Majmūʻah-yi rasāʼil-i nādirah fī al-ʻulūm al-falakīyah. - Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961; ʻAbd al-Wahhāb.; Ibn al-Majdī, Aḥmad ibn Rajab, 1366-1447.; Khalīlī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, active 14th century; Wafāʼī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Muḥammad, active 15th century; Wafāʼī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Muḥammad, active 15th century; Ibn al-Ghazūlī, Muḥammad, active 1344.; Baklamīshī, Ṭubayq al-Ashrafī.; Ibn al-Ghazūlī, Muḥammad, active 1344.; Ibn al-Shāṭir, ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm, 1304-1375.; Bakhāniqī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, active 14th century; Aristotle; et al. (Qusṭanṭinīyah, 1650)
Collection of treatises in Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish, on geometry, astronomy, astronomical instruments, mathematics, and divination, with illustrations, tables and figures.
68. fol. 428b-429a: Risālah mukhtaṣarah fī maʻrifat ḥarakāt al-kawākib min ḥarakat al-Shams. Summary on the movement of the celestial bodies. The text is followed on fol. 429a by a "Mithāl fī ṭulūʻ al-Shiʻrá al-yamānīyah".
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Inscription in red pencil in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover and on a label pasted on the pastedown of the same cover: "SH 158." Table of contents on fol. Aa-b. Inscription stating the number of leaves in the copy on fol. 431b. Blank folios between some of the titles not accounted for in the list
Collation: Paper; fol. A-B + 431; catchwords; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals--recto is numbered, verso has number + "A."
Layout: 13-25 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated with ample use of red; watermarks.
Keywords: Ṣidqī, Muṣṭafá, -- -1769 or 1770.; Astronomy, Arab -- Early works to 1800.; Astrology, Arab -- Early works to 1800.; Almucantar -- Early works to 1800.; Astrolabes -- Early works to 1800.; Quadrants (Astronomical instruments) -- Early works to 1800.; Astronomical instruments -- Islamic Empire -- Early works to 1800.; Time measurements -- Islamic Empire -- Early works to 1800.; Sundials -- Islamic Empire -- Early works to 1800.; Palmistry -- Islamic Empire -- Early works to 1800.; Fortune-telling -- Islamic Empire -- Early works to 1800.; Divination -- Islamic Empire -- Early works to 1800.; Predictive astrology -- Early works to 1800.; Ibn al-Sarrāj, Aḥmad ibn Abī Bakr, -- active 14th century; Moon -- Early works to 1800.; Comets -- Early works to 1800.; Arabic alphabet -- Symbolic aspects -- Early works to 1800.; Euclid; Geometry -- Islamic Empire -- Early works to 1800.; Manuscripts, Arabic -- New Jersey -- Princeton; Manuscripts, Persian -- New Jersey -- Princeton; Manuscripts, Turkish -- New Jersey -- Princeton; Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts, Persian; Manuscripts, Turkish; New Jersey -- Princeton; scientific illustrations (images); diagrams; tables (documents); Pictures; Tables (Data); Illustrated works; Autographs; Watermarks