Irshād al-sāʾil ilá uṣūl al-masāʾil :
manuscript,
[late 17th century?].

إرشاد السائل إلى أصول المسائل : manuscript، [اواخر القرن 17م؟].

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Main Author
Ibn al-Majdī, Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Rajab al-Qāhirī, 1365-1447.
Related Names
Māridīnī, Jamāl al-Dīn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Khalīl al-Qāhirī, d. 1406.
Meyerhof, Max, 1874-1945, former owner.
Language(s)
Arabic
Subjects
Māridīnī, Jamāl al-Dīn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Khalīl al-Qāhirī, > d. 1406. > Durr al-manthūr fī al-ʻamal bi-rubʻ al-dustūr.
Quadrants (Astronomical instruments) > Early works to 1800.
Sundials > Early works to 1800.
Astronomy, Arab > Early works to 1800.
Manuscripts, Arabic > Michigan > Ann Arbor.
Summary
On sundials and the quadrant.
"A commentary on al-Durr al-manthūr fī al-ʻamal bi-rubʻ al-dustūr of ʻAbd Allāh ibn Khalīl ibn Yūsuf, al-Māridīnī (see [Mich. Isl. Ms.] 689).... The last two quires in the manuscript do not appear to belong to it.... Whether the text is the same has not been determined." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.
Note
Watermarks: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone; three crescents; cursive initials TMC. For the first two see Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), pp. 24 and 36 and no. 860.
Contains geometrical diagrams.
Text rubricated; copy incomplete, diagrams for last two signatures not present; dealer's (?) note in pencil on front of manuscript: Irshād al-sāʾil ilá uṣūl al-masāʾil sharḥ risālat Sibṭ al-Māridīnī fī ʻilm al-mīqāt sumiya al-Durr al-manthūr fī al-ʻamal bi-rubʻ al-dustūr.
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Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: on front of manuscript; manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.
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1 v. ([170] p.) : ill. ; 26 cm.
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