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A beginner's method for learning the beginnings of months and years / Wasīlat al-mubtadiʼīn li-ʻilm ghurrat al-shuhūr wa-al-sinīn
(وسيلة المبتدئين لعلم غرة الشهور و السنين / Wasīlat al-mubtadiʼīn li-ʻilm ghurrat al-shuhūr wa-al-sinīn)

Title	A beginner's method for learning the beginnings of months and years / Wasīlat al-mubtadiʼīn li-ʻilm ghurrat al-shuhūr wa-al-sinīn
Title Original	وسيلة المبتدئين لعلم غرة الشهور و السنين / Wasīlat al-mubtadiʼīn li-ʻilm ghurrat al-shuhūr wa-al-sinīn
Author	Egyptian, Ahmed Ibn Qāsim / Miṣrī, Aḥmad ibn Qāsim, 1814- Author info »
Author Original	Yūnus, Aḥmad, d. after 1882, scribe Ṭanasī, Muṣṭafá ibn Aḥmad, -1867, associated name Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
Publication Date:	1300
Subject	Astronomy, Arab. Astrology, Arab. Manuscripts, Arabic > Washington (D.C.)
Type	Document
Language	Arabic
Digital	No
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	30 leaves (21 lines), bound : paper ; 24 x 17 cm
Library:	The Cornell University Library
Record ID	9844683
Library Location	Cornell University Library
Date	1300
Notes	Title from line 6 of poem, fol. 1b. Transcribed by Aḥmad Yūnis in 1300 H [1882]. Purchase of Mahmud al Mansuri collection, 1945. Paper: yellowed cream, with watermark of Benedetto Gentili Vittorio; leaves are loose from spine but in good condition. Black and red ink used in text. Catchwords on rectos. Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-768. Author's full name from ʻUmar Riḍā Kaḥḥālah's Muʻjam al-muʼallifīn (II:50). Author's name at end of the poem is given as Aḥmad ibn Qāsim. Kaḥḥlah lists the title as Tuḥfat al-murīd bi-sharḥ Wasīlat al-mubtadiʼīn. Carl Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, Supplementband II, p. 866 lists the author as Muṣṭafá ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭanasī al-Khalwatī al-Azharī al-Aḥmadī, who died in a flood in Istanbul in 1284/1867. Naskhī script; 21 lines in written area, 16 x 9 cm. Fol. 1b-32a; fol. 32b-34b blank. Binding: cardboard covered with cloth; leather spine. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website. ‎‫‏Incipit of poem: ... بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد الله الذي أبدى الشهور و صير الأيام أعوام تدور ثم الصلاة و السلام سرمدا ... و بعد هذى نبذة في الغرر و غيرها تحكي عقود الدرر سميتها وسيلة المبتدئين ...‏‬‎ ‎‫‏Incipit of commentary: الحمد لله مجدد الأوقات والأيام ومحدد الشهور والأعوام ... أما بعد فقد أمرني بعض السادات أن أشرح منظومتي التي هي في الميقات فأجبته راجيا دعاه النافع وبركة من اطلع عليه من الأخوان.‏‬‎
Sample Text	The first four pages are Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-Miṣrī's poem, Wasīlat al-mubtadiʼīn, a poem on astronomy and astrology. It covers the sun, the moon, the planets, the constellations, the signs of the Zodiac and the astrological characteristics of each day of the week. On fol. 3a, the author says that he completed this poem on 18 Rabīʻ al-awwal 1298 (17 February 1881). The author's own commentary (Tuḥfat al-murīdīn bi-sharḥ Wasīlat al-mubtadiʼīn) on the poem begins on leaf 3, verso, line 10.
Dahil eser	Miṣrī, Aḥmad ibn Qāsim, 1814-1856. Tuḥfat al-murīdīn bi-sharḥ Wasīlat al-mubtadiʼīn. Work info » Tuḥfat al-murīdīn bi-sharḥ Wasīlat al-mubtadiʼīn.

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A beginner's method for learning the beginnings of months and years / Wasīlat al-mubtadiʼīn li-ʻilm ghurrat al-shuhūr wa-al-sinīn

(وسيلة المبتدئين لعلم غرة الشهور و السنين / Wasīlat al-mubtadiʼīn li-ʻilm ghurrat al-shuhūr wa-al-sinīn)

Author Egyptian, Ahmed Ibn Qāsim / Miṣrī, Aḥmad ibn Qāsim, 1814- Author info »

Author Original Yūnus, Aḥmad, d. after 1882, scribe Ṭanasī, Muṣṭafá ibn Aḥmad, -1867, associated name Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Publication Date 1300

Subject Astronomy, Arab. Astrology, Arab. Manuscripts, Arabic > Washington (D.C.)

Type Document

Language Arabic

Digital No

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 30 leaves (21 lines), bound : paper ; 24 x 17 cm

Library The Cornell University Library

Record ID 9844683

Library Location Cornell University Library

Date 1300

Notes Title from line 6 of poem, fol. 1b. Transcribed by Aḥmad Yūnis in 1300 H [1882]. Purchase of Mahmud al Mansuri collection, 1945. Paper: yellowed cream, with watermark of Benedetto Gentili Vittorio; leaves are loose from spine but in good condition. Black and red ink used in text. Catchwords on rectos. Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-768. Author's full name from ʻUmar Riḍā Kaḥḥālah's Muʻjam al-muʼallifīn (II:50). Author's name at end of the poem is given as Aḥmad ibn Qāsim. Kaḥḥlah lists the title as Tuḥfat al-murīd bi-sharḥ Wasīlat al-mubtadiʼīn. Carl Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, Supplementband II, p. 866 lists the author as Muṣṭafá ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭanasī al-Khalwatī al-Azharī al-Aḥmadī, who died in a flood in Istanbul in 1284/1867. Naskhī script; 21 lines in written area, 16 x 9 cm. Fol. 1b-32a; fol. 32b-34b blank. Binding: cardboard covered with cloth; leather spine. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website. ‎‫‏Incipit of poem: ... بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد الله الذي أبدى الشهور و صير الأيام أعوام تدور ثم الصلاة و السلام سرمدا ... و بعد هذى نبذة في الغرر و غيرها تحكي عقود الدرر سميتها وسيلة المبتدئين ...‏‬‎ ‎‫‏Incipit of commentary: الحمد لله مجدد الأوقات والأيام ومحدد الشهور والأعوام ... أما بعد فقد أمرني بعض السادات أن أشرح منظومتي التي هي في الميقات فأجبته راجيا دعاه النافع وبركة من اطلع عليه من الأخوان.‏‬‎

Sample Text The first four pages are Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-Miṣrī's poem, Wasīlat al-mubtadiʼīn, a poem on astronomy and astrology. It covers the sun, the moon, the planets, the constellations, the signs of the Zodiac and the astrological characteristics of each day of the week. On fol. 3a, the author says that he completed this poem on 18 Rabīʻ al-awwal 1298 (17 February 1881). The author's own commentary (Tuḥfat al-murīdīn bi-sharḥ Wasīlat al-mubtadiʼīn) on the poem begins on leaf 3, verso, line 10.

Dahil eser Miṣrī, Aḥmad ibn Qāsim, 1814-1856. Tuḥfat al-murīdīn bi-sharḥ Wasīlat al-mubtadiʼīn. Work info » Tuḥfat al-murīdīn bi-sharḥ Wasīlat al-mubtadiʼīn.