Hādhihi al-risālah al-musammāh tadrīb al-ʻāmil fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-kāmil :
manuscript,
[1843].

هذه الرسالة المسماة تدريب العامل في العمل بالربع الكامل : manuscript، [1843].

Description

Main Author

Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1423-

Related Names

Meyerhof, Max, 1874-1945, former owner.

Language(s)

Arabic

Subjects

Almucantar > Almucantar / Early works to 1800.
QQuadrants (Astronomical instruments) > QQuadrants (Astronomical instruments) / Early works to 1800.
Astronomical instruments > Astronomical instruments / Early works to 1800.
Manuscripts, Arabic > Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan > Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan / Ann Arbor.

Summary

In a muqaddimah and 20 bābs, on the "complete" quadrant. Text almost identical with that of Mich. Isl. Ms. 748 through the second bāb, after which the texts diverge; also similar, but not identical, to the text of Mich. Isl. Mss. 796,10 and 835,10, although they share similar titles.

Note

Watermark: Andrea Galvani of Pordenone. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 36 and no. 860.
Text rubricated; marginal corrections and notes in hand of copyist.
Date and copyist's name in colophon: tamma al-kitābah bi-ʻawn al-malik al-wahhāb ʻalá yad al-faqīr ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ Aḥmad Ṣiwān al-Liqāʼī[?] fī yawm al-thulāthā li-sabʻ ...[?]... min shahr al-Muḥarram sanat 1259 [7? February 1843].
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: on p. [1], manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.

Physical Description

1 v. ([19] p. on 5 lvs.) ; 18 cm

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