Author
Ibn al-ʻAṭṭār, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad | Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Al-Attar
Author Original
محمد بن محمد بن العطار
Publication Place
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University of Michigan
Subject
Ḥalabī, Ghars al-Dīn Khalīl ibn Aḥmad al-Naqīb, d. 1563 or 4. | Naqqāsh, Nūr al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad. | Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr, fl. ca. 815. | Astronomical instruments Early works to 1800. | Quadrants (Astronomical instruments) Early works to 1800. | Astronomy, Arab Early works to 1800. | Manuscripts, Arabic | more | less
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
1 v. ([48] p.) ; 21 cm.
Library
Digital Library of the Middle East
Library Asset ID
OCLC: 34365535
Record ID
002590515
Library Location
University of Michigan
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: al-Ḥalabī schedule, al-Farghānī schedule; colophon mentions work of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr al-Farghānī and Nūr al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Naqqāsh. | Text and tables rubricated; marginal corrections in hand of copyist. | Dates of copyist and this copy, and names of both copyists in colophon: wa-tammat al-kitābah ʻalá yad aḥwaj al-khalq ilá ʻafw rabbihi al-karīm Muṣṭafá ʻAbd al-Ṣamad ibn al-shaykh ʻAbd al-Jawāw al-Danīṭī[?] ... fī yawm al-thulāthāʾ rābiʻ al-Muḥarram sanat 805 [4 August 1402] ... fī yawm al-jumʻah 25 April sanat 1919 ʻAbd al-Raḥmān. | For other copies of this work, see Mich. Isl. Mss. 736.1, 795.14, and 803.2. | Pp. [37-48]. Bound with: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-ʻAṭṭār, Kashf al-qināʻ fī maʻrifat ṣināʻat al-arbāʻ, pp. [1-35]. | "A treatise on different kinds of quadrants in 2 qisms of 10 + 9 faṣls, mentioning those who invented them.... Ibn al-ʻAṭṭār's work merits publication and analysis." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 74. | more | least
Zaman Dilimi
Early works to 1800
