Author
Ibn al-Majdī, Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Rajab al-Qāhirī, 1365-1447.
Publication Date
1495
Subject
In Māridīn, Jamāl al-Dīn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Khalīl al-Qāhirī,, In Māridīn, Jamāl al-Dīn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Khalīl al-Qāhirī, /
d. 1406., in Māridīn, Jamāl al-Dīn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Khalīl al-Qāhirī, / d. 1406. /
Durr al-manthūr fī al-ʻamal bi-rubʻ al-dustūr., Quadrants (Astronomical instruments), Quadrants (Astronomical instruments) /
Early works to 1800., Sundials, Sundials /
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. ([170] p.) : ill. ; 26 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002563049
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: On sundials and the quadrant.
"A commentary on al-Durr al-manthūr fī al-ʻamal bi-rubʻ al-dustūr of ʻAbd Allāh ibn Khalīl ibn Yūsuf, al-Māridīnī (see [Mich. Isl. Ms.] 689).... The last two quires in the manuscript do not appear to belong to it.... Whether the text is the same has not been determined." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945. | Watermarks: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone; three crescents; cursive initials TMC. For the first two see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), pp. 24 and 36 and no. 860.
Contains geometrical diagrams.
Text rubricated; copy incomplete, diagrams for last two signatures not present; dealer's (?) note in pencil on front of manuscript: Irshād al-sāʼil ilá uṣūl al-masāʼil sharḥ risālat Sibṭ al-Māridīnī fī ʻilm al-mīqāt sumiya al-Durr al-manthūr fī al-ʻamal bi-rubʻ al-dustūr.
Microfilm available in repository.
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: on front of manuscript; manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.
