MS. Selden superius 97 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Contents

Summary of Contents: 6 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Islam, Islamic magic, Astronomy, Quadrants, and Astronomical instruments
1. ff. 1r-33v
Author: Anonymous
Title: A hotch-potch of prayers, cabbalistic and Qurʼānic materials, talismans and the like, partly in Arabic and partly in Turkish, including an extract on the mystical properties of the Arabic letters attributed to Ghazzālī, 1058-1111 (f. 8v)
Language(s): Arabic, Turkish

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Appendix Miscellaneous
[UAM. 1041 (1), revised by Beeston]
2. ff. 64v-65v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Risālah al-Qawāʻid

On astronomy

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Astronomy
[UAM. 1041 (3 [ii]) [(4) as revd. by Beeston]]
3. fols. 68v-87v
Author: Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, b. 1423
Title: Risālah [hidāyat al-ʻāmil] fī al-ʻamal bil-rubʻ al-kāmil*

*Same incipit as both Ahlw. 5853 and 5854, but with 25 bābs (as against their 15 and 20 respectively).

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 168
[UAM. 1041 (4, i), with corrig. Nicoll p. 545 ad p. 285 c. 40 [read 4]; (6) as revd. by Beeston]
4. fols. 88v-95r
Author: Māridīnī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Khalīl, d. 1406
Title: Risālah fī al-ʻamal bil-rubʻ al-mujayyab

Wrongly listed by Brock. as Jamāl al-Dīn Māridīnī no. 3; it is really Sibṭ al-Māridīnī no. 7 (II. 168; 62, p. 216-17 above)

Language(s): Arabic

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GAL II 169
[UAM. 1041 (4, ii), with corrig. Nicoll p. 545 ad p. 285 c. 4; (7) as rev. by Beeston]
5. fols. 95r-104v
Author: Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, b. 1423
Title: Kifāyat al-qunūʻ

A compendium* of his own Iẓhār al-sirr al-mauḍūʻ [on the maqṭūʻ quadrant]

*Not, as Brock., the Iẓhār itself.

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 168
[UAM. 1041 (4 [iii]), with corr. Nic. p. 545 ad p. 285 c. 40 [sic: read 4], (8) as rev. by Beeston]
6. fols. 104v-111v
Author: Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, b. 1423
Title: A short treatise on the instrument called dāʼirat al-muʻaddal
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 167, 168
[UAM. 1041 (4 [iv]) [(9) as revd. by Beeston], with corr. Nic. p. 545 ad p. 285 c. 40 [read 4]

Physical Description

Form: codex
33 ff. 2 ff. 20 fols. 8 fols. 10 fols. 8 fols.

History

Origin: n.d. n.d. n.d. 1574 CE 1574 CE n.d. [1574?] CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of John Selden.

Presented to the Bodleian Library by Selden's estate in 1659.

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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