Author
Qāḍīʹzādah, Mūsá ibn Muḥammad, -approximately 1436.
Publication Date
1400
Subject
Jaghmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad,, Jaghmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad, /
-1221?, Jaghmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad, / -1221? /
Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah., 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. ([300] p.) : col. ill. ; 22 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002594335
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Commentary on al-Jighmīnī's Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah, "a treatise on theoretical astronomy ... compiled in 618 H [1221]." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 158. | Watermarks: Crown, horse, scrollwork, initials G(?)A in roman, and three crescents. For the last see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.
Contains astronomical diagrams, some colored.
Text rubricated and overlined in red; substantial marginal notes in hand of copyist.
min shahr Rabīʻ al-ākhir min shuhūr sanat khamsah wa-thalāthīn wa-māyatayn wa-alf [2 February 1820] ... ʻalá yad ... al-faqīr Muḥammad al-Ṭarāwī shākard bi-al-dīwān al-daftarī al-Miṣrī.
Date of composition and copying, and name and occupation of copyist in colophon: wa-qad faragha min taʼlīfihi al-mawlá al-muḥaqqiq al-kāmil Mūsá ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-maʻrūf bi-Qāḍī Zādah al-Rūmī sanat arbaʻat ʻashar wa-thamānīmiyah min al-hijrah [1411 or 2] fī baldat Samarqand ... qāla al-muʼallif fī tārīkhihi/suʼiltu ʻan tārīkhihi qultu la-hum wa-arrakhū/wa-kāna al-farāgh min kitābat hādhihi al-nuskhah yawm al-arbuʻāʼ al-mubārak li-sabʻat ʻashar yawman khalat
For an earlier copy of this text, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 817,1; for a later, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 805,4; for another, undated, copy, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 755.
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: inside cover, autograph: Dr. M. Meyerhof, with his bookplate and manuscript notes in his handwriting; inside cover, manuscript notes and autograph: LC Karpinski, with date: Cairo 1933. Nov. 20.
