Or 7858 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

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Oriental Manuscripts

A volume of astronomical and astrological tracts

Contents

9 works by 2 authors on the subjects of Islamic astronomy and Islamic astrology

1. ff 1r-32r
Author: Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274 محمد بن محمد نصير الدين الطوسی
Title: Sharḥ-i sī faṣl
Title: شرح سی فصل
Language(s): Persian

References

Meredith-Owens 1968, page 24.
2. ff 34r-46v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Madkhal-i manẓūm fī al-nujūm
Title: مدخل منظوم فی النجوم

Anonymous mas̲navī on astrology dedicated to Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Maḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Ghūrī

Language(s): Persian

References

Meredith-Owens 1968, page 24.
3. ff 46r-47r
Author: Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274 محمد بن محمد نصير الدين الطوسی
Title: Manẓūmah fī al-ikhtiyārāt ‘alà burj al-qamar
Title: منظومة فی الاختیارات علی برج القمر

Ascribed to Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūṣī

Language(s): Persian

References

Meredith-Owens 1968, page 24.
4. ff 47r-49v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Ikhtiyārāt az qawl-i amīr al-mu’minīn ‘Alī
Title: اختیارات از قول امیر المؤمنین علی

Beginning with some verses

Ru’yat al-hilāl written at the bottom of 49v 49v and 50v-52r

Language(s): Persian

References

Meredith-Owens 1968, page 24.
5. ff 49r-50v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Ikhtiyārāt-i dīdan-i māh dar burūj-i davāzdahum
Title: اختیارات دیدن ماه در بروج دوازدهم

In verse

Language(s): Persian

References

Meredith-Owens 1968, page 24.
6. ff 53r-72r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Risālat tuḥfat al-faqīr fī al-nujūm wa al-taqwīm
Title: رسالة تحفة لفقیر لحضرت الامیر

Called in the text Tuḥfat al-faqīr li-Ḥaẓrat al-Amīr

Language(s): Persian

References

Meredith-Owens 1968, page 24.
7. ff 73v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Risālah fī ma’rifat al-ghurrah
Title: رسالة فی معرفة الغرة
Language(s): Persian

References

Meredith-Owens 1968, page 24.
8. ff 73r-74v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Ta‘bīr dar faṣl-i mah
Title: تعبیر در فصل ماه
Language(s): Persian

References

Meredith-Owens 1968, page 24.
9. ff 74r-99r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Risālat al-irshād fī al-uṣturlāb
Title: رسالة الارشاد فی الاصترلاب

Composed probably at Iṣfahān in 697 by Naṣīr al-Dīn Shīrāzī

Language(s): Persian

References

Meredith-Owens 1968, page 24.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 99 ff
Dimensions (leaf): 17 × 14 cm.

Condition

First folio restored

History

Origin: 728 AH

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on G. M. Meredith-Owens: Handlist of Persian manuscripts 1895-1966. London, 1968, with additional enhancements.

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Funding of Cataloguing

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Subjects

  • Islamic astronomy
  • Islamic astrology

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