʻdān. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 101r l. xxxii - f. 101v l. xvii.]
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Astronomy
[UAM. 940, 987, 988, with corrig. Nicoll pp. 602, 605]
24. ff. 200r-203v
Author: Thābit ibn Qurrah, Abū al-Ḥasan, al-Ṣābī c. 834-901.
Title: Risālah fī ḥarakat al-nayyirain. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 102r l. xiv - f. 103v l. xviii.]

f. 204 contains figures relating to various treatises in the MS.

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 217, 218
[UAM. 940, 987, 988, with corrig. Nicoll pp. 602, 605]
25. ff. 205r-206r
Author: ?Simyāṭī.
Title: Three short geometrical problems, two relating to arcs. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 103v l. xix - f. 104r l. xxvii.]
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Mathematics
[UAM. 940, 987, 988, with corrig. Nicoll pp. 602, 605]
27. f. 212r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Burhān mā kālahu Baṭlamiyūs fī al-shakl al-rābiʻ min al-maqālah al-thāniyah ʻashar [of the Almagest]. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 107r ll.xi-xxii.]
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Mathematics
[UAM. 940, 987, 988, with corrig. Nicoll pp. 602, 605]
29. f. 216r
Author: Anonymous
Title: ʻAlá al-shakl al-rābiʻ min tāsiʻah [sic] al-Majisṭī. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 108v ll.xvii-xxxiii.]
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Mathematics
[UAM. 940, 987, 988, with corrig. Nicoll pp. 602, 605]
30. ff. 216r-219r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Two astronomical works, the first being several muqaddimahs on rujūʼ, the second entitled “Masʼalah fī al-rujūʻ wa-al-istiqāmah”. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, ff. 109r-110r.]
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Astronomy
[UAM. 940, 987, 988, with corrig. Nicoll pp. 602, 605]
31. ff. 219v, 220r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Three muqaddimahs on the circle. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 110v.]

f. 220v is blank

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Mathematics
[UAM. 940, 987, 988, with corrig. Nicoll pp. 602, 605]
32. ff. 221r-232r
Author: Ibn ʻIrāq, Abū Naṣr Manṣūr ibn ʻAlī, d.>1036.
Title: Risālah jadwal al-dakāʼiq. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 111r - f. 116r l. xv.]
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 472
[UAM. 940 (6), with corrig. Nicoll p. 602]
35. ff. 233v-235v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Several fāʼidahs on Kūshyār ibn Labbānʼs al-Zīj al-jāmiʻ. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 117r, v.]

f. 236r is blank; ff. 236v-237v contain figures relating to various treatises in the MS.; f. 238r is blank

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 222
[UAM. 940, 987, 988 with corrig. Nicoll pp. 602, 605]
37. ff. 239v-243v
Author: Bīrūnī, Abū al-Raiḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, d. 1048.
Title: Kitāb fī Tashīl al-tasṭīḥ al-asṭurlābī wa-al-ʻamal bi-murakkabāt al-shamālī wa-al-janūbi.* [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 120r l. i - f. 122r l. xxxi.]

* ?mentioned by D. J. Boillot in MIDEO 2, p. 192

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 476
[UAM. 940, 987, 988 with corrig. Nicoll pp. 602, 605]
38. 243v-246v
Author: Ibn ʻIrāq, Abū Naṣr Manṣūr ibn ʻAlī, d.>1036.
Title: Risālah fī ṣanʻat al-asṭurlāb bil-ṭarīq al-ṣināʻī. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 122v l. i - f. 124r l. xvi.]
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 472
[UAM. 940, 987, 988 with corrig. Nicoll pp. 602, 605]
39. ff. 247r-251r
Author: Ibn ʻIrāq, Abū Naṣr Manṣūr ibn ʻAlī, d.>1036.
Title: Risālah fī majāzāt dawāʼir al-sumūt fī al-asṭurlāb. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 124r l. xvii - f. 126v l. xvii.]
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 472
[UAM. 940, 987, 988 with corrig. Nicoll pp. 602, 605]
40. ff. 251r-253v
Author: Ibn ʻIrāq, Abū Naṣr Manṣūr ibn ʻAlī, d.>1036.
Title: Risālah fī al-dawāʼir allatī taḥuddu al-sāʻāt al-zamānīyah. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 126v l. xviii - f. 128r l. xxii.]

ff. 254-256 contain figures relating to various treatises in the MS.

