مجموعه رسائل نادرة في العلوم الفلكية.

Majmūʻah-yi rasāʼil-i nādirah fī al-ʻulūm al-falakīyah.

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  • Arabic
  • Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928)
  • Persian
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Qusṭanṭinīyah, [1650-1651]
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433 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 200 x 140 mm. bound to 200 x 150 mm.

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    Collection of treatises in Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish, on geometry, astronomy, astronomical instruments, mathematics, and divination, with illustrations, tables and figures.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from title page (fol. 1a).
    • Inscription in red pencil in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover and on a label pasted on the pastedown of the same cover: "SH 158." Table of contents on fol. Aa-b. Inscription stating the number of leaves in the copy on fol. 431b. Blank folios between some of the titles not accounted for in the list
    • Collation: Paper; fol. A-B + 431; catchwords; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals--recto is numbered, verso has number + "A."
    • Layout: 13-25 lines per page.
    • Description: Rubricated with ample use of red; watermarks.
    • Decoration: Tables, charts, diagrams, and illustrations. See in particular the hand on fol. 125a and the comets on fol. 311a.
    • Origin: Several texts are dated (see fol. 73b, 164a, 171b, 180a, 205b, 227b, fol. 256b), ranging from 19 Jumādá al-Ulá 1060 (fol. 269a) to 20 Shawwāl 1061 (fol. 73b). The place of copy is mentioned in one colophon as being Qusṭanṭinīyah (Constantinople) (fol. 164a). The name of the copyist, Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá, is mentioned on fol. 171b and 227b.
    Binding note
    Type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Marbled paper pastedowns.
    Contents
    • 1. fol. Aa-Ba: [Table of contents].
    • 2. fol. 1b-57a: Faṣl fī maʻrifat ẓill al-mayl al-awwal ... [etc.]. Text in Ottoman Turkish, Persian and Arabic on various questions of astronomy comprising several faṣl, with tables.
    • 3. fol. 57a-b: Risālah fī ʻilm al-sāʻah fī al-nahār al-jayyidah min al-radīyah. On the specific planet linked to the hours of each day of the week.
    • 4. fol. 57b-63a: [Several short excerpts, some from Kifāyat al-Taʻlīm, and tables].
    • 5. fol. 63b-65b: Risālah fī bayān umūr lā takhtalif bi-ḥasab al-ʻurūḍ mimmā yataʻallaqu bi-rasm arbāʻ al-muqanṭarāt. On an astronomical instrument.
    • 6. fol. 66a-b: Risālah fī bayān umūr tanfaʻu maʻrifatuhā li-man yarsam al-rubʻ al-mujayyab. On the use of the sine quadrant.
    • 7. fol. 66b: Fāʼidah fī maʻrifat fatḥ parkār qaws al-ʻaṣr al-awwal al-ufāqī.
    • 8. fol. 66b-67a: Fāʼidah fī maʻrifat waḍʻ murabbaʻ al-ẓill al-mabsūṭ wa-al-mankūs.
    • 9. fol. 67a-67b: [Tables].
    • 10. fol. 68a-72a: Risālah fī maʻrifat ḥisāb anṣāf al-aqṭār. In Arabic and Turkish on astronomical instruments, followed by astronomical tables (fol. 70a-72a).
    • 11. fol. 72b-73b: Risālah fī istikhrāj anṣāf al-aqṭār / ʻAbd al-Wahhāb Afandī. In six chapters (bāb) on astronomical instruments (astrolabe and almucantar).
    • 12. fol. 74a-82b: [Tables].
    • 13. fol. 84a: ʻAlāmāt al-kawākib fī taqwīm al-Farangī. Western symbols used for the planets, the zodiacal signs, and numbers
    • 14. fol. 84b-95b: Kitāb fī ṣināʻat al-sāʻāt bi-qiyās al-ẓill. On dialing. Followed by tables on fol. 89b-95b.
    • 15. fol. 101a: Irtifāʻ al-ʻaṣrayn li-ʻarḍ lām-ḥāʼ lām ... [etc.].
    • 16. fol. 101b-105a: Risālah dar ṣanʻat-i asṭurlāb. In Persian on the astrolabe, in twelve chapters (bāb).
    • 17. fol. 105b: Faṣl fī rasm al-muqanṭarāt wa-al-minṭaqah.
    • 18. fol. 106a: [Table].
    • 19. fol. 106b: Faṣl fī maʻrifat al-aṣl alladhī yastakhriju min-hu al-aʻmāl.
    • 20. fol. 107b-109a: Faṣl fī maʻrifat istikhrāj al-sumūt
    • Faṣl fī maʻrifat istikhrāj abʻād marākiz al-muqanṭarāt wa-anṣāf aqṭārihā ʻalá kull wāḥid min quṭbay muʻaddil al-nahār
    • Faṣl fī rasm al-mudārāt al-thalāth
    • Faṣl fī maʻrifat ʻamal al-sāʻāt al-zamānīyah wa-al-mustawīyah
    • Faṣl fī ʻamal minṭaqat al-burūj wa-niṣf qaṭrihā.
    • 21. fol. 111b-113b: Fāʼidah fī maʻrifat waḍʻ al-dastūr wa-kayfīyat tawahhumihi wa-rasmihi / Aḥmad ibn al-Majdī. Short excerpt on ephemerides(?)
    • 22. fol. 114a-117b: Qāʻidah dar waḍʻ ʻAṣay Mūsá [with tables].
    • 23. fol. 120a-126b: ʻIlm al-kaf wa-al- katif wa-al-lawḥ wa-al-yad. In Turkish on palmistry, scapulomancy and chiromancy, quoting Ṭumṭum al-Hindī, Tunkalūshā (Teukros of Babylon), etc., with figures.
    • 24. fol. 126b-127b: Dar bayān maʻrifat-i shānah-i gūsfand. In Persian, on scapulimancy, with one figure.
    • 25. fol. 131a-135a: Risālah fī al-ʻamal bil-basīṭah al-ẓillīyah / Abū ʻAbd Allāh [Muḥammad] al-Khalīlī. In ten (yā) chapters (bāb) describing a horizontal sundial.
    • 26. fol. 135a-144a: Risālat al-asṭurlāb al-tāmm / ʻIzz al-Dīn al-Wafāʼī. On an astrolabe (al-asṭurlāb al-tāmm) made by Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn al-Sarrāj, in four parts (maqālah).
    • 27. fol. 144b-145b: al-Ishārāt fī al-ʻamal bil-jīb al-mawḍūʻ ʻalayhi al-madārāt / ʻIzz al-Dīn al-Wafāʼī. On the use of an astronomical instrument.
    • 28. fol. 146b-148b: Risālah fī al-asṭurlāb al-mughnī al-afāqī. On an astrolabe called "al-asṭurlāb al-mughnī afāqī".
    • 29. fol. 149a-157b: Risālah-yi muqanṭarāt khaṭṭ al-istiwāʼ / Ṭībughā [Ṭubayq] al-Baklamīshī. In 16 chapters (faṣl) on the shakkāzi quadrant, comprising chapters on the calculation of the time of the five prayers and of the qiblah.
    • 30. fol. 158a-164a: Kayfīyat al-ʻamal bil-rubʻ al-mansūb lil-musātarah / Muḥammad ibn al-Ghazūlī. In fifteen chapters (bāb) and an introduction, on a quadrant called "rubʻ al-musātarah".
    • 31. fol. 164b-171b: Risālah-yi Rubʻ al-awtār / Ibn al-Shāṭir. Anonymous abridgment of Ibn al-Shāṭir's treatise on al-Rubʻ al-ʻAlāʼī, a quadrant he made in 773 [1371 or 2]
    • 32. fol. 172a-180a: al- Zand al-murī fī al-ʻamal bil-rubʻ al-mujayyab bi-ghayr murʼī / Ibn al-Shāṭir. In 21 chapters (bāb) and an introduction, on the use of the sine quadrant.
    • 33. fol. 181a-194a: Risālat al-Rubʻ al-kāmil / Ibn al-Shāṭir. On a type of quadrant, called "al-rubʻ al-kāmil". The text is followed by several tables on fol. 188b-194a.
    • 34. fol. 199a-205b: al-Lafẓ al-muḥarrar fī al-rubʻ al-musattar / Aḥmad al-Bakhāniqī. In [30] ("L") chapters (bāb) on a quadrant, called "al-rubʻ al-musattar".
    • 35. fol. 206a-227b: al- Amtiʻah al-lāmiʻah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-jāmah [sic, for al-jāmiʻah] / Ibn al-Shāṭir. On an instrument known as "al-jāmiʻah" in sixty chapters (bāb) and an introduction
    • 36. fol. 229b-230a: Fāʼidah fī tashbīhāt al-kawākib wa-al-burūj.
    • 37. fol. 230b-232a: Nubdhah laṭīfah min Kitāb al-Tarshīḥāt fī tawārīkh mukhtalifah fī aʻmār al-dunyā. In Ottoman Turkish.
