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Title
رسالة في العمل بربع الشكازية ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-rubʻ al-Shakāzīyah ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3792Y
Identifier
ark:/88435/fj2368047
Publisher
[1500-1799]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1500-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
56 leaves : paper ; 220 x 168 (160-175 x 90-117) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 4981, 4928, 4907, 128, 734.
Brockelmann, GAL, II, 216sq. (no. 7); S II, 216; II, 584 (no. 1); II, 586 (no. 31); S II, 654; S II, 1020 (33); SN II, 1019;
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 1b-4b: Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-rubʻ al-Shakāzīyah. Anonymous, divided into unnumbered faṣl.
2. fol. 4b-5b: Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-rubʻ al-Shakāzīyah. Anonymous, divided into ten bābs. According to Brockelmann, GAL, S II, 665 (3) the author is Taqī al-Dīn Rashīd, ca. 966/1558.
3. fol. 5b-9a: Risālah al-fatḥīyah fī al-aʻmāl al-jaybīyah. Divided into muqaddimah, 15 faṣl, and khātimah.
4. fol. 9b-15b: Risālah fī asmāʼ al-rusūm al-marsūmah ʻalá al-ālah al-musammāt bi-al-asṭurlāb al-shamālī dhāt al-ṣafāʼiḥ.
5. fol. 16b-21b: [Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-asṭurlāb]. Incomplete at end.
6. fol. 22b-31a: Inqādh al-hālikīn. On inadmissibility of reciting the Qurʼān for monetary reward. Autograph copy.
7. fol. 32b-56b: Sharḥ al-Arbaʻīn. First seven traditions by al-Birkawī; continued by Āqkirmānī. Autograph copy.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Table of contents (fol. 1a)
Layout: 23 lines per page.
Origin: [Inqādh al-hālikīn] Copied Dhū al-Qaʻdah 967.
Incipit: [رسالة في العمل 1] الحمد لله على کل حال ... اما بعد فنقول البخش الذى فيه الخيط -- [رسالة في العمل 2] الحمد لله ... وبعد فهذه رسالة وجيزة مفيدة فى العمل -- [الرسالة الفتحية] الحمد لله ... اما بعد فهذه رسالة فى العمل بالربع المجيب -- [رسالة في اسماء] الحمد لله حمدا يليق بجلاله ... وبعد فهذه رسالة مختصرة اذکر فيها اسماء الرسوم -- [رسالة في العمل بالاسطرلاب] الحمد لله الذى زين سماء الدنيا بزينة الکواکب -- [انقاذ الهالكين] الحمد لله الذي انزل على عبده الکتاب ... وبعد فهذه رسالة معمولة لابطال -- [شرح الاربعين] الحمد لله الذى ارسل رسوله بالهدى

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Subject
Astrolabes—Early works to 1800
Astronomical instruments—Early works to 1800
Hadith—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Quadrants (Astronomical instruments)—Early works to 1800
Qurʼan—Recitation—Early works to 1800
Birgivî Mehmet Efendi approximately 1522-1573—Arbaʻūn ḥadīth
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

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File Count
64

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
Holding location
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/aa549101-538f-410d-b475-9b1d43fe2841/manifest