Ghunyat al-ṭullāb fī maʻrifat rusūm ālat al-asṭurlāb
- Holding institution:
- University of Michigan
- Data provider:
- University of Michigan
- Title:
- Ghunyat al-ṭullāb fī maʻrifat rusūm ālat al-asṭurlāb
غنية الطلاب في معرفة رسوم آلة الاسطرلاب - Creator:
- Ādanī, ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn ʻUthmān
عبد القادر بن عثمان الآدني - Contributor:
- Meyerhof, Max, former owner
- Description:
- Contains diagrams.Text rubricated in red and gold; triple borders throughout in red, black, and gold; 1 loose sheet bound in; marginal corrections and commentary in hand of copyist (said inside cover to be author himself); finding aids and other notes in another(?) hand; couplets in Persian on endpapers and first flyfleaf.Date and provenance in colophon: qad tamma wa-kamala taʾlīf hādhihi al-nuskhah al-sharīfah fī Qusṭanṭīnīyah fī dār al-ḥadīth li-Ḥusayn Pāshā ... yawm al-aḥad al-thāmin wa-al-ʻishrīn min shahr Rabīʻ al-ākhir min shuhūr sanat sitt wa-ʻishrīn wa-miʾah wa-alf min al-hijrah al-nabawīyah wa-qad badaʾa ...[?]... al-musammá bi-al-turkīyah Qazalṭāgh[?] fī shahr Rajab al-mubārak min shuhūr sanat khams wa-ʻishrīn wa-miʾah wa-alf [July-August 1713].Commentary on Bahjat al-albāb fī ʻilm al-asṭurlāb, "a treatise on the use of the astrolabe in 18 bābs" by ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm al-Qayṣarī Suwaylim Zādah. David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), pp. 165 and 174. On p. [59] is a discussion in a different hand of the origin of the word "astrolabe."
- Language:
- Arabic
- Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Suwaylam Zādah, ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm al-Qayṣarī. Bahjat al-albāb fī ʻilm al-asṭurlāb.
Astrolabes Early works to 1800.
Astronomical instruments Early works to 1800.
Astronomy, Arab Early works to 1800.
Manuscripts, Arabic - Time period:
- Early works to 1800
- Extent:
- 1 v. ([59] p.) : ill. ; 21 cm.
- Rights:
- Public Domain
- Identifier:
- OCLC: 34365232
- Format:
- Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print - Same as:
- https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/002576826