Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

MS. Bodl. Or. 434 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Oriental Manuscripts

Contents

Summary of Contents: 9 works by 6 authors on the subjects of Sundials, Mathematics, Dates, Astronomy, Nile River, and Geometry
1. ff. 2v-16v

A compendium of his own Irshād al-ḥāʼir ilá maʻrifat wadʻ khuṭūṭ faḍl al-dāʼir. [With title.]*

*[So Nic. says; where?]

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 128
[Nicoll Arah. Moh. 286 (1)]
2. ff. 17v-24r

A compendium of his own ʻUmdat al-ṭullāb [copied from the autograph]

*The date of the MS. as a whole; but this is irreconcilable with Nicollʼs statement that this particular tract was composed in 1464.

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 129
[NAM. 286 (2)]
3. fols. 24v-65v
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 167
[NAM. 286 (3)]
4. fols. 66v-75v
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 167
[NAM. 286 (4), with corrig. Nicoll p. 545]
5. f. 75v
Author: Anonymous.
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Astronomy
[NAM. 286 (5)]
6. fols. 76v-79

* A mistake of the scribe, or a misreading, for ḥisāb?

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 168
[NAM. 286 (6)]
7. 79v-80v
Author: Anonymous
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Astronomy
[NAM. 286 (7)]
8. f. 81
Author: Anonymous
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Mathematics
[NAM. 286 (8)]
9. ff. 82v-138v

A revision of * Shifāʼ al-asqām fī waḍʻ al-sāʻāt ʻalá al-rukhām of Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar al-Ṣūfī late 13th cent.

Whence the authorʼs full name appears as Zayn al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, known as Ibn al-Muhallabī, al-Muwaqqit. He is therefore presumably the Zayn al-Din ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Muwaqqit of Brock. S1, p. 798, no. 78

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 474
[NAM. 286 (9)]

Physical Description

Form: codex
15 ff. 8 ff. 42 fols. 10 fols. 1 f. 4 fols. 2 ff. 1 f. 57 ff.

History

Origin: 1453 CE 1453* CE 1453 CE 1453 CE 1453 CE 1453 CE 1453 CE 1453 CE 1453 CE

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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