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St John's College MS 155

2 anonymous untitled works

Item 1 (ff. 1a–9b) is an incomplete set of Arabic astronomical tables; item 2 (ff. 10a–17b) is a set of calendrical conversion tables for dates in the years 1022 to 1121H (1613 to 1709) followed by tables for the position of the sun in the zodiac for the latitude of Aleppo for the year 1028/1618 "according to recent observations."

2 anonymous untitled works

St John's College MS 155

Latin

Arabic

English

c. 1618?

Aleppo?

Paper with traces of small watermarks (a letter B; a trefoil)

Both items written in a variable (small to medium) Arabic naskh using black and red inks. The text area has not been ruled, but the tables are divided into rows and columns. The texts are written in tables whose cells are delineated by red- and black-inked lines; occasionally there is writing around the perimeter of the table.

17 folios plus 3 preliminary leaves and 2 endpapers (i–iii + 17 + iv–v).

No information is available on the provenance of the volume.

Descriptions abbreviated from Emilie Savage-Smith, A descriptive Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts at St John's College, Oxford (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), Entries. Nos. 4 and 10, pp. 19-22, 41-2.

Arabic Manuscripts and Maps

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