Gayhān shinākht
- Holding institution:
- University of Michigan
- Data provider:
- University of Michigan
- Title:
- Gayhān shinākht
گیهان شناخت - Alternative title:
- Gayhānʹshinākht
گیهان شناخت - Creator:
- Qaṭṭān, al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī
قطان، الحسن بن على - Contributor:
- Meyerhof, Max, former owner
- Date:
- [1881].
- Description:
- Watermark: Three crescents. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 24.Contains astronomical tables and diagrams and a map of the northern hemisphere from Spain to China enhanced with blue sand.In Maghribī script.Text rubricated, with silver flecks and blue sand clinging to red ink ; marginal corrections in hand of copyist (?).Date in colophon: wa-wāfaqat nihāyatuhu yawm al-sabt min awākhir shahr Jumādá al-ūlá min ʻām thamāniyah wa-tisʻīn wa-miʼatayn wa-alf min al-hijrah al-nabawīyah [ca. April 1881].Title from opening matter (author's preface) on p.2.A compendium on theoretical astronomy, apparently an Arabic translation of the Persian, Gayhānʹshinākht by ʻAyn al-Zamān Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad Abū ʻAlī Qaṭṭān Marvazī (d. 1153 or 4).
- Language:
- Arabic
- Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Astronomy, Arab.
Manuscripts, Arabic - Extent:
- 1 v. ([88] p.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Rights:
- Public Domain
- Identifier:
- OCLC: 34365770
- Format:
- Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print - Same as:
- https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/002594334