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هذا لمعة الانوار الفلكية ومعرفة اوقات الاسرار الخفية / للشيخ مصطفى بن احمد الشهير بطنسي الحنفي الخلوتي
Hādhā Lumʻat al-anwār al-falakīyah wa-maʻrifat awqāt al-asrār al-khafīyah / lil-Shaykh Muṣṭafá ibn Aḥmad al-shahīr bi-Ṭanasī al-Ḥanafī al-Khalwatī
1800-1867
Autograph copy of a work on astronomy and astrology dealing with the sun, the moon, the planets and constellations, the signs of the Zodiac and the astrological characteristics of the days of the week.
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- Publisher
- [between 1800 and 1867]
- People
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- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 513H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
Autograph copy of a work on astronomy and astrology dealing with the sun, the moon, the planets and constellations, the signs of the Zodiac and the astrological characteristics of the days of the week.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- هذا لمعة الانوار الفلكية ومعرفة اوقات الاسرار الخفية / للشيخ مصطفى بن احمد الشهير بطنسي الحنفي الخلوتي
- Transliterated Title
- Hādhā Lumʻat al-anwār al-falakīyah wa-maʻrifat awqāt al-asrār al-khafīyah / lil-Shaykh Muṣṭafá ibn Aḥmad al-shahīr bi-Ṭanasī al-Ḥanafī al-Khalwatī
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 513H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcn009wc882
- Publisher
- [between 1800 and 1867]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1800-1867
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 56 leaves : paper ; 236 x 167 (171 x 91) mm. bound to 236 x 165 mm.
- Provenance
- Ownership signature of Muḥammad Kamāl al-Dīn ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥarīrī al-Khalwatī al-Bakrī dated [1]28[?] and his seal impression (fol. 2a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1011.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- A few marginal notes. MS contains a number of charts, tables and diagrams. Bio-bibliographical note about the author on the title page.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 56 + iii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 23 lines per page ; ruled.
- Description: Rubricated ; modern paper ; MS in very good condition.
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم لك الحمد يا من جعلت الشمس ضيا بين الكواكب السيارة رحمة للمخلوقات ...
- Ending : وتأمل لما هنالك لترشد الى الاعمال على وجه الکمال بقدرة الملك المتعال
- Binding Note
- Contemporaneous quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in fabric and green marbled paper. Tan paper pastedowns and flyleaves.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 128
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/8482951d-4ef6-4e77-9212-3fbd72ece112/manifest