Author
Ibn al-Muhallabī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad, ca. 15th century?
Publication Date
1500
Subject
Ṣūfī, Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʻUthmān,, Ṣūfī, Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʻUthmān, /
late 7th century., Ṣūfī, Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʻUthmān, / late 7th century. /
Shifāʼ al-asqām fī waḍʻ al-sāʻāt ʻalá al-rukhām., Sundials, Sundials /
Early works to 1800., Astronomical instruments, Astronomical instruments /
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. ([114] p.) : ill. ; 18 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002576830
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: "A treatise on sundial theory with extensive tables for Cairo, compiled in 829 H [1425].... Merits investigation." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 75. Said in introduction to be based on Shifāʼ al-asqām fī waḍʻ al-sāʻāt ʻalá al-rukhām by Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar al-Ṣūfī. | Watermarks: Anchor in circle; hand; hand(?) in circle. For the first see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), nos. 5-8.
Contains astronomical tables and sundial diagrams.
Text rubricated; pp. [7-14] supplied on different paper in different hand; vol. has edge title; on p. [1], note in handwriting of an owner: khaṭṭ Fariskūrī tilmīdh Taqī al-Dīn al-Rāṣid.
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: on p. [1], owner's autograph and unidentified date: min luṭf Allāh al-raḥīm al-raḥmān ilá ʻabdihi Muṣṭafá ibn Riḍwān ... sghnw hijrīyan; on p. [1], owner's seal: min mumtalakāt al-faqīr al-ḥājj Muṣṭafá Ṣidqī; on p. [1], owner's autograph: naqala ilá milkihi kātib al-aḥruf Muḥammad al-Rifāʻī al-Maḥallī; on p. [1], two unidentified owners' seals; on flyleaf, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.