Author
Shabrāmallisī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, approximately 1612.
Publication Date
1600
Subject
Islamic calendar, Islamic calendar /
Early works to 1800., Astrology, Arab, Astrology, Arab /
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. ([62] p. in 16 lvs.) ; 25 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002583099
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Discusses three different calendrical systems: Arabic, Byzantine, and Coptic, and the astrological significance of their days and months for harvests, the rising and falling of the Nile, and historical events.
"A treatise on astrology arranged in 2 bābs." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 100. | Watermark: Three crescents. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.
Text rubricated; finding aids and marginal corrections in hand of copyist.
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: on p. [2], owner's seal: min mumtalakāt al-faqīr ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd Nāfiʻ; on p. [1], manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.