Hādhā kitāb hidāyat ūlá al-baṣāyir wa-al-abṣār fī maʻrifat ajzā al-layl wa-al-nahār
- Holding institution:
- University of Michigan
- Data provider:
- University of Michigan
- Title:
- Hādhā kitāb hidāyat ūlá al-baṣāyir wa-al-abṣār fī maʻrifat ajzā al-layl wa-al-nahār
هذا كتاب هداية أولى البصاير والأبصار في معرفة أجزا الليل والنهار - Alternative title:
- Hidāyat ūlī al-baṣāʾir wa-al-abṣār ilá maʻrifat ajzāʾ al-layl wa-al-nahār
هداية أولي البصائر والأبصار الى معرفة أجزاء الليل والنهار - Creator:
- Sujāʻī, Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad
أحمد بن أحمد السجاعي - Contributor:
- ʻAyyād al-Maḥallī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad
Meyerhof, Max, former owner
أحمد بن محمد عياد المحلي - Description:
- Watermarks: Initials AG in roman; stars in shield with crown. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), p. 36 and nos. 860 and 3886.Text and title rubricated; marginal corrections, notes, finding aids, and foliation in hand of copyist (same as that of Mich. Isl. Ms. 814,2).Date and name of owner/copyist in colophon: wa-kāna al-farāgh min kitābat hādhā al-kitāb yawm al-ithnayn al-mubārak li-khamsah wa-ʻishrīn khalat min shahr Muḥarram al-ḥarām iftitāḥ sanat 1266 [i.e. 11 December 1849] ʻalá yad ... ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd Bīk Nāfiʻ bi-ḥall al-marḥūm Khalīl Afandī mudīr al-Daqahlīyah.For an earlier copy of this work, see Mich. Isl. Ms. 696.Pp. [1-54]. Bound with: [2] Risālah fī ʻilm aḥkām al-shiʻrah al-yamānīyah wa-ḥulūl al-qamar fī al-ithnay ʻashar burjan, pp. [56-89]; [3] Astronomical tables, pp. [97-189].Also contains the text of the manẓūmah (treatise in verse) on timekeeping by ʻAyyād al-Maḥallī on which the commentary is based (pp. 51-52)."A commentary on a poem on timekeeping by Aḥmad ʻAyyād." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 113.
- Language:
- Arabic
- Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- ʻAyyād al-Maḥallī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 17th or 18th cents. Manẓūmah fī fann al-mīqāt.
Horology Early works to 1800.
Astronomy, Arab Early works to 1800.
Manuscripts, Arabic - Time period:
- Early works to 1800
- Extent:
- 1 v. ([190] p.) ; 22 cm.
- Rights:
- Public Domain
- Identifier:
- OCLC: 34366475
- Format:
- Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print - Same as:
- https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/002641680