Item Summary

Treatise describing a quadrant called "al-rubʻ al-kāmil", comprising an introduction and fifteen chapters (bāb). On fol. 1a is a chart explaining the influence of the rainbow in association with the signs of the zodiac.

Descriptive Information

Title
هداية السائل الى معرفة الربع الكامل
Transliterated Title
Hidāyat al-sāʾil ilá maʻrifat al-rubʻ al-kāmil.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1865Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/jw827b72m
Publisher
[1585]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1585
Format
Manuscript
Extent
11 leaves : paper ; 205 x 147 (150 x 110) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 4936
King, D. Fihrist al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʻilmīyah (1981-1986), vol. 2, p. 448, 4/4/12 (5)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from preamble of text (fol. 1b).
Physical description: 16 lines per page. Written in careful medium large naskh in black ink with use of red ; text is partially vocalized. Loose leaves and bifolia ; stained with water.
Origin: According to note at the end of the text, copied in 993 H. [1585] (fol. 11b).
Incipit: بسم ... الحمد لله الذى رسم على صفحات مصنوعاته قواطع الدلايل ... وبعد فهذه رسالة لخصت فيها محاسن الرسايل وخصصتها بالاهم مما يتعلق بالربع الكامل
Explicit: لبعده يحصل الغرض فيها وفى هذا القدر كفاية لمن وفقه الله تعالى والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم تسليما كثيرا امين

Discovery Information

Subject
Quadrants (Astronomical instruments)—History—Islamic empire—15th century—Sources
Astronomy, Arab—History—14th century—Sources
Predictive astrology—Islamic Empire—Early works to 1800
Rainbows
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
22

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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