Author
Sujāʻī, Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad, -1783?
Publication Date
1983
Subject
ʻAyyād al-Maḥallī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad,, ʻAyyād al-Maḥallī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, /
active 17th or 18th cents., ʻAyyād al-Maḥallī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, / active 17th or 18th cents. /
Manẓūmah fī fann al-mīqāt., 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. ([54] p.) ; 23 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002576834
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: "A commentary on a poem on timekeeping by Aḥmad ʻAyyād." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 113. | Text rubricated; corrections and marginal notes in hand of copyist and others.
Date and name of copyist in colophon: wāfaqa al-farāgh min taʻlīq hādhihi al-risālah fī ʻashar shahr Shawwāl sanat 1220 ʻalá yad al-faqīr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm [1 January 1806].
For a later copy of this text, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 814,1.
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: on p. [1], owner's autograph: dakhalat fī milk al-faqīr ilá Allāh taʻālá Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Sāq[?]....; on p. [1], manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.