Author
Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1423-
Publication Date
1600
Subject
Ibn al-Majdī, Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Rajab al-Qāhirī,, Ibn al-Majdī, Shihāb al-Dīn Abu al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Rajab al-Qīī, /
1365-1447., Ibn al-Majdī, Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Rajab al-Qāhirī, / 1365-1447. /
Kashf al-ḥaqāʼiq fī ḥisāb al-daraj wa-al-daqāʼiq., Sexagesimal system, Sexagesimal system /
Early works to 1800., Mathematics, Arab, Mathematics, 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. ([33] p.) ; 23 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002590522
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Pp. [31-33] contain Risālah āfāqīyah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-nisbah al-sittīnīyah.
Ibn al-Majdī's Kashf al-ḥaqāʼiq deals with sexagesimal arithmetic, sexagesimal multiplication tables, and linear interpolation. David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 74.
"A treatise on the computation of degrees and minutes, based on the Kashf al-ḥaḳāʼiḳ of Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn al-Majdī. In a muḳaddima, ten bābs, and a khātima." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945. | Watermarks: Three crescents; hillock. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24 and nos. 2610-2616.
Contains mathematical tables.
Text rubricated; marginal notes and corrections by copyist and others.
For another copy of this text, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 795,2.
Microfilm available in repository.
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: inside cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof and Louis Charles Karpinski.
