Author
Rūdānī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1627 or 1628-1682 or 1683.
Publication Date
1600
Subject
Rūdānī, Muhammad ibn Muhammad,, Rūdānī, Muhammad ibn Muhammad, /
1627 or 1628-1682 or 1683., Rūdānī, Muhammad ibn Muhammad, /
Qalā'id al-la'ālī and ʻamal al-ayyām wa-al-layālī., Horology, Horology /
Early works to 1800., Astronomy, Arabic, Astronomy, Arabic /
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. ([151] p.) : ill. ; 30 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002590517
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: "Extended commentary with some tables" on author's Qalāʼid al-laʼālī fī ʻamal al-ayyām wa-al-layālī, "a poem on timekeeping in unnumbered faṣls." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 104. | Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone (f. 1 only). See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 36 and no. 860.
Contains astronomical and mathematical tables and geometric diagrams.
Text rubricated; marginal corrections and notes in hand of copyist and others; some pp. missing, f. 1 supplied in different paper in different hand.
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: on p. [39], owner's and borrower's names: min maʼāmin Allāh ilayhi milk al-sayyid ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-sayyid Muḥammad al-ʻĀṣī al-Suwākīnī istiʻārah minhu lil-qirāʼah al-shaykh Ḥusayn ibn Imām; on p. [1], manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.