Hādhihi raqāʾiq al-daqāʾiq fī ḥisāb al-daraj wa-al-daqāʾiq :
manuscript,
[17th century?].

هذه رقائق الدقائق في حساب الدرج والدقائق : manuscript، [القرن 17م؟].

Description

Main Author

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

Related Names

Karpinski, Louis Charles, 1878-1956, former owner.
Meyerhof, Max, 1874-1945, former owner.

Language(s)

Arabic

Subjects

Ibn al-Majdī, Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Rajab al-Qāhirī, > Ibn al-Majdī, Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Rajab al-Qāhirī, / 1365-1447. > Ibn al-Majdī, Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Rajab al-Qāhirī, / 1365-1447. / Kashf al-ḥaqāʾiq fī ḥisāb al-daraj wa-al-daqāʾiq.
Sexagesimal system > Sexagesimal system / Early works to 1800.
Mathematics, Arab > Mathematics, Arab / Early works to 1800.
Manuscripts, Arabic > Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan > Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan / Ann Arbor.

Summary

Pp. [31-33] contain Risālah āfāqīyah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-nisbah al-sittīnīyah.
Ibn al-Majdī's Kashf al-ḥaqāʾiq deals with sexagesimal arithmetic, sexagesimal multiplication tables, and linear interpolation. David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 74.
"A treatise on the computation of degrees and minutes, based on the Kashf al-ḥaḳāʾiḳ of Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn al-Majdī. In a muḳaddima, ten bābs, and a khātima." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.

Note

Watermarks: Three crescents; hillock. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24 and nos. 2610-2616.
Contains mathematical tables.
Text rubricated; marginal notes and corrections by copyist and others.
For another copy of this text, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 795,2.
Microfilm available in repository.
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: inside cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof and Louis Charles Karpinski.

Physical Description

1 v. ([33] p.) ; 23 cm.

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