Author
Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1423-
Publication Date
1600
Subject
Almucantar, Almucantar /
Early works to 1800., QQuadrants (Astronomical instruments), QQuadrants (Astronomical instruments) /
Early works to 1800., Astronomical instruments, Astronomical instruments /
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. ([19] p. on 5 lvs.) ; 18 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002590520
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: In a muqaddimah and 20 bābs, on the "complete" quadrant. Text almost identical with that of Mich. Isl. Ms. 748 through the second bāb, after which the texts diverge; also similar, but not identical, to the text of Mich. Isl. Mss. 796,10 and 835,10, although they share similar titles. | Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 36 and no. 860.
Text rubricated; marginal corrections and notes in hand of copyist.
Date and copyist's name in colophon: tamma al-kitābah bi-ʻawn al-malik al-wahhāb ʻalá yad al-faqīr ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ Aḥmad Ṣiwān al-Liqāʼī[?] fī yawm al-thulāthā li-sabʻ ...[?]... min shahr al-Muḥarram sanat 1259 [7? February 1843].
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: on p. [1], manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.