Publication Date
1880
Subject
Sundials., Astronomy, Arab., Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Physical Dimensions
1 v. ([86] p. on 21 lvs.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002601786
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: On sundials, in a muqaddimah, three bābs, and a khātimah. | Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 36 and no. 360.
Contains diagrams of sundial markings and astronomical tables.
Text not rubricated; corrections in hand of copyist; kurrāsahs numbered: k ʻadad [1-4].
Date in colophon: wa-kāna al-farāgh min kitābat hādhihi al-risālah al-laṭīfah yawm al-arbuʻāʼ al-muwāfiq ithná wa-ʻishrīn yawman khalat min shahr Jumādá al-thānī sanat 1299 [i.e. 11 May 1882] ... ʻalá yad kātibihā al-faqīr ... Muḥammad ʻIrāqī al-Shiblanjī [?].
For another, defective copy of this text, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 779.
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: on p. [1], manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.