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<dl><dd>Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002</dd>
<dd>101 leaves : 205 x 150 (170) mm, bound to 220 mm</dd>
<dd>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</dd>
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<dd>Collective title supplied by cataloger; titles for individual works from caption titles, except for work 3, which was supplied by cataloger</dd>
<dd>1. f. 1r-16v: Risālah laṭīfah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-kurah al-musammá bi-Dhāt al-kursī / Qusṭā ibn Lūqā -- 2. f. 17r-25v: Risālat al-ʻamal bi-al-kurah / Abū ʻAlī al-Marrākushī -- 3. f. 26r-36v: [Turkish work on astronomy in 30 chapters] -- 4. f. 38r-48v: Jadwal maṭāliʻ al-burūj -- 5. f. 49v-57r: Risālah fī al-astaṭurlạb / Mūsá ibn Ibrāhīm -- 6. f. 57v-69r: Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab / Sibṭ al-Māridīnī -- 7. f. 70v-76v: Mūḍiḥ al-awqāt / Muḥammad ibn Sinān al-Muwaqqit -- 8. f. 77v-84r: Fī bayān aḥkām al-kawākib al-ʻalawiyah fī al-burūj al-ithná ʻashar -- 9. f. 84v: Masʼalah fī maʻrifat ṣafḥat al-astaṭurlāb -- 10. f. 84v-93r: Fī bayān maʻrifat ṭulūʻ al-manāzil min awwal al-layl ilá ākhirih -- 11. f. 94r-95v: Fī bayān tasyīr al-darajah ilá darajah ukhrá aw kawkab ilá ukhrá -- 12. f. 95v-96r: Fī bayān taḥṣīl inẓār al-kawākib min al-tathlīth wa-al-tarbīʻ -- 13 f. 96v-97v: Fī maʻrifat aṭwal al-buldān wa-ʻurūḍihā -- 14. f. 97v-98r: Fī bayān ʻarḍ al-ufuq al-ḥādith -- 15. f. 98r-98v: Fī maʻrifat al-maṭāliʻ al-baladīyah -- 16. f. 98v: Fī maʻrifat irtifāʻ al-kawkab -- 17. f. 99r-99v: Fāʼidah jalīlah fī maʻrifat ṭulūʻ al-qamr wa-fāʼidah ukhrá ayḍan -- 18. f. 99v-101v: Hādhā jadwal fī maʻrifat kawkab</dd>
<dd>Layout: 19-22 long lines</dd>
<dd>Script: Written in rapid naskh in black ink; pointed</dd>
<dd>Decoration: Rubrications in red with numerous geometrical drawings and tables</dd>
<dd>Origin: 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)</dd>
<dd>Shelfmark: MS Or 285</dd>
<dd>Three loose leaves belonging to this manuscript were formerly inserted in MS Or 278, and have been returned to this volume</dd>
<dd>The copyist for most of the works in this collection consistently spells asṭurlāb with an extra tāʼ before the ṭāʼ</dd>
<dd>Gift of George Arthur Plimpton, 1936</dd>
<dd>Formerly owned by George Arthur Plimpton (bookplate inside front cover)</dd>
<dd>Green paper wrapper with remnants of a stamped floral image</dd>
<dd>Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description</dd>
<dd>Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2020, funded by CLIR</dd>
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