Itḥāf dhawī al-albāb fī dhawāt al-adhnāb :
manuscript,
[1695] /
taʾlīf sayyidinā wa-mawlānā al-shaykh al-fāḍil wa-al-ʻallāmah al-kāmil al-muḥaqqiq al-mudaqqiq farīd dahrihi wa-waḥīd ʻaṣrihi al-shaykh ʻAbd Allāh al-Maqdisī al-Ḥanbali.
إتحاف ذوي الألباب في ذوات الأذناب : manuscript, [1695]
Description
- Language(s)
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Arabic
- Summary
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"It does not seem to be the same as his Tuḥfat al-albāb fī bayān ḥukm [dhawāt] al-adhnāb (for which see [Mich. Isl. Ms. 688])." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945.
A treatise on the astrological significance of various kinds of comets and pseudocomets.
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Watermark: Crown surmounted by 6-pointed star and crescent. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), no. 1132.
Contains illustrations of types of comets.
Title and text rubricated and enclosed in red borders; illumination in color and gold leaf on p. [3]; text partially vocalized.
Date and name of copyist in colophon: taḥrīran fī thāmin Rabʻ̄ al-thānī sanat 1107 [i.e. 16 November 1695] ʻalá yad muʾallifihā al-ʻabd al-faqīr ʻAbd Allāh al-Maqdisī al-Ḥanbalī.
Pp. [3-23]. Bound with: [2] Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī, Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb, pp. [26-88]; [3] Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, Kitāb al-ʻamal bi-al-kurah al-falakīyah, pp. [89-149].
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: inside cover and on p. [89], manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.
- Physical Description
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1
v. ([149] p.) :
ill. ;
19 cm.
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