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Ref: Or 8415

The record is made up of Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. i+257+ii. It was created in 1226-1227. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.

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Collection of four treatises on astronomy copied between 15 (?) Dhū al-Qa‘dah 1226/1 (?) December 1811 and 20 Jumādá I 1227/29 (?) May 1812 by Muḥammad Muḥsin ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Dawrī (محمد محسن بن محمد صالح بن محي الدين الدوري, see ff. 1r, 235r, 245v, and 255v), Qāḍī at Ūrdá (? القاضي بالاوردى, f. 245v) for his own use (ff. 1r and 245v).

Contents:

(1) Qāḍīʹzādah al-Rūmī (قاضي زاده الرومي), Sharḥ al-mulakhkhaṣ fī ‘ilm al-hayʾah (شرح الملخص في علم الهيئة; ff. 1r-100v);
(2) al-Birjandī (البرجندي), [ Taʿlīqāt ʿalá sharḥ al-mulakhkhaṣ ] ([تعليقات على شرح الملخص]; ff. 102r-235r);
(3) Fakhrī'zādah al-Mawṣilī (فخري زاده الموصلي), Sawāniḥ al-qarīḥah fī sharḥ al-ṣafīḥah fī ‘ilm al-asṭurlāb (سوانح القريحة في شرح الصفيحة في علم الأسطرلاب; ff. 237r-245v);
(4) Bahā’ al-Dīn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين العاملي), Tashrīḥ al-aflāk (تشريح الأفلاك; ff. 247r-255v).

A small unfoliated leaf has been been bound into the volume between ff. 113 and 114

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Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. i+257+ii

Physical characteristics

Material: Western laid paper

Dimensions: 202 x 140 mm leaf [125-55 x 65-95 mm written]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil

Ruling: Misṭarah ; 17-25 lines per page; vertical spacing 13-16 lines per 10 cm

Script: Naskh ; the scribe is Muḥammad Muḥsin ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Dawrī (محمد محسن بن محمد صالح بن محي الدين الدوري, see ff. 1r, 235r, 245v, and 255v)

Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings and diagrams in red

Decoration: None

Binding: Red leather binding with envelope flap; gold-tooled medallions on boards, and blind-tooled border on boards and flap; xylographic decorated doublure of yellow paper on inner boards and flap; marbled paper visible on inner joints of flap

Condition: F. 1 torn and repaired, minor tidemark to edge

Marginalia: Numerous by more than one hand

Seals: f. 1r

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Arabic in Arabic script

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Reference: Or 8415
Title: Four treatises on astronomy
Pages: front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 101r:101v, 235v:236v, 246r:246v, 256r:257v, ii-r:iii-v, back-i
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