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Manuscript/Mixed Material Fāyidah fī ikhrāj al-samt فايدة في اخراج السمت / Fāʼidah fī ikhrāj al-samt

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Title

  • Fāyidah fī ikhrāj al-samt

Other Title

  • فايدة في اخراج السمت
  • Fāʼidah fī ikhrāj al-samt

Names

  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [15th century?]

Headings

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

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1b.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; heavy, yellowed unpolished medium cream color laid paper with vertical laid lines and no visible chain lines or watermarks; tables in red and black ink; brief texts at beginning and end entirely in black.
  • -  Text in naskh; tables in grid 16 x 6 in red and black ink.
  • -  Fol. 1b-29b; 30a notes.
  • -  "H-1211 = 5.886."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-886.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides.
  • -  Incipit: فايد في اخراج السمت اضرب جيب الارتفاع المفروض في جيب العرض ... وكان الميل جنوبيا او كان شماليا وزادت الحصة على جيب السعة او زاد الاتفاع على ارتفاع الذي لا سمت له والافشال.
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: فايدة في حساب منحرفة فضل الداير بطريق البعد وطريقة ان تريد سمت العتدال للنبسطه على سمت الحابط ... وجه اخر وهو ان تاخذ الفضل بين سمة الاعتدال وبين الانحراف وحصل ظله لمنكوس يحصل البعد والله اعلم.

Medium

  • 31 (chiefly tables), paper : bound ; 20.5 x 8.3 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • QB207 .F39 1400z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017498779

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:

Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām, Former Owner, and Mansuri Collection. Fāyidah Fī Ikhrāj Al-Samt. [15th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498779/.

APA citation style:

Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. Fāyidah Fī Ikhrāj Al-Samt. [15th Century?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498779/.

MLA citation style:

Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām, Former Owner, and Mansuri Collection. Fāyidah Fī Ikhrāj Al-Samt. [15th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498779/>.