Gayhān shinākht : manuscript, [1298, i.e. 1881].
(گیهان شناخت : manuscript، [1298ه، 1881م].)

Name: Gayhān shinākht : manuscript, [1298, i.e. 1881].
Author: Qaṭṭān, al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī, 1072 or 1073-1153 or 1154.

Title	Gayhān shinākht : manuscript, [1298, i.e. 1881].
Title Original	گیهان شناخت : manuscript، [1298ه، 1881م].
Author	Qaṭṭān, al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī, 1072 or 1073-1153 or 1154.
Publication Date:	[1881]
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. ([88] p.) : ill. ; 23 cm
Library:	HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID	002594334
Library Location	University of Michigan
Notes	About: A compendium on theoretical astronomy, apparently an Arabic translation of the Persian, Gayhānʹshinākht by ʻAyn al-Zamān Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad Abū ʻAlī Qaṭṭān Marvazī (d. 1153 or 4). \| Watermark: Three crescents. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24. Contains astronomical tables and diagrams and a map of the northern hemisphere from Spain to China enhanced with blue sand. In Maghribī script. Text rubricated, with silver flecks and blue sand clinging to red ink ; marginal corrections in hand of copyist (?). Date in colophon: wa-wāfaqat nihāyatuhu yawm al-sabt min awākhir shahr Jumādá al-ūlá min ʻām thamāniyah wa-tisʻīn wa-miʼatayn wa-alf min al-hijrah al-nabawīyah [ca. April 1881]. Title from opening matter (author's preface) on p.2. Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: on cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.

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Gayhān shinākht : manuscript, [1298, i.e. 1881].

(گیهان شناخت : manuscript، [1298ه، 1881م].)

Author Qaṭṭān, al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī, 1072 or 1073-1153 or 1154.

Publication Date [1881]

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. ([88] p.) : ill. ; 23 cm

Library HathiTrust Digital Library

Record ID 002594334

Library Location University of Michigan

Notes About: A compendium on theoretical astronomy, apparently an Arabic translation of the Persian, Gayhānʹshinākht by ʻAyn al-Zamān Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad Abū ʻAlī Qaṭṭān Marvazī (d. 1153 or 4). | Watermark: Three crescents. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24. Contains astronomical tables and diagrams and a map of the northern hemisphere from Spain to China enhanced with blue sand. In Maghribī script. Text rubricated, with silver flecks and blue sand clinging to red ink ; marginal corrections in hand of copyist (?). Date in colophon: wa-wāfaqat nihāyatuhu yawm al-sabt min awākhir shahr Jumādá al-ūlá min ʻām thamāniyah wa-tisʻīn wa-miʼatayn wa-alf min al-hijrah al-nabawīyah [ca. April 1881]. Title from opening matter (author's preface) on p.2. Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: on cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.