Item Summary

An astronomical treatise in verse on the eclipses of the sun and the moon.

Descriptive Information

Title
رياض النيرين في عمل الكسوفين من طريق اللمعة / نظم احمد الدمياطي.
Transliterated Title
Riyāḍ al-nayyirayn fī ʻamal al-kusūfayn min ṭarīq al-lumʻah / naẓẓama Aḥmad al-Dimyāṭī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 147L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcqb98mt47t
Publisher
1247 [1831 or 1832]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1831
Format
Manuscript
Extent
7 leaves : paper ; 210 x 151 (110 x 56) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1003.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Extensive marginal and interlinear notes and glosses.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 7 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 11 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Vowel signs ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 1247 in Dimyāṭ by Muḥammad al-Abrāshī al-Khalwatī al-Azʹharī (fol. 7a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم حمدا لمن صان اوج المجد عن خطل ... وبعد هذا مقال في الكسوف ترتيب اعماله ردعا لذي بخل ...
Colophon: نجز هذه الرسالة احقر الورى محمد الابراشى الخلوتي الازهري بثغر دمياط سنة 1247 وصلى الله على محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم
Binding Note
Unbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Astronomy, Arab—Poetry—Early works to 1800
Eclipses—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
poetry
Poetry
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
20

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/dce05cdd-4fea-4fab-909e-e75e0efd6457/manifest