Author
in Maridīn, Jamal al-Din Abd Allah ibn Khalil al-Qāhiri, -1406.
Publication Date
1843
Subject
Astronomical instruments, Astronomical instruments /
Early works to 1800., Quadrants (Astronomical instruments), Quadrants (Astronomical instruments) /
Early works to 1800., Sundials, Sundials /
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. ([90] p.) ; 19 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002557935
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: "An extensive treatise on the sine quadrant also dealing with sundials, arranged in 60 bābs." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 66.
The introduction of this work is a "brief, independent treatise in which the author sets forth the basic ideas (mainly definitions) of geometry and spherical astronomy. The rest of the work (60 chapters) is mostly concerned with problems regarding the transformation of coordinates with the dastūr quadrant." M. Plessner, "al-Māridīnī," in Encyclopedia of Islam (Leiden, 1989), v. vi, pp. 542b-543a. | al-Ḥalajīj[?] ḥafaẓahu Allāh wa-katabahu al-faqīr Muḥammad ...[?]; on cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.
corner of p. [90], ...[?]... nabawīyah ʻala ṣāḥibihā ...[?]... aḥad wa-sittīn wa-tisʻumiyah kāna awwal ...[?]... al-arbuʻāʼ wa-kāna fī Ramaḍān yawmayn wa-kāna awwal ...[?]... nawbat al-shaykh ʻAbd al-Bāsiṭ ḥafaẓahu Allāh wa-kāna fī nawbat al-shaykh ʻAbd al-Bāsiṭ tawqīt sayyidī Yūnus ḥāfaẓahu Allāh wa-fī nawbat al-shaykh Barakāt tawqīt sayyidī Jalāl al-Dīn al-Ramlī ḥafaẓahu Allāh wa-fī nawbat al-shaykh Abū al-Fatḥ ḥafaẓahu Allāh tawqīt Muḥammad ibn
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: on p. [1], fī nawbat al-faqīr ilá Allāh taʻālá Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Muḥammad al-Ramlī; on p. [1], malakahu min faḍl rabbihi jalla wa-ʻala al-faqīr Muḥammad ibn Sakīkar[?] ibn ...[?]; on p. [90], bi-mā kāna tārīkh al-hijrah al-nabawīyah ... fī sanat aḥad wa-sittīn wa-tisʻumiyah kāna awwal Ramaḍān al-mubajjal al-muʻaẓẓam qadarahu yawm al-ithnayn [1554] wa-kāna fī al-jāmiʻ al-Umawī nawbat al-shaykh Barakāt ...; on lower right
Couplet on p. [1] addressed to potential borrowers: A-yā mustaʻīr al-kutub daʻnī/fa-inna iʻāratī lil-kutub ʻār/fa-maʻshūqī min al-dunyā kitābī/fa-hal samiʻtum bi-maʻshūqin yuʻār.
Title and text rubricated; corrections and extensive marginal notes in hand of copyist and others.
Date in colophon: wāfaqa al-farāgh min nuskhatihā ...[?]... li-Rajab[?] min shuhūr sanat 900 [March-April 1495].
Microfilm available in repository.
