al-Majisṭī / li-muʼallifih
Elementa astronomica. Arabic

Title:

al-Majisṭī / li-muʼallifih
Elementa astronomica. Arabic

Alternative title:

Majisṭī
Kitāb fī jawāmiʻ ʻilm al-nujūm wa-uṣūl al-hayʼah wa-ḥarakāt al-ashkhāṣ al-samāwīyah
Kitāb fī al-Ḥarakāt al-samāwīyah wa-Jawāmiʻ ʻilm al-nujūm

Creator:

Farghānī, active 861

Date:

1658

Description:

Abstract: Treatise on astronomy in thirty chapters. The volume also contains portions of a work on astronomy by Kushyār ibn Labbān (Maqālah 3, bāb 9-11 and 3).Binding note: Covers and envelope flap made of brown leather over paper pasteboards. The covers are similarly decorated, with a central blind-stamped mandorla and a border of two double blind fillets. The envelope flap has the same border and a blind stamped roundel on the point. Paper pastedowns.Contents: 1. fol. 2a-96a : Kitāb al-Majisṭī / Farghānī.Contents: 2. fol. 96b-116b : Excerpts from al-Zīj al-jāmiʻ / Kūshyār, d. ca. 961 (Maqālah 3, Bāb 9 : Fī ʻilm al-hayʼah ; Bāb 10 : Fī al-ṭarīq ilá masāḥat al-arḍ ; Bāb 11 : Fī maqādīr al-abʻād wa-al-ajrām ; Bāb 3 : Fī ṣifat azmān mā bayna al-kusūfāt).Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).The name of the author appears in the opening of the text as Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr al-Farghānī (fol. 2b).The title also appears on the lower edge (hardly legible).11 long lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink, with red for headings, numbers and overlining. Glazed European paper with watermark. A few corrections in the margin. On fol. 1a: inscription "L135 (Ga.II.29)". On the pastedown on the upper cover: Arabic number "139".Collation: Paper, fol. 116 ; 1¹⁰ (-1 with no loss of text) 2-11¹⁰ 12⁶ (+1) ; quires numbered using Arabic numerals (quire 3 and 4 only, fol. 20a and 30a) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Copied by Khalīl ibn Aḥmad al-Tūnisī in 22 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1068 (colophon, fol. 116b, with the seal of the copyist).Incipit : بسم ... هذا كتاب الفه احمد بن محمد بن كثير الفرغاني الحاسب في جوامع علم النجوم واصول الهيئةِ وحركات الاشخاص السماوية وهي ثلاثون فصلا الفصل الاول في سني العرب و العجم ... الفصل الثاني في ان السماءExplicit : والاخر في الناحية الجنوبية فقد بينا من كشوف الشمس والقمر ما فيه كفاية ان شآء الله تعالي تم الكتاب

Language:

Arabic

Type:

Early works to 1800

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Astronomy, Arab—Early works to 1800

Provenance:

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.

Extent:

116 leaves : paper ; 147 x 104 (103 x 68) mm. bound to 147 x 115 mm.

Publisher:

1658

Rights:

https://rbsc.princeton.edu/services/imaging-publication-services

Identifier:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 135L
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Replaces: pudl0032/135l

Is part of:

Robert Garrett
Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
Collections Donated to Princeton University Library

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