Author
Marghīthī, Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd al-Sūsī, 1598-1678.
Publication Date
1700
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. ([84] p.) : ill. ; 22 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002590518
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Commentary by the author on "a poem on the methods of timekeeping used by Abū Miqraʻ." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 143. | Watermarks: Grapes with cartouche and crown; initials AG in roman.
Contains tables and diagrams.
End date based on owner's mark on p. [1].
For another copy of this text, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 740. For the Muqniʻ itself, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 795,11.
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: on p. [1], owner's autograph and date: dakhala fī milk al-ʻabd al-faqīr ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn ʻAbd al-Majīd al-Ḥinnāwī Ramaḍān 9 sanat 1224 [18 October 1809]; inside cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.