Author
Marghīthī, Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd al-Sūsī, 1598-1678.
Publication Date
1625
Subject
Abū Miqraʻ al-Baṭṭūwī,, Abū Miqraʻ al-Baṭṭūwī, /
approx. 1330., Marghīthī, Muḥammad ibn Saʻid al-Sūsī,, Marghīthī, Muḥammad ibn Saʻid al-Sūsī, /
1598-1678., Marghīthī, Muḥammad ibn Saʻid al-Sūsī, / 1598-1678. /
Abiy Miqra, Horology, Horology /
Early works to 1800., Astronomy, Arabic, Astronomy, Arabic /
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. ([215] p. on 56 lvs.) : ill. ; 18 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002590519
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Appended to this work beginning on p. [194], several other faṣls, beginning with one entitled faṣl fī maʻrifat istikhrāj darajat al-shams... and including several on different writing-systems (aqlām) for numbers.
Commentary by the author on "a poem on the methods of timekeeping used by Abī Miqraʻ." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 143. | Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 36 and no. 860.
Contains tables and diagrams.
Text rubricated; marginal corrections in hand of copyist; a few pp. are missing.
For another copy of this text see Mich. Isl. Ms. 739. For the Muqniʻ itself, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 795,11.
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: on p. [1], manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.