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هذه رسالة في معرفة اسماء البلاد وعروضيها واطوالها وانحرافها / لسيدنا شهاب الدين القليوبي.
Hādhihi Risālah fī maʻrifat asmāʼ al-bilād wa-ʻurūḍīhā wa-aṭwālihā wa-inḥirāfihā / li-Sayyidnā Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qalyūbī.
1803
A collection of tables and charts with the names of towns arranged alphabetically, determining the latitude, longitude and declination of each. It is followed on fol. 11b-12a by an appendix (fāʼidah) signed ʻAlī al-Amlīṭī? al-Mālikī concerning a proposition by Ibn al-Hāʼim at the end of Ghāyat al-suʼūl, and by a short text in verses on fol. 13b-14a (ends abruptly).
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A collection of tables and charts with the names of towns arranged alphabetically, determining the latitude, longitude and declination of each. It is followed on fol. 11b-12a by an appendix (fāʼidah) signed ʻAlī al-Amlīṭī? al-Mālikī concerning a proposition by Ibn al-Hāʼim at the end of Ghāyat al-suʼūl, and by a short text in verses on fol. 13b-14a (ends abruptly).
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- Title
- هذه رسالة في معرفة اسماء البلاد وعروضيها واطوالها وانحرافها / لسيدنا شهاب الدين القليوبي.
- Transliterated Title
- Hādhihi Risālah fī maʻrifat asmāʼ al-bilād wa-ʻurūḍīhā wa-aṭwālihā wa-inḥirāfihā / li-Sayyidnā Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qalyūbī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 40L
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc6h441544w
- Publisher
- [1803]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1803
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 14 leaves: paper, ill. ; 225 x 165 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., 756
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 493 (5/21)
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Contains charts. Inscriptions on fol. 13a and 14b. The tables in Text 1 are numbered using Abjad.
- Collation: Paper, fol. 14 ; 1¹⁰ 2-3² ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: Number of lines per page varies.
- Description: Written in medium small to large script in thick black ink with use of red. Each line in Text 2 is written over two pages. European glazed paper with watermark (Tre lune).
- Origin: Copy completed on 28 Shaʻbān 1218 (colophon, fol. 9a).
- Explicit text 1 (fol. 9b): وهذه بيان اسقاط المطالع البلديه لتعرف الطالع والغارب والمتوسط كا لد لا م لد لو ثم له مرتب من حمل للسنبله وعكسها من اول الميزان لاحز الحوت بلا توان تمت هذه النسخة
- Incipit text 3 (fol. 13b): علي ثلاثة يدور الحير المال والاعداد
- Incipit text 2 (fol. 11b): فايدة تتعلق بقول ابن هايم فى اخر غاية السئول النوع السابع اذا قال له علي مثلث عشرة الخ وقوله ولو قال له علي مثلث مربع مخمس
- Incipit text1 (fol. 1b): ابتدي الطول من الساحل العربي مهتدا الي جهة الشرق وابتدا العرض من خط الاستوي الذي هو قطر دايرة المعدل ممتد الي اخر قطبي الجنوب والشمال
- Binding Note
- Unbound.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 32
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0387ecd7-bac8-4d66-9e14-f2b251c4be97/manifest