R.13.16 (Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge)
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Collection of tracts on varied subjects, including astronomy, the calendar, geomancy, magic and medicine.
1. f. 1 r.Title: رسالة في استخراج التاريخ'Tract on the Deduction of the Arabic from the Roman dates'. Pages have been ruled for a calendar, which has never been filled in.
Language(s): Arabic6. f. 51 v.Author: anonymousTitle: رسالة في استخراج التاريخTitle: Astronomical tablesLanguage(s): Arabic7. f. 57 r.Author: anonymousContains some instructions about the use of the quadrant.
Language(s): Arabic8. f. 58 r.Language(s): Arabic9. f. 61 r.Author: anonymousTitle: Asmā᾽ al-kawākib al-thawābitTitle: أسماء الكواكب الثوابتTitle: Astronomical tractLanguage(s): Arabic10. f. 63 v.Author: anonymousTitle: Min kalām Ḥabīb al-MaṣrīTitle: من كلام حبيب المصريLanguage(s): Arabic12. f. 72 r.Author: anonymousTitle: Mā nuqila min sharḥ al-mūjizTitle: ما نقل من شرح الموجزLanguage(s): Arabic13a. f. 81 v.Language(s): Arabic13b. f. 82 r.Author: AnonymousTitle: Al-Kāmil fī al-ṣināʿahTitle: الكامل في الصناعةTitle: A treatise on medicines.Language(s): Arabic15. f. 83 v.Author: AnonymousAlso contains a medical diagnosis of his constitution, an account of rememdies used by him for his ailments,and some verses by Ibn Ḥijjah al-Ḥamawī, Taqī al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn ʻAlī, d. -1434
Language(s): Arabic17. f. 97 v.Author: Ḥillī, Ṣafī al-Dīn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Sarāyā, d. 1278 الحلي، صفي الدين عبد العزيز بن سراياLanguage(s): Arabic18. f. 101 r.Language(s): Arabic20. f. 133 r.Author: AnonymousWritten on the title page of the preceeding work.
Language(s): Arabic21. f. 133 r.Commentary on Waraqāt fī al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-muqanṭarāt by Māridīnī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Khalīl, d. -1406, a treatise on the use of the Azimuth quadrant.
Language(s): Arabic24. f. 164 v.Author: AnonymousIncludes the times of the sun's rising, as well as that of the signs of the Zodiac, forming an ephemeris for the year 1594 AD.
Language(s): Arabic25a. f. 165 v.Author: AnonymousTitle: An Arabic translation of an extract from the Persian work ʿAjā᾽ib al-Makhlūqāt by Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, c.a. 1203-1283Language(s): Arabic25b. f. 166 r.A short treatise of fifteen chapters on the use of the graduated Azimuth quadrant.
Language(s): Arabic28. f. 175 v.Title: مفتاح المقاصد ومصباح المراصدA fragment of the work, containing a calculation of the age of the world.
Language(s): Arabic29. f. 176 r.A treatise of twenty chapters and a khātimah on the use of the quadrant.
Language(s): Arabic30. f. 186 r.A short treatise in seven chapters, entitled "The royal road to the calculation of the ratios of the sines".
Language(s): Arabic31. f. 192 r.Title: رسالة في الجيب للغرسيTitle: ِA tract on the sineThis is the first page of the following treatise, with many marginal notes and references written over it.
Language(s): Arabic32. f. 193 v.Title: Risālah fī ʿilm al-jaybTitle: رسالة في علم الجيبTitle: ِA treatise on the sine and the use of the mujayyab quadrant, explanatory of the work of the same name by Qasṭallānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, d. 1447 or 1448-1517 or 1518.
Language(s): Arabic33a. f. 199 r.Author: AnonymousTitle: An Arabic translation of an extract from the Persian work ʿAjā᾽ib al-Makhlūqāt by Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, c.a. 1203-1283Language(s): Arabic34a. f. 199 v.Author: AnonymousTitle: An extract on the origin of the winds, from the Persian work ʿAjā᾽ib al-Makhlūqāt by Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, c.a. 1203-1283Language(s): Arabic34b. f. 200 r.Language(s): Arabic35b. f. 200 v.Title: كشف الريب في العمل بالجيبA treatise on the practical working with the sine of the quadrant, consisting of twenty-four chapters.
Language(s): Arabic36. f. 208 r.A treatise on the use of the standard quadrant, in fourteen chapters.
Language(s): Arabic39b. f. 222 r.Title: العمل المصحح في الربع المجنحCorrected work on the use of the mujannaḥ quadrant (used for the same purposes as the mujayyab quadrant).
Language(s): Arabic40. f. 229 r.A treatise on the use of the Azimuth quadrant
Language(s): Arabic41. f. 232 v.Author: AnonymousTitle: رسالة في العمل بالربع المجيبA treatise on the mujayyab quadrant, consisting of a preface and twenty chapters.
Language(s): Arabic42. f. 239 r.A treatise on the practical working with the table of the ratios of sines.
Language(s): ArabicPhysical Description
Form: otherExtent: 251 ff.Hand(s)
Carefully written in an elegant taʿlīq hand
History
Origin: 959-961 AHRecord Sources
"Manuscript description based on "E. G. Browne: A supplementary hand-list of the Muhammadan manuscripts, including all those written in the Arabic character, preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge, 1922", and "E.H. Palmer A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic, Persian and Turkish Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, London 1870".Availability
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