Fa-innī waṣiftu fī hādhā al-kitāb min ʻilm al-awqāt bi-al-ḥisāb mā fīhi kifāyah wa-ghannāhu ʻan jamīʻ al-ālāt al-shuʻāʼīyah wa-al-ẓillīyah :
manuscript,
[1618].

فإني وصفت في هذا الكتاب من علم الأوقات بالحساب ما فيه كفاية وغناه عن جميع الآلات الشعائية والظلية : manuscript, [1618].

Description

Main Author

Abū Miqraʻ al-Baṭṭūwī, approximately 1330.

Related Names

Meyerhof, Max, 1874-1945, former owner.

Language(s)

Arabic

Subjects

Calendar > Calendar / Early works to 1800.
Horology > Horology / Early works to 1800.
Astronomy, Arab > Astronomy, Arab / Early works to 1800.
Manuscripts, Arabic > Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan > Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan / Ann Arbor.

Summary

On timekeeping and the conversion of calendars.

Note

Watermark: Anchor in circle. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), nos. 1-8.
Text rubricated; marginal notes in hand of copyist (?) and others.
Date in colophon: taḥrīran fī awākhir shahr Dhī al-Qaʻdah ʻām sabʻah wa-ʻishrīn wa-alf min hijrat al-nabawī [i.e. November 1618].
Pp. [5-19]. Bound with: [2] Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Bannāʼ, Abwāb yastadillu bi-hā ʻalá al-awqāt wa-al-sāʻāt wa-yuʻlam bi-hā awqāt al-ṣalāh, pp. [20-47]; [3] Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Qalaṣādī, Kashf al-asrār ʻan ʻilm ḥurūf al-ghubār, pp. [48-116].
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: on p. [20], manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.

Physical Description

1 v. ([122] p.) ; 19 cm

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