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Tractatus Novus de Astronomia by Ramon Llull, 15th century

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Identifier: MS 127
Contents This manuscript contains the text Tractatus Novus de Astronomia by Ramon Llull. Ramon Llull (c. 1232−1316) was an influential and prolific medieval writer, who was interested in many areas of knowledge and wisdom, including literature, philosophy, logic, astronomy, theology, and natural sciences. He wrote in Latin, Catalan, and Arabic, and is considered one of the first and most important writers in Catalan. He is honoured as a martyr by the Franciscan Order...
Dates: 15th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts

[Untitled] almanac, 1091 AH, 1680 CE

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Identifier: Or Ms 729
Scope and Contents An untitled almanac, showing conversion tables and diagrams (including a volvelle and an image of the Kaʿbah) for calculating days of the week, multiannual cycles, the months of the Syrian (Christian) calendar, and the months of the Islamic lunar (Hijri) calendar in conjunction with twelve astrological phases for calculating the solar year. The reader is guided by densely written quotations attributed to a certain Şeyh Vefa (Shaykh Vafāʾ) focussed on calculations for the ...
Dates: 1091 AH; 1680 CE
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Varia positiones ... in prob: Pappi, c1703

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [59]
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Latin and English notes on Pappus, probably in connection with his book project on the ancient geometers.

The third side of this item is unrelated, a copy of an 1707 letter from Gregory, Christopher Wren, Isaac Newton, and others, to Danish astronomer Olav Roemer, concerning the Astronomiae, and accuracy of certain calculations and observations by Flamsteed and Tycho Brahe. The Tycho ms. is probably the 1627 Tabulae Rudolphinae, translated by Kepler.

Dates: c1703
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Varied Motions, c1780-c1803

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Identifier: Coll-204/14
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Volume contains manuscript notes on the geometry of motion, on materials science, and on astronomy; some jotted diagrams and tables attend.

Dates: c1780-c1803
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Lecture Notes of John Robison

تحریر المجستي Taḥrīr al-Mijistī, 1011 A.H., 1602 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 396
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A slightly defective copy of Nasīr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (died 672 A.H., 1274 C.E.) edition of the Arabic version of Almagest by Claudius Ptolemy (c.100–170 C.E.), a 2nd-century Greek-language treatise on mathematics and astronomy concerning the planetary paths and motions of the stars.


The present copy contains many astronomical tables and diagrams; headings in red; an innumerable amount of glosses on the margin.

Dates: 1011 A.H.; 1602 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

تحریر المجستي Taḥrīr al-Mijistī, undated copy (original text composed 13th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 397
Scope and Contents A defective copy of Nasīr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (died 672 A.H., 1274 C.E.) edition of the Arabic version of Almagest by Claudius Ptolemy (c. 100 – 170 C.E.), a 2nd-century Greek-language treatise on mathematics and astronomy concerning the planetary paths and motions of the stars.In the present copy the tables are left blank. Of the 13 articles, or sections of the work, only six are marked here. This may be due to a lacuna. The first eight...
Dates: undated copy (original text composed 13th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

تسهیل زیج محمّدشاهی Tashīl-i Zīj-i Muḥammad-shāhī, undated (original text compiled 17-18th Cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 417
Scope and Contents Explanations of the astronomical tables of Muḥammad Shāh (drawn up in the reign of the Emperor Muḥammad Shāh, 1131-1161 A.H., 1719-1748 C.E.) by Bin ‘Azīm al-Dīn Muḥammad Khān ‘Abdallāh, called Mahārat Khān. He divided his work into a muqaddimah (introduction) and five maqālahs (articles/chapters), of which this copy contains only the first three.A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library by...
Dates: undated (original text compiled 17-18th Cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

رساله درعلمِ نجوم Risālah dar ‘ilm-i nujūm, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 260
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A treatise on astronomy; neither preface nor author's name is given. Numerous tables in red ink.

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

شرح تذكرة الطوسى Sharḥ tadhkirat al-Ṭūsī, 1146 A.H., 1733 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 170
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A commentary on the Tadhkirah, a treatise on the elements of Astronomy of the famous Khwājah Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 672 A.H., 1273 C.E.), by Al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī (d. 816 A.H., 1413 C.E.), who compiled it in 811 A.H. (1408 C.E.). It is divided into four chapters.


Contains numerous neat diagrams in colour.

Dates: 1146 A.H.; 1733 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

شرح تذکرة الطوسي Sharḥ Tadhkirat al-Ṭūsī, 1146 A.H., 1733 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 398
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A copy of al-Sayyid al-Sharīf 'Alī al-Jurjānī's (died 816 A.H., 1413 C.E.) Arabic commentary on elements of astronomy by Nasīr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (died 672 A.H., 1274 C.E.). Text and diagrams in red.

Dates: 1146 A.H.; 1733 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia