Teshil-i Rasad cedid-i Kasînî

Title:

Teshil-i Rasad cedid-i Kasînî
تسهيل رصد جديد قسينى

Alternative title:

تسهيل قسينى
Teshil-i Kasini
Teshîl-i Rasad Cedîd-i Kasînî
Teshil-i Rasıd cedid-i Kasînî
تسهيل راصد جديد قسينى

Creator:

Durak Paşa Zade
طوراق پاشا زاده

Contributor:

Muḥammad Aḥmad al-Laqānī, former owner
ʻAlī Abū Bakr al-Khashshāb al-Falakī al-Dimyāṭī, former owner
Cassini, César-François
محمد احمد اللقانى, مالك سابق
على ابو بكر الخشاب الفلكى الدمياطى, مالك سابق

Date:

[1868-1899].

Description:

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 825Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; circumstances of composition, paper, etc. suggest late 19th century (see p.88 in Walz, "The paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries").Binding: Boards faced in a streaked or veined paper resembling effect of tree marbling (tree calf, marble calf, marbled leather), mainly in dark blue, with printed 'waste' visible beneath and red leather over spine ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in untinted paper ; paper labels on spine ; sewn in white thread, four stations ; overall in quite poor condition with much abrasion, staining, losses of paper and board, lifting of leather, detached at spine, etc.Support: European laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 30 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of crescent (with human profile) in shield (see p.10, 11, etc.) and "Andrea Galvani" (see p.6, etc. and compare nos.1159 and 1161 dated 1871 and 1874 respectively in Nikolaev, Watermarks of the Ottoman Empire, vol.1 as well as p.89 in Walz, "The paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries"), cream in color, quite thick and well-burnished ; minor pest damage, some moisture damage (tide lines and staining).Decoration: Keywords, table headings and numerals rubricated ; written area surrounded by red rule-border, table divisions also in red rules.Script: Naskh approaching ruqʻah ; clear, compact Egyptian [?] hand ; serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct dots, some free assimilation of letters.Layout: Opening matter (pp.2-4) mainly in 28 and 31 lines per page, followed by several pages of sample calculations (pp.4-9), then the tables of varying dimensions.Collation: 3 V(30) ; exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "محفوظ زحل ... مح مشترى ... مح مريخ ... محفوظ زهره ... محفوظ عطارد ... تم بعناية الله وتوفيقه"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي خلق العرش والكرسى والاكوان والصلاة والسلام على النبى المبعوث في اخر الزمان ... اما بعد عرفاى اولى الابصار ذوى الاستبصاره معلوم اوله كه علم حساب علوم جزئيه نك اشرفى اولمغله عند المحاسبين مشهور ومتعارف اولان رصد جديد قسينى نك زبان افرنجيدن لسان تركى يه ترجمه سنه فضيلتلو خليفه زاده اسماعيل افندى موفق الوب لكن بو انه قدر تسهيلنه ... بو قليل البضاعه طوراق باشا زاده مير ابراهيم الاستانبولى جعل الله التقوى زاده نك ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from opening matter on p.2.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the set of astronomical tables for the period beginning with the opening of the year 1237 [September 1821] and concluding with Shawwāl 1240 [May-June 1825] (see opening matter on p.2) and covering a large geographical area, executed by Durak Paşazade Mir İbrahim el-İstanbulî from the translation from French to Turkish by Halîfezâde İsmail Çınarî of the tables by César-François Cassini de Thury (d.1784).

Language:

Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Manuscripts, Turkish
Astronomy
Astronomy Tables.

Geographic region:

Turkey

Extent:

30 leaves : paper ; 245 x 175 (180 x 120) mm.

Rights:

Public Domain

Format:

Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print

Same as:

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/006818227

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