Author
Ibn Banafshah, Abd al-Rahman al-Jawharī al-Saliḥī, active 1494.
Publication Date
1500
Subject
Ulugh Beg,, Ulugh Beg, /
1394-1449., Ulugh Beg, / 1394-1449. /
Zīj al-raṣad al-jadīd., Astronomy, Arab, Astronomy, Arab /
Tables, Astronomy, Arab / Tables /
Early works to 1800., Planets, Planets /
Observations, Planets / Observations /
Tables, Planets / Observations / Tables /
Early works to 1800., Astronomy, Arab, Astronomy, Arab /
Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Physical Dimensions
1 v. ([130] p.) ; 28 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002563050
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: "Planetary tables for the longitude of Damascus, with an introduction in unnumbered chapters. David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 78.
"Brief Astronomical Tables after Ulūgh Beg." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945. | Spell to alleviate illness written on p. [1]: Ya rabb in kana tamriḍī yuqirrunī/Yā rabb in kana tamrīḍī yuqirrunī/You are the one who gave me the takfiyat al-adhnāb fa-mā/Yā rabb al-ʻafwak lil-aqsām wa-al-ʻilal/hādhihi al-abyāt idhā talāhā al-marīḍ yushfa.
Two pages of text followed by 128 pp. of tables; colored decoration on p. [1]
Date based on the presence of calendrical tables for the Islamic years 902-931 [1496-1524].
taḥrīran fī yawm 7 Dhī al-Ḥijjah sanat 1299 [20 October 1882]; on p. [1], manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.
Muhammad Amīn ibn al-Marḥūm al-ḥājj Mūsá Afandī Khadim al-ʻilm al-Sharīf
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: on p. [1] under 3 lines of defaced writing: fī shahr Muḥarram 1140 [August-September 1727]; on p. [1]: Qad aʻṭaytu hādhā al-kitāb ilá thamrat fuʼādī waladī Ibrāhīm Kāmil yataṣarraf fīhi kayfa yaśāʼ jaʻalahu Allāh min al-ʻulamāʼ al-wāṣilīn wa-min suʻadāʼ al-dārīn 7 Dhī al-Ḥijjah sanat 1299 [20 October 1882] Muhammad [?] son of Ibrahim Kamil; on p. [1]: Dakhala hādhā al-kitāb fī
