[شرح المختصر في معرفة التقاويم].

[Sharḥ al-Mukhtaṣar fī māʻrifat al-taqāwīm].

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[not after 1804]
Description
54, (2) leaves : paper, illustrations ; 185 x 127 (140 x 80) mm. bound to 187 x 134 mm.

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    Summary note
    A commentary on al-Mukhtaṣar fī maʻrifat al-taqāwīm, a work on astronomy by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī. With tables.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title supplied by cataloger.
    • Marginal notes on folio 45b.
    • Collation: Paper ; fol. 54 + (2) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
    • Layout: 19 lines per page ; ruled.
    • Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition.
    • Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي جعل الاحوال الجزئية في السفليات مربوطة بالا وضاع الفلكية والاتصالات الكوكبية ... اما بعد فان المختصر الذى الفه في علم التجيم ومعرفة التقويم الامام ... نصر الدين الطوسى ...
    • Colophon: ولنقع [ولنقنع] من الکلام بهذا القدر حامدين لمالك القدر ومصلين على سيدالبشر محمد وآله الطيبين. تم الکتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب
    Binding note
    Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and corner motifs on covers. Blind-tooled edging on covers and flap. Gray paper pastedowns. Never sewn.
    Provenance
    Partially obscured ownership signature of Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad [Saʻīd?] Aḥmadʹjī dated 1219. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    • Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1019.
    • Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 5679.
    • Bibliothecae Bodleianae codicum MSS orientalium, II, 301.
    • Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 1178.
    Other format(s)
    Also available in an electronic version.
    OCLC
    1341360594
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