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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 14.517, cont.)

cular drawing connecting the solar months with the signs of the Zodiac (with a brief explanation in Arabic, 4a); tables indicating altitudes (al-irtifd‘dt) in black and red (4b-31b); tables in the same format indicating the degrees (derecat) of the various constellations of the Zodiac (32a-34b); a survey of the constellations with explanatory Arabic and Persian verses accompanied by numbers (35a); a calendar consisting of tables (rüzndme, 36b-38a) for calculating the first days of each lunar month for the years 1177 (1763-4) to 1532, preceded by an explanation in Turkish (35b-36a), which begins: oj & 4S aJjl |ftjJLx* juu Ul ... j^JLxJI w_»j Jj ... <—»>Jjl aJLI jV$1 Also a table, in the same format, for establishing the weekdays of the first of each solar month, headed 'cedvel-i gurrendme-i Rami' (38b); tables indicating the hours of the entry of the sun into the various constellations (39a-42a); various tables on the trajectory of the sun and constellations for the year 1800 (42b-43b), based on calculations by Salih Efendi (cf. f. 43b, upper margin); a survey and calculations concerning the elevation in the sky of the main constellations at various times of the day (44a), followed by a series of tables (44b-52a); a series of brief texts explaining various astronomical phenomena in Arabic and Turkish with calculations (52b-53b); a Turkish text (54-b) explaining how to read annual tables (icedvel-i sal, 54a-b); tables for calculating the cosine of arcs (jadwal ft baydn li- kulli qawsjaybahü, 55b-64a); various texts in Arabic and Turkish on astronomy, and establishing the times of prayer (64b); a table for establishing the arrival of the star keff el-hazib in the centre of the sky, according to the re’isülmüneccimfn Mehmed Sadik Efendi, dated 1208 (1793-4) (65a, see plate); a gurrendme, preceded by explanatory verses in Turkish, with a marginal note dated 1291 (1874-5) (65b); tables establishing the altitude of the sun (67b-69a), preceded by explanations in Turkish (67a); a table with Turkish explanations on the degree of the sun (derece-i $ems) in the consecutive solar months, on the authority of the late Salih Efendi (70a); various drawings, calculations and explanations in Turkish on the trajectory of sun in the sky (70b-71b); a rüzname for the years 1214 (1799- 1800) to 1300 (1882-3) (73a); a gurrendme (73b); astronomical tables relating the constellations of the Zodiac with the times of the day in the corresponding solar months (74a-76b); tables concerning the degrees of the constellations (77b-78a); an expiation, in Turkish, of how to draw a right angle with the help of compasses, with two drawings (78b); tables (80b-83a), similar to those on ff. 77b- 78a (the upper margin of f. 80b contains a note, partly lost by trimming but repeated on f. 83b, on ‘Abdurrahman Efendi, höca at the Istanbul muhendishane, who designed the tables in 1206 (1791-2), when he served on the Bosnian border