Author
Lādhiqī, Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, active 16th century?
Subject
Astronomy, Arab, Astronomy, Arab /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. ([31] p.) : ill. ; 26 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002583109
Notes
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.. 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.
İlgili İsimler
Lādhiqī, Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, active 16th century?, Karpinski, Louis Charles, 1878-1956, Meyerhof, Max, 1874-1945
