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المقنع في علم ابي مقرع في علم الفلك / للعلامة محمد بن سعيد بن محمد السوسى.
al-Muqniʻ fī ʻilm Abī Muqriʻ fī ʻilm al-falak / lil-ʻAllāmah Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd ibn Muḥammad al-Sūsī.
1816
An astronomical poem on the calendar.
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- Publisher
- 10 Muḥarram 1232 [November 30, 1816]
- People
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- Author
- Mirightī, Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1598 or 1599-1678 or 1679
- مرغتي، محمد بن سعيد، 1598 or 1599-1678 or 1679
- Related Name
- ابراشي، محمد بن ابراهيم، active 19th century
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 144L
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
An astronomical poem on the calendar.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- المقنع في علم ابي مقرع في علم الفلك / للعلامة محمد بن سعيد بن محمد السوسى.
- Transliterated Title
- al-Muqniʻ fī ʻilm Abī Muqriʻ fī ʻilm al-falak / lil-ʻAllāmah Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd ibn Muḥammad al-Sūsī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 144L
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc1544c211p
- Publisher
- 10 Muḥarram 1232 [November 30, 1816]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1816
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 3 leaves : paper ; 237 x 16 (165 x 97) mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1002.
- Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 5707.
- Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 411', 412'.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Marginal notes and glosses. Short fāʼidah on burj al-qamar and note on number of folios (fol. 1a). Fāʼidah about Christians' words to Sunnis (fol. i b). Note: "qayyada bi-ism kātibihi Muḥammad Suyūfī" (fol. 1a).
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 3 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 23 lines per page ; ruled.
- Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (roman-alphabet letters "FV" and face-in-the-moon?) ; MS in good condition.
- Decoration: Marginal comment written in the shape of a candle[?] (fol. 2b).
- Origin: According to colophon copy completed Saturday 10 Muḥarram 1232 by Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Abrāshī al-Shāfiʻī al-Azʹharī (fol. 3b).
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. يقول بعد حمد مجري الفلك * ثم علي محمد الهادي الركي ...
- Colophon: تم وکمل بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه على يد افقر العباد واحوجهم الى الله تعالى محمد بن ابراهيم الابراشي الشافعي الازهري غفرالله له وللمسلمين اجمعين وکان ذلك يوم السبت المبارك عاشر يوم شهر المحرم الحرام سنة 1232
- Binding Note
- Unbound.
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Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 12
Institutional Information
- Collection
- 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/0eaf613b-7a3b-4c88-b219-7d48f80b0ebc/manifest