Sharḥ Ibn Qunfudh ʻalá manẓūmat Ibn Abī al-Rijāl fī aḥkām al-zīj :
manuscript,
[between 1500? and 1869].

شرح بن قنفذ على منظومة بن أبي الرجال في أحكام الزيج : manuscript، [between 1500? and 1869].

Description

Main Author

Ibn al-Qunfudh, Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn, -1406 or 1407.

Related Names

Ibn Abī al-Rijāl al-Shaybānī, ʻAlī, d. after 1410.
Meyerhof, Max, 1874-1945, former owner.

Language(s)

Arabic

Subjects

Ibn Abī al-Rijāl al-Shaybānī, ʻAlī, > Ibn Abī al-Rijāl al-Shaybānī, ʻAlī, / d. after 1410. > Ibn Abī al-Rijāl al-Shaybānī, ʻAlī, / d. after 1410. / Urjūzat al-qawāʻid fī al-qaḍāyā al-nujūmīyah.
Astrology, Arab > Astrology, Arab / Early works to 1800.
Astronomy, Arab > Astronomy, Arab / Early works to 1800.
Manuscripts, Arabic > Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan > Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan / Ann Arbor.

Summary

Commentary on the Urjūzat al-qawāʻid fī al-qaḍāyā al-nujūmīyah, a poem on astrology by ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Rijāl al-Shaybānī. Begins with a long dedication to the wazīr Abū Yaḥyá Abī Bakr.

Note

Watermark: Large circle with GB(?) in roman.
Contains tables and astrological diagrams.
In Maghribī script.
Text rubricated; marginal corrections in other hands; vol. has edge title.
End date from owners' marks on p. [1].
For another commentary on this poem by this author, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 714.
Pp. [2-102]. Bound with: Abū Maʻshar, Kitab qirānāt al-kawākib, pp. [107-123].
Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owners' marks: on p. [1], autographs of shaykh giving ijāzah (?) and first (?) owner, names stricken out but date visible: 1285 [i.e. 1868 or 9]; inside cover, manuscript notes in handwriting of Max Meyerhof.

Physical Description

1 v. ([123] p.) : ill. ; 19 cm.

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