Cod.: paper, II+297+II^a ff. (foliated with Arabic-European numerals; additional smaller paginations (each starting from 1) in the top outside corners of ff. 91–122, 123–135, 136–173, 177–193, 194–198, 205–220, and 221–235; f. 174 paginated 29–30, ff. 175–176 paginated 65–68, f. 199 paginated 25–26, and ff. 200–203 paginated 33–40 by the same hand; an additional foliation starting from 1 on ff. 277–295, which turns into a pagination from f. 287r onwards; catchwords). A single very readable naskh hand in black or brown; mostly dotted ductus, occasional vowels, hamzas, and shaddas. Overlines in black on abjad notation in the body text. Some centered titles mostly in black with red overlines and rubrics, or in red, with the same size of the main text; some red overlines and rubrics introducing new sections and punctuating the text. Substantial diagrams in black or in red with geometrical points in black; substantial blank spaces left for diagrams, particularly on ff. 1r–57v; at times diagrams from a few works are grouped together (204r–v, 236v–237v, 254r–256v); pasted folios with diagrams, some unfoliated (between 63v–64r, 112v–113r, 133v–134r, 173v–174r, 259v–260r, and 269v–270r), some foliated (ff. 254–256); pasted diagrams on blank spaces (260v–267v). Minor tables in red or black with abjad numbers in black (113r, 227r). Codex in excellent condition. Cloth covers in brown without decorations. Dimensions: not provided; 24 or 25 lines per page. Type III binding.

Cont.: astronomy and mathematics. — Index: Abū l-Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Malik b. Muḥammad al-Shīrāzī, Kitāb Taṣaffuḥ al-makhrūṭāt (1r–57v); a marginal gloss from MS Oxford, Bodleian, Thurston 3, f. 25r, on the figure found in other manuscripts after the 52^nd figure of Book III of an undetermined version or compendium of the Conica of Apollonius of Perga, possibly the above ʿAbd al-Malik al-Shīrāzī’s Kitāb Taṣaffuḥ al-makhrūṭāt (58r–v); marginal glosses to ʿAbd al-Malik al-Shīrāzīʼs Kitāb Taṣaffuḥ al-makhrūṭāt copied from MS Oxford, Bodleian, Thurston 3, ff. 31r–52r (59r–77v); Kamāl al-Dīn Mūsā b. Yūnus, Risāla fī Bayān al-muqaddimatayn muhmalatay al-bayān istaʿmala-hā Abūlūniyūs 〈fī〉 awākhir al-maqāla al-ūlā min Kitāb al-Makhrūṭāt (78r–79r); Abū l-Wafāʾ al-Būzjānī, Jawāb Abī l-Wafāʾ Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-Būzjānī ʿammā saʾala-hu al-faqīh Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan b. Ḥārith 〈al-Khuwārizmī〉 al-Janūbī 〈fī〉 misāḥat al-muthallathāt (79r–80v); Aḥmad b. ʿUmar al-Karābisī, Kitāb fī Misāḥat al-ḥalaq (81r–84v); anonymous, geometrical problem entitled Masʾala handasiyya beginning Kullu muthallath musāwī al-aḍlāʿ maʿlūm al-misāḥa (85v–86r); Abū l-Wafāʾ al-Būzjānī, Masʾala li-Arshimīdis fī misāḥat al-muthallath (86r–87v); anonymous, Faṣl fī Burhān masqaṭ al-ḥajar fī l-muthallathāt al-ḥāddat al-zawāyā (87v–88v); Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ, two geometrical problems (88v–90v); Ptolemaica (91r–122v); Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī, Fawāʾid multaqaṭa min Kitāb ʿInāyat al-idrāk fī dirāyat al-aflāk (123r–127r); Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī, Muʾāmarat aʿmāl dhakara-hā fī hādhā l-Majisṭī (127r–131r, extracts from his Talkhīṣ al-Majisṭī); Ptolemaica (131r–131v); Ptolemaica (131v–133v); Kūshyār b. Labbān, Faṣl fī Taʿdīl azmān al-khusūf (133v–134r, apparently from al-Zīj al-Jāmiʿ); anonymous, Masʾala fī maʿnā ayyām al-ʿālam (134v–135r); two problems on the circle by anonymous authors (134r–135v); Ptolemaica (136r–173v); Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ, Masʾala fī l-alwān allatī taḥduthu fī ʿayn qaws wa-quzaḥ (174r–v); Ptolemaica (175r–176r); Abū Saʿd b. Sahl, al-Burhān ʿalā anna l-falak laysa fī ghāyat al-ṣafāʾ; Ptolemaica (177r–193v); Ptolemaica (194r–198v); Ptolemaica (199r–199v); Ptolemaica (200r–203v); diagrams from the following works, including al-Simyāṭī’s and al-Ṣābī’s (204r–v); al-Simyāṭī, Min kalām al-Simyāṭī fī anna ikhtilāf al-qisī l-mutasāwiyya al-qarīb min al-dawra aʿẓam min al-baʿīda ʿan-hā (205r); al-Simyāṭī, Min kalāmi-hi fī maʿnā faṣl mā bayna al-saṭarayn min jadāwil al-awtār al-wāqiʿa fī l-dāʾira (205r–v); al-Simyāṭī, Min kalāmi-hi fī-mā suʾila ʿan-hu min raʾy l-mutakallimīn fī anna l-ajsām murakkaba min jawāhir farda (206r); Ptolemaica (207r–207v); two calculations of planetary equations attributed to al-Ṣābī (208r); Ptolemaica (208r–212r, 219v–220r, 231v–232r); anonymous, Faṣl fī Kayfiyya raṣad al-shams (212r–214v); anonymous, 〈Faṣl fī〉 Mawḍiʿ awj al-shams wa-mā bayna markazay-hā ʿalā raʾy al-muḥaddithīn (215r–215v); Ptolemaica (216r); anonymous, 〈Muqaddimāt ʿalā l-baḥth fī l-rujūʿ〉 (216r–218r); anonymous, Masʾala fī l-rujūʿ wa-l-istiqāma (218r–219r); Abū Naṣr Manṣūr b. ʿAlī Ibn ʿIrāq for Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī, Risālat Jadwal al-daqāʾiq (221r–231r); Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham, Maqāla fī anna al-ẓāhir min al-samāʾ akthar min niṣfi-hā (232r); al-Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham, Maqāla fī anna al-dāʾira wa-l-kura awsaʿ al-ashkāl (232r–232v); a fāʾida by an anonymous author transmitted by al-Shīrāzī from al-Ṭūsī, who discovered it written on a copy of al-Zīj al-ʿAlāʾī, in the hand of Ḥusām al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Faḍl Allāh al-Sālār (d. 660/1262, on him see GAS VIIFuat Sezgin, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, Vol. VII: Astrologie – Meteorologie und Verwandtes bis ca. 430 H., Leiden: Brill, 1979, p. 401) (232v–233v); anonymous, a note from the Zīj al-Iqbāl (233v); several fāʾidas on Kūshyār b. Labbānʾs al-Zīj al-Jāmiʿ by an anonymous author (233v–235v); diagrams from the following works (236v–237v); al-Ṣaghānī, al-Faṣl al-awwal min kalām Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn al-Ṣaghānī fī sāʿāt al-maʿmūla ʿalā ṣafāʾiḥ al-asṭurlāb (238v–239v); Abū al-Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī, Kitāb fī Tashīl al-tasṭīḥ al-asṭurlābī wa-al-ʿamal bi-murakkabāt al-shamālī wa-l-janūbī (239v–243v); Abū Naṣr Manṣūr b. ʿAlī Ibn ʿIrāq, Risāla fī Ṣanʿat al-asṭurlāb bi-l-ṭarīq al-ṣināʿī (243v–246v); Abū Naṣr Manṣūr b. ʿAlī Ibn ʿIrāq for Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī, Risāla fī Majāzāt dawāʾir al-sumūt