Author
Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr, fl. approximately 815.
Publication Date
1919
Subject
Ptolemy,, Ptolemy, /
active 2nd century., Ptolemy, / active 2nd century. /
Almagest., 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. ([65] p. on 17 lvs.) ; 25 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002580184
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: A summary of Ptolemy's Almagest, "Al-Farghānī's best-known and most influential work ... a comprehensive account of the elements of Ptolemaic astronomy that is entirely descriptive and nonmathematical." A. I. Sabra, "Al-Farghānī," Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York, 1971), v. 4, pp. 541a-545a. | Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 36 and no. 860.
Text rubricated; borders drawn in pencil.
Text (not this copy) published.
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: name of copyist on p. [1]: hādhā kitāb nassakhahu al-mutawakkil ʻalá Allāh ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd Mūsá; on p. [1], manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.