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Manuscript/Mixed Material Hādhihi risālat Zād al-musāfir li-maʻrifat rasm faḍl al-dāʼir هذه رسالة زاد المسافر لمعرفة رسم فضل الدائر / / Zād al-musāfir li-maʻrifat rasm faḍl al-dāʼir li-Aḥmad ibn al-Majdī / Title on fol. 1b: Irshād al-khāyir ilá maʻrifat wadʻ khuṭūṭ faḍl al-dāyir

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Title

  • Hādhihi risālat Zād al-musāfir li-maʻrifat rasm faḍl al-dāʼir

Other Title

  • هذه رسالة زاد المسافر لمعرفة رسم فضل الدائر /
  • Zād al-musāfir li-maʻrifat rasm faḍl al-dāʼir li-Aḥmad ibn al-Majdī
  • Title on fol. 1b: Irshād al-khāyir ilá maʻrifat wadʻ khuṭūṭ faḍl al-dāyir

Summary

  • Early treatise on sundials.

Names

  • Ibn al-Majdī, Aḥmad ibn Rajab, 1366-1447
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [17th century?]

Headings

  • -  Sundials--Early works to 1800
  • -  Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and partial armorial watermark; text within ruled border of two thin red lines; several tables in red with black lettering; black ink with rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Colophon followed by 3 tables.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, SII, p. 159.11
  • -  Naskh; 21 lines in written area 15.7 x 9.3 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-16a.
  • -  "85. IX [817] = 5.772."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-772.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة. وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وسلم. قال الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة وحيد دهره وفريد عصره الشيخ شهاب الدين ابو العباس احمد بن المجدي الشافعي رحمه الله تعالى ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: ومقدار الشخص من اقسام المسطرة التي اخذت منها ظل العرض والله سبحاه وتعالى اعلم.

Medium

  • 16 leaves (21 lines), paper : bound ; 21.5 x 15.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • QB215 .I265 1600z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496418

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Ibn Al-Majdī, Aḥmad Ibn Rajab, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Hādhihi risālat Zād al-musāfir li-maʻrifat rasm faḍl al-dāʼir. [17th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496418/.

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Ibn Al-Majdī, A. I. R., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. Hādhihi risālat Zād al-musāfir li-maʻrifat rasm faḍl al-dāʼir. [17th Century?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496418/.

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Ibn Al-Majdī, Aḥmad Ibn Rajab, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Hādhihi risālat Zād al-musāfir li-maʻrifat rasm faḍl al-dāʼir. [17th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496418/>.