fī l-asṭurlāb (247r–251r); Abū Naṣr Manṣūr b. ʿAlī Ibn ʿIrāq for Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī, Risāla fī l-Dawāʾir allatī taḥuddu l-sāʿāt al-zamāniyya (251r–253v); diagrams from the following works on pasted folios (254r–256v); Kamāl al-Dīn Mūsā b. Yūnus, Risāla fī l-Burhān ʿalā ittikhādh al-muqaddima allatī ahmala-hā Arshimīdis fī tasbīʿ al-dāʾira wa-kayfiyya dhālika (257r–258v); al-Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham, Min kalām Ibn al-Haytham ʿalā muqaddimat Arshimīndis fī ḍilʿ al-musabbaʿ (259r–260v); Aḥmad b. Mūsā b. Shākir, Qawl li-Aḥmad b. Shākir fī Tathlīth al-zāwiyat al-mustaqīmat al-khaṭṭayn (260v); Abū l-Jūd Muḥammad b. al-Layth, Risālat Muḥammad b. al-Layth ilā Abī Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAlī al-Ḥāsib fī Ṭarīqay Abī Sahl al-Qūhī wa-shaykhi-hi Abī Hāmid al-Saghānī fī ʿamal al-musabbaʿ al-musāwī l-aḍlāʿ fī l-dāʾira, and a short fāʾida (261r–264v); Abū Sahl Wayjan b. Rustam al-Kūhī (or al-Qūhī), Maqāla fī Tathlīth al-zāwiya wa-ʿamal al-musabbaʿ al-mutasāwī al-aḍlāʿ fī l-dāʾira (264v–266r); Naṣr b. ʿAbd Allāh, Risāla fī ’stikhrāj watar al-musabbaʿ (266r–267v); Abū Saʿīd Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Sijzī, Maqāla fī ʿAmal al-musabbaʿ fī l-dāʾira wa-qismat al-zāwiyat al-mustaqīmat al-khaṭṭayn bi-thalātha aqsām mutasāwiya (267v–268v, only the second half); Thābit b. Qurra, Muqaddimāt (269r–270v); Īḍāḥ al-burhān ʿalā ḥisāb al-khaṭaʾayn, corrected by Jābir b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṣābī, and a gloss by Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ (271r–272v); Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, Burhān ʿalā ʿamal ḥisāb al-khaṭaʾayn (273r–v); anonymous, Masāʾil handasiyya mutarjama bi-l-Maqālat al-Muhdāt wa-hiya muqaddimāt li-masāʾil jabriyya ustukhrijat bi-l-handasa, and two fāʾidas (274r–276r); Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Hāshimī, al-Risāla al-mawsūma bi-l-Mūḍiḥa fī ḥisāb al-judhūr al-ṣumm ilā al-amīr Abī l-Faḍl Jaʿfar b. al-Muktafī bi-Llāh (277r–280v); Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Khāzin, Burhān khuṭūṭī (280v–281r); Nāṣir b. Khusraw, Min ʿajāʾib al-ḥisāb wa-gharāʾib al-ḥisāb (181r–v, in Persian); Thābit b. Qurra, Qawl fī Taṣḥīḥ masāʾil al-jabr bi-l-barāhīn al-handasīya (281v–282v); Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Ahwāzī, Kalimāt min Sharḥ al-maqālat al-ʿāshira min 〈Kitāb〉 Uqlīdis (283r–286v, in 8 fuṣūl); amthila li-dhawāt al-ismayn (286v–287v); Abū ʿUbayd Allāh ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Muḥammad al-Jūzjānī, al-Mukhtaṣar fī maʿnā falak muʿaddal al-masīr wa-maʿnā al-mayl wa-l-iltiwāʾ wa-l-inḥirāf li-aflāk al-tadāwīr (288r–292r); anonymous, treatise on the apogee and perigee of Mars (292r–295v); anonymous, Ḥikāya mā ṣaddara-hu ... Naṣīr ... al-Din ... al-Ṭūsī li-Kitāb al-Makhrūṭāt li-Abulūniyūs iṣlāḥ Aḥmad b. Mūsā (296r–297v). Blank: 85r, 132r, 220v, 236r, 238r, 276v. — Glosses, in the scribe’s hand, were copied from MS Oxford, Bodleian, Thurston 3. Uncorrected; the scribe misses several words from MS Thurston 3.

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