Hādhihi risālat zād al-musāfir fī waḍʻ khuṭūṭ faḍl al-dāyir :
manuscript,
[17th century?] /
lil-imām al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah al-majīd al-fahhāmah farīd ʻaṣrihi wa-waḥīd dahrihi Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad Shihāb al-Dīn Ibn al-Majdī al-Shāfiʻī.
هذه رسالة زاد المسافر في وضع خطوط فضل الداير : manuscript، [القرن 17م؟]
Description
- Language(s)
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Arabic
- Subjects
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Ibn al-Majdī, Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Rajab al-Qāhirī,
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Ibn al-Majdī, Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Rajab al-Qāhirī, /
1365-1447.
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Ibn al-Majdī, Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Rajab al-Qāhirī, / 1365-1447. /
Irshād al-ḥāʾir ilá takhṭīṭ faḍl al-dāʾir.
Astronomical instruments
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Astronomical instruments /
Early works to 1800.
Sundials
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Sundials /
Early works to 1800.
Astronomy, Arab
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Astronomy, Arab /
Early works to 1800.
Manuscripts, Arabic
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Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan
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Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor.
- Summary
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"Abridgement by the author" of "Irshād al-ḥāʾir ... a treatise on sundial theory with tables for latitude 30⁰, Cairo." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 73.
- Note
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Watermark: Three crescents. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.
Contains tables.
Text rubricated.
For other copies of this text see Mich. Isl. Mss. 799,1 and 799,4.
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: name of owner and copyist of pp. [1-2] on p. [1]: milk al-faqīr ilá Allāh taʻālá Muḥammad al-Makkāwī al-Fayyūmī balad al-Mālikī madhhaban ...[?]... ṭarīqat al-Dardīrī al-Siyāʻī nisban....; inside cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.
- Physical Description
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1
v. ([24] p.) ;
22 cm.
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