Author
Abū Miqraʻ al-Baṭṭūwī, approximately 1330.
Publication Date
1623
Subject
Calendar, Calendar /
Early works to 1800., Horology, Horology /
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. ([122] p.) ; 19 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002631689
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: On timekeeping and the conversion of calendars. | Watermark: Anchor in circle. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), nos. 1-8
Rubricated text; marginal notes in hand of copyist (?) and others.
Date in colophon: Taḥrīran fī awākhir shahr Dhī al-Qaʻdah ʻām sabʻah wa-ʻishrīn wa-alf min hijrat al-nabawī [i.e. November 1618].
Pp. [5-1 Bound with: [2] Aḥmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Bannāʼ, Abwāb yastadillu bi-hā ʻalá al-awqat wa-al-sāʻāt wa-yuʻlam bi-hā awqat al-ṣalāh, pp. [20-47]; [3] Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Muhammad al-Qalaṣādī, Kashf al-asrār ʻan ʻilm ḥurūf al-ghubār, pp. [48-116].
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: on p. [20], manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.