[Collection of works on astronomy and astronomical instruments]
Contributors: Marrākushī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī, active 13th century; Mūsá ibn Ibrāhīm; Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1423-; Muwaqqit, Muḥammad ibn Kātib Sinān; Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936, former owner; Dajānī, Yūnus ibn Aḥmad, editor; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1694
Place of publication: Turkey?]
Language: ara
Number of pages: 101
Subjects: Almucantar; Early works to 1800; Arab Astronomy; Astronomical instruments; Timekeeping; Arabic Manuscripts; Turkish Manuscripts
Other titles: Turkish work on astronomy in 30 chapters.; Jadwal maṭāliʻ al-burūj.; Fī bayān aḥkām al-kawākib al-ʻalawiyah fī al-burūj al-ithná ʻashar.; Masʼalah fī maʻrifat ṣafḥat al-astaṭurlāb.; Fī bayān maʻrifat ṭulūʻ al-manāzil min awwal al-layl ilá ākhirih.; Fī bayān tasyīr al-darajah ilá darajah ukhrá aw kawkab ilá ukhrá.; Fī bayān taḥṣīl inẓār al-kawākib min al-tathlīth wa-al-tarbīʻ.; Fī maʻrifat aṭwal al-buldān wa-ʻurūḍihā.; Fī bayān ʻarḍ al-ufuq al-ḥādith.; Fī maʻrifat al-maṭāliʻ al-baladīyah.; Fī maʻrifat irtifāʻ al-kawkab.; Fāʼidah jalīlah fī maʻrifat ṭulūʻ al-qamr wa-fāʼidah ukhrá ayḍan.; Hādhā jadwal fī maʻrifat kawkab.
Description: Collection of works on astronomy and astronomical instruments in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish copied in the same hand and bound together; the Turkish work (3) is missing the first leaf; f. 84v-98v are all excerpts from (naqala min) the same book with no attribution, Miṣbāḥ al-ẓalām.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Collective title supplied by cataloger; titles for individual works from caption titles, except for work 3, which was supplied by cataloger.

Layout: 19-22 long lines.

Script: Written in rapid naskh in black ink; pointed.

Decoration: Rubrications in red with numerous geometrical drawings and tables.

Origin: Some items in the collection (1, 2, 3, 6, 7) are dated and were copied between 1106 and 1107 AH (1695-1696 CE) (f. 16v, 25v, 36v, 69r, 76v). The last work says that the collection was gathered by Yūnus ibn Aḥmad al-Dajānī (f. 101v).

Shelfmark: MS Or 285.

Three loose leaves belonging to this manuscript were formerly inserted in MS Or 278, and have been returned to this volume.

The copyist for most of the works in this collection consistently spells asṭurlāb with an extra tāʼ before the ṭāʼ.

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Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2020. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2021, funded by CLIR.

Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002. Digital version conforms to: http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Arabic and Ottoman Turkish.

Formerly owned by George Arthur Plimpton (bookplate inside front cover).

Green paper wrapper with remnants of a stamped floral image.

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Table of contents: title: 1. f. 1r-16v: Risālah laṭīfah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-kurah al-musammá bi-Dhāt al-kursī / Qusṭā ibn Lūqā; title: 2. f. 17r-25v: Risālat al-ʻamal bi-al-kurah / Abū ʻAlī al-Marrākushī; title: 3. f. 26r-36v: [Turkish work on astronomy in 30 chapters]; title: 4. f. 38r-48v: Jadwal maṭāliʻ al-burūj; title: 5. f. 49v-57r: Risālah fī al-astaṭurlạb / Mūsá ibn Ibrāhīm; title: 6. f. 57v-69r: Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab / Sibṭ al-Māridīnī; title: 7. f. 70v-76v: Mūḍiḥ al-awqāt / Muḥammad ibn Sinān al-Muwaqqit; title: 8. f. 77v-84r: Fī bayān aḥkām al-kawākib al-ʻalawiyah fī al-burūj al-ithná ʻashar; title: 9. f. 84v: Masʼalah fī maʻrifat ṣafḥat al-astaṭurlāb; title: 10. f. 84v-93r: Fī bayān maʻrifat ṭulūʻ al-manāzil min awwal al-layl ilá ākhirih; title: 11. f. 94r-95v: Fī bayān tasyīr al-darajah ilá darajah ukhrá aw kawkab ilá ukhrá; title: 12. f. 95v-96r: Fī bayān taḥṣīl inẓār al-kawākib min al-tathlīth wa-al-tarbīʻ; title: 13 f. 96v-97v: Fī maʻrifat aṭwal al-buldān wa-ʻurūḍihā; title: 14. f. 97v-98r: Fī bayān ʻarḍ al-ufuq al-ḥādith; title: 15. f. 98r-98v: Fī maʻrifat al-maṭāliʻ al-baladīyah; title: 16. f. 98v: Fī maʻrifat irtifāʻ al-kawkab; title: 17. f. 99r-99v: Fāʼidah jalīlah fī maʻrifat ṭulūʻ al-qamr wa-fāʼidah ukhrá ayḍan; title: 18. f. 99v-101v: Hādhā jadwal fī maʻrifat kawkab