Author
Ibn al-Majdī, Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Rajab al-Qāhirī, 1365-1447.
Publication Date
1440
Subject
Ibn al-Majdī, Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-‘Abbas Aḥmad ibn Rajab al-Qāhiri,, Ibn al-Majdī, Shihab al-Dīn Abū al-‘Abbas Aḥmad ibn Rajab al-Qāhirī, /
1365-1447., Ibn al-Majdi, Shihab al-Din Abu al-'Abbas Aḥmad ibn Rajab al-Qāhiri, / 1365-1447. /
Irshad al-Ha'ir ila takhṭit fadl al-dar'ir., Astronomical instruments, Astronomical instruments /
Early works to 1800., Sundials, Sundials /
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. ([24] p.) ; 22 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002563043
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: "Abridgement by the author" of "Irshād al-ḥāʼir ... a treatise on sundial theory with tables for latitude 30⁰, Cairo." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 73. | Watermark: Three crescents. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.
Contains tables.
Text rubricated.
For other copies of this text see Mich. Isl. Mss. 799,1 and 799,4.
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: name of owner and copyist of pp. [1-2] on p. [1]: milk al-faqīr ilá Allāh taʻālá Muḥammad al-Makkāwī al-Fayyūmī balad al-Mālikī madhhaban ...[?]... ṭarīqat al-Dardīrī al-Siyāʻī nisban....; inside cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.