Kitāb al-durr al-naẓīm fī tashīl al-taqwīm :
manuscript,
[between 1496 and 1525?] /
taʼlīf al-shaykh ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣāliḥī.

كتاب الدر النظيم في تسهيل التقويم : manuscript، [between 1496 and 1525?]

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Main Author
Ibn Banafshah, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jawharī al-Ṣāliḥī, active 1494.
Related Names
Ulugh Beg, 1394-1449.
Meyerhof, Max, 1874-1945, former owner.
Language(s)
Arabic
Subjects
Ulugh Beg, > 1394-1449. > Zīj al-raṣad al-jadīd.
Astronomy, Arab > Tables > Early works to 1800.
Planets > Observations > Tables > Early works to 1800.
Astronomy, Arab > Early works to 1800.
Manuscripts, Arabic > Michigan > Ann Arbor.
Summary
"Planetary tables for the longitude of Damascus, with an introduction in unnumbered bābs." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 78.
"Brief astronomical tables after Ulūgh Beg." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.
Note
Spell to alleviate illness written on p. [1]: Yā rabb in kāna tamrīḍī yuqirrunī/zulfá ilayk fa-bāb al-faḍl awsaʻ lī/aw kāna min ajli takfiyat al-adhnāb fa-mā/yuḥtāju ʻafwak lil-aqsām wa-al-ʻilal/hādhihi al-abyāt idhā talāhā al-marīḍ yushfá.
Two pages of text followed by 128 pp. of tables; colored decoration on p. [1].
Date based on presence of calendrical tables for Islamic years 902-931 [1496-1524].
taḥrīran fī yawm 7 Dhī al-Ḥijjah sanat 1299 [20 October 1882]; on p. [1], manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.
ḥiyādhat Muḥammad Amīn ibn al-marḥūm al-ḥājj Mūsá Afandī khādim al-ʻilm al-sharīf
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: on p. [1] under 3 lines defaced writing: fī shahr Muḥarram 1140 [August-September 1727]; on p. [1]: qad aʻṭaytu hādhā al-kitāb ilá thamrat fuʼādī waladī Ibrāhīm Kāmil yataṣarraf fīhi kayfa yashāʼ jaʻalahu Allāh min al-ʻulamāʼ al-wāṣilīn wa-min suʻadāʼ al-dārīn āmīn taḥrīran fī 7 Dhī al-Ḥijjah sanat 1299 [20 October 1882] Muḥammad [?] wālid Ibrāhīm Kāmil; on p. [1]: dakhala hādhā al-kitāb fī
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1 v. ([130] p.) ; 28 cm
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