Kifayetü'l-vakit li-marifeti'd-dair ve fazle ve's-semt ve Teshilü'l-mikat fî ilmi'l-evkat
- Holding institution:
- University of Michigan
- Data provider:
- University of Michigan
- Title:
- Kifayetü'l-vakit li-marifeti'd-dair ve fazle ve's-semt ve Teshilü'l-mikat fî ilmi'l-evkat
كفاية الوقت لمعرفة الدائر وفضله والسمت وتسهيل الميقات فى علم الاوقات - Alternative title:
- هذا رسالۀ جيب
هذا رسالۀ مقنطرات
Kifayetü'l-vakt li-ma'rifeti'd-dair ve fazli'd-dair ve's-semt
Kifāyat al-waqt li-maʻrifat al-dāʼir wa-faḍlih wa-al-samt - Creator:
- Mustafa bin Ali, Muvakkit
مصطفى بن على, موقت - Contributor:
- Hacı Hafız Ömer, scribe
حاجى حافظ عمر, ناسخ - Date:
- [1816 or 1817].
- Description:
- Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 829Origin: As appears in colophon on p.108, both works apparently copied by Hacı Hafız Ömer (al-Ḥājj Ḥāfiẓ ʻUmar) with transcription completed 1232 [1816 or 1817].Binding: Pasteboards covered in marbled paper (mainly in shades of orange, red, and blue) with brown leather over spine, fore edge flap, and edges/turn-ins (framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in untinted laid paper ; sewn in dark blue thread, two stations ; overall in somewhat poor condition with some staining, abrasion, moisture damage, spine slant (slightly cocked), warping, etc.Support: European laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (vertical), and lion watermark (tail and face visible in p.14, 15, 86, etc. and legs and ground visible in p.10, 20, 110, etc.) ; staining and tide lines.Decoration: Some keywords and section headings rubricated, others overlined in red ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas.Script: Naskh ; fine Turkish hand ; partially and somewhat irregularly seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs on occasional lām, ṭāʼ, etc. as well as shaqq of kāf, quite rounded with curvilinear descenders, pointing (for two and three dots) in curved strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 13 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: I (2), 5 V(52), II (56) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," reads "تمت ۱۲۳۲ حرره الحاج حافظ عمر غفر الله ذنوبه تم"Explicit: [Kifayetü'l-vakit li-marifeti'd-dair ve fazle ve's-semt] "سمت قبليه مطابق اولدى قبله سى قوس ارتفاعك طرفنه واقع اولدى تمت بعون الملك الوهاب تم" ; [Teshilü'l-mikat fî ilmi'l-evkat] "بلدك كى اول قيونك در يكلكى طقوز زراعدر"Incipit: [Kifayetü'l-vakit li-marifeti'd-dair ve fazle ve's-semt] "الحمد لله الذى جعل على البحر الاحضر [الاخضر] الفلك قناطير المقطنرات ... بو احقر عباد الله مصطفى بن على الموقت بالجامع الحاقانى السليمى ... وبو رسالۀ كفاية الوقت المعرفة [لمعرفة] الدائر وفضله والسمت برله تسميه ايله دم ..." ; [Teshilü'l-mikat fî ilmi'l-evkat] "الحمد لله عالم الغيب فلا يغرب عن عمله مثقال ذرة فى الارض ولا فى السماء ... اما بعد بو عبد ضعيف المحتاج الى رحمة ربه اللطيف مصطفى بن على الموقت بجامع الحاقانى السليمى بواه الله ديمكله متعارف اولان آلتده كه آلات رصديه ايجنده افاقى اولوب ... وبو رسالۀ تسهيل الميقات وتعيين الاوقات ديو تسميه ايلدم ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from opening matter of first work (p.6) and opening matter of second work (p.43).Ms. codex.5. p.109-p.112 : [blank].4. p.42-p.108 : Teshilü'l-mikat fî ilmi'l-evkat / Mustafa bin Ali Muvakkit.3. p.6-p.42: Kifayetü'l-vakit li-marifeti'd-dair ve fazle ve's-semt / Mustafa bin Ali Muvakkit.2. p.5 : [blank].1. p.2-p.4 : [contents listing].Careful copy of two treatises by Muvakkit Mustafa b. Ali (d.1571), timekeeper in the mosque of Sultan Selim II (r.1566-1574), the first on the use of the almucantar or bridged quadrant (rubʻ al-muqanṭarāt) in 12 bābs and the second on timekeeping (ʻilm al-mīqāt) and the use of the sine quadrant (rubʻ mujayyab) in 22 bābs. Contents listing for both works on added leaves at opening (pp.2-4).
- Language:
- Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)
- Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Manuscripts, Turkish
Time measurements Early works to 1800.
Horology Early works to 1800.
Quadrants (Astronomical instruments) Early works to 1800.
Astronomy Early works to 1800. - Geographic region:
- Turkey
- Extent:
- 56 leaves : paper ; 177 x 127 (125 x 70) mm.
- Rights:
- Public Domain
- Format:
- Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
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- https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/006818235