MS. Fraser 168 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Contents

2 works by 2 authors on the subjects of Astrolabes, Astronomical instruments, and Arithmetic

1. ff. 1-21
Author: Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274
Title: Bīst bāb [dar maʻrifat-i Asṭurlāb]
Language(s): Arabic, Persian

References

GAL I 512
[Ethé 1503]
2. ff. 105r-126r
Author: Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʻūd, d. ca. 1436
Title: Talkhīs al-Miftāḥ

A compendium of his own Miftāḥ al-ḥussāb fī al-ḥisāb

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 211

Physical Description

Form: codex
21 ff. 22 ff.

History

Origin: 1608 CE 1602 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of James Fraser, d. 1754.

Purchased for the Radcliffe Library, Oxford from Fraser's widow.

The Radcliffe Library, Oxford.

Transferred to the Bodleian Library from the Radcliffe Library in May 1872.

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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