Author
Sāmūlī, ʻAbd al-Majīd al-Hindī.
Publication Date
1635
Subject
Weights and measures, Arab, Weights and measures, Arab /
Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor.
Type
kitap
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Physical Dimensions
1 v. ([46] p.) ; 25 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002601801
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: On the conversion of weights and measures; probably once bound with other works; copy defective (unknown number of pages missing before p. [1] and between pp. [2-3], [14-15], and [27-28]). | Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 36 and no. 860.
Contains a table showing the relationships between qirāṭs, dirhams, and uqqahs.
Text and table rubricated; kurrāsahs numbered 6-8.
Date and copyist's name in colophon on p. [12]: najaza naskhahā fī yawm al-thulāthā ḥādī ʻashar Ṣafar al-khayr ʻām 1047 [i.e. 5 July 1637] ʻalá yad ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad Walī al-Dīn al-Birlisī[?] al-Shāfiʻī....
Microfilm available in repository.
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: on cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.