    • 38. fol. 232b-233a: Qāʻidah-yi Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn wa-hiya aʻẓam al-malāḥim / [Aḥmad al-Bakhāniqī?].
    • 39. fol. 237a-248b: Kitāb al-Nayāzik / Arisṭāṭālīs. On astronomy attributed to Aristotle.
    • 40. fol. 249b-256b: Kitāb Fuṣūl Arṭūsūs / Arṭūsūs [Eutocius of Ascalon]. On astronomy, attributed to Arṭūsūs.
    • 41. fol. 257b-269a: Aḥkām al-shiʻrá al-Yamanīyah. On astrometeorology attributed to Hermes, much in the style of the Malḥamat Dāniyāl.
    • 42. fol. 275a-277a: Nubdhah fī ʻamal al-sihām allatī taqaʻu fī ṭāliʻ al-sanah lil-ʻālam. On predictive astrology.
    • 43. fol. 277b-279b: Kitāb-i Shaykh ... Abū al-Faḍl Ḥubaysh ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Munajjim al-Taghlīsī [Excerpts].
    • In Persian.
    • 44. fol. 280a: [Excerpts from the same book].
    • 45. fol. 284b-292a: [Several short texts and tables: Fāʼidah fī taḥqīq al-tawārīkh
    • Maʻrifat ḥāl al-marīḍ
    • Fāʼidah fī maʻrifat istikhrāj ṭulūʻ al-shiʻrá al-Yamānīyah
    • Fāʼidah fī dalāʼil al-barūdah wa-al-yabūsah
    • [Names of the hours of the day in Arabic]
    • [Fāʼidah from a manuscript by Luṭf Allāh al-Munajjim]
    • Fāʼidah dar maʻrifat-i ṭāliʻ-i wilādat-i Ḥaḍrat-i Nabī
    • Fāʼidah fī maʻrifat mawḍūʻ al-qamar min al-burūj wa-mawāḍiʻ al-kawākib al-sayyārah ...
    • Fāʼidah fī maʻrifat mā tajhlhu min kawākib al-samā al-mawḍūʻah fī al-shabakah min qibali mā taʻlmhu
    • ... etc.].
    • 46. fol. 292b-297b: Muqaddimah mukhtaṣarah fī maʻrifat al-kawākib al-thābitah wa-ṣuwarihā. On planets.
    • 47. fol. 298a: Fāʼidah dar ikhtiyār haft chīz
    • Fāʼidah dar maʻrifat ruʼyat al-ahillah.
    • 48. fol. 298b-301b: Risālah fī maʻrifat sihām al-kawākib. On astrology.
    • 49. fol. 301b-302a: Fāʼidah (in Persian)
    • Table.
    • 50. fol. 302b-304b: Fāʼidah dar maʻrifat-i baʻḍī az kawākib thawābit kih bar asṭurlābhā-yi shamālī wa-junūbī naqsh mīkunand / Muḥammad Taqī al-Fārisī. In Persian, on the use of the astrolabe.
    • 51. fol. 305a-306a: Risālat manāzil al-qamar [Selections] / ʻAbd Allāh al-Bayḍawī. On the moon stations.
    • 52. fol. 306b-311a: Risālat dhawāt al-dhawāʼib [Excerpt] / Ibn Hibintá. On comets, with illustrations.
    • 53. fol. 311b-314b: Fāʼidah min al-ḥikāyāt [Excerpt from al-Wāqidī's al-Nayāzik]
    • Fāʼidah [on astronomical events in the years 425, 619, 905, 938, 939, 963, 965, 1027]
    • Faṣl ḥarakat jūzhar al-qamar
    • Fāʼidah fī hayʼāt dhawāt al-adhnāb [Excerpt from Kifāyat al-taʻlīm]
    • Fāʼidah fī ṣifāt thawānī al-nujūm [Excerpt from Kifāyat al-taʻlīm].
    • 54. fol. 314b-316a: Kitāb Shams al-maʻārif al-kubrá [Selections] / Aḥmad al-Būnī. On the numerical value of letters in names (jafr) from al-Būnī's encyclopaedia on magic.
    • 55. fol. 316a: [Short text by another hand].
    • 56. fol. 316b-318a: [Short excerpts, diagram, etc.].
    • 57. fol. 318b: [Short excerpts by another hand].
    • 58. fol. 319a-324a: Risālah fī jawāmiʻ taʻrīfāt ʻilm al-hayʼah / Kūshyār. Definitions of terms used in spherical astronomy, being the third maqālah of the Zīj al-Jāmiʻ.
