Author
Durak Paşa Zade, Touraq Pasha Zade, Cassini, César-François, 1714-1784, ʻAlī Abū Bakr al-Khashshāb al-Falakī al-Dimyāṭī, Ali Abu Bakr al-Khashab al-Falaki Damietta, Muḥammad Aḥmad al-Laqānī, Muhammad Ahmad Al-Laqani
Author Original
طوراق پاشا زاده على ابو بكر الخشاب الفلكى الدمياطى محمد احمد اللقانى
Publication Date
1868
Subject
Astronomy -- Tables, Astronomy -- Turkey, Manuscripts, Turkish -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor
Type
Book
Language
tur, ota
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
30 leaves : paper ; 245 x 175 (180 x 120) mm
Library
University of Michigan Library
Library Asset ID
1194695495
Record ID
990068182270106381
Library Location
UM Ann Arbor Libraries, University Library
Date
Possibly between 1868-1899
Notes
Ms. codex., Title supplied by cataloguer from opening matter on p.2., Incipit: “Praise be to God who created the throne, the chair, and the universes, and may blessings and peace be upon the Prophet sent at the end of time... As for after my knowledge of the first to see, those with insight, the first is known, the first is the science of arithmetic, partial sciences, Nick Ashrafi, first famous among accountants, famous and well-known, first new observation, Qassini, Nick Zaban, Afrangiden, Turkish tongue Yes, a translation of the Sunnah of Fadilalu Khalifazadeh Ismail Effendi. Good luck with the process, but he was unable to facilitate it... He was short on goods, Toraq Pasha Zadeh, Mir Ibrahim Al-Istanbouli, may God make piety increase you...”, Explicit: “Preserved Saturn... Preserved Jupiter... Preserved Mars... Preserved Venus... Preserved Mercury... It was done with God’s care and success.”, Collation: 3 V(30) ; exclusively quinions ; catchwords present; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization., Layout: Opening matter (pp.2-4) mainly in 28 and 31 lines per page, followed by several pages of sample calculations (pp.4-9), then the tables of varying dimensions., Script: Naskh approaching ruqʻah ; clear, compact Egyptian [?] hand ; serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct dots, some free assimilation of letters., Decoration: Keywords, table headings and numerals rubricated; written area surrounded by red rule-border, table divisions also in red rules., Support: European laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 30 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of crescent (with human profile) in shield (see p.10, 11, etc.) and “Andrea Galvani” (see p.6, etc. and compare nos.1159 and 1161 dated 1871 and 1874 respectively in Nikolaev, Watermarks of the Ottoman Empire, vol.1 as well as p.89 in Walz, “The paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries"), cream in color, quite thick and well-burnished; minor pest damage, some moisture damage (tide lines and staining)., Binding: Boards faced in a streaked or veined paper resembling effect of tree marbling (tree calf, marble calf, marbled leather), mainly in dark blue, with printed 'waste' visible underneath and red leather over spine; Type III binding (without flap); board linings in untinted paper; paper labels on spine; sewn in white thread, four stations; overall in quite poor condition with much abrasion, staining, losses of paper and board, lifting of leather, detached at spine, etc., Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; circumstances of composition, paper, etc. suggest late 19th century (see p.88 in Walz, “The paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries”), Calculations on upper board lining ; former' owners marks on 'title page' (p.1) include ownership statement in name of ʻAlī Abū Bakr al-Khashshāb al-Falakī al-Dimyāṭī (Ali Abu Bakr al-Khashab al-Falaki al-Damietta) and ownership/purchase statement in name of Muḥammad Aḥmad al-Laqānī [al-Laqqānī] (Muhammad Ahmed Al-Laqani), as well as possible former inventory mark with "52"; Fairly clean copy., Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 825
Sample Text
Elegant copy of the set of astronomical tables for the period beginning with the opening of the year 1237 [September 1821] and concluding with Shawwāl 1240 [May-June 1825] (see opening matter on p.2) and covering a large geographical area, executed by Durak Paşazade Mir İbrahim el-İstanbulî from the translation from French to Turkish by Halîfezâde İsmail Çınarî of the tables by César-François Cassini de Thury (d.1784).
Katkıda Bulunanlar
Cassini, César-François, 1714-1784. Tables astronomiques., ʻAlī Abū Bakr al-Khashshāb al-Falakī al-Dimyāṭī, former owner., Muḥammad Aḥmad al-Laqānī, 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.
Referanslar
King, D. A Survey of the scientific manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), no. H41, no. J2, Princeton, Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 969, Nikolaev, Vsevolod. Watermarks of the mediaeval Ottoman documents in Bulgarian libraries. In Watermarks of the Ottoman Empire, volume 1. Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1954., Walz, Terence. "The paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and its re-export to the Bilad as-Sudan." In The trans-Saharan book trade: manuscript culture, Arabic literacy, and intellectual history in Muslim Africa. Graziano Krätli and Ghislaine Lydon, Eds. (Leiden : Brill, 2011): 73-108.
Elde Ediliş
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34.
