Details

Subject(s)

• Astronomy, Arab—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Short treatise on astronomy.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a). The name of the author is added in a note.
• 56 lines per page. Written in medium small casual naskh in black ink with use of red. Contains diagrams. Dark cream paper, glossy, with laid lines visible. Fol. 49-50 are modern replacements. Interlinear and marginal notes. Some notes are written on slips of paper pasted on the original folios (see between fol. 5 and 6; 11 and 12). On fol. 1a: Title; several inscriptions. Note is Syriac(?) on fol. 29a. Fol. 1 is damaged with loss of text. The pages have been trimmed so that parts of the marginalia are lost. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Reading statement dated 12 Muḥarram 771 at the end of the text (fol. 56a).
• Incipit: الحمد لله مفيض الخير وملهم الصواب ... اما بعد نريد ان نورد جملا من علم الهية تذكرة لبعض الاحباب ... اربعة ابواب الاول فيما يجب تقديمه لكل علم
• Explicit (fol. 56a): اثنا عشر الف وثمن ماية وتسعة وتسعين فرسخاً ولنختم الكتاب هاهنا حامدين لله تعالى

Binding note

Red leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Paper pastedowns.

Contents

• fol. 1a-56a: Kitāb al-Tadhkirah fī ʻilm al-hayʼah / Naṣīr al-Dī al-Ṭūsī.
• fol. 56b-60b: [Short texts on astronomical problems].

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 4881
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 511/VI. 40
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 931/40

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

OCLC

71834415

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