Author
Māridīnī, Jamāl al-Dīn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Khalīl al-Qāhirī, -1406, جمال الدين عبد الله بن خليل القاهري المارديني, Meyerhof, Max, 1874-1945
Author Original
جمال الدين عبد الله بن خليل القاهري المارديني
Publication Date
1495
Subject
Manuscripts, Arabic -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor, Astronomy, Arab -- Early works to 1800, Sundials -- Early works to 1800, Quadrants (Astronomical instruments) -- Early works to 1800, Astronomical instruments -- Early works to 1800
Type
kitap
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
1 v. ([90] p.) ; 19 cm
Library
University of Michigan Library
Library Asset ID
1179201706
Record ID
990025579350106381
Library Location
UM Ann Arbor Libraries, University Library
Date
1495
Notes
Microfilm available in repository., Date in colophon: wāfaqa al-farāgh min nuskhatihā ...[?]... li-Rajab[?] min shuhūr sanat 900 [March-April 1495]., Title and text rubricated; corrections and extensive marginal notes in hand of copyist and others., Couplet on p. [1] addressed to potential borrowers: A-yā mustaʻīr al-kutub daʻnī/fa-inna iʻāratī lil-kutub ʻār/fa-maʻshūqī min al-dunyā kitābī/fa-hal samiʻtum bi-maʻshūqin yuʻār., Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: on p. [1], fī nawbat al-faqīr ilá Allāh taʻālá Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Muḥammad al-Ramlī; on p. [1], malakahu min faḍl rabbihi jalla wa-ʻala al-faqīr Muḥammad ibn Sakīkar[?] ibn ...[?]; on p. [90], bi-mā kāna tārīkh al-hijrah al-nabawīyah ... fī sanat aḥad wa-sittīn wa-tisʻumiyah kāna awwal Ramaḍān al-mubajjal al-muʻaẓẓam qadarahu yawm al-ithnayn [1554] wa-kāna fī al-jāmiʻ al-Umawī nawbat al-shaykh Barakāt ...; on lower right, corner of p. [90], ...[?]... nabawīyah ʻala ṣāḥibihā ...[?]... aḥad wa-sittīn wa-tisʻumiyah kāna awwal ...[?]... al-arbuʻāʼ wa-kāna fī Ramaḍān yawmayn wa-kāna awwal ...[?]... nawbat al-shaykh ʻAbd al-Bāsiṭ ḥafaẓahu Allāh wa-kāna fī nawbat al-shaykh ʻAbd al-Bāsiṭ tawqīt sayyidī Yūnus ḥāfaẓahu Allāh wa-fī nawbat al-shaykh Barakāt tawqīt sayyidī Jalāl al-Dīn al-Ramlī ḥafaẓahu Allāh wa-fī nawbat al-shaykh Abū al-Fatḥ ḥafaẓahu Allāh tawqīt Muḥammad ibn, al-Ḥalajīj[?] ḥafaẓahu Allāh wa-katabahu al-faqīr Muḥammad ...[?]; on cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.
Sample Text
The introduction of this work is a "brief, independent treatise in which the author sets forth the basic ideas (mainly definitions) of geometry and spherical astronomy. The rest of the work (60 chapters) is mostly concerned with problems regarding the transformation of coordinates with the dastūr quadrant." M. Plessner, "al-Māridīnī," in Encyclopedia of Islam (Leiden, 1989), v. vi, pp. 542b-543a., "An extensive treatise on the sine quadrant also dealing with sundials, arranged in 60 bābs." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 66.
Katkıda Bulunanlar
Meyerhof, Max, 1874-1945, former owner.
Son Dizinleme Tarihi
20251210
Biçim
Book, Manuscript, Available Online
Koleksiyonda
Tracy W. McGregor Collection of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Mathematical and Astronomical Manuscripts. (CStRLIN)MIUH92-A20.
Referanslar
GAL, Suppl. II, p. 218; H. Kh., v. III, p. 192; King, Survey, p. 66; EI2, v. vi, p. 543a
Elde Ediliş
McGregor Fund
