Author
Ṣāliḥ, Muḥammad, approximately 1800.
Publication Date
1600
Subject
Almucantar., Astronomical instruments., Astronomy, Arab., Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Physical Dimensions
1 v. ([16] p. on 4 lvs.) ; 23 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002590535
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Treatise on the use of the almucantar quadrant to establishe times of prayer and other religious observances; copy defective? | Watermark: Three crescents. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.
Contains a table.
Text rubricated; corrections and marginal calculations in hand of copyist; another hand on p. [7], which may actually be the end of another work.
Date in colophon: intahat fī 25 al-Qaʻdah sanat 1236 [24 August 1821].
[16].
Pp. [1-7?]. Bound with (all works by this author): [2] Naẓm lil-risālah allatī allafahā al-Waḥdānī dhū al-barāʻah fī ʻilm al-sāʻāt, pp. [7-8]; [3] Hādhihi risālah mukhtaṣarah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab, pp. [9-11]; [4] Kifāyat al-mubtadī wa-al-ghulām lil-ʻamal fī al-rubʻ al-muqanṭarāt ghayr al-tāmm, pp. [11-14]; [5] Naẓm abhaj al-ṣilāt fī maʻrifat al-awqāt bi-al-sāʻāt, p. [15]; [6] Abhaj al-ṣilāt fī maʻrifat sāʻāt dukhūl wa-ḥiṣaṣ awqāt al-ṣalawāt, p.
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners'/readers' marks: on p. [1], reader's name: ṭālaʻa fīhi Muḥammad; on p. [1], manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.