Item Summary

An astronomical treatise with tables and diagrams.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب اشكال الوسائط في المنحرفات والبسائط.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Ashkāl al-wasāʼiṭ fī al-munḥarifāt wa-al-basāʼiṭ.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 140L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcp5548445j
Publisher
[19th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1800-1899
Format
Manuscript
Extent
49 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 225 x 160 (160 x 105) mm bound to 222 x 90 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 983.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, V, pp. 228, 272.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from caption above table preceding text (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 49 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS decayed from dampness; defective at beginning and end with minimal loss of text.
Origin: Probably from early XIXth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي اطلع شموس الهداية على افاق العناية لذوى الابصار ... وبعد فيقول مولف هذه الكلمات انى لما رايت بعض الالات يتوصل بها الى معرفة الاوقات ...
Colophon: والحمد لله رب العالمين آمين آمين آمين . م
Binding Note
Quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and paper with block-pressed design. Both covers shortened to cover only half the width of the text block.

Discovery Information

Subject
Timekeeping—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
tables (documents)
scientific illustrations (images)
diagrams
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
108

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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