MS. Greaves 3 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Contents

Summary of Contents: 5 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Sundials, Mechanical engineering, Algebra, Astronomy, and Geometry
1. ff. 2r-29r
Author: Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Maʻrūf, 1525 or 6-1585
Title: Rayḥānat al-rūḥ fī rasm al-sāʻāt ʻalá mustawī al-suṭūḥ
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 358
[UAM. 881 (1) with corrig. Nicoll p. 599]
2. ff. 30r-37r
Author: Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Maʻrūf, 1525 or 6-1585
Title: Kitāb al-Thimār al-yāniʻah fī quṭūf al-ālat al-jāmiʻah

In 30 chapters

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 358
[UAM. 881 (2)]
3. ff. 39r-42v
Author: Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Maʻrūf, 1525 or 6-1585
Title: al-Nisab al-mutashākilah fī ʻilmay al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah

In 3 chapters

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 358
[UAM. 881 (3) with corrig. Nicoll p. 599]
4. fols. 43r-54r
Author: Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʻūd, d. ca. 1436
Title: al-Risālah al-kamālīyah fī maqādīr al-ajrām al-falakīyah
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 211
[UAM. 881 (4)]
5. ff. 54v-59r
Author: Anonymous
Title: A work on three or four geometrical problems, in reply to Muḥammad Efendī Baqqāl-zādah
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Mathematics
[UAM. 881 (5), with corrig. Nicoll p. 599]

Physical Description

Form: codex
28 ff. 8 ff. 4 ff. 12 fols. 6 ff.

History

Origin: n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d.

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of John Greaves, d. 1652 and Thomas Greaves, d. 1676.

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1678.

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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