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• Khazrajī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUthmān active 12th century-13th century—Rāmizah fī ʻilmay al-ʻarūḍ wa-al-qāfiyah [Browse]
• Arabic language—Versification—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Astronomy, Arab—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Astronomy, Arab—Tables [Browse]
• Mathematics, Arab—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Time measurements—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Contains

• Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1412. Nuzhat al-nuẓẓār fī ʻilm al-ghubār. [Browse]
• Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1412. Murshidat al-ṭālib ilá asná al-matālib. [Browse]
• Anṣārī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1423-approximately 1520. Fatḥ Rabb al-Barīyah bi-sharḥ al-Qaṣīdah al-Khazrajīyah. [Browse]

Notes

• Fols. 89; 20.6 x 15.3 cm. written surface 15.5 x 9.1 cm; 21 lines to page; on glazed European paper; in naskhi; with catchwords; entries in red.
• A collection containing:
• 1. al-Nuzhah fī ʻilm al-ghubār, an abridgment by Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʻAbbās, known as Ibn al-Hāʼim, A.H. 815 [A.D. 1412/3] of his work on arithmetic, al-Murshidah fī ṣināʻat al-ghubār. See Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 494; Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 5979.
• 2. Risālah fī maʻrifat istikhrāj awqāt al-ṣalāh wa-shayʼ min al-tawārīkh wa-al-aʻmāl al-falakīyah min ghayr ālah min al-ālāt, an astronomical treatise on determining the times for prayer, various days in the calendar and some astronomical occurrences without the aid of an instrument. This is followed by several astronomical extracts and tables prepared by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Muwaqqit in the Umayyad Mosque.
• 3. Fatḥ Rabb al-barīyah bi-sharḥ al-Qaṣīdah al-Khazrajīyah, by Zakarīyā al-Anṣārī, a commentary on the metrical treatise of prosody, known as al-Qaṣīdah al-Khazrajīyah, or al-Rāmizah by Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn al-Khazrajī, who flourished ca. A.H. 650 [A.D. 1252/3].
• 4. A commentary on the versification of al-Nuzhah fī ʻilm al-ghubār. See (1). It is stated in the colophon that the work was composed A.H. 1054 [A.D. 1644].
• Marginal notes and glosses. MS in good condition; Arabic leather binding with flap; blind stamped and tooling on cover and flap.
• Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925.

OCLC

1340425045

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