Item Summary

A treatise on an astronomical apparatus for measuring time.

Descriptive Information

Title
العجالة على اعدل آله / لكاتبها حسن الجبرتى.
Transliterated Title
al-ʻUjālah ʻalá aʻdal ālah / li-kātibihā Ḥasan al-Jabartī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 958H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/4m90f3711
Publisher
15 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1169 [January 18, 1756?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1756
Format
Manuscript
Extent
7 leaves : paper ; 171 x 102 (115 x 50) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1007.
Jabartī, ʻAjāʼib al-Āthār (1297 AH), I, p. 398.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses. On the title page is a note on the death of the author.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 7 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Watermarks (roman-alphabet lettering) ; MS in good condition. Rare.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Saturday 15 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1169 by the author (fol. 6b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم بحمده حسن الاهتداء الى الطريق المعدل وبالصلاة على نبيه ... وبعد فيقول الفقير الى لطف انه الخفى حسن بن ابراهيم الجبرتى الحنفى هذه عجاله على اعد ...
Colophon: وبهذا طلع صبح الاختتام والحمد لله على التمام وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم على يدراقمها الفقير حسن الجبرتي في ليلة السبت المبارکة المسفر صبحها عن اليوم الخامس عشر من شهر ربيع الثاني سنة تسع وستين ومائة والف. تم
Binding Note
Unbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Astronomical instruments—Early works to 1800
Timekeeping—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
16

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
Holding location
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IIIF Manifest URL

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