Publication Date
1800
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. ([28] p. on 10 lvs.) ; 26 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002601788
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: On sundials, in a muqaddimah, three bābs, and a khātimah. Copy defective: text missing after middle of bāb 2, some tables drawn but lack entries. | Watermarks: initials EIV in roman; Andrea Galvani of Pordenone. For the latter see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 36 and no. 360.
Contains astronomical tables.
Text rubricated, some rubrications absent; corrections in hand of copyist.
For another, complete copy of this text, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 777.
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: on front of ms., manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.