Description of Columbia University. MS Or 285: Collection of works on astronomy and astronomical instruments

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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.

Arabic and Ottoman Turkish Collection of works on astronomy and astronomical instruments 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 former owner Plimpton, George A. 1855-1936 editor Dajānī, Yūnus ibn Aḥmad دجاني، يونس بن احمد. 1r [Collection of works on astronomy and astronomical instruments] 1r Risālah laṭīfah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-kurah al-musammá bi-Dhāt al-kursī / Qusṭā ibn Lūqā 17r Risālat al-ʻamal bi-al-kurah / Abū ʻAlī al-Marrākushī 26r [Turkish work on astronomy in 30 chapters] 38r Jadwal maṭāliʻ al-burūj 49v Risālah fī al-astaṭurlạb / Mūsá ibn Ibrāhīm 57v Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab / Sibṭ al-Māridīnī 70v Mūḍiḥ al-awqāt / Muḥammad ibn Sinān al-Muwaqqit 77v Fī bayān aḥkām al-kawākib al-ʻalawiyah fī al-burūj al-ithná ʻashar 84v Masʼalah fī maʻrifat ṣafḥat al-astaṭurlāb 84v Fī bayān maʻrifat ṭulūʻ al-manāzil min awwal al-layl ilá ākhirih 94r Fī bayān tasyīr al-darajah ilá darajah ukhrá aw kawkab ilá ukhrá 95v Fī bayān taḥṣīl inẓār al-kawākib min al-tathlīth wa-al-tarbīʻ 96v Fī maʻrifat aṭwal al-buldān wa-ʻurūḍihā 97v Fī bayān ʻarḍ al-ufuq al-ḥādith 98r Fī maʻrifat al-maṭāliʻ al-baladīyah 98v Fī maʻrifat irtifāʻ al-kawkab 99r Fāʼidah jalīlah fī maʻrifat ṭulūʻ al-qamr wa-fāʼidah ukhrá ayḍan 99v Hādhā jadwal fī maʻrifat kawkab

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101 leaves : 205 x 150 (170) mm, bound to 220 mm 19-22 long lines. Written in rapid naskh in black ink; pointed. Rubrications in red with numerous geometrical drawings and tables. Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Diagram Diagram Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Diagram Diagram Table Diagram

Green paper wrapper with remnants of a stamped floral image.

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).

between 1694 and 1799? Turkey? Gift of George Arthur Plimpton, 1936. Formerly owned by George Arthur Plimpton (bookplate inside front cover). 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 Codices (bound manuscripts) Diagrams Manuscripts (documents) Tables (documents)