Astronomical material in Arabic and Turkish :
manuscript,
[1811].

Description

Related Names

Meyerhof, Max, 1874-1945, former owner.

Language(s)

Arabic ; Turkish

Subjects

Calendar, Coptic.
Horology.
Manuscripts, Arabic > Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan > Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan / Ann Arbor.

Summary

Assorted material on timekeeping and the Coptic calendar.

Note

Text rubricated and overlined in red; marginal commentary in Turkish in hand of copyist (same as that of Mich. Isl. Mss. 750,2-4).
Date based on that in colophons of Mich. Isl. Mss. 750,2-3.
Pp. [1-5]. Bound with: [2] Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Kifāyat al-qanūʻ fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-maqṭūʻ, pp. [6-24]; [3] Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab, pp. [25-38]; [4] Fāʾidah fī maʻrifat waqt al-imsāk fī ḥiṣṣat al-fajr, pp. [39-44].
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: on p. [1], unidentified owner's seal; on front of ms., manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.

Physical Description

1 v. ([44] p.) ; 18 cm.

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