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كتاب الملخص في الهيئة / تأليف الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة محمود بن محمد بن عمر الجغميني
Kitāb al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-imām al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar al-Jighmīnī.
1500-1799
Compendium on astronomy, comprising an introduction and two parts (maqālah).
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- Publisher
- [ between 15--? and 17--?]
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
Compendium on astronomy, comprising an introduction and two parts (maqālah).
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب الملخص في الهيئة / تأليف الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة محمود بن محمد بن عمر الجغميني
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-imām al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar al-Jighmīnī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 4453Y
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/8p58pg559
- Publisher
- [ between 15--? and 17--?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1500-1799
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 31 leaves : paper, ill. ; 177 x 135 (100 x 70) mm. bound to 176 x 140 mm.
- Provenance
- Ownership statements on fol. 1a and 2a (one dated 1215 H.; seals of Muṣtafá Ṣidqī on fol. 2a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
- From the library of Muṣtafá Ṣidqī (Ottoman mathematican, d. 1183/ 1769 or 70).
- Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Mach, R. Yahuda, 4874
- King, D. Survey of the scientific manuscripts (1986), G17
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 473/5
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 865 (5/1)
- Rights Statement
- No Known Copyright
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 2a).
- 13 lines per page. Contains diagrams. The ms. can be divided in three parts in different scripts (and paper?): fol. 2-10; 11-22; 23-30. Fol. 1 and 31 and later fly-leaves of glazed European paper with watermark. Catchword on the verso of most leaves.
- Inscription in Arabic on a label pasted on the upper cover: "47 Riyāḍīyāt". Inscription in Arabic on a label pasted on the interior of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 65".
- According to R. Mach, this copy dates from the 10th century H.
- Incipit: الحمد للّه كفآء افضاله والصلاة ... يقول ... محمود بن محمد بن عمر الجغمينيّ الخوارزمي ... انّى الفت هذا الكتاب فى هيئة العالم تذكرة مني لكل عالم منحريا التلخيص مع البيان وايجاز الالفاظ الى بسط المعاني
- Explicit: و لعل هذا المقدار الذى اورد كاف لتحصيل ما اردت فليكن هذا اخر الكتاب تم كتاب الملخص فى هيئة الافلاك
- Binding Note
- Marbled paper pasted on brown leather for upper and lower covers.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 37
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b2993adc-070c-4273-8653-41889e571019/manifest