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هذه رسالة دائرة على دائرة المعدل / للشيخ عز الدين الوفأي.
Hādhihi Risālat dāʼirat ʻalá dāʼirat al-muʻaddal / lil-Shaykh ʻIzz al-Dīn al-Wafaʼī.
A treatise on the use of the Dāʼirat al-muʻaddal, an astronomical instrument invented by the author. The treatise contains an introduction, fifteen chapters and a conclusion.
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- Author
- Wafāʼī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Muḥammad, active 15th century
- وفائي، عبد العزيز بن محمد، active 15th century
- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 520H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A treatise on the use of the Dāʼirat al-muʻaddal, an astronomical instrument invented by the author. The treatise contains an introduction, fifteen chapters and a conclusion.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- هذه رسالة دائرة على دائرة المعدل / للشيخ عز الدين الوفأي.
- Transliterated Title
- Hādhihi Risālat dāʼirat ʻalá dāʼirat al-muʻaddal / lil-Shaykh ʻIzz al-Dīn al-Wafaʼī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 520H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcwd3766875
- Language
- Arabic
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 5 leaves : paper ; 205 x 150 (142 x 84) mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 982.
- Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, V, pp. 249, 312.
- Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 2521¹⁰, 2532¹. 2544⁷.
- Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 1124.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 5 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 25 lines per page.
- Description: Rubricated ; watermarks? ; MS in fair condition but worm-eaten.
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين قال الشيخ الامام العالم الفاضل عزالدين عبد العزيز بن محمد الوفاي الموقت بالجامع المويدي ... اما بعد حمد الله والصلاة على رسوله محمد خير خلقه فقد سالني بعض الاصدقا في عمل رسالة تحلي الاله التي سميتها بدايرة المعدل ...
- Colophon: تمت بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه والحمد لله رب العالمين امين
- Binding Note
- Unbound.
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Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 14
Institutional Information
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- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6f752786-19c6-4ead-b878-c217628e56c0/manifest