Author
Ibn al-Majdī, Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Rajab al-Qāhirī, 1365-1447.
Publication Date
1440
Subject
Ibn al-Majdī, Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Rajab al-Qāhirī,, Ibn al-Majdī, Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Rajab al-Qāhirī, /
1365-1447., Ibn al-Majdī, Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Rajab al-Qāhirī, / 1365-1447. /
Irshād al-ḥāʼir ilá takhṭīṭ faḍl al-dāʼir., Astronomical instruments, 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. ([231] p.) ; 22 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002563045
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: "Abridgement by the author" of "Irshād al-ḥāʼir ... a treatise on sundial theory with tables for latitude 30⁰, Cairo." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 73. | Watermark: Crown with roman lettering(?).
Contains tables.
In Maghribī script.
Text and tables rubricated and enclosed within red borders; marginal corrections in hand of copyist.
For other copies of this text see Mich. Isl. Mss. 708 and 799,4.
Nubdhah fī maʻrifat waḍʻ rubʻ al-muqanṭarāt, pp. [222-231].
handasīyah, pp. [76-104]; [6] Muqaddimah mukhtaṣirah fī ʻilm al-mīqāt, pp. [106-117]; [7] Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Khayr al-Ḥusnī, Rāḥat al-fuʼād, pp. [120-161]; [8] Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Jadāwil fī rasm al-munḥarifāt, pp. [163-197]; [9] Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Fatḥ al-Ṣūfū al-Miṣrī, Nuzhat al-nāẓir fī waḍʻ khuṭūṭ faḍl al-dāʼir, pp. [202-210]; [10] Hidāyat al-ḥāʼir ilá maʻrifat waḍʻ faḍl al-dāʼir, pp. [210-220]; [11]
bi-al-ṭarīq al-
Pp. [1-18]. Bound with: [2] ʻIzz al-Dīn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Muḥammad al-Wafāʼī, Zahr al-qaṭāʼif fī maʻrifat istikhrāj al-inḥirāf, pp. [20-37]; [3] ʻAlī al-Malāqī al-Andalusī, al-Waḍʻ ʻalá al-jihāt fī al-basāʼiṭ wa-al-munḥarifāt, pp. [40-51]; [4] Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Rajab al-Qāhirī ibn al-Majdī, Zād al-musāfir li-maʻrifat rasm faḍl al-dāʼir, pp. [52-74]; [5] Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Shabrāmallisī, al-Durrah al-bahīyah fī waḍʻ basāʼiṭ faḍl al-dāʼir
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: inside cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.