Author
Khawaniki, Ramadan ibn Salih al-Safati, -1745.
Publication Date
1700
Subject
Ibn Abī al-Fat ḥ al-Ṣūfī, Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Miṣrī,
fl. ca. 1536., Ibn Abī al-Fatḥ al-Ṣūfī, Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Miṣrī, / fl. ca. 1536./
Nubdhat al-isʻāf fī maʻrifat qaws al-khilāf., Ephemerides, Ephemerides /
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. ([12] p.) ; 22 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002594339
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: al-Khawānikī's commentary on Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Fatḥ al-Ṣūfī al-Miṣrī's Nubdhat al-isʻāf fī maʻrifat qaws al-khilāf, "a short treatise on a technique used in the compilation of ephemerides." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 83. | Watermark: Three crescents. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.
Contains astronomical tables.
Title and text rubricated; text and corrections in margins enclosed by thin red lines.
Possible date of early to mid-18th cent. based on death date of author.
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: on p. [1], owner's autograph, with seal: tamallakahu al-faqīr ilá Allāh ... Ḥasan al-Jabartī; on p. [12], unidentified seal; inside cover, manuscript notes in unidentified handwriting: From Dr. Meyerhof, May 1934.