Author
Ḥaṭṭāb, Yahya ibn Muhammad, 1496 or 1497-1586 or 1587.
Publication Date
1590
Subject
Ibn al-Majdī, Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-‘Abbas Aḥmad ibn Rajab al-Qāhirī,, Ibn al-Majdī, Shihab al-Dīn Abū al-‘Abbas Aḥmad ibn Rajab al-Qāhiri, /
1365-1447., Ibn al-Majdi, Shihab al-Din Abu al-'Abbas Aḥmad ibn Rajab al-Qāhiri, / 1365-1447. /
Durr al-yaṭim fi tas'hīl ṣinā'at al-taqwīm., Ibn 'Abd al-Ghaffār, Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Musa,, Ibn 'Abd al-Ghaffār, Shihābū al-Mūsá /
approx. 1527., Ibn 'Abd al-Ghaffār, Shihab al-Din Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Musa, / ca. 1527. /
Silk al-durrayn fī ḥall al-nayyirayn., Astronomy, Arab, Astronomy, Arab /
Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor., Moon, Moon /
Ephemerides, Moon / Ephemerides /
Early works to 1800., Sun, Sun /
Early works to 1800.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Physical Dimensions
1 v. ([46] p.) ; 27 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002594325
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Pp. [45-46] contain a short text with diagram entitled: Kitāb fī maʻrifat ḥall al-shams wa-al-qamar.
"An abridgement of the treatise by Ibn ʻAbd al-Ghaffār" called Silk al-durrayn, which is a commentary on Ibn al-Majdī's al-Durr al-yatīm, "auxiliary tables for compiling annual ephemerides for the sun and moon." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), pp. 72, 85, and 88. | Watermarks: Crown; crown with 6-pointed star and crescent.
Contains short tables.
Text and marginal notes rubricated; text bordered in red; marginal notes and corrections in hand of copyist and others.
Date and author's name in colophon: sanat 999 tamma kitāb Mukhtaṣar silk al-durrayn fī ḥall al-nayyirayn li-al-shaykh al-imām al-ʻallāmah Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥaṭṭāb.
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: inside cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.
