در النظيم.

Durr al-naẓīm.

Author
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[between 1600 and 1799?]
Description
19 leaves : paper, charts ; 230 x 165 (175 x 104) mm bound to 229 x 170 mm.

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Summary note
An abridgment of Uṣūl al-raṣd al-jadīd, an astronomical work by Ulugh Bey ibn Shāh Rukh ibn Tīmūr 796-852 [1393/4-1448/9].
Notes
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title from caption (fol. 1b).
  • A few marginal notes. Work contains a number of charts.
  • Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 18 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
  • Layout: 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
  • Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents and roman-alphabet letters "GF") ; MS in good condition.
  • Origin: According to colophon copied by Aḥmad al-Badawī al-[...] al-Shāfiʻī al-Azʹharī (fol. 19b).
  • Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي الحمد لله واهب المنن من فضله العميم خالق الانسان في احسن تقويم ... وبعد فلما رايت الهمم عن ادراك معاني الحقايق الفلكية ...
  • Colophon: تم وکمل والحمد لله رب العالمين م على يد افقر العباد واحوجهم الى الله احمد البدوي البتنوني الشافعي الازهري عفي عنه
Binding note
Later? type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather and paper with block-stamped floral design.
Provenance
Seal impression of a ṭughrā (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
  • Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 995.
  • Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, pp. 197/8.
  • Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 5757.
  • Bibliothecae Bodleianae codicum MSS orientalium, II, 277.
  • Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 1140.
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Also available in an electronic version.
Other title(s)
در النظيم في تسهيل التقويم
Title from text on folio 1b
  • Durr al-naẓīm fī tasʹhīl al-taqwīm
OCLC
1340424181
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