Mukhtaṣar silk al-durrayn fī ḥall al-nayyirayn :
wa-istikhrāj al-ahlah wa-ḥall al-ʻuqdatayn :
manuscript,
[1590 or 1].

مختصر سلك الدرين في حل النيرين : واستخراج الأهلة وحل العقدتين : manuscript، [1590 or 1].

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Main Author
Ḥaṭṭāb, Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad, 1496 or 1497-1586 or 1587.
Related Names
Meyerhof, Max, 1874-1945, former owner.
Language(s)
Arabic
Subjects
Ibn al-Majdī, Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Rajab al-Qāhirī, > 1365-1447. > Durr al-yatīm fī tas'hīl ṣināʻat al-taqwīm.
Ibn ʻAbd al-Ghaffār, Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Mūsá, > ca. 1527. > Silk al-durrayn fī ḥall al-nayyirayn.
Sun > Early works to 1800.
Astronomy, Arab > Early works to 1800.
Manuscripts, Arabic > Michigan > Ann Arbor.
Moon > Ephemerides > Early works to 1800.
Summary
Pp. [45-46] contain a short text with diagram entitled: Kitāb fī maʻrifat ḥall al-shams wa-al-qamar.
"An abridgement of the treatise by Ibn ʻAbd al-Ghaffār" called Silk al-durrayn, which is a commentary on Ibn al-Majdī's al-Durr al-yatīm, "auxiliary tables for compiling annual ephemerides for the sun and moon." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), pp. 72, 85, and 88.
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Watermarks: Crown; crown with 6-pointed star and crescent.
Contains short tables.
Text and marginal notes rubricated; text bordered in red; marginal notes and corrections in hand of copyist and others.
Date and author's name in colophon: sanat 999 tamma kitāb Mukhtaṣar silk al-durrayn fī ḥall al-nayyirayn li-al-shaykh al-imām al-ʻallāmah Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥaṭṭāb.
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: inside cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.
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1 v. ([46] p.) ; 27 cm.
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