Author
Lādhiqī, Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, active 16th century?
Publication Date
1775
Subject
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. ([31] p.) : ill. ; 26 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002583109
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Includes tables for Islamic years 1149 [1736 or 7] to 1224 [1809 or 10], which is the basis for the 18th-cent. date assigned to this item. This copy does not contain the star catalog mentioned by King. Pp. [29-31] are about the seven climes and about world geography relative to the qiblah.
"Prayer-tables for Cairo taken from the main corpus [compiled by Ibn Yūnus] ... preceded by a short introduction in 8 or 10 faṣls, simple calendrical tables, and a solar longitude table, and followed by a star catalog." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 91. | Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 35 and no. 860.
Contains astronomical tables and diagrams.
Text and tables rubricated; marginal corrections in hand of copyist.
Date based on scope of tables.
For a later (?) copy of this work see Mich. Isl. Ms. 735.
Text (not this copy) published.
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: inside cover and on p. [1], manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof and Louis Charles Karpinski.