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Subject(s)

• Constellations—Atlases—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Constellations—Pictorial works—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Constellations—Names—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Stars—Names—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Astronomy, Arab—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Atlases [Browse]

Summary note

Description of the constellations, with drawings.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• 41 lines per page. Written in thick medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Contains drawings. European glazed paper with watermark. Some illustrations are reproduced on a separate piece of paper (see between fol. 7 and 8) or on the opposite blank fol. (see fol. 40b-41a). Between fol. 39 and 40: Original fol. 39bis, cut on the edges, with loss of text. On fol. 1a: Inscription.
• According to the colophon, copied on 4 Ramaḍān 1015 (fol. 40b).
• Incipit: قال عبد الرحمن ابن عمر المكني بابي الحسن الصوفي بعد ان حمد الله ... انّي رايت كثيراً من الناس يخوضون في طلب معرفة الكواكب
• Explicit: صورة الحوط الجنوبي

Binding note

Conserved and rebound in Preservation office 2007.

Provenance

Reading statement in the name of Ibrāhīm ibn al-Shaykh Muḥammad, Jumādá al-Ulá 1114 [1702] (fol. 43b). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 4871.
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 223 (11/1)
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 398 (11/1)

Other title(s)

• صور السماء
• كتاب الكواكب الثابتة

Title in Mach, R. Yahuda

• Ṣuwar al-samāʼ

Other title in GAL

• Kitāb al-Kawākib al-thābitah

OCLC

71839109

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