Author
Ḥaṭṭāb, Yahya ibn Muhammad, 1496 or 1497-1586 or 1587.
Publication Date
1525
Subject
/
1497-1547., Ḥaṭṭāb, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, / 1497-1547. /
Risālah mukhtaṣarah fī maʻrifat istikhrāj awqāt al-ṣalāh wa-shayʼ min al-tawārīkh wa-al-aʻmāl al-falakīyah min ghayr ālah., 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. ([44] p.) ; 23 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002594326
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: "A treatise on the reckoning of the hours of prayer, abridged from the Risāla fī maʻrifat istikhrāj auḳāt al-ṣalāh by his father Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥaṭṭāb al-Mālikī." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945. | Watermarks: Three crescents; Andrea Galvani of Pordenone. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), pp. 24 and 36 and no. 860.
Contains short tables.
Text rubricated; marginal corrections and notes in hand of copyist and others; on p. [1] is note: k[urrāsah] 2 ʻadad al-waraqah 22 ithnayn wa-ʻishrīn.
End date from owner's mark on p. [13].
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: on pp. [1] and [44], owner's autograph, on p. [13], his name and date: hādhā kitāb Sālim Ḥasan sanat 1277; inside cover and on p. [1], manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.