MS. Huntington 193 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Summary of Contents: 16 works by 13 authors on the subjects of Astronomy, Geometry, Chronology, Mathematics, Astronomical instruments, Moon, Calendars, and Geomancy
1. ff. 3v-71v
Author: Qāḍīʹzādah, Mūsá ibn Muḥammad, d. ca. 1436
Title: Commentary on al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah of Jighmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad, d. 1221?
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 473
[UAM. 967 (1), revd. Beeston]
2. ff. 75v-85r
Author: Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf, 13th cent.
Title: Ashkāl al-taʼsīs

A compendium of Euclid ʼs first book

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 468
[UAM. 967 (2), revd. Beeston]
3. ff. 89v-93v
Author: Ibn al-Ḥanbalī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, 1502 or 3-1563
Title: Tadhkirat man nasiya bil-wasṭ al-handasī
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 368
[UAM. 967(3), with corrig. Nicoll p. 604; revd. Beeston]
4. ff. 95v-117r
Author: Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, b. 1423
Title: Raqāʼiq al-ḥaqāʼiq fī ḥisāb al-daraj wa-al-daqāʼiq

A compendium of Kashf al-ḥaqāʼiq of Ibn al-Majdī, Aḥmad ibn Rajab, 1366-1447

Language(s): Arabic

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GAL II 128
[UAM. 967 (4), with corrig. Nic. p. 604, revd. Beeston]
5. ff. 118v-122r
Author: Wafāʼī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Muḥammad, 15th cent.
Title: al-Luʼluʼah al-muḍīʼah fī al-ʻamal bil-nisbah al-sittīnīyah
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 129
[Uri Arab. Mob. 967 (5), revised by Beeston]
6. ff. 125v-136v
Author: Mizzī, Zayn al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad
Title: Risālah ʻalá rubʼ al-muqanṭarāt al-kāmil
Language(s): Arabic

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GAL II 126
[UAM. 967 (6), revd. by Beeston]
7. ff. 137v-140r
Author: Mizzī, Zayn al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad
Title: Risālah al-muqanṭarāt al-maṭwīyah
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 126
[UAM. 967 (7)]
8. fols. 140v-145v
Author: Māridīnī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Khalīl, d. 1406
Title: al-Zahr al-manthūr fī al-ʻamal bil-rubʻ al-madhkūr

On the sine-quadrant; title suspect: ? = Risālah fī al-ʻamal bil-rubʻ al-mujayyab

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 169
[UAM. 967 (8), with corrig. Nicoll p. 604; revd. by Beeston
9. ff. 146v-154v
Author: al-Tizīnī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad
Title: *Risālah ʻalá al-rubʼ al-kāmil

*This work, though differently titled, is identical with Brock.ʼs no. 4, Risālah fī ʻilm al-waqt

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 129
[UAM. 967 (9), revised by Beeston]
10. ff. 155r-185v
Author: Abū al-Ṣalt, Umayyah ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz, 1067 or 8-1134 or 5
Title: Risālah ʻalá al-aṣṭurlāb
Title: Risālah fī al-ʻamal bil-aṣṭurlāb
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 487
[UAM. 967 (10), revd. by Beeston]
11. ff. 186r-199v
Author: Aṣṭurlābī, ʻAlī ibn ʻĪsá, 9th cent.
Title: Risālah ʻalá al-aṣṭurlāb
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 221
[UAM. 967 (11), revd. by Beeston]
12. ff. 203v-209r
Author: Mizzī, Zayn al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad
Title: ? = al-Risālah al-aṣṭurlābīyah
Title: Treatise on the astrolabe

*AFLB does not comment on the identity

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 126
[UAM. 967 (12), revd. by Beeston]
13. ff. 211v-238r
Author: Ibn al-Majdī, Aḥmad ibn Rajab, 1366-1447
Title: al-Tashīl wa-al-taqrīb fī al-ḥall wa-al-tarkīb
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 128
[UAM. 967 (13), with corrig. Nicoll p. 604; revd. by Beeston]
14. ff. 240r-244r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Calendar-tables [headed "15th maqāmah: an extract from some larger work ?].
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Calendar
[UAM. 967 (l4) [(i) as revised by Beeston]]
15. ff. 244v-246v
Author: Anonynous
Title: A brief treatise on ʻilm al-raml (geomancy) [headed "27th maqāmah": an extract from some larger work?]

* Who numbers it (15)

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Magic
[UAM. 967 (14 [ii]), revd. by Beeston*]
16. ff. 248r-251v
Author: Ibn al-Majdī, Aḥmad ibn Rajab, 1366-1447
Title: Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-rubʻ al-muqanṭarāt

*Who numbers it (16)

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 128
[UAM. 967 (14 [iii]), revd. by Beeston*]

Physical Description

Form: codex
69 ff. 11 ff. 5 ff. 23 ff. 5 ff. 12 ff. 4 ff. 6 fols. 9 ff. 31 ff. 14 ff. 7 ff. 28 ff. 5 ff. 3 ff. 4 ff.

History

Origin: 1601 CE 1597 CE 1596 CE 1598 CE 1599 CE n.d. [c. 1599]. 1597 CE 1598 CE 1508 CE 1596 CE 1600 CE 1600 CE 1596 CE Beg. of 17th cent.? CE Beg. of 17th cent.? CE 15th cent.? CE

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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