Hādhihi tuḥfat al-albāb fī bayān ḥukm dhawāt al-adhnāb :
manuscript,
[19th century?] /
taʾlīf al-shaykh ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Maqdisī.

هذه تحفة الألباب في بيان حكم ذوات الأذناب : manuscript، [القرن 19م؟]

Description

Main Author

Maqdisī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, fl. ca. 1669.

Related Names

Meyerhof, Max, 1874-1945, former owner.

Language(s)

Arabic

Subjects

Astronomy, Arab > Astronomy, Arab / Early works to 1800.
Comets > Comets / Early works to 1800.
Astrology, Arab > Astrology, Arab / Early works to 1800.
Manuscripts, Arabic > Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan > Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan / Ann Arbor.

Summary

"A treatise on the astrological significance of various kinds of comets and pseudocomets, with some illustrations.... Merits study." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 105 and plate LXXXIV.
"Apparently not the same as [Mich. Isl. Ms.] 815,1." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.

Note

Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 35 and no. 860.
Text and title rubricated, some rubrication absent; corrections and extensive marginal notes in hand of copyist; kurrāsahs marked "àdad 1" and "àdad 2."
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: on p. [1], owner/copyist's name: mimmā min Allāh bi-hi àlá àbdihi al-faqīr Aḥmad Àbd Rabb al-Nabī; inside cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.

Physical Description

1 v. ([31] p. on 10 lvs.) : ill. ; 24 cm.

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