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مجموعة فيه مقالة قسطا بن لوقا اليوناني في العمل في الكرة الفلكية [و] رسالة في الكرة المسماة بذات الكرسي

Majmūʻah fīhi Maqālat Qusṭā ibn Lūqā al-Yūnānī fī al-ʻamal fī al-kurah al-falakīyah [wa-] Risālah fī al-kurah al-musammāh bi-dhāt al-kursī.

1700-1899

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Collection of two treatises on astronomical instruments, one in 65 short chapters (see table of contents at the beginning of the text, fol. 2b-3a and in Ahlwardt, W. Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, no. 5836) attributed to Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, the other comprising an introduction and 33 chapters (bāb) on an astronomical instrument called the celestial globe (same as Ahlwardt, W. Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, no. 5869 and King, D. Fihrist al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʻilmīyah, 4/2/7.2). The text is followed on fol. 17a by a Faṣl fī al-dāʼir bayna al-ẓuhr wa-al-ʻaṣr wa-al-dāʼir bayna al-ʻaṣr wa-al-ghurūb.
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Manuscripts of the Islamic World offers a curated selection of extraordinary manuscripts hosted or held by Princeton University Library. The manuscripts are predominantly in Arabic, but there are also many in Persian and Ottoman Turkish. The manuscript digitizations here are a fraction of the full Manuscripts of the Islamic World collections, housed in Special Collections in Princeton's Firestone Library. Efforts are ongoing to make the manuscripts of these collections more accessible through conservation, catalog record updates, and digitization.
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Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3168Y
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[ between 17--? and 18--?].
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Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, approximately 820-approximately 912
قسطا بن لوقا
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Arabic
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Celestial globes—Early works to 1800
Astronomy, Arab—Early works to 1800
Astronomical instruments—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
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