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Manuscript/Mixed Material Risālah fī ̣tāliʻ al-sinīn رسالة في ̣تالع السنين

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Title

  • Risālah fī ̣tāliʻ al-sinīn

Other Title

  • رسالة في ̣تالع السنين

Summary

  • On the risings of various constellations in relation to the year.

Names

  • Maghribī, Yaḥyá ibn Abī Shukr
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 1246 or 1247 [1830 or 1831]

Headings

  • -  Islamic calendar
  • -  Year
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from cover.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Probably written in Egypt.
  • -  Paper; medium cream color laid paper with vertical chain lines and watermark of three crescent moons in a row in decreasing order of size; black ink with rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Naskh; 13 lines in written area 11 x 7.5 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1a has diagram in red and black ink showing the quadrants of the sky and the positions of various constellations from the 6th Shawwāl 1246 beginning with the rising of Aries over Egypt.
  • -  Fol. 1a-8a.
  • -  "85. IX [823] = 5.778."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-778.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: قال الشرف الحكما يحيى بن ابي الشكر المغربي في كتاب تحاويل سنان العالم اذا كان طالع السنة برج السرطان ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: ... وفيها الدلالة على زيج التجار ووقوع بعض الفساد في بلاد العجم. والله اعلم.

Medium

  • 8 leaves (13 lines), paper : bound ; 17.3 x 12 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • CE59 .M335 1830

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016503197

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, African and Middle East Division, Near East Section Arabic Language Rare Materials Collection

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Chicago citation style:

Maghribī, Yaḥyá Ibn Abī Shukr, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Risālah Fī ̣tāliʻ Al-Sinīn. [or 1247 1830 or 1831, 1246] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016503197/.

APA citation style:

Maghribī, Y. I. A. S., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1246) Risālah Fī ̣tāliʻ Al-Sinīn. [or 1247 1830 or 1831] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016503197/.

MLA citation style:

Maghribī, Yaḥyá Ibn Abī Shukr, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Risālah Fī ̣tāliʻ Al-Sinīn. [or 1247 1830 or 1831, 1246] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016503197/>.