Author
Maqdisī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, active approximately 1669.
Subject
Astrology, Arab, Astrology, Arab /Early works to 1800., Astronomy, Arab, Astronomy, Arab /Early works to 1800., Comets, Comets /Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /Ann Arbor.
Type
kitap
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
1 v. ([149] p.) : ill. ; 19 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002641683
Notes
Watermark: Crown surmounted by 6-pointed star and crescent. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), no. 1132. Contains illustrations of types of comets. Title and text rubricated and enclosed in red borders; illumination in color and gold leaf on p. [3]; text partially vocalized. Date and name of copyist in colophon: taḥrīran fī thāmin Rabʻ̄ al-thānī sanat 1107 [i.e. 16 November 1695] ʻalá yad muʼallifihā al-ʻabd al-faqīr ʻAbd Allāh al-Maqdisī al-Ḥanbalī. Pp. [3-23]. Bound with: [2] Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī, Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb, pp. [26-88]; [3] Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, Kitāb al-ʻamal bi-al-kurah al-falakīyah, pp. [89-149]. Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: inside cover and on p. [89], manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.. "It does not seem to be the same as his Tuḥfat al-albāb fī bayān ḥukm [dhawāt] al-adhnāb (for which see [Mich. Isl. Ms. 688])." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945. A treatise on the astrological significance of various kinds of comets and pseudocomets.
İlgili İsimler
Meyerhof, Max, 1874-1945
