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دلالة العامل بربع المقطوع الشمالي الى الميقات وحركة السماوات والساعات الزمانية ... [الخ.]
Dalālat al-ʻāmil bi-rubʻ al-maqṭūʻ al-shamālī ilá al-mīqāt wa-ḥarakat al-samāwāt wa-al-sāʻāt al-zamānīyah ... [etc.]
1500-1899
Two treatises on the use of astronomical instruments.
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- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 516H
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- Arabic
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Item Summary
Two treatises on the use of astronomical instruments.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- دلالة العامل بربع المقطوع الشمالي الى الميقات وحركة السماوات والساعات الزمانية ... [الخ.]
- Transliterated Title
- Dalālat al-ʻāmil bi-rubʻ al-maqṭūʻ al-shamālī ilá al-mīqāt wa-ḥarakat al-samāwāt wa-al-sāʻāt al-zamānīyah ... [etc.]
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 516H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcj6731f35r
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1500-1899
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- (4), 12, (2) leaves : paper ; 218 x 166 (165-180 x 95-105) mm. bound to 217 x 168 mm.
- Provenance
- Ownership signature of Muṣṭafá Afandī and an obscured seal impression (fol. 1a). Multiple seal impressions naming Muṣṭafá on second folio after colophon (fol. (2)b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1022, 1021.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Contents
- 1. fol. 1b-6a: Dalālat al-ʻāmil bi-rubʻ al-maqṭūʻ al-shamālī ilá al-mīqāt wa-ḥarakat al-samāwāt wa-al-sāʻāt al-zamānīyah. An astronomical treatise on the use of the quadrant consisting of an introduction, 12 chapter, and a conclusion.
- 2. fol. 7b-12a: [Sharḥ ʻalá Risālah fī bayān al-ʻamal bi-al-ālah allatī tusammá bi-al-Rubʻ al-mujayyab]. A commentary on the first six chapters of the Risālah fī bayān al-ʻamal bi-al-ālah allatī tusammá bi-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab, an astronomical treatise on the use of the sinical quadrant, by Muḥhammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, known as Badr al-Dīn Sibṭ al-Māridīnī. Incomplete at end.
- Notes
- Ms. composite codex.
- Title from text (fol. 1b).
- A few marginal notes on folio 3b. Table on folio 3a.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. (4) + 12 + (2) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 23-33 lines per page.
- Description: Rubricated ; text commented upon overlined in red ; watermarks (grapes, roman-alphabet letters "AF", additional roman-alphabet letters) ; MS in good condition but stained with dampness.
- Incipit: [دلالة العامل بربع] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي رسم على لوحة يسر العبد بعد عسره ... وبعد فلما خرجت من بلدة نيش صانها الله تعالى -- [شرح على رسالة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رافع خيام الافلاك بغير عمد ولا اطناب ... وبعد فان لما رايت رسالة الامام العلامة الشيخ محمد ابن محمد ... بدر الدين سبط الماردينى ... اردت ان اكتب على اماكن منها
- Ending: [دلالة العامل بربع] وان زدت على عدد المستوية ربعه يحصل مقدار الساعات الزمانية -- [شرح على رسالة] هو نصف مداره الظاهر في النهار ونصف مداره
- Binding Note
- Covered in paper with multi-colored block-pressed design.
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Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 44
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
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