    • 59. fol. 324a-326a: [Short text on definitions].
    • 60. fol. 329a-375b: al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah / Maḥmūd al-Jighmīnī. Compendium on astronomy, comprising an introduction and two parts (maqālah)
    • 61. fol. 376a-b: Fāʼidah fī muṣṭalaḥ al-ḥisāb bil-ḥurūf al-hindīyah.
    • 62. fol. 380a-391a: Ashkāl al-taʼsīs fī ʻilm al-handasah / Muḥammad al-Samarqandī. On the principles of geometry, explaining the beginning of the first book of Euclid's Elements.
    • 63. fol. 391b-392b: [Excerpt from al-Maybudī].
    • 64. fol. 400a-401a: [Sayings attributed to Wālīs al-Yūnānī].
    • 65. fol. 401b-405a: Dar taʻrīfāt-i uṣūl-i handasah wa-hayʼāt. In Persian explaining words such as nuqṭah, khaṭṭ, saṭḥ and jism.
    • 66. fol. 410b-419a: Kifāyat al-taʻlīm wa-al-ṭarīq fī waḍʻ al-taqwīm. On chronology and calendars. According to the beginning of the text, this treatise comprises three faṣl (Fī dhikr al-tawārīkh; Fī ḥarakāt al-kawākib; Fī mā yatarattabu ʻalá al-ḥarakāt min al-aʻmāl), but the present copy is divided in two faṣl: "Fī dhikr al-tawārīkh al-mustaʻmalah ..." (fol. 412a) and "Faṣl fī istikhrāj al-tawārīkh ..." (fol. 418a).
    • 67. fol. 420b-425b: Kitāb asrār al-nujūm [Selections] / Arisṭāṭālīs. Summary of a treatise on astrology attributed to Aristotle, and said to be written for Alexander the Great.
    • 68. fol. 428b-429a: Risālah mukhtaṣarah fī maʻrifat ḥarakāt al-kawākib min ḥarakat al-Shams. Summary on the movement of the celestial bodies. The text is followed on fol. 429a by a "Mithāl fī ṭulūʻ al-Shiʻrá al-yamānīyah".
    Provenance
    Several ownership statements on fol. 1a, one in the name of al-Ḥājj Muṣṭafá Ṣidqī dated 15 [Ramaḍā]n 1153 [1740], with seal impression. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
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    Other title(s)
    • مجموعة الرسائل النادرة في علوم الفلكية
    • كفاية التعليم.
    • فائدة في معرفة فتح پركار قوس العصر الاول الفاقي.
    • فائدة في معرفة وضع مربع الظل المبسوط والمنكوس.
    • علامات الكواكب في تقويم الفرنگي.
    • فصل في رسم المقنطرات والمنطقة.
    • فصل في معرفة الاصل الذي يستخرج منه الاعمال.
    • قاعدة در وضع عصي موسى.
    • فائدة في تشبيهات الكواكب والبروج.
    • كتاب الترشيحات في تواريخ مختلة في اعمار الدنيا.
    • فائدة في مصطلح الحساب بلحروف الهندية.
    • ارتفاع العصرين لعرض لام حاء لام ... الخ.
    • رسالة در صنعت اسطرلاب.
    • علم الكف والكتف واللوح واليد.
    • در بيان معرفت شانه گوسفند.
    • احكام الشعرى اليمنية.
    • نبذة في عمل السهام التي تقع في طالع السنة للعالم.
    • مقدمة مختصرة في معرفة الكواكب الثابتة وصورها.
    • رسالة في معرفة سهام الكواكب.
    • در تعريفات اصول هندسة وهيئات.
    • كفاية التعليم والطريق في وضع التقويم.
    • رسالة مختصرة في معرفة حركات الكواكب من حركة الشمس.
    • فصل في معرفة ظل الميل الاول ... الخ.
    • رسالة في علم الساعة في النهار الجيدة من الردية.
    • رسالة في بيان امور لا تختل بحسب العروض مما يتعلق برسم ارباع المقنطرات.
    • رسالة في بيان امور تنفع معرفتها لمن يرسم الربع المجيب.
    • رسالة في معرفة حساب انصاف الاقطار
    • كتاب في صناعة الساعات بقياس الظل.
    • رسالهى ربع الاوتار.
    • زند المري في العمل بالربع المجيب بغير مرئي.
    • رسالة الربع الكامل.
    Title in the margin of the table of contents (fol. (i)a)
    • Majmūʻat al-rasāʼil al-nādirah fī ʻulūm al-falakīyah
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