Kashf al-qināʻ fī rasm al-arbāʻ :
manuscript,
[1919].

كشف القناع في رسم الأرباع : manuscript، [1919].

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Main Author
Ibn al-ʻAṭṭār, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, active 1426.
Related Names
Ḥalabī, Ghars al-Dīn Khalīl ibn Aḥmad al-Naqīb, -1563 or 1564.
Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr, fl. approximately 815.
Meyerhof, Max, 1874-1945, former owner.
Language(s)
Arabic
Subjects
Ḥalabī, Ghars al-Dīn Khalīl ibn Aḥmad al-Naqīb, > d. 1563 or 4.
Naqqāsh, Nūr al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad.
Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr, > fl. ca. 815.
Astronomical instruments > Early works to 1800.
Quadrants (Astronomical instruments) > Early works to 1800.
Astronomy, Arab > Early works to 1800.
Manuscripts, Arabic > Michigan > Ann Arbor.
Summary
"A treatise on different kinds of quadrants in 2 qisms of 10 + 9 faṣls, mentioning those who invented them.... Ibn al-ʻAṭṭār's work merits publication and analysis." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 74.
Note
Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 35 and no. 860.
Contains astronomical tables: jadwal al-Ḥalabī, jadwal al-Farghānī; colophon mentions work of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr al-Farghānī and Nūr al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Naqqāsh.
Text and tables rubricated; marginal corrections in hand of copyist.
Dates of exemplar and this copy, and names of both copyists in colophon: wa-tammat al-kitābah ʻalá yad aḥwaj al-khalq ilá ʻafw rabbihi al-karīm Muṣṭafá ʻAbd al-Ṣamad ibn al-shaykh ʻAbd al-Jawwād al-Danīṭī[?] ... fī yawm al-thulāthāʼ rābiʻ al-Muḥarram sanat 805 [4 August 1402] ... fī yawm al-jumʻah 25 Abrīl sanat 1919 ʻAbd al-Raḥmān.
For other copies of this work, see Mich. Isl. Mss. 736,1, 795,14, and 803,2.
Pp. [37-48]. Bound with: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-ʻAṭṭār, Kashf al-qināʻ fī maʻrifat ṣināʻat al-arbāʻ, pp. [1-35].
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: inside cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.
Physical Description
1 v. ([48] p.) ; 21 cm
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