Author
Razzaz, Riḍwān Afandī al-Falakī, -1710.
Publication Date
1825
Subject
Horology, Horology /
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. ([211] p.) ; 18 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002594341
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: "An extensive treatise on timekeeping consisting of an introduction and tables lifted from the main Cairo corpus." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 107. Contains astronomical tables, star catalogs, and tables giving correspondences of the Islamic and Coptic calendars from 1819 to 1987. | Watermarks: horn in scrollwork; ALMASSO in roman. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), nos. 2772 and 3748.
Contains astronomical tables.
Text rubricated and ruled in red.
Date of composition, name of copyist, and date of copying in colophon: qāla al-muʼallif ... kātibuhu Riḍwān fī yawm al-khāmis wa-ʻishrīn min shahr Ramaḍān sanat 1105 [20 May 1694] ... wa-qad nasakhahā min nuskhah nusikhat min nuskhat al-muʼallif ... fī shahr Ṣafar sanat 1239 [October-November 1823] tisʻah wa-thalāthīn wa-miyatayn wa-alf hijrīyah ʻalá yad al-faqīr Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Sharbatlī.
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: on p. [1], date 1239 [1823] has been subtracted from date 1310 (1892); on outside of case, edge title on paper label: Dustūr uṣūl ʻilm al-mīqāt wa-natījat al-naẓar fī taḥrīr al-awqāt numrat[?] 88.
