Taysīr rajazunā al-musammá bi-al-muqniʻ fī ʻilm Abī Miqraʻ :
manuscript,
[between 1625? and 1809].

تيسير رجزنا المسمى بالمقنع في علم أبي مقرع : manuscript، [between 1625? and 1809].

Description

Main Author

Marghīthī, Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd al-Sūsī, 1598-1678.

Related Names

Marghīthī, Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd al-Sūsī, 1598-1678.
Meyerhof, Max, 1874-1945, former owner.

Language(s)

Arabic

Subjects

Abū Miqraʻ al-Baṭṭūwī, > Abū Miqraʻ al-Baṭṭūwī, / ca. 1330.
Marghīthī, Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd al-Sūsī, > Marghīthī, Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd al-Sūsī, / 1598-1678. > Marghīthī, Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd al-Sūsī, / 1598-1678. / Muqniʻ fī ʻilm Abī Miqraʻ.
Horology > Horology / Early works to 1800.
Astronomy, Arab > Astronomy, Arab / Early works to 1800.
Manuscripts, Arabic > Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan > Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan / Ann Arbor.

Summary

Commentary by the author on "a poem on the methods of timekeeping used by Abū Miqraʻ." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 143.

Note

Watermarks: Grapes with cartouche and crown; initials AG in roman.
Contains tables and diagrams.
End date based on owner's mark on p. [1].
For another copy of this text, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 740. For the Muqniʻ itself, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 795,11.
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: on p. [1], owner's autograph and date: dakhala fī milk al-ʻabd al-faqīr ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn ʻAbd al-Majīd al-Ḥinnāwī Ramaḍān 9 sanat 1224 [18 October 1809]; inside cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.

Physical Description

1 v. ([84] p.) : ill. ; 22 cm.

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