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 472
[UAM. 940, 987, 988, with corrig. Nicoll pp. 602, 605]
42. ff. 259r-260v
Author: Ibn al-Haitham, Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan, 965-1038.
Title: Min kalām Ibn al-Haitham ʻalá muqaddimah Arshimīdis fī dilʻ al-musabbaʻ. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 132r l. ix - f. 133v.]
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 469, 470
[UAM. 940, 987, 988 with corrig. Nicoll pp. 602, 605]
43. f. 260v
Author: Aḥmad ibn Mūsá ibn Shākir fl. 9th cent.
Title: Qaul fī tathlīth al-zāwiyat al-mustaqīmat al-khaṭṭain. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 131v l. xxviii - f. 132r l. viii.]
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 216, 217
[UAM. 940, 987, 988 with corrig. Nicoll pp. 602, 605]
46. ff. 266r-267v
Author: ʻAzīzī, Naṣr ibn ʻAbd Allāh, fl. late 10th cent.
Title: Risālah fī istikhrāj watar al-musabbaʻ. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 131r l. xxi - f. 131v l. xxvii.]
Language(s): Arabic

References

Supp. II Anhang, p. 1024
[UAM. 940, 987, 988, with corrig. Nicoll pp. 602, 605]
48. ff. 269r-270v
Author: Thābit ibn Qurrah, Abū al-Ḥasan, al-Ṣābī c. 834-901.
Title: Muqaddimāt. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, ff. 134v, 135r.]
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 217, 218
[UAM. 940, 987, 988 with corrig. Nicoll pp. 602, 605]
50. f. 273r, v
Author: Qusṭā ibn Lūqā d. c. 912.
Title: Burhān ʻalá ʻamal ḥisāb al-khaṭaʼain. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 137r ll.xii-xxxv.]
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 204
[UAM. 940, 987, 988 with corrig. Nicoll pp. 602, 605]
51. ff. 274r-276r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Masāʼil handasīyah mutarjamah bil-Muhdāt wa-hiya muqaddimāt li-masāʼil jabrīyah ustukhrijat bil-handasah. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, ff. 137v-138r.]

f. 276v is blank

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Mathematics
[UAM. 940, 987, 988, with corrig. Nicoll pp. 602, 605]
53. ff. 280v-281r
Author: Abū Jaʻfar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Khāzin d. 961-971.
Title: al-Burhān al-khuṭūṭī. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 140r ll.xix-xxxiii.]
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 219
[UAM. 940, 987, 988, with corrig. Nicoll pp. 602, 605]
54. ff. 281v-282v
Author: Thābit ibn Qurrah, Abū al-Ḥasan, al-Ṣābī c. 834-901.
Title: Qaul fī taṣḥīḥ masāʼil al-jabr bil-barāhīn al-handasīyah. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 140v ll.vii-xxxvii.]
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 218
[UAM. 940, 987, 988, with corrig. Nicoll pp. 602, 605]
55. ff. 283r-286v
Author: Ahwāzī, Abū al-Ḥusain Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusain, fl. 10th cent.
Title: Kalimāt min Sharḥ al-maqālat al-ʻāshirah min [K.] Uqlīdis, in 8 fasls. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 141v-143r l. xxii.]

ff. 286v, 287r,v contain 6 mithāl [transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 143r,v]

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 219
[UAM. 940, 987, 988, with corrig. Nicoll pp. 602, 605]
57. ff. 292r-295v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Treatise on the apogee and perigee of Mars. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 146r l.vi - f. 147r.]
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Astronomy
[UAM. 940, 987, 988, with corrig. Nicoll pp. 602, 605]
58. ff. 296r-297v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Ḥikāyah mā ṣaddarahu ... Naṣīr ... al-Dīn ... al-Ṭūsī li-K. al-Makhrūṭāt li-Abulūniyūs. [Transcribed from MS. Thurston 3, f. 147v-f. 148r l.xiv.]
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 508
[UAM. 940, 987, 988, with corrig. Nicoll pp. 602, 605]

Physical Description

Form: codex
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History

Origin: 1657 or 58* 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58 1657 or 58

Provenance and Acquisition

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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