Risālat al-dāʾirah al-hindīyah :
manuscript,
[17th century?].

رسالة الدائرة الهندية : manuscript، [القرن 17م؟].

Description

Main Author

Khalkhālī, Ḥusayn al-Ḥusaynī, -1605.

Related Names

Meyerhof, Max, 1874-1945, former owner.

Language(s)

Arabic

Subjects

Mathematics, Arab > Mathematics, Arab / Early works to 1800.
Sundials > Sundials / Early works to 1800.
Geometry > Geometry / Early works to 1800.
Qiblah > Qiblah / Early works to 1800.
Astronomy, Arab > Astronomy, Arab / Early works to 1800.
Manuscripts, Arabic > Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan > Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan / Ann Arbor.

Summary

"A treatise on the use of the Indian circle (a geometrical construction for determining the meridian), compiled in 1006 H [1597]." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 161.

Note

Watermark: Crown surmounted by 6-pointed star and crescent. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), no. 1132.
Contains geometrical diagrams.
Text lightly rubricated, has overlining in red; marginal notes and corrections in hand of copyist.
Text (not this copy) published.
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: inside cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.

Physical Description

1 v. ([10] p. on 3 lvs.) : ill. ; 21 cm.

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