Or 8444 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

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A collection of seven tracts on astronomy and astrology

Contents

Summary of Contents: 7 works by 5 authors on the subjects of Islamic calendar, Islamic astronomy, Astrolabes, and Islamic astrology
1. ff 1r-12r
Author: Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 16th cent ‘Abd al-‘Alī Birjandī عبد العلی برجندی عبد العلی ابن محمد ابن حسین البرجندی
Title: Mukhtaṣar dar ma’rifat-i taqvīm
Title: مختصر در معرفة تقویم

Accompanied by diagrams

Language(s): Persian

References

Meredith-Owens 1968, page 25.
2. ff 13r-25r
Author: Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274 محمد بن محمد نصير الدين الطوسی
Title: Mukhtaṣar dar ma’rifat-i uṣturlāb
Title: مختصر در معرفة اصترلاب

Accompanied by diagrams

Language(s): Persian

References

Meredith-Owens 1968, page 25.
3. ff 27r-96r
Author: Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 16th cent ‘Abd al-‘Alī Birjandī عبد العلی برجندی عبد العلی ابن محمد ابن حسین البرجندی
Title: Sharḥ-i bīst bāb
Title: شرح بیست باب

Accompanied by diagrams

Language(s): Persian

References

Meredith-Owens 1968, page 25.
4. ff 99r-208r
Author: Abū al-Maḥāmid Muḥammad ابو محامد محمد
Title: Kifāyat-i ta‘līm
Title: کفایة تعلیم

Accompanied by diagrams

Language(s): Persian

References

Meredith-Owens 1968, page 25.
5. ff 209v-311r
Author: ‘Alā’ al-Dīn ‘Alī Shāh al-Bukhārī علاء الدین علی شاه البخاری
Title: As̲mār al-ashjār
Title: Ashjār u as̲mār
Title: اثمار الاشجار
Title: اشجار و اثمار

Accompanied by diagrams

Language(s): Persian

References

Meredith-Owens 1968, page 25.
6. ff 313r-343r
Author: Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274 محمد بن محمد نصير الدين الطوسی
Title: Tarjumah-’i s̲amarah-’i Baṭlīmūs
Title: ترجمۀ ثمرۀ بطلیموس
Language(s): Persian

References

Meredith-Owens 1968, page 25.
7. ff 346r-368r
Author: Rāzī, Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar, 1149 or 50-1210 محمد بن عمر، فخر الدين رازي
Title: Ikhtiyārāt-i ‘alā’iyyah
Title: al-Aḥkām al-‘alā’iyyah fī al-a‘lām al-samā’iyyah
Title: اختیارات علائیه
Title: الاحکام العلائیة فی الاعلام السمائیة

On the selection of propitious days and times

Language(s): Persian

References

Meredith-Owens 1968, page 25.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 368 ff
Dimensions (leaf): 25.4 × 13.2 cm.

History

Origin: 18th century CE

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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Subjects

  • Islamic calendar
  • Islamic astronomy
  • Astrolabes--Early works to 1800
  • Islamic astrology

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