Risālah mukhtaṣirah jāmiʻah li-aḥkām al-rubʻ al-shamālī al-maqṭūʻ :
manuscript,
[17th century?].

رسالة مختصرة جامعة لأحكام الربع الشمالي المقطوع : manuscript، [القرن 17م؟].

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

Astronomy, Arab > Astronomy, Arab / Early works to 1800.
Astronomical instruments > Astronomical instruments / Early works to 1800.
Quadrants (Astronomical instruments) > Quadrants (Astronomical instruments) / Early works to 1800.
Manuscripts, Arabic > Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan > Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan / Ann Arbor.

Summary

"Apparently a compilation of extracts relating to the quadrant called shamālī al-maqṭūʻ, taken from the works of Sibṭ al-Māridīnī. It is in a muḳaddima and 20 bābs, and is not the same as Kifāyat al-ḳunūʻ fī 'l-ʻamal bi 'l-rubʻ al-maḳṭūʻ, in a muḳaddima and 15 bābs, also in this collection [Mich. Isl. Mss. 749,1 and 750,1]." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.

Note

Watermark: Three crescents. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.
Text not rubricated.
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: inside cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.

Physical Description

1 v. ([21] p. on 6 lvs.) ; 21 cm.

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