Mathematics and Astronomy [IO Islamic 707]

Mathematics and Astronomy. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 707 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 769 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 769. 707. Size 73/4 in. by 51/2 in.; foll. 169. Thirteen lines in a page. I.Foll. 1-88. An astrological treatise, by Muḥyi al-dîn Yaḥya b. Muḥammad IBN ABU’L-SHUKR MAGHRIBÎ (seventh century), the same as that described in Cat. Mus. Brit. 197, no. CCCCXIII.; Cat. Bodl. i. 214; and Aumer, Hdss. Münch. 383. Begins: قال مولانا العالم العلامة افضل المتاخرين محيى الملة والدين يحيى بن محمد بن ابى الشكر المغربى ادام الله فضائله قد رتبت هذه الرسالة فى كيفية تحاويل سنى العالم الخ. II.Foll. 89-118. كتاب احكام ( الحكم . r ) على قرانات الكواكب فى البروج الاثنى عشر . A treatise by the same author on the conjunctions of the planets in the different signs of the Zodiac, identical with Cat. Mus. Brit. 197, CCCCXIV. ii. III.Foll. 118v.-127. من نهاية الادراك فى دراية الافلاك من تصنيف مولى الموالى قطب الدين الشيرازی عليه الرحمة . An extract from an astronomical work of ḲUṬB AL-DÎN SHÎRÂZÎ ( d. A.H. 710), bearing on chronology and various eras (تاريخ الروم و الهجرة و الفرس و الملكى و اليهود و الترك ) . Begins: فاعلم انه لما كان اشهر الاجرام السماوية النيرين . Cf. regarding the work in question, Ḥ. Kh. vi. 396, and Cat. Mus. Brit. 189. IV.Foll. 128-130. فى الاختيارات من مدخل يحيى ابن على القمى المكنى بابى نصر المنجم عليه الرحمة . An extract from ABU NAṢR ḲUMMÎ’S introduction to Astrology, which was written A.H. 357. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. v. 472. Begins: ان العلة فى كل حادثة اجتماع النيرين الخ. Then follow two Persian pieces --- V.Foll. 130v. 151. باب سيم از فصل سيم در احكام مواليد و تحويلات , followed by Chapter IV. of the same work. VI. Foll. 152-169. On the conjunction of the planets, which took place in various years of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Cf. Stewart’s Catal. 104, xv. Well written in Nasta’liḳ. Dated 29th Sha’bân, 1185. [Tippu.]