Islamic Arabic 1202 (Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham)

Mingana

Summary of Contents: 4 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Astronomy, Time measurements, Chronology, Trigonometry, and Qasidas

1. ff. 1-8

Author: (Possibly) Muḥammad ibn Idrīs

Title: Muqaddimah fī ʿilm al-mīqāt

Work on astronomy and time keeping

The only work of this name mentioned in GAL.

Undated; written in Naskhī pf probably the 19th century

Incipit: الحمد الله رب العالمين ... و بعد فهذه مقدمة في علم الميقات مشتملة على فوائد الاولي في معرفة المطالع و في درج معدل النهار

Language(s): Arabic

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Printed catalogue no. 1907

GAL Suppl. II 1023, no.62

2. ff. 1-14

Author: Shamsaddīn ibn ʿAbdallāh Fatḥ al-Farghalī al-Sabarbāwī

Title: Ijtimāʿ al-thamarāt fī rasm jaib al-dustūr wawaḍʿ al-muqanṭarāt

Title: A treatise on the sine and muqantara quadrants

The author mentions two books he has used, viz. Taḥṣīl al-intifāʿ by al-Iskarī, who wrote in 1034 AH/AD 1624 (GAL II 366), and Kashf al-qināʿ by Shihābaddīn Aḥmad Ibn al-Majdī, d. 850 AH/AD 1447

Several tables and illustrations.

Undated; written by two hands in Naskhī of probably the 18th century

Pages cut to fit current composite manuscript.

Incipit: حمدا لمن حجب العقول عن ادراك كنه ذاته

Language(s): Arabic

References

Printed catalogue no. 1909

3. ff. 1-10

Author: Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Rahmān al-Bābilī (?)

Title: Fatḥ al-mannān bisharḥ tuḥfat al-ikhwān

Commentary on the poem on astronomy Tuḥfat al-ikhwān by Aḥmad ibn Qāsim

Incomplete

Undated; written in Naskhi of probably the 19th century

Incipit: يقول العبد المفتقر ... الحمد الله مبدع الكائنات الذي قدر الاعوام و الشهور ... و بعد فلما كان علم الميقات من اجل العلوم

Language(s): Arabic

References

Printed catalogue no. 1910

4. ff. 1-9

Title: An unidentified poem

Language(s): Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 43 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 22.5 × 16.0 cm.

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Origin: Undated, probably 18th and/or 19th century CE Undated, probably 19th century CE Undated, probably 18th century CE Undated, probably 19th century CE Undated, probably 19th century CE

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Manuscript description based on H. L. Gottschalk et al.: Islamic Arabic Manuscripts. Catalogue of the Mingana Collection of Manuscripts. Vol. IV. Revised edition edited by Derek Hopwood. Birmingham: Selly Oak Colleges, 1985, with additional enhancements.

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Islamic Arabic 1202 (Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham)

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