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Treatise on astronomy in thirty chapters. The volume also contains portions of a work on astronomy by Kushyār ibn Labbān (Maqālah 3, bāb 9-11 and 3).
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Item Summary
Treatise on astronomy in thirty chapters. The volume also contains portions of a work on astronomy by Kushyār ibn Labbān (Maqālah 3, bāb 9-11 and 3).
Descriptive Information
- Title
- Hādhā Kitāb al-Majisṭī ... [etc.]
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 135L
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/x920fw91b
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1658
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 116 leaves : paper ; 147 x 104 (103 x 68) mm. bound to 147 x 115 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
- Source Acquisition
- Purchase ; Brill ; 1904.
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 967
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, GI, 221/1
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 393/1
- Sezgin, GAS, 150/1; VI, p. 247-248 (no. 1)
- King, D. Survey (1986), B70 (2.1.7)
- Sezgin, GAS, 150/1
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Contents
- 1. fol. 2a-96a : Kitāb al-Majisṭī / Farghānī.
- 2. fol. 96b-116b : [Excerpts from Zīj al-jāmiʻ] / Kūshyār.
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- A few corrections in the margin. On fol. 1a: inscription "L135 (Ga. II.29)". On the pastedown on the upper cover: Arabic number "139."
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 116 1¹⁰ ( -1 with no loss of text) 2-11¹⁰ 12⁶ (+1) ; catchwords ; quires numbered using Arabic numerals (quire 3 and 4 only, fol. 20a and 30a).
- Layout: 11 long lines per page.
- Description: Written in medium small naskh in black ink ; rubricated ; watermarks ; title also appears on the lower edge (hardly legible).
- Origin: Copied by Khalīl ibn Aḥmad al-Tūnisī in 22 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1068 (colophon, fol. 116b, with the seal of the copyist).
- Incipit: [جوامع علم النجوم] بسم ... هذا كتاب الفه احمد بن محمد بن كثير الفرغاني الحاسب في جوامع علم النجوم واصول الهيئةِ وحركات الاشخاص السماوية وهي ثلاثون فصلا الفصل الاول في سني العرب و العجم ... الفصل الثاني في ان السماء -- [زيج الجامع] زعم قوم كثير من ارباب علم النجوم ان الكواكب تتحرك بالحوكة اليومية ... والله اعلم الباب التاسع من المقالة الثالثة في علم الهية للفاضل كوشيار قال ... تذكر في هذا الباب ... الاقاليم السبعة من الربع المعمور فهذا الربع مقسوم علي الاصطلاح بسبعة اقسام.
- Explicit: [جوامع علم النجوم] و الاخر في الناحية الجنوبية فقد بينا من كشوف الشمس والقمر ما فيه كفاية ان شآء الله تعالي تم الكتاب -- [زيج الجامع] والله سبحانه وتعالي اعلم بالصواب وَاليه المرجع والماب تم الكتاب الكواكب الثابتة ١٢٠٠٠٠..
- Binding Note
- Covers and envelope flap made of brown leather over paper pasteboards. The covers are similarly decorated, with a central blind-stamped mandorla and a border of two double blind fillets. The envelope flap has the same border and a blind stamped roundel on the point. Paper pastedowns.
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- File Count
- 236
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/321a2851-beed-4f8c-8c63-24dc410dd0c2/manifest