Author
Zajjāj, Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn al-Sarī, -923.
Subject
Calendar, Calendar /Early works to 1800., Astronomy, Arab, Astronomy, Arab /Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /Ann Arbor., Moon, Moon /Early works to 1800.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
1 v. ([15] p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
002583092
Notes
Watermark: No. 13/MILL. Text rubricated; contains thumbnail sketches of the constellations. Earliest date probably late 19th cent. based on appearance of paper and note in colophon with copyist's name, suggesting exemplar was in a library collection: nuqilat min ḍimn majmūʻah taṭ raqm 198 m mīqāt wa-nasakha dhālik al-ʻabd al-faqīr ... Maḥmūd Ṣidqī al-Nassākh. Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: inside cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof; inside cover, note in handwriting of Louis Charles Karpinski (?), "From Dr. Meyerhof in May, 1934.". Believed to have been lost, this work contains "an explanation of the system of the anwāʼ ['the acronychal setting of a star or constellation and the heliacal rising of its opposite (raqīb)'], a list of the mansions,... etc.; the explanation is accompanied by maxims and poetry." Charles Pellat, "Anwāʼ," Encyclopedia of Islam, v. i (Leiden, 1957), p. 523b.
İlgili İsimler
Karpinski, Louis Charles, 1878-1956, Meyerhof, Max, 1874-1945
