MS. Selden Superius 38 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts
Selden Collection
Contents
Two defective astronomical treatises without title or author's name.
Language(s): Ottoman Turkish
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A treatise on the quadrant ربع دائره, beginning on fol. 1b: على آله الحمد لله الهادى الى الحق والصواب و صلّى الله على سيدنا محمّد المبعوث بفضل الخطاب و صحبه خير آل و اصحاب صلوة تنجي قائلها من اليم العذاب ... الله حمد الدوكمزدن صکره و داخی پیغامبره صلوات کشورد گمُزدن مکره معلوم اولا كم اشبو کتاب اجنده بابلر وار اول بابلر اجنده ربع دائره پله نجه عمل اتمك كرك معلوم اولور الخ. This treatise breaks off on fol. 22b in the beginning of the eleventh bāb; ff. 23 and 24 are left blank.
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A treatise on the Astrolabe, beginning, on fol. 25b: واما بعد یعنی بندن صكره اصطرلاب التلين ذكر ادلم محور شول تشنه در كم ايك كبى اسطرلاب مركزنه کِرُر. After a long preliminary discourse follows on fol. 37b the main portion of the treatise, the astronomical uses of the Astrolabe, in four faṣls (درت فصل), see fol. 37b, ln. 1. The first faṣl is subdivided into twenty-four bābs, which are found respectively (after a detailed index on ff. 39b-41a), on ff. 41b, 44b, 46, 48b, 51, 54, 56, 58, 60, 62b, 64, 65b, 66b, 68b, 70, 72b, 74, 76, 78, 79b, 87, 90, 93, and 96b; the second faṣl contains twelve bābs, which are found here, on ff. 99b, 103, 105, 106a, 108, 108b, 109b, last line, IIob, 111, 112b, 113b, and 114b; the third faṣl contains again twelve bābs, of which the first ten appear here, on ff. 116a, 118a, 120, 121, 122, 123b, 124, 124b, 125b, first line, and 125b, last line. In the tenth bāb the copy breaks off on fol. 126b; fol. 127, the last leaf, contains the end of the fourth faṣl or the conclusion of the whole treatise, so that there are missing the last two bābs of the third faṣl and the whole of the fourth, except the last lines. Both treatises are of exactly the same character as the هدية الطلاب, a fragment of which is noticed in Rieu, p. 122.
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Physical Description
Layout
1 column of 9 lines per page
Hand(s)
Script: Nesḫ
History
Provenance and Acquisition
The collections of John Selden.
Presented to the Bodleian Library by Selden's estate in 1659.
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