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Kashf al-qināʻ fī rasm al-arbāʻ: manuscript, [1919]. Unveiling the Mask in Drawing the Quarters: manuscript, [1919].
( كشف القناع في رسم الأرباع ، )

Title	Kashf al-qināʻ fī rasm al-arbāʻ: manuscript, [1919]. Unveiling the Mask in Drawing the Quarters: manuscript, [1919].
Title Original	كشف القناع في رسم الأرباع ،
Author	Ibn al-ʻAṭṭār, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, active 1426. Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Al-Attar.
Author Original	محمد بن محمد بن العطار
Subject	Astronomical instruments > Early works to 1800. Quadrants (Astronomical instruments) > Early works to 1800. Astronomy, Arab > Early works to 1800. Manuscripts, Arabic > Michigan > Ann Arbor.
Type	Document
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	1 v. ([48] p.) ; 21 cm.
Library:	Columbia University Libraries
Record ID	ht002590515
Library Location	Online
Notes	Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 35 and no. 860. Contains astronomical tables: al-Ḥalabī’s schedule, al-Farghānī’s schedule; colophon mentions work of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr al-Farghānī and Nūr al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Naqqāsh. Text and tables rubricated; marginal corrections in hand of copyist. Dates of copyist and this copy, and names of both copyists in colophon: wa-tammat al-kitābah ʻalá yad aḥwaj al-khalq ilá ʻafw rabbihi al-karīm Muṣṭafá ʻAbd al-Ṣamad ibn al-shaykh ʻAbd al-Jawāwā al-Danīṭī[?] ... fī yawm al-thulāthāʾ rābiʻ al-Muḥarram sanat 805 [4 August 1402] ... fī yawm al-jumʻah 25 April sanat 1919 ʻAbd al-Raḥmān. For other copies of this work, see Mich. Isl. Mss. 736.1, 795.14, and 803.2. Pp. [37-48]. Bound with: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-ʻAṭṭār, Kashf al-qināʻ fī maʻrifat ṣināʻat al-arbāʻ, pp. [1-35]. 07/--/36 McGregor Fund Purchase, 1933/34
Sample Text	"A treatise on different kinds of quadrants in 2 qisms of 10 + 9 faṣls, mentioning those who invented them.... Ibn al-ʻAṭṭār's work merits publication and analysis." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 74.
Ayrıca Şu Başlıklar Altında	Ḥalabī, Ghars al-Dīn Khalīl ibn Aḥmad al-Naqīb, d. 1563 or 4. غرس الدين خليل بن أحمد النقيب الحلبي. Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr, fl. ca. 815. أحمد بن محمد بن كثير الفرغاني. Meyerhof, Max, 1874-1945, former owner.
Biyografik / Tarihsel Not	Early 15th-cent. Egyptian (?) astronomer.
İçinde	Tracy W. McGregor Collection of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Mathematical and Astronomical Manuscripts.
Köken	Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: inside cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.
Kaynaklar	GAL, v. II, p. 157; GAL, Suppl. II, p. 158; King, Survey, p. 74.
WorldCat	https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1179173140

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Kashf al-qināʻ fī rasm al-arbāʻ: manuscript, [1919]. Unveiling the Mask in Drawing the Quarters: manuscript, [1919].

( كشف القناع في رسم الأرباع ، )

Author Ibn al-ʻAṭṭār, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, active 1426. Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Al-Attar.

Author Original محمد بن محمد بن العطار

Subject Astronomical instruments > Early works to 1800. Quadrants (Astronomical instruments) > Early works to 1800. Astronomy, Arab > Early works to 1800. Manuscripts, Arabic > Michigan > Ann Arbor.

Type Document

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 1 v. ([48] p.) ; 21 cm.

Library Columbia University Libraries

Record ID ht002590515

Library Location Online

Notes Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 35 and no. 860. Contains astronomical tables: al-Ḥalabī’s schedule, al-Farghānī’s schedule; colophon mentions work of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr al-Farghānī and Nūr al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Naqqāsh. Text and tables rubricated; marginal corrections in hand of copyist. Dates of copyist and this copy, and names of both copyists in colophon: wa-tammat al-kitābah ʻalá yad aḥwaj al-khalq ilá ʻafw rabbihi al-karīm Muṣṭafá ʻAbd al-Ṣamad ibn al-shaykh ʻAbd al-Jawāwā al-Danīṭī[?] ... fī yawm al-thulāthāʾ rābiʻ al-Muḥarram sanat 805 [4 August 1402] ... fī yawm al-jumʻah 25 April sanat 1919 ʻAbd al-Raḥmān. For other copies of this work, see Mich. Isl. Mss. 736.1, 795.14, and 803.2. Pp. [37-48]. Bound with: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-ʻAṭṭār, Kashf al-qināʻ fī maʻrifat ṣināʻat al-arbāʻ, pp. [1-35]. 07/--/36 McGregor Fund Purchase, 1933/34

Sample Text "A treatise on different kinds of quadrants in 2 qisms of 10 + 9 faṣls, mentioning those who invented them.... Ibn al-ʻAṭṭār's work merits publication and analysis." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 74.

Ayrıca Şu Başlıklar Altında Ḥalabī, Ghars al-Dīn Khalīl ibn Aḥmad al-Naqīb, d. 1563 or 4. غرس الدين خليل بن أحمد النقيب الحلبي. Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr, fl. ca. 815. أحمد بن محمد بن كثير الفرغاني. Meyerhof, Max, 1874-1945, former owner.

Biyografik / Tarihsel Not Early 15th-cent. Egyptian (?) astronomer.

İçinde Tracy W. McGregor Collection of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Mathematical and Astronomical Manuscripts.

Köken Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: inside cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.

Kaynaklar GAL, v. II, p. 157; GAL, Suppl. II, p. 158; King, Survey, p. 74.

WorldCat https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1179173140