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جدول الظل الاول المنكوس الستيني من زيج لغبيك
Jadwal al-ẓill al-awwal al-mankūs al-sittīnī min Zīj Lughbīk.
1700-1899
Part of the astronomical tables of Ulugh Bey in Arabic, comprising the table of the First Shadow (al-ẓill al-awwal) and the table of the Sine (al-jayb), with instructions on how to use the second one.
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- Publisher
- [between 17--? and 18--?]
- People
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- Author
- Ulugh Beg, 1394-1449
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
Part of the astronomical tables of Ulugh Bey in Arabic, comprising the table of the First Shadow (al-ẓill al-awwal) and the table of the Sine (al-jayb), with instructions on how to use the second one.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- جدول الظل الاول المنكوس الستيني من زيج لغبيك
- Transliterated Title
- Jadwal al-ẓill al-awwal al-mankūs al-sittīnī min Zīj Lughbīk.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 137L
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/j098zb161
- Publisher
- [between 17--? and 18--?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1700-1899
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 30 leaves : paper ; 225 x 165 (203 x 15) mm. bound to 225 x 176 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 981
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, GII, 213/1
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 298/3.1
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Contents
- 1. ff. 1a-12a : Jadwal al-ẓill al-awwal al-mankūs al-sittīnī
- 2. ff. 13a-30a : Jadwal al-jayb.
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Written in black and red ink in a casual script bent to the right. The tables are drawn in red ink. Glazed European paper. The paper of the second part (from fol. 12 on) is smoother than that of the first part. Instructions by the copyist on how to read the tables on fol. 7a and 11a.
- Collation: Paper, fol. 30 ; 1⁸ (+4, ff. 1-2, 11-12) 2⁶ 3⁸ 4⁴.
- There is no colophon.
- Incipit: منكوس ستيني جدول الظل الاول [...] يسمي(؟) الظل المعكوس من زيج الغ بيك السمرقمدي بِحَذْف التفاصل وزيادة العدد المنا[--]س
- Explicit: ثم جمعنا الحاصلين فكان المبلغ [...] لط ح لطه فقِسْ علي ذلك تصِب ان شا الله تعالي
- Binding Note
- Upper and lower covers and envelope flap have paper with red motifs on a beige background pasted on leather over paper pasteboards. Paper pastedowns. Disbound.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 69
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e1fc9330-a185-448a-a631-09c13e24223d/manifest