Author
Saline, Yūsuf.
Publication Date
1715
Subject
Astronomical instruments, 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. ([346] p.) : ill. ; 23 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002594327
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: An extensive treatise on the theory and making of sundials; perhaps in the hand of its author? | Watermarks: Three crescents; Andrea Galvani of Pordenone; initials FA in orman; three face-in-the-moons. For the first two see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), pp. 24 and 36 and no. 860.
Contains tables and sundial diagrams.
Text and tables rubricated; marginal notes and corrections in hand of copyist and others (?); kurrāsahs numbered; foliation added in European arabic numerals in pencil.
Date in colophon: qāla muʼallifuhu kāna al-farāgh min taʼlīf hādhā al-kitāb fī shahr Rajab min shuhūr sanat 1128 thamāniyah wa-ʻishrīn wa-miʼah wa-alf [June-July 1716] wa-kānat muddat taḥṣīl mā qaṣadtuhu fī hādhā al-kitāb ʻashar sanawāt wa-kusūr....
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: on p. [1], manuscript note in handwriting of Max Meyerhof: "Gekauft 1932 von Ibn Yusuf für P.T. 250"; inside cover, bookplate of Max Meyerhof.