MS. Huntington 192 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Summary of Contents: 13 works by 11 authors on the subjects of Astrology, Arabic alphabet, Mysticism, Nile River, Didactic poetry, Koran, Arithmetic, Astronomical instruments, Mathematics, Astronomy, and Calendars
1. ff. 1v-77r
Author: Ibn Qunfūdh, Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn al-Khaṭīb d. 1407
Title: Commentary on the Manẓūmah fī ʻilm al-nujūm of Ibn Abī al-Rijāl, ʻAlī, 1015 or 16-1062 or 3

*In footnote 'e' to Nicollʼs entry following, Marsh 192 is a mistake for Hunt.

Language(s): Arabic

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GAL I 224
[UAM. 971 (1), with corrig. Nicoll p. 604]
2. ff. 81v-101v
Author: Tamarbāī, Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad
Title: al-Natāʼij al-tajrībīyah ʻan al-muqaddimāt al-falakīyah
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Astrology
[UAM. 971 (2), with corrig. Nicoll p. 604.]
3. ff. 102v-107r
Author: Jawharī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣāliḥī
Title: Risālah al-iksīr fī al-basṭ wa-al-taksīr

On the mystical properties of the Arabic alphabet*

*So Uri; Brock. "ūber den Stein der Weisen"

Language(s): Arabic

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Supp. II. Anhang, p. 1034
[UAM. 971 (3)]
4. ff. 108v-110r
Author: Wafāʼī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Muḥammad, 15th cent.
Title: Fāʼidah jalīlah fī maʻrifat ḥāl al-Nīl wa-mablaghihi

Copied from the autograph

Language(s): Arabic

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GAL II 129
[UAM. 971 (4), with corrig. Nicoll p. 604]
5. ff. 112v-121v
Author: Aḥmad ibn Shaikh al-Islām al-ʻĀrif bi-Allāh ʻUthmān al-Fūwī al-Mālikī
Title: al-Manẓūmah al-lāmīyah fī al-qirāʼāt al-ʻashr

A poem on the ten schools of Qurʼān recitation

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Qurʼān; Recitation
[UAM. 971 (5), with corrig. Nicoll p. 604]
6. ff. 122v-131r
Author: Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, d. 1412
Title: al-Lumaʻ al-yasīrah fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb
Language(s): Arabic

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GAL II 125
[UAM. 971 (6)]
7. fols. 132r-141v
Author: Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, b. 1423
Title: Kifāyat al-qunūʻ fī al-ʻamal bil-rubʻ al-maqṭūʻ

An abridgment of his Iẓhār al-sirr al-mawḍūʻ fī al-ʻamal bil-rubʻ al-maqṭūʻ

Language(s): Arabic

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GAL II 168
[UAM. 971 (7)
8. ff. 142v-145v
Author: Wafāʼī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Muḥammad, 15th cent.
Title: Risālah al-muthallath wa-huwa suds al-dāʼirah al-jaybīyah
Language(s): Arabic

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GAL II 129
[UAM. 971 (8), with corrig. Nicoll p. 604]
9. ff. 150v-163r
Author: Ibn Abī Shukr
Title: Risālah al-Khiṭāʼ wa-al-Īghur
Language(s): Arabic

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GAL I 474
[UAM. 971 (9)]
10. ff. 168v-185r
Author: Wafāʼī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Muḥammad, 15th cent.
Title: Nuzhat al-naẓar fī al-ʻamal bil-shams wa-al-qamar
Language(s): Arabic

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GAL II 129
[UAM. 971 (10), with corrig. Nicoll p. 604.]
11. ff. 188r-197v
Author: Tājūrī, Abū Zaid ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, d. 1590
Title: "De temporum cognoscendorum ratione Tractatus"
Title: Muqaddimah fī al-fuṣūl al-arbaʻah
Title: Risālah fī al-fuṣūl al-arbaʻah
Language(s): Arabic

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GAL II 358
[UAM. 971 (11)]
12. ff. 198r-205v
Author: Urmayūnī, Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Khair, al-Ḥasanī al-Ṭaḥḥān 16th cent.
Title: Exposition of the Christian Easter, with tables
Language(s): Arabic

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GAL II 358
[UAM. 971 (12)]
13. ff. 206v-211r
Author: Qabbānī*, Khiḍr ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir, al-Bursalī
Title: Irshād al-ḥayārá fī maʻrifat istikhrāj ʻīd al-naṣārá

On calculating Christian festivals

*Said by Pusey to be in H. Khaf. "alicubi"

Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Calendar
[UAM. 971 (13), with corrig. Nicoll p. 604]

Physical Description

Form: codex
77 ff. 21 ff. 6 ff. 3 ff. 10 ff. 10 ff. 10 fols. 4 ff. 14 ff. 18 ff. 10 ff. 8 ff. 6 ff.

History

Origin: 1642 n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d.

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Robert Huntington, d. 1701.

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1693.

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

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