Jawharat al-yawāqīt al-jāmiʻah li-ālāt al-mawāqīt :
manuscript,
[1843] /
taʼlīf al-shaykh al-imām al-ʻallāmah Muḥibb al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-maʻrūf bi-Ibn al-ʻAṭṭār al-Wafāʼī al-Shāfiʻī al-Bakrī.
جوهرة اليواقيت الجامعة لآلات المواقيت : manuscript, [1843]
Description
- Language(s)
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Arabic
- Summary
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Commentary and elaboration upon the author's Kashf al-qināʻ fī rasm al-arbāʻ, "a treatise on different kinds of quadrants in 2 qisms of 10 + 9 faṣls, mentioning those who invented them." No other copies of this work are known. David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), pp. 74-75.
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Watermarks: large letters G(?).C.C.
Contains a table of star locations.
In Maghribī script.
Text rubricated in four colors; marginal corrections, notes, and finding aids in hand of copyist and others (some in pencil).
Date of composition and copying in colophon: qāla muʼallifuhā ... intahá taʼlīf hādhihi al-risālah fī sanat 875 [i.e. 1470 or 1] ... wa-kāna al-farāgh min nashkhihā fī laylat al-tāsiʻ min shahr Dhī al-Ḥijjah ʻām 1258 thamāniyah wa-khamsūn wa-miʼatayn wa-alf [i.e. 11 January 1843].
Pp. [1-175]. Bound with: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-ʻAṭṭār, Kashf al-qināʻ fī rasm al-arbāʻ, pp. [182-208].
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: on p. [161], recalculations in pencil dated 2 Shawwāl sanat 1265 [i.e. 21 August 1849]; inside cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.
- Physical Description
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1
v. ([208] p.) ;
22 cm
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