MS Or 285 Collection of works on astronomy and astronomical instruments
Title
Collection of works on astronomy and astronomical instrumentsAuthors
- Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, approximately 820-approximately 912
قسطا بن لوقا، - Marrākushī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī, active 13th century
مراكشي، ابو الحسن علي، - Mūsá ibn Ibrāhīm
موسى بن ابراهيم - Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1423-
سبط المارديني، بدر الدين محمد بن محمد، - Muwaqqit, Muḥammad ibn Kātib Sinān
موقت، محمد بن كاتب سنان
Other related names
- Plimpton, George A. 1855-1936, former owner
- Dajānī, Yūnus ibn Aḥmad, editor
دجاني، يونس بن احمد.
Call number
MS Or 285(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Alternate identifiers
Publisher
Columbia University.Language
Arabic and Ottoman TurkishOrigin
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).
- Date
- between 1694 and 1799?
- Place
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Turkey?
Summary
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.
- 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.
Extent
101 leaves : 205 x 150 (170) mm, bound to 220 mmSupport
PaperBinding
Green paper wrapper with remnants of a stamped floral image.Layout
Decoration
Rubrications in red with numerous geometrical drawings and tables.
Script
Provenance
- Gift of George Arthur Plimpton, 1936.
- Formerly owned by George Arthur Plimpton (bookplate inside front cover).
Subjects topical
- Almucantar--Early works to 1800
- Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800
- Astronomical instruments--Islamic Empire--Early works to 1800
- Timekeeping--Islamic Empire--Early works to 1800
- Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York
- Manuscripts, Turkish--New York (State)--New York
Genres
- Codices (bound manuscripts)
- Diagrams
- Manuscripts (documents)
- Tables (documents)
Licenses
-
- Text
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- URL
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- Text
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Table of contents
- fol. 1r — [Collection of works on astronomy and astronomical instruments]
- fol. 1r — Risālah laṭīfah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-kurah al-musammá bi-Dhāt al-kursī / Qusṭā ibn Lūqā
- fol. 17r — Risālat al-ʻamal bi-al-kurah / Abū ʻAlī al-Marrākushī
- fol. 26r — [Turkish work on astronomy in 30 chapters]
- fol. 38r — Jadwal maṭāliʻ al-burūj
- fol. 49v — Risālah fī al-astaṭurlạb / Mūsá ibn Ibrāhīm
- fol. 57v — Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab / Sibṭ al-Māridīnī
- fol. 70v — Mūḍiḥ al-awqāt / Muḥammad ibn Sinān al-Muwaqqit
- fol. 77v — Fī bayān aḥkām al-kawākib al-ʻalawiyah fī al-burūj al-ithná ʻashar
- fol. 84v — Masʼalah fī maʻrifat ṣafḥat al-astaṭurlāb
- fol. 84v — Fī bayān maʻrifat ṭulūʻ al-manāzil min awwal al-layl ilá ākhirih
- fol. 94r — Fī bayān tasyīr al-darajah ilá darajah ukhrá aw kawkab ilá ukhrá
- fol. 95v — Fī bayān taḥṣīl inẓār al-kawākib min al-tathlīth wa-al-tarbīʻ
- fol. 96v — Fī maʻrifat aṭwal al-buldān wa-ʻurūḍihā
- fol. 97v — Fī bayān ʻarḍ al-ufuq al-ḥādith
- fol. 98r — Fī maʻrifat al-maṭāliʻ al-baladīyah
- fol. 98v — Fī maʻrifat irtifāʻ al-kawkab
- fol. 99r — Fāʼidah jalīlah fī maʻrifat ṭulūʻ al-qamr wa-fāʼidah ukhrá ayḍan
- fol. 99v — Hādhā jadwal fī maʻrifat kawkab
Decorations
- fol. 38v — Table
- fol. 39r — Table
- fol. 39v — Table
- fol. 40r — Table
- fol. 40v — Table
- fol. 41r — Table
- fol. 43r — Table
- fol. 43v — Table
- fol. 44r — Table
- fol. 44v — Table
- fol. 45r — Table
- fol. 45v — Table
- fol. 46r — Table
- fol. 46v — Table
- fol. 47v — Table
- fol. 48v — Table
- fol. 57r — Diagram
- fol. 85v — Diagram
- fol. 86v — Table
- fol. 87r — Table
- fol. 87v — Table
- fol. 88r — Table
- fol. 88v — Table
- fol. 89r — Table
- fol. 89v — Table
- fol. 90r — Table
- fol. 90v — Table
- fol. 91r — Table
- fol. 91v — Table
- fol. 92v — Table
- fol. 93r — Table
- fol. 96v — Diagram
- fol. 97v — Diagram
- fol. 99r — Table
- fol. 99v — Diagram
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