Ghunyat al-ṭullāb fī maʻrifat rusūm ālat al-asṭurlāb :
manuscript,
[1713].
غنية الطلاب في معرفة رسوم آلة الاسطرلاب : manuscript، [1713].
Description
- Language(s)
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Arabic
- Summary
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Commentary on Bahjat al-albāb fī ʻilm al-asṭurlāb, "a treatise on the use of the astrolabe in 18 bābs" by ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm al-Qayṣarī Suwaylim Zādah. David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), pp. 165 and 174. On p. [59] is a discussion in a different hand of the origin of the word "astrolabe."
- Note
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Contains diagrams.
Text rubricated in red and gold; triple borders throughout in red, black, and gold; 1 loose sheet bound in; marginal corrections and commentary in hand of copyist (said inside cover to be author himself); finding aids and other notes in another(?) hand; couplets in Persian on endpapers and first flyfleaf.
Date and provenance in colophon: qad tamma wa-kamala taʾlīf hādhihi al-nuskhah al-sharīfah fī Qusṭanṭīnīyah fī dār al-ḥadīth li-Ḥusayn Pāshā ... yawm al-aḥad al-thāmin wa-al-ʻishrīn min shahr Rabīʻ al-ākhir min shuhūr sanat sitt wa-ʻishrīn wa-miʾah wa-alf min al-hijrah al-nabawīyah wa-qad badaʾa ...[?]... al-musammá bi-al-turkīyah Qazalṭāgh[?] fī shahr Rajab al-mubārak min shuhūr sanat khams wa-ʻishrīn wa-miʾah wa-alf [July-August 1713].
Microfilm available in repository.
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: inside cover, owner's autograph: fī milk al-faqīr Maḥmūd ibn Ḥasan; inside cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.
- Physical Description
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1
v. ([59] p.) :
ill. ;
21 cm.
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