Astronomical treatise : manuscript, [1886].

Name: Astronomical treatise : manuscript, [1886].
Author: Khaṭīb, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Laṭīf, approximately 1886.

Title	Astronomical treatise : manuscript, [1886].
Author	Khaṭīb, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Laṭīf, approximately 1886.
Publication Date:	1885
Subject	Astronomy, Arab., Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan / Ann Arbor.
Type	Book
Language	Arabic
Digital	No
Manuscript	Unknown
Physical Dimensions	1 v. ([27] p. + 1 leaf) ; 25 cm
Library:	HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID	002641670
Library Location	University of Michigan
Notes	About: Title unidentified, in 20 bābs and a khātimah; copy defective: text begins at end of bāb 2. \| Watermarks: Britannia (?); initials CIS in sans serif caps. Contains tables of zodiacal signs and latitudes and longitudes of cities in many different countries. Text rubricated; two copyists: pp. 7-17 (anonymous) and pp. 18-27 (named above). ʻudhran li-annahu jalla man la yasʼhū lā siyyamā fī hādhihi al-azmān allatī kādat al-ʻulūm an tandarasa wa-kathara fīhā al-jahl wa-maʻ iʻtirāfī bi-annī lastu min ahl hādhā al-shaʼn wa-lākin al-ṭamaʻ fī al-ajr ajraʼanī ʻalayhi wa-al-rijāʼ fī thawābihi awdamanī ilayhi wa-bi-Allāh al-iʻtimād wa-bihi thiqatī tamma.... Date and author/copyist's name in colophon: wa-aqūl wa-anā al-faqīr ... Aḥmad al-Khaṭīb ibn ʻAbd al-Laṭīf al-Khaṭīb ... qad tamma tabyīḍ hādhihi al-waraqāt fī yawm al-ithnayn yawm al-thāmin wa-al-ʻishrūn min Dhī al-Ḥijjah min sanat 1303 min hijrat al-nabī ... fa-al-marjūw miman aṭlaʻa ʻalá zallah aw ʻathar fīhā ʻalá hafwah an yuṣalliḥahā baʻd imʻān al-naẓr fīhi idh qīlakum muzayyiq ṣaḥīḥan li-ajl kawn fahmuhu qabiḥan fa-idhā taḥaqqaqa al-khaṭaʼ iltamas lī fīhā Pp. 7-27. Bound with: [2] Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab, pp. [28-33]; [3] Astronomical tables, 1 leaf. Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: on inserted leaf, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.

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Astronomical treatise : manuscript, [1886].

Author Khaṭīb, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Laṭīf, approximately 1886.

Publication Date 1885

Subject Astronomy, Arab., Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan / Ann Arbor.

Type Book

Language Arabic

Digital No

Manuscript Unknown

Physical Dimensions 1 v. ([27] p. + 1 leaf) ; 25 cm

Library HathiTrust Digital Library

Record ID 002641670

Library Location University of Michigan

Notes About: Title unidentified, in 20 bābs and a khātimah; copy defective: text begins at end of bāb 2. | Watermarks: Britannia (?); initials CIS in sans serif caps. Contains tables of zodiacal signs and latitudes and longitudes of cities in many different countries. Text rubricated; two copyists: pp. 7-17 (anonymous) and pp. 18-27 (named above). ʻudhran li-annahu jalla man la yasʼhū lā siyyamā fī hādhihi al-azmān allatī kādat al-ʻulūm an tandarasa wa-kathara fīhā al-jahl wa-maʻ iʻtirāfī bi-annī lastu min ahl hādhā al-shaʼn wa-lākin al-ṭamaʻ fī al-ajr ajraʼanī ʻalayhi wa-al-rijāʼ fī thawābihi awdamanī ilayhi wa-bi-Allāh al-iʻtimād wa-bihi thiqatī tamma.... Date and author/copyist's name in colophon: wa-aqūl wa-anā al-faqīr ... Aḥmad al-Khaṭīb ibn ʻAbd al-Laṭīf al-Khaṭīb ... qad tamma tabyīḍ hādhihi al-waraqāt fī yawm al-ithnayn yawm al-thāmin wa-al-ʻishrūn min Dhī al-Ḥijjah min sanat 1303 min hijrat al-nabī ... fa-al-marjūw miman aṭlaʻa ʻalá zallah aw ʻathar fīhā ʻalá hafwah an yuṣalliḥahā baʻd imʻān al-naẓr fīhi idh qīlakum muzayyiq ṣaḥīḥan li-ajl kawn fahmuhu qabiḥan fa-idhā taḥaqqaqa al-khaṭaʼ iltamas lī fīhā Pp. 7-27. Bound with: [2] Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab, pp. [28-33]; [3] Astronomical tables, 1 leaf. Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: on inserted leaf, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.