Author
Ibn al-Majdī, Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Rajab al-Qāhirī, 1365-1447.
Subject
Astronomical instruments, Astronomical instruments /Early works to 1800., Sundials, Sundials /Early works to 1800., Astronomy, Arab, Astronomy, Arab /Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /Ann Arbor.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
1 v. ([102] p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002580185
Notes
Contains geometrical diagrams and mathematical tables. Text rubricated; extensive marginal commentary in hand of copyist and in another hand in pencil. Date and name of copyist/owner in colophon: tamma ... ʻalá yad kātibihi wa-mālikihi al-faqīr Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh al-Maghribī aṣlan al-Sikindarī waṭanan ... fī shahr Ṣafar al-khayr ... sanat 1174 [September-October 1760]. For Zād al-musāfir, the author's extract of this work, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 708. Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: inside cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.. "A treatise on sundial theory with tables for latitude 30⁰, Cairo." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 73. "A treatise on the construction of hour angles." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.
İlgili İsimler
Meyerhof, Max, 1874-1945
