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Sublime Methods in Spiritual Devices (al-Ṭuruq al-saniyya fī al-ālāt al-ruḥāniyya), by Taqī al-Dīn (1526-1585)

Title	Sublime Methods in Spiritual Devices (al-Ṭuruq al-saniyya fī al-ālāt al-ruḥāniyya), by Taqī al-Dīn (1526-1585)
Author	Cairo
Publication Date:	c. 1550
Type	Document
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	214 mm x 157 mm x 12 mm (height x width x depth)
Library:	Chester Beatty
Record ID	Ar 5232
Library Location	Arabic collection
Date	c. 1550
Notes	Sublime Methods in Spiritual Devices (al-Ṭuruq al-saniyya fī al-ālāt al-ruḥāniyya), by Taqī al-Dīn (1526-1585). Taqī al-Dīn was a renowned scientist, who worked in Ottoman Egypt and Syria, and later at the imperial capital of Istanbul, where he built an observatory. Organised in six chapters, this treatise is about hydraulic engineering, and describes machines for lifting weights, raising water, playing musical instruments, and irrigation, as well as water clocks (clepsydras) and a self-moving spit operated by a steam turbine. Codex, ink and colours on paper, 44 folios, Arabic text in naskh script, with headings in red, and mechanical diagrams (up to fol. 26v, with blank spaces thereafter), Sublime Methods in Spiritual Devices (al-Ṭuruq al-saniyya fī al-ālāt al-ruḥāniyya), by Taqī al-Dīn Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Qādhī Ma’rūf ibn Ahmad al-Shāmī al-‘Asadī al-Rāsid (1526-1585), on hydraulic engineering, identified as autograph copy, possibly Cairo, Egypt, undated, c. 1550.
Materyal	Paper (material), Ink (material), Pigment (material)
Nesne Adı	Codex
Yazı Tipi	Naskh script

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Sublime Methods in Spiritual Devices (al-Ṭuruq al-saniyya fī al-ālāt al-ruḥāniyya), by Taqī al-Dīn (1526-1585)

Author Cairo

Publication Date c. 1550

Type Document

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 214 mm x 157 mm x 12 mm (height x width x depth)

Library Chester Beatty

Record ID Ar 5232

Library Location Arabic collection

Date c. 1550

Notes Sublime Methods in Spiritual Devices (al-Ṭuruq al-saniyya fī al-ālāt al-ruḥāniyya), by Taqī al-Dīn (1526-1585). Taqī al-Dīn was a renowned scientist, who worked in Ottoman Egypt and Syria, and later at the imperial capital of Istanbul, where he built an observatory. Organised in six chapters, this treatise is about hydraulic engineering, and describes machines for lifting weights, raising water, playing musical instruments, and irrigation, as well as water clocks (clepsydras) and a self-moving spit operated by a steam turbine. Codex, ink and colours on paper, 44 folios, Arabic text in naskh script, with headings in red, and mechanical diagrams (up to fol. 26v, with blank spaces thereafter), Sublime Methods in Spiritual Devices (al-Ṭuruq al-saniyya fī al-ālāt al-ruḥāniyya), by Taqī al-Dīn Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Qādhī Ma’rūf ibn Ahmad al-Shāmī al-‘Asadī al-Rāsid (1526-1585), on hydraulic engineering, identified as autograph copy, possibly Cairo, Egypt, undated, c. 1550.

Materyal Paper (material), Ink (material), Pigment (material)

Nesne Adı Codex

Yazı Tipi Naskh script