Publication Date
1900
Subject
Quadrants (Astronomical instruments), Quadrants (Astronomical instruments) /
Early works to 1800., Astronomical instruments, Astronomical instruments /
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. ([56] p.) : ill. ; 23 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002601802
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Pp. [1-31] are a treatise on the sine quadrant; pp. [32-41] are scraps of items in prose and verse identified in the work in hand as being by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ghāzī, Aḥmad al-Tūnisī, and Ḥasan al-Sharīfī. | Watermark: Three crescents. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.
Contains a table and geometrical diagrams.
In Maghribī script.
Text rubricated; pp. [1-4] and [17-31] are same copyist as that of Mich. Isl. Ms. 793,2; pp. [5-16] are in a different [earlier?] hand.
Date based on discussion in text of Mich. Isl. Ms. 793,2.
Pp. [1-41]. Bound with: Maʻrifat al-sanah al-shamsīyah, pp. [42-56].
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: inside flyleaf, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.