Author
Ādanī, ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn ʻUthmān, active 18th century?
Publication Date
1715
Subject
Suwaylam Zādah, ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm al-Qayṣarī., Suwaylam Zādah, ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm al-Qayṣarī. /
Bahjat al-albāb fī ʻilm al-asṭurlāb., Astrolabes, Astrolabes /
Early works to 1800., Astronomical instruments, Astronomical instruments /
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. ([59] p.) : ill. ; 21 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002576826
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Commentary on Bahjat al-albāb fī ʻilm al-asṭurlāb, "a treatise on the use of the astrolabe in 18 bābs" by ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm al-Qayṣarī Suwaylim Zādah. David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), pp. 165 and 174. On p. [59] is a discussion in a different hand of the origin of the word "astrolabe." | Contains diagrams.
Text rubricated in red and gold; triple borders throughout in red, black, and gold; 1 loose sheet bound in; marginal corrections and commentary in hand of copyist (said inside cover to be author himself); finding aids and other notes in another(?) hand; couplets in Persian on endpapers and first flyfleaf.
Date and provenance in colophon: qad tamma wa-kamala taʼlīf hādhihi al-nuskhah al-sharīfah fī Qusṭanṭīnīyah fī dār al-ḥadīth li-Ḥusayn Pāshā ... yawm al-aḥad al-thāmin wa-al-ʻishrīn min shahr Rabīʻ al-ākhir min shuhūr sanat sitt wa-ʻishrīn wa-miʼah wa-alf min al-hijrah al-nabawīyah wa-qad badaʼa ...[?]... al-musammá bi-al-turkīyah Qazalṭāgh[?] fī shahr Rajab al-mubārak min shuhūr sanat khams wa-ʻishrīn wa-miʼah wa-alf [July-August 1713].
Microfilm available in repository.
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: inside cover, owner's autograph: fī milk al-faqīr Maḥmūd ibn Ḥasan; inside cